On Skepticism

I’m a skeptic, a dating skeptic.

I wasn’t always that way. I used to believe a girl could meet a guy, fall in love, and live happily ever after.

Then I got hurt. I found out that guys could lie. I found out that guys are jerks. I found out that guys say things they don’t mean and hide things they do and say things they don’t mean.

If you’re a guy you’re probably thinking that not all guys are like that.

I don’t know. From my perspective, you’ve met one you’ve met them all. Guys are all the same, they lie, and dating is for the naïve, for the gullible, and for folks who need.

Not me. I’m good. I’m strong. And I’m a dating skeptic.

I guess I’m not 100% completely anti dating, I’m just a skeptic. I live in the land of in between. There’s a part of me that wonders if I’m wrong, so I still frequent dating sites and am open to set ups.

But I’m a skeptic about it. I sit on my desk and browse profile after profile with little intent to take it to the next step. But still, I log on to my profile and check out the pics, one after the next, smirking at times, interested at others, until I log off, not a step closer to finding a mate.

I do have a small problem. There are some couples that have threatened to annihilate my entire theory on men. They are completely in love. I’m not sure what to do about those folks. They like one another, and they don’t lie and cheat. They argue a little but at the end of the day they make up and still are in love.

Are they living in an imaginary world oblivious to the truth about men, or is there a possibility, even just a seed of possibility, that they could be the ones who are right?

But I dare not settle too long on that thought.

After all, I’m a skeptic, a dating skeptic.

Ridiculous? Cynical? Unthinking? Closed minded?

I think the point is clear – you will never find what you’re looking for as long as you hang on to your skeptic ideas and refuse to believe that perhaps you are wrong.

What are you skeptic about and what will it take for you to take that tiny step of faith?

So many people live in a blissful state of skepticism about Christianity. They may have believed earlier on in life, but they’ve been hurt by the church. Now they believe all Christians are hypocrites. They sometimes still attend church, but always with the intent to smirk, and laugh a little. And they leave unchanged. Once in a while though, they may meet a follower of Jesus Christ that blows their theory out of the water. They are uncertain what to do with this reality. But it’s easier to be a skeptic.

You can’t afford to be a skeptic.

Your entire life is at stake. So is mine.

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