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How a Skeptic Gets Into Trouble. Episode 2: Danger Signs

2/19/2013

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BELIEVER:  So, what’s your sign?

SKEPTIC:  No Parking.

BELIEVER:  Very funny.  What’s your astrological sign?

SKEPTIC:  Guess. After all, you have a one out of twelve chance.

BELIEVER:  Okay. Let me think. You look like a Libra.

SKEPTIC:  How can you tell?  Is it my big ears?

 BELIEVER:  No, you just sorta have that Libra-look

SKEPTIC:  Whatever that means. No, I’m not a Libra. Guess again.

BELIEVER:  Okay. Hmmmm, maybe, just maybe, you’re a Taurus.

SKEPTIC:  Nope, wrong again.  You know what I hate about this?

BELIEVER:  What?

SKEPTIC:  Someday someone is going to guess my sign on the first try, and they’ll walk away with a sense of smug self-assurance thinking that they know something.

BELIEVER:  I am not smug.  You’re smug—and I do know something.  In fact, I know lots of things. I know that the alignments of the stars when you’re born changes your life.  The stars are not only beautiful, but powerful

SKEPTIC:  Beautiful maybe, but powerful?  You do realize that the gravitational pull from the doc that delivered you is stronger than the pull of any star.

BELIEVER:  Nonsense.  Doctors come and go, but stars are forever. I’ve got it! You’re one of the fire signs.

SKEPTIC:  What’s that?

BELIEVER:  You’re an Aries, Leo or a Sagittarius.

SKEPTIC:  Now you’re cheating.  Eventually you have to get it—but you haven’t yet.

BELIEVER:  Rats! I was sure on that one. Fire signs are so confident and secretive. I give up.  What are you?

SKEPTIC:  If you must know, I’m a Pisces.

BELIVER:  Of course! A water sign! No wonder—you’re so slippery!

SKEPTIC:  Uh-huh. Here’s some more signs for you—yield! Stop! Do Not Enter and No Trespassing.

BELIEVER:  Another thing about Pisces is that they are stubborn and unsociable. I’m leaving now.

SKEPTIC:   (sigh) It gets lonely in an evidence-based universe.

 

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