Skepticism

Many people perceive of me to be someone really gullible. But in opposition to that, I am not. It can easily be said that I am a pretty skeptical person myself. Just ask my close friends. They'll tell you I don't fall to believe things that easily. There's always a "Really? Why?" question attached to any unconfirmed news that comes to ear.

Especially things about the unknown like ghosts and superstitions. When my friends gather around to tell this "spooky" tale of someone's relative, everyone else would be possibly mortified by whatever is told but me, I'll just listen and go on doing my work after the storyteller has finished. I suppose the more appropriate description of me is that I tend to think of things in a logical way. True, I love stories of the supernatural, paranormal and unexplained. However, that only go as far as to amuse myself. I have to see something with my own naked eyes to believe.

That of which brings about me being agnostic, which I believe is a better, more precise term to describe me rather than a nihilist or atheist. It means that I don't deny their existence but I don't believe in them either because there's no solid evidence whether or not they exist. With that explanation, please refrain from judging too quickly and hurtling inappropriate words at me. Thank you.

Sometimes I just wonder how myths, mysteries and superstitions come to exist. Like there's this myth that The Great Wall Of China can be seen from the moon? Yes, it is visible from low-Earth orbit as well as other structures like the Giza Pyramid and even airport runways. But from the moon? A total lie. And (lol) that five-second-rule that Jega always tells me. It's said that when food is dropped on the ground, it takes five seconds before it is swarmed by bacteria. Truth is, that little morsel of food is already contaminated the minute it hits the ground. Lastly, is that famous superstition that everyone does (including myself ) - exclaiming "Touch wood" after accidentally saying something that shouldn't be said like the death of someone. It actually makes zero sense, but we still do it, don't we?

So yeah, I believe these myths, mysteries and superstitions were created to amuse oneself and others or to scare people from doing certain things. Most people just carry on believing and doing these things but I don't. Why? Because like I said I prefer to see the logical side of things. =)