Skeptic Edit Meaning

1.

Way of thinking, think's for self, not accepting of all ideas, including religion....a group of people who come together to promote critical thinking and self thought....

Man:Hey, you see John Edwards last night? He talked to the dead!

Skeptic: He uses something called Cold Reading, he isn't even very good at it.

Man:.....Smart ass

Skeptic: Dumb ass.

See atheist

2.

A narrow minded individual who thinks viewing everything in a highly critical and suspicious lens makes him/her smart.

This behavior only serves to make the individual look like a poser intellectual, and an prick who takes the fun out of everything.

Skeptic: This magic show is just a bunch of illusions, nobody can do all this.

Person B: Why the hell did you bother coming to ruin the fun, dickwad.

See skeptic, jessica simpson, atheist, god, poser, loser, punk, asshole

3.

A pseudo-critical thinker and intellectual wannabe. Generally exhibits the following markings:

1. a tendency to completely misunderstand intellectual concepts such as burden shifting in a debate;

2. holding out as an authority on subjects about which he or she has no training or expertise;

3. an inability to respond to any argument or evidence beyond bleeting tired cliches memorized from JREF web forums, "Amazing Meetings" or from such intellecutal "giants" as Richard Dawkins, James Randi, and their ilk;

4. a slavish devotion to science, despite not having seriously, or even not at all, pursued an education or career in a given discipline;

5. a killjoy with a supernatural ability to suck the fun and life out of any gathering of people simply by entering the room.

Oh God, here comes Frank the skeptic. Let's get out of here before he starts bloviating about "the rampant rise of irrationality in society, and kills the party for everybody.

See skeptic, scientism