Things you believe in with no evidence

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Can't just drop stories of encounters with aliens and ghosts and not tell the story. I love that stuff.

I guess we believe lots of stuff with no evidence. I mean when learning about history, especially at a maybe high school level, nobody shows you the evidence they just tell you these things happened.
 
That life has some sort of grander meaning than just the moment to moment.

That aliens exist.

That The Doctor actually exists and is keeping the universe relatively safe.
 
Many people mention aliens. But there kinda is evidence for their existence: the sheer size of the universe. One can make a reasonable argument that the preconditions for intelligent life are likely enough to be met more than just once in the entire universe. The evidence is certainly not conclusive, but it is far from being non-existant.
 
PeskyToaster said:
Can't just drop stories of encounters with aliens and ghosts and not tell the story. I love that stuff.
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Funnily enough i have experienced something that many people would blame on ghosts (even an aunt of mine said so) but i have chosen to believe it wasn't ghosts.

My earliest memories from when i was a baby are that, every night before i felt asleep an intense pressence/feeling would fill the room where my crib was as if the space in the room was being distorted (as described by what i felt) and i would be visited by a woman who i could not identify, but everything would feel calm and all right like she was watching over my rest.

I always assumed this was some sort of rudimentary baby dream i would frequently have, and the woman in this was someone i didn't know (ie, it was not my mom), curiously even today one of the recourring elements on my dreams is the pressence of a wisened mysterious female figure i dubbed "the mentor figure".

In any case i never thought much of it, but one time i brought it up at a christmas dinner and my family looked at me weird, one of my aunts straight up said she believed it was the ghost of my grand mother who had passed away before i was even born. I never really believed that was the case, "ghosts" never even crossed my mind as to explain what i experienced.

I dunno, maybe any people saying ghosts on this thread would say i was being visited by one?
 
I believe that there is a god, but I'm hesitant to say that it's based solely on faith at this point (I think the role some thing like that would play is far too crucial in this universe to not exist in some form). I think ultimately you're not going to get some kind of empirical evidence to substantiate it, it's a shifting in perspective i think. Besides, there's other types of evidence too so I don't think people believe in things purely on faith, there's always an underlying reason (logical, philosophical, anecdotal, etc.).
 
High probability is enough evidence for me, even though it's not actually proven evidence.

There is just so much stuff that is believed without any logic or probability involved at all. There's where I don't go.
 
the-pi-guy said:
One could argue that we take everything on faith. 100%, everything.

For all we know we could be brains in a jar.


Crazy isn't it? Next, he'll say he believes the Earth to be spherical or an oblate spheroid.... What ever that means.
The Earth is flat people! I have proof!
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He is saying this in a "no evidence thread"

There is only evidence that the Earth is billions of years old. His comment suggests he believes the Earth is billions of years old, despite some notion he knows of that the Earth is only thousands of years old.
 
God and aliens.

Also things such as the Loch Ness monster. I mean we haven't even begun explore the ocean to its fullest. We have explored less than 5% of the ocean. So I'd say the chances are high there is shit we don't know about down there.
 
PSqueak said:
Funnily enough i have experienced something that many people would blame on ghosts (even an aunt of mine said so) but i have chosen to believe it wasn't ghosts.

My earliest memories from when i was a baby are that, every night before i felt asleep an intense pressence/feeling would fill the room where my crib was as if the space in the room was being distorted (as described by what i felt) and i would be visited by a woman who i could not identify, but everything would feel calm and all right like she was watching over my rest.

I always assumed this was some sort of rudimentary baby dream i would frequently have, and the woman in this was someone i didn't know (ie, it was not my mom), curiously even today one of the recourring elements on my dreams is the pressence of a wisened mysterious female figure i dubbed "the mentor figure".

In any case i never thought much of it, but one time i brought it up at a christmas dinner and my family looked at me weird, one of my aunts straight up said she believed it was the ghost of my grand mother who had passed away before i was even born. I never really believed that was the case, "ghosts" never even crossed my mind as to explain what i experienced.

I dunno, maybe any people saying ghosts on this thread would say i was being visited by one?
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Kinda creepy, sounds like the movie Insidious except a nice lady instead of a scary one. I've never had anything happen to me like that. I would probably be oblivious to it anyway.
 
So this going to sound weird but whatever.

Whales and dolphins are pretty smart animals, they have complex social groups and have something akin to a language (though whether it's as developed as prairie dog language is something that can be argued). They can learn from their elders and pass on a culture.

I've always wondered what their opinions of us are. There are gray whales that were alive during the whaling days that today happily come up to humans to be petted. There are pods of dolphins that follow fishing ships knowing they are heading to where the fish are. There was a killer whale named Old Tom off the coast of Australia, whose pod helped whalers kill baleen whales by herding them into the bay in exchange for food.
I wonder if they think of us as gods in a way. We don't exist in their realm, but we have superior knowledge and know things they cannot possibly understand. We can give them food or kill them easily, and most of the time they seem to try to be on our good side. Nothing in nature can stop us from their point of view, we can "eat" entire schools of fish with a single net. And if humans go extinct, I wonder if they will still remember us in legends. I guess what I'm saying is, I believe whales think of us as gods. :P
 
That cameras steal souls. I don't believe in souls, just that cameras have the ability to steal them.

