skeptics dictionary

[the fool on the hill]

 

http://www.skepdic.com/contents.html

[Doringo]

Are you using this as an example of thoughtless dogma or for some other reason I didn't think of?

[the fool on the hill]

no i just thought it was a cool link & some people might like it...

[manuel]

Hmmm skepdic, are they not the incredibly closed minded folk whom shootdown any thing out of the realms of there rather limited perception?

[the fool on the hill]

in a way yes, but i believe a skeptic is a person who decides to believe all that is true even though it may seem untrue BUT does not believe in anything that is truly created artificially and is false. lies+lies+lies=delusion

[CFTraveler]

Well, it seems to me that a true skeptic would be a person who doesn't believe everything they hear right off the bat, and investigates phenomena to test for it's validity, and then reaches a conclusion.
In a few of the examples I read, (not all) there was a tone of condescension and superiority in the descriptions of some of the phenomena, and the people that experience them, and the outright fabrication in one specific one that I happened to have previously looked up.  So the presenters of this dictionary are not defining anything- they are giving you an opinion, and passing it off as a definition.  Unless there was a note somewhere that said "that's how we see it"- I seem to have missed it.

[the fool on the hill]

that is true... but the opinion of those people seem to be more fictional than the results in google. A lot of what they say seems to be true