This is Bear – Yes the same one wanting to Join Taps.

I thought maybe I could take another journey.

I would like to know what the skeptical viewer is all about.

Is it for those who don't beleive in ghosts – bigfoot – or Nessie ?

I am sincerely curious about your group, I may even agree with

a lot of you.

Thank you all for the responses i received. Thank you for your advice.

                                                                              The Old Swedish Bear 

Nosfer said:

It is probably different things to different people (or at least variations of different things) Unlike what it is commonly thought, to be a skeptic does NOT mean to NOT believe. The word comes from skeptesthai meaning to examine or consider rather than to just blindly accept something. Things need to be examined or considered on a case by case basis, just because one event may turn out to be paranormal does not mean that every other event brought forward will be also.

I believe there is more than what is commonly accepted as mainstream. I am not a non-believer, but by the same token, I need a bit more proof than what is generally shown, especially on TV(!)

Basically this forum is made of people who can and do think for themselves and will consider that there may be other explanations for what is passed off. TAPS initially claimed to be skeptical, to actually look at what they were examining, to try to find rational explanations. Unfortunately, it appears that the Great $ has altered that purpose somewhat lately.

Nosfer said:

It is probably different things to different people (or at least variations of different things) Unlike what it is commonly thought, to be a skeptic does NOT mean to NOT believe. The word comes from skeptesthai meaning to examine or consider rather than to just blindly accept something. Things need to be examined or considered on a case by case basis, just because one event may turn out to be paranormal does not mean that every other event brought forward will be also.

I believe there is more than what is commonly accepted as mainstream. I am not a non-believer, but by the same token, I need a bit more proof than what is generally shown, especially on TV(!)

Basically this forum is made of people who can and do think for themselves and will consider that there may be other explanations for what is passed off. TAPS initially claimed to be skeptical, to actually look at what they were examining, to try to find rational explanations. Unfortunately, it appears that the Great $ has altered that purpose somewhat lately.

Nosfer my friend – You are one of the main reasons I came back; your kindness towards an old fool

who was lost on the internet. I can be skeptical about certain things. On the other hand, with all honesty I can be very naieve and maybe a little too trusting.

        I want to believe in people and in turn I have been disillusioned many times in the past.

I really like the word skeptesthai. I like to examine and consider things B4 I believe, however I think I have a bit of the Indiana Jones mindset, and am a firm believer in the words " dare to dream "

              With that being said – I do believe in ghosts because I myself experienced them.

              I believe in bigfoot because I have been studying him ever since the 1968 article in Argosy came out.

              Don't know about UFO's or Nessie but am open minded enough to know that there are many things

              we don't know in this world. Doesn't mean they don't exist – Thus comes (consider) from examine

              and consider.

                                                                                                     Thank you for listening, Bear