Comments on: What Makes Us So Skeptical?

By: Joan Adams

Joan Adams — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:32:47 +0000

I do try not to be skeptical. I think, especially for those of us on line constantly, people learn to be aware — first impulse is “be careful”.

Perhaps first impulse should be “check it out”.

I will work on that in 2009.

By: Holly Wood

Holly Wood — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:41:07 +0000

Oh! And the general population is skeptical because they just don’t have faith. They are prone to living in fear and distrust because it seems safer than taking a chance.

By: Holly Wood

Holly Wood — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:37:47 +0000

Buz,
I think that all messages come to people when they’re ready to hear them. I’m not known as a skeptic. Occasionally my life gets so busy that I skim my emails and only address the ones that immediately grab me. This morning, for instance, you sent an email about when inspiration attacks. I clicked on it and then it let me to this blog. When life gets busy, I don’t always have time to follow the trail like I did this morning.

I face many challenges in my world these days. However, I face them with an attitude of gratitude for the lessons they bring me. And an absolute faith that I will get where I’m supposed to. It’s outside my realm of experience to ask anyone for help, let alone a stranger. But I trust that there’s a reason I found this blog today and there’s a reason I felt compelled to respond to it.

Thank you for all the insights you’ve gifted me with over the time I’ve been reading your blog. I love you for your perspective on the challenges we face in life.

By: Coach Beth

Coach Beth — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:11:11 +0000

Buz,
I think in some ways we have become de-sensitized to expecting and/or experiencing offers of help from a stranger — or even a person who is not an immediate family member or true friend (versus someone who is simply an acquaintance).
In days long past, neighborhoods would bind together and help their own, so to speak. If you were a resident of a town, or a neighborhood within a large city, then, you were helped by those around you. If someone’s car broke down, people knew that person by seeing them daily — a close proximity and familiarity to their day to day life. So they would not think twice about kneeling down and applying a tire iron to remove the flat. Nowadays, with the exploding population and influx of hundreds of thousands of “strangers” moving in and out of larger cities and nuclear families being spread far and wide — we would be fearful of that Good Samaritan hitting us over the head with the same tire iron and making off with the funds in our wallet. It is a different world today — sadly suspicion is the first reaction, rather than grateful appreciation.

By: Kate Loving Shenk

Kate Loving Shenk — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:51:22 +0000

I remember getting your offer to help in any way you could.

I honestly thought your offer was very sweet, and I appreciated it.

Yet, I need so much help, I didn’t know where to begin!! Lol!!

So I wasn’t skeptical, per se, just overwelmed as to know where to begin, and then you’d be in over your head!!!

But all is well, the good, bad and the ugly–It’s all good!!

Blessings and Happy Thanksgiving.

By: Todd Silva

Todd Silva — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:40:04 +0000

Hi Buz,

The first answer that popped into my mind was this – if someone has never been “burned” before, they are likely not going to be skeptical. I think it is in our nature to trust. But after we have been burned, that bubble has been burst. And that’s the entry point for skepticism to begin to set in.

But even the most skeptical will eventually come around when something is genuine. So I think it’s our job to stay true to course. And to trust!

Blessings Buz, and thank you for a thought provoking post!!!

Todd