I'm with you, Halx. I can't really believe anything that I don't experience first hand. Skepticism is good and healthy, in my opinion, but can make for a hell of a tough time when you're trying to figure things out that you can't experience first hand. A la Wag the Dog, how are you ever supposed to know who to believe about what's going on in the world? At some point you have to believe something that you can build upon and form an opinion around, but it's awfully hard to tell a relatively honest source apart from all the others. So many things could be utterly false, or some shade of gray, and how would be ever know?
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