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How a Skeptic Gets Into Trouble.  Episode 6: Worm Food

3/21/2013

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BELIEVER:  The problem with you skeptics is that you’re so negative.

SKEPTIC:  How so?

BELIEVER:  You think that after you croak you just rot. No heaven. No afterlife. No nuthin’.

SKEPTIC:  No Hell either, you might add.

BELIEVER:  I’m not planning on going there.

SKEPTIC:  Oh yeah, Hell is where everybody else always goes.

BELIEVER:  There ya go again.  Skeptic, cynic, same thing.

SKEPTIC:  Not! Let me ask you this: If you had cancer would you want the doc to lie to you about your chances?

BELIEVER:  Of course not. I’d want the truth. 

SKEPTIC:  Right. Me too. And if I don’t see any evidence for an afterlife, whether happy or sad, I’m not going to make stuff up.  And that doesn’t make me cynical—just realistic.

BELIEVER:  All cynics say they’re just being realistic.

SKEPTIC:  I don’t believe in unicorns either.

BELIEVER:  Fine! You wanna be worm food, you go ahead.  I’m going to Heaven.

SKEPTIC:  At least the worms will be happy…

BELIEVER:  …and then you’re going to Hell.

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

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