Are You the Type of Person Who Questions Everything, or Are There Some Things You Just Automatically Accept as Being True?

[Bel88]

You heard what the man said!

About the only thing I don't question is my own existence. Everything else is open to doubt.

[Lliam]

I'm the type who questions everything. No topic is verboten.

The way my mind works, I look at as many points of view as possible on a topic and try to understand all the pros and cons. Things are way more nuanced than most people think. There are layers upon layers.

I try to gather as much information as possible. I give zero fucks about political partisanship, ideology, or consensus.

I formulate opinions on individual issues based on information and can modify or change my opinions as more information becomes available. I use my own wits to determine credibility, regardless of the website or source. The term "conspiracy theorist" was created to discourage people from questioning authorities.

My attitude often puts me at odds with people who suffer cognitive dissonance when their deeply held beliefs are confronted by facts.

I have learned that those who have the least credibility are in government and mainstream media. I've also learned that the more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know. And those who know the least are the most certain that they know all there is to know.

[HighlyVolatile]

I tend to question everything including my own existence. Yet I come from a scientific and engineering background so I don't necessarily believe or disbelieve things in a sort of black and white way. It's more revolving around probabilities: "This seems about 50% likely to be true," for example, and I constantly reevaluate the probabilities I assign.

[HighlyVolatile]

I also don't necessarily assign probabilities so much based on a concept of truthfulness, but applicability. That's probably my engineer side. So perhaps a better way to put the way I think is like, "This seems about 50% likely to be applicable and useful in my life."

[howdidireachhere]

a mix of both. there r some things I automatically accept, while some make me question. I don't know the pattern, it's very random.

[David92506]

There's some things that I accept the true. It usually follows under the bottom sole concept for example I read that green tea is one of the healthiest drinks. I'm bought them so hold on that. I drink green tea everyday

[Wester1967]

Some Things You Just Automatically Accept as Being True?
1. The Last Jedi Sucks
2. Republicans are to a person dishwater dumb
3. Women pick horrible guys.

[Bel88]

I agree with the first and third here, but don't know about point number two because I do not live in the U. S.

[noohair]

When Nixon said that we were not in Cambodia and then said we were, I started to doubt anything a professional political overseer said. The only job of the political class is to get reelected. It is the only thing they do well.

[normalice]

I accept that which I see and am suspicious of anyone who makes a claim but doesn't want to show me.

[Godsvengeance]

I agree with always questioning everything. It's important to always challenge what you believe and to fully understand why you believe it

[TrillXHippy]

I think I used to question things and then I just automatically accepted as them being true

[sarahlumpkin]

You mean Solipsism?

[Bel88]

No, I just mean not accepting things because you've been told to, or because it appears "obvious" to you, or due to habit.
Solipsism is an extreme form of idealism, in which the person believes that they alone are real but everything (and everyone) isn't.

[Bel88]

"... everything (and everyone) else isn't." I meant.

[AvaOneLasTime]

I do question a lot.

[888theGreat]

I question