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What’s something you believe is true-but can’t prove it?
- Thread starter Dalek
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Blooming heck mate, have a pint and cheer up.
I'm too tired and overheated to articulate it properly right now but theres a solid argument for the ephemerality and transience of life being the source of its intrinsic beauty.
I can't prove we didn't land on the moon. How do you prove a negative? All you triggered folk don't @ me.
Aliens is my number 1. I refuse to believe that our insignificant speck of dust planet Earth is the *only* planet in the ENTIRE cosmos that has and can support life. We believe that due to our own science and technology, based on our understanding of our own concepts of life. There could be a species out there that breathes molten lava and shits what is essentially skeletons, based in chemical composition of said shits. But regardless of what wild creatures there are out there, I highly doubt we will ever meet one. Though I do sort of believe in some of the old alien abduction stories...
Secondly, I believe there are other...things...out there as well. Magic, miracles, fourth dimensional energies....I don't know what. But that is exactly why we can't see it. Our brains could hypothetically be wired in such a way that whatever else is out there, if we were to ever see an instance of magic, or something else, our brains literally couldn't process what our eyes saw. We might see a small fraction of it, or none at all, because we would absolutely zero reference, knowdledge, and concept of what it is you/we were even looking at, so our brains wouldn't be able to rationalize it in any consumable way.
Secondly, I believe there are other...things...out there as well. Magic, miracles, fourth dimensional energies....I don't know what. But that is exactly why we can't see it. Our brains could hypothetically be wired in such a way that whatever else is out there, if we were to ever see an instance of magic, or something else, our brains literally couldn't process what our eyes saw. We might see a small fraction of it, or none at all, because we would absolutely zero reference, knowdledge, and concept of what it is you/we were even looking at, so our brains wouldn't be able to rationalize it in any consumable way.
I just think that there are too many unexplained phenomena for there not to be some unseen ethereal beings. Too many stories of possessions, haunting a, etc for there not to be something, but I've never seen concrete evidence.
My brother swears the house they owned in kansas was haunted. Here's one story: my brother was out working in the yard, his wife was in the kitchen. She saw him walk by out of the corner of her eye and called out to Jim but he kept waking. She followed him down the hall into her bedroom. She kept calling his name and was getting mad he wasn't responding. He turned the corner in there room and wen rinto the bathroom. She followed him in and he wasn't there. It wasn't him at all. He was still outside working.
He also says that something would slam the doors in their hallway in the middle of the night. One night he even got the family and got in their closet, and something kept trying to get in. DVDs flying off shelves, etc.
I never saw anything when I'd stay there except for the very first night I ever stayed there. I was in their guest room, and something sat down son the end of the bed on my feet. I could feel the weight, and I will be honest and say I couldn't look to see what it was, I was frozen stiff.
I believe there are hundreds of thousands if not millions forms of intelligent life out there (i.e. we're quite rare). And because of the massive distances and time scales involved noone will ever meet.
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You'll basically feel the same way you felt before you were born.
The principles behind hard determinism. Is there a clockwork mechanism hiding behind the scenes? Doesn't look like it.
I'll just say that our brains do amazing and sometimes strange things. If you're curious, read up on (or listen to science podcasts) dealing with the brain, psychology, memory, perception. It is much more fascinating and definitely more enlightening than ghosts and demons, promise!
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Yeah, there is life, sure. There probably are a huge amount of planets with goldy-locks circumstances. But then there is evolution, amount of catastrophic events, level of intelligence, ways of communication, and a shitload of accidental stuff. And the distances are just inconceivably huge and impossible to reach.
Maybe if we stumble on some completely new science breakthough...
Nope, just scared shitless. And this happened before any of those other things. When I told my brother in the morning, that's when he told me they'd seen stuff.
Damn, hadn't even thought of that, but it's a good point. I'm suddenly terrified that blame space has been misleading us this entire time.
And what is life's purpose in all this. Is life/intelligence an end product (seems contrived)? Or are we simply rust? If there is a higher "power" I doubt it cares, or even knows, about us.
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Karma. It just manifests in ways we don't necessarily expect.
Tough things happen in life to teach you lessons. If you ignore or avoid these situations, the "universe" will put you in yet another tough situation until you learn the lesson you're meant to learn. Meaning there is some external and subconscious layer that continually pushes us to grow and learn.
Past lives, previous soul connections and journeys.
Tough things happen in life to teach you lessons. If you ignore or avoid these situations, the "universe" will put you in yet another tough situation until you learn the lesson you're meant to learn. Meaning there is some external and subconscious layer that continually pushes us to grow and learn.
Past lives, previous soul connections and journeys.
If you were a dot living on a large enough piece of paper, you would believe the world is in two dimensions. Even if that piece of paper was rolled into a tube.
We can only experience dimensions with what our body sense. Who's to say there aren't more?
If space is infinite, then there's a near perfect copy of me out there that has a smaller dong.
we don't talk about the guy with a bigger one, fuck him
I'm sorry, it's only near infinite. Only the guy with the bigger one exists.
At least he's probably beyond our visible universe. My wife must never know.
This 100%
I've seen ghosts, but it was when I was a kid in the 90's and didn't have access to any camera or recording device. They be real tho.
And aliens. We'd be stupid to think only one planet among trillions has life lol.
We can say that it's possible but we can't proof it.
Your example is about the question if our universe might be a sphere or a torus in a 4 dimensional space. We'll be able to proof whatever exactly it is eventually.
But if our 3 dimensional reality is entirely contained within a 7 dimensional reality and therefore completely dependent on whatever is going on in that 7 dimensional reality?
We are far from proofing anything.
But i'm assuming it.
What's the difference?
Pretty much every big name director on the planet defended Polanski. Steven Spielberg on down.
The title of the topic is things you believe that you can't prove. If I could prove he did anything it would defeat the purpose of the topic. I believe it, though.
Jesus was not a real person in any meaningful sense. Gospels are entirely fictitious. Paul was either insane or a charlatan.
I believe that government/intelligence agencies have had a hand in influencing pop culture. Bordering on social engineering.
I don't think they are choosing the Billboard Hot 100 or rigging Rotten Tomatoes scores, but I think there are probably factions in the CIA or MI6 that intermingle with Hollywood and music producers.
Plus the original Paul probably is dead :-)
I don't think they are choosing the Billboard Hot 100 or rigging Rotten Tomatoes scores, but I think there are probably factions in the CIA or MI6 that intermingle with Hollywood and music producers.
Plus the original Paul probably is dead :-)