{"id":936,"date":"2016-01-14T08:48:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=936"},"modified":"2016-01-14T22:39:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T03:39:23","slug":"10-rules-for-a-modern-day-skeptic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=936","title":{"rendered":"10 Rules for a Modern-Day Skeptic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a tongue-in-cheek list of rules for those who wish to maintain a skeptical outlook.<\/p>\n<p># 1 &#8211; Do not let what you think get in the way of what you see.<\/p>\n<p># 2 &#8211; Do not let what you see determine what you think, for appearances are deceptive.<\/p>\n<p># 3 &#8211; Be omnivorous in your tastes.<\/p>\n<p># 4 &#8211; The only way to see something whole is from several points of view.<\/p>\n<p># 5 &#8211; The closer you come to reality the more it is a mystery, and the more unimaginable it is that you or anything else exists.<\/p>\n<p># 6 &#8211; The only truth is in scrupulous satisfaction over time.<\/p>\n<p># 7 &#8211; Develop principles that you are willing to abandon, but not easily.<\/p>\n<p># 8 &#8211; When anything is too sacred to joke about, the cause is fear.<\/p>\n<p># 9 &#8211; If you are skeptical of faith and reason, what is left as a basis for decision? Everything, so long as you are prepared to be wrong.<\/p>\n<p># 10 &#8211; Death is the sunlight that makes all things visible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a tongue-in-cheek list of rules for those who wish to maintain a skeptical outlook. # 1 &#8211; Do not let what you think get in the way of what you see. # 2 &#8211; Do not let what you see determine what you think, for appearances are deceptive. # 3 &#8211; Be omnivorous&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7723,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/7723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}