An Eternal Darkness sequel will eventually come out.

Aliens.

Azathoth.

GamingMajic said:
The "Many Worlds" theory.

Truly believe there are alternate universes/timelines of our lives, and it seriously fascinates me to what they could be. Maybe ive been watching too much Sci-fi.

*shrugs*
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I've been in so many situations where immediately afterword I said "holy shit I just died in an infinite number of parallel universes, I should really be more careful"
 
HawksWinStanley said:
Oh come on, you can't post this and not tell the story.
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Ok, Here goes (long read, apologies).

When I was 13 my aunt had rented out a house that was a partial duplex. After they were in a few weeks, my aunt was out gardening, looked upstairs, and saw an older lady staring at her from an upstairs window. She went into the house, went upstairs, and no one was there. She was wearing a green sweatshirt, tan pants and had a necklace with a bird on it. Over the next few months, my aunt and my cousin would see the lady off and on. She never acknowledged them, and would appear for a few seconds, then disappear. My aunt had asked for me to come housesit her dog because they had to go out of town. I agreed, and went over there Saturday morning.

I got to the house, turned on the TV, slept for a bit, woke up around 2 PM. I even remember looking at my watch and seeing it was 1:57PM. I called and ordered a pizza, flipped the station over to watch the rest of the Cardinals game, and walked into the kitchen to get a Coke and lo and behold there was an old woman, grey hair, green eyes, with the exact clothes my aunt would describe standing there. I saw her, but its like I wasn't even there to her, it looked like she was staring right through me. By the time I could get words out, she disappeared right in front of me.

Never saw her again after that.
 
LookAtMeGo said:
Aliens. I guess the size of the Universe is pretty good evidence but still... aliens.
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I would argue there is a ton of evidence for Aliens.

Hell, mathematically I think it's almost impossible that aliens don't exist.

Now if they have made contact with us... that's a different story.
 
I think "aliens" is a bad example. We have definitive evidence that life can evolve in the universe.
 
Any concept beyond my understanding. I know there is evidence that supports them but I don't personally understand the explanations so I just agree with people much smarter than me. I kinda made the thread more personal than OP intended.
 
BFIB said:
Ok, Here goes (long read, apologies).

When I was 13 my aunt had rented out a house that was a partial duplex. After they were in a few weeks, my aunt was out gardening, looked upstairs, and saw an older lady staring at her from an upstairs window. She went into the house, went upstairs, and no one was there. She was wearing a green sweatshirt, tan pants and had a necklace with a bird on it. Over the next few months, my aunt and my cousin would see the lady off and on. She never acknowledged them, and would appear for a few seconds, then disappear. My aunt had asked for me to come housesit her dog because they had to go out of town. I agreed, and went over there Saturday morning.

I got to the house, turned on the TV, slept for a bit, woke up around 2 PM. I even remember looking at my watch and seeing it was 1:57PM. I called and ordered a pizza, flipped the station over to watch the rest of the Cardinals game, and walked into the kitchen to get a Coke and lo and behold there was an old woman, grey hair, green eyes, with the exact clothes my aunt would describe standing there. I saw her, but its like I wasn't even there to her, it looked like she was staring right through me. By the time I could get words out, she disappeared right in front of me.

Never saw her again after that.
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Did you run out of the house screaming? I never would have stepped foot in there again after that.
 
DOWN said:
I believe there's life on other planets that we have yet to discover. Though it can be argued there is evidence of the plausibility. That might be my whole list...
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I believe that there is life within our solar system that is not located on Earth.
 
God for me too. But I don't pretend to be naive enough to know exactly what form said deity takes.
 
flaxknuckles said:
Did you run out of the house screaming? I never would have stepped foot in there again after that.
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No, it was surreal. I sat down in the kitchen in a haze trying to wrap my brain around what I just saw, and kind of hoping she'd appear again. The knock on the door from the pizza guy is what took me out of my haze.

I called my parents and told them what I saw. My dad offered to come pick me up and bring the dog back, but I declined. It was weird, I know what I saw, but it didn't seem bad, or at least it didn't feel like it was going to hurt me or anything. I didn't sleep well that night, but I never heard a sound, everything was completely normal.

I've had a lifelong obsession w/ the paranormal since then though, and it seems what I saw, and what they saw, is more residual than anything. My aunt lived there for about 5 years, and saw her the entire time they lived there. Crazy story on top of it, but after they moved out, a friend of a friend had moved in there when I was in my mid 20's, and they reportedly seen the same woman while they lived there. I've always been tempted to go knock on the door for whoever is living there now and ask if they had seen her.
 
