Fare Thee Well Now, Bobby...
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We'll keep on dancin' through to daylight, and greet the morning air with song, because the music never stops...
"Fear stalks Berkeley's Rainbow Village"
In this post I’ll try to walk a thin line between skepticism and cynicism with regard to the veracity of Vivian Cercy’s testimony . Some may mistake cynicism for s kepticism , so I’ll give a definition of skepticism, and then I’ll give a definition of cynicism to distinguish the two clearly. Skepticism is merely maintaining an attitude of doubt with regard to the truth of a claim or set of claims. Cynicism, on the other hand, is an inclination to believe that people are purely motivated by self-interest. So there are many reasons to be skeptical regarding the veracity of Vivian Cercy’s testimony, and these go beyond her claim to have seen Mary and Greg with a tall, skinny, blond man around 0130. These are reasons that prosecuting attorney Jim Anderson (a cynic, in my opinion) could have given a jury to get them to doubt the truth of her entire testimony. They explain why Vivian Cercy may have told Vincent Johnson that,...
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