The Hyper-Belief Problem

On the flipside of Hyper-Skepticism, where a person is so skeptical that everything is to be doubted whether proven beyond reasonable doubt or not, is the tendency that many have to believe all manner of strange and unprovable theories. I have experienced many of these firsthand, during my years as a teenager where I truly believed in the professed powers the “New Age” mysticism. I held as credulous the multifaceted beliefs of...

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