Atomic Playboy said:
The existence of alien life. I don't mean that extraterrestrials are burning circles in fields or probing rural folk, but I firmly believe that life exists somewhere else in the Universe despite a complete lack of evidence to prove such a hypothesis.
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If two random players ever meet in No Man's Sky then we can presume there really is life out there and someday, SOMEDAY humans will come into contact with them. The distances are astronomical, but it's the time periods that are the biggest stumbling block. We have existed for the tiniest trillionth of time and may go extinct one trillionth of that time later. A species might exist just a few lightyears away, but they come into existence hundreds of millions/billions of years from now, or in the past.

They're out there. You have to be incredibly naive and arrogant to think somehow Earth is truly special and unique in a Universe that is unquantifiable. Hell even our one puny galaxy is unfathomable to us all.
 
BFIB said:
No, it was surreal. I sat down in the kitchen in a haze trying to wrap my brain around what I just saw, and kind of hoping she'd appear again. The knock on the door from the pizza guy is what took me out of my haze.

I called my parents and told them what I saw. My dad offered to come pick me up and bring the dog back, but I declined. It was weird, I know what I saw, but it didn't seem bad, or at least it didn't feel like it was going to hurt me or anything. I didn't sleep well that night, but I never heard a sound, everything was completely normal.

I've had a lifelong obsession w/ the paranormal since then though, and it seems what I saw, and what they saw, is more residual than anything. My aunt lived there for about 5 years, and saw her the entire time they lived there. Crazy story on top of it, but after they moved out, a friend of a friend had moved in there when I was in my mid 20's, and they reportedly seen the same woman while they lived there. I've always been tempted to go knock on the door for whoever is living there now and ask if they had seen her.
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I would go back. You never know what could happen.
 
StrapOnFetus said:
Tell us more, what did he say when he communicated :)
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PeskyToaster said:
Can't just drop stories of encounters with aliens and ghosts and not tell the story. I love that stuff.
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Fair enough.

Well, so with this friend of mine. I'll try to be succint and forgive me cause English is not my first language.

So he lived in a 2 story country house nearby, first floor was a big TV room and a guest room, top floor was his bedroom, his sister's and his parent's, kitchen, dining room.

We used to play a lot of videogames in the TV room downstairs, right by the guest room which was never occupied. I used to sleep at his house a lot but never used the guest room, partly because it was more fun to hang together and partly because the room was by itself on the first floor in a big isolated house, so it would actually scare me (us).

So, as the story goes, one day he was by himself gaming in the TV room till early morning as usual, but felt a desperate need to go to sleep. He would always turn everything off and go upstairs, but that particular day the urge was so intense he could not bring himself to go to his room, so he just went to bed in the guest room, despite the usual uneasy feeling we got from it.

He then said he was having a recurring dream where his dead grandparents were talking to him: he could see himself sleeping on the bed from a fixed point of view on the ceiling, his grandparents alongside the bed "talking" to him with mouths closed despite him having his eyes closed. So basically he could listen to telepathy, from a 3rd person PoV. "Dialogue" (actually only the grandparents were talking) was something akin to them conforting him for the things there were going to take place.

He would then wake up in a hurry, shake off those feelings and go right back to sleep again because he "could not hold his body together" (his exact words).

Untill (according to him), he woke up and the scene he was dreaming about was actually taking place, but instead of his dead grandparents there were 2 greys by his bed.

He was levitating about half a meter, looked down and saw them, panicked and felt paralysed floating in the air. He then blacked out and woke up a few hours later, early morning but still mostly dark, in his backyard, nose bleeding, and rushed to the house where the door was locked and the guest room lights were on. Screamed and parents came to his rescue, completely crazy about how he managed to go outside with doors locked.

Firstly he had no memories of anything past his recurring dream with his grandparents, but felt an inexplicable terror of the guest room that endured for weeks. We actually never liked that place from the start, but usually we weren't terrified by it. However, I remember being there in the house and he actually telling me "I won't ever go back to that room again", despite not giving me a reason for his fear, while looking straight at the tv. I should say we were 10-12 yo by that time.

Up to that point he had not connected the dots, he said, but involuntarily he was terrified of the room. He was actually pretty scared about waking up in his backyard too, thought he was a sleepwalker and was anxious about it, but he managed to shake off the feelings that came from the whole "I was somehow locked outside my own house with zero explanation". The guest room was his real enemy I guess.

So, slowly he brought himself to remembering things, like the dream and the levitation, untill he recalled, during a therapy session, being examined and probed in his nose. No memories of a ship or anything, but being in a bright space with those two greys close to his face, wearing infection masks, so that their protuberant eyes became even more bold. Damn I hate this part lol.

His parents actually confirmed me the therapy story, but faced it as if it was only their son's imagination. From what I can tell, the therapist agreed on it and he was basically treated for anxiety.

Anyway. that was the abduction. The times when he managed to avoid being abducted again are way less interesting I guess. But let me know if you wanna hear about it.
 
Bigfoot.


Like the idea of these giant hairy humanoid monsters running around NA is great but there's like 0% chance they're actually real.


EDIT: No one else said bigfoot, I'm sad.
 
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