Best Skepticism Poems

Poor ol’ Pyrrho, he’s the hero
Of my somber poetry:
Couldn’t figure how to pick your
Core beliefs with certainty.

Bold Descartes, he got the party
Started with his Cogito.
Up popped Pyrrho (what a zero!),
Said to think is not to know.

Next, John Locke, he tried his luck; he
Claimed true knowledge...

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HONEST SKEPTICISM

if you are a skeptic
there is still hope…
just three major 
hurdles that prevent
you from trusting God

it has nothing to
do with reluctance
to believe God exists

but instead…

that you doubt
you are worthy 
enough of His
attention.
Or…
that you are unworthy
of His forgiveness

and this famous nemeses:
where is God?
why is He...

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Skepticism and Inepticism

Sometimes we seem to understand sceptism,
Unless it has been interfered with inepticism;
Not sure,
If impure,
Then ended up being fooled by deceiptiveism.

Jim Horn...

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I've been such a twisting winding road. 
The road that only leads back to me. 
The feeling of self contempt only 
thickening with every wasted day gone by. 

Struggling through the self loathe, 
And it's me I don't answer to. 
You don't care if I...

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What are we, if not seafarers?
Writing words and aspirations to escape,
Kraken's grasp of deep dark seas.
Of turbulent brains during the storm.
A wave of skepticism, as if love was magic.
Isn't conceivable that this never occurs.

Written: November 29, 2022...

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surely hate 
being in jailed seat
I'm battling
to be heard
not shoved back into silence
halved to denial


Written: April 30, 2022...

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The stage was so spectacular I had to wear my glasses.
They only let a handful in with extraordinary passes;
written in a scripted font and lined with foiled gold,
for those of us who had one, they were something to behold.

The gullible sat waiting for the buffoonery...

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Nonbeliever
by Michael R. Burch writing as Kim Cherub

She smiled a thin-lipped smile
(What do men know of love?)
then rolled her eyes toward heaven
(Or that Chauvinist above?)....

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Empty promises waft effortlessly through the air
The vacuous bleating of self-important bloviators,
Who claim the best interests of the noble citizenry
Uppermost in their clever, plotting minds who dare

To seek approval from the greater masses at the polls,
While thinly disguising their not-so-quixotic intentions.
Such troublesome breaches in the...

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What is this soul we talk about?
Might I find it in a droplet of water
Perhaps, in a pop tune … a shout,
In a loving mother, an abusive father?
Elusive and ethereal, so hard to find
Is it in our unique thought processes,
A synonym for the individual mind,
Something...

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There are things you know you know
and there are things you don't.

There are things you couldn't know,
and many things you won't.

But when it comes to knowing things
there's one thing to be sure;

we'll never know about everything,
though that does have some allure.

So if you're asked a...

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The account of Descartes was redoubtable:
“I exist, since this thought is undoubtable.”
   Mister Hume peered inside,
   Said, “I see naught besides
Just my thoughts, so your logic is floutable.”...

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(title shamelessly borrowed from Daniel C. Dennett’s book of the same name)

Brainwashed parents, brainwashed kids.
Abort the vortex: hit the skids!
Become the one who dares to find
How much tradition's tricked your mind.

Not by parents’ views alone,
By peers, as well, strange seeds were sown.
Beliefs took root, grew...

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He meandered  the alleyways of being
uncertain of the origins of his conceptions,
unclear about the emergence of his thought.
 
Along the way, he happened on  Erebus,
deepening shadows of skepticism,
darkening the lines of  incredulity.

He regarded this as quite strange. What possible
value could there be...

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I went to the cop, in New Haven PD
I said I've got a crime story, but it's hard to believe
The cop said cheerfully, "let's hear, try me"
So I took a deep breath, tried a memory retrieve.

I said, "for a year I was getting the urge...

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