Things you believe in with no evidence

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One day, we're gonna find something a lot like life at the quantum level. It might be even more simple than prions, or it might be so alien we won't figure out how it works for ages after discovery, but I have a lurking suspicion that there's ludicrously weird shit existing down there.
 
I wouldn't say I "believe" in this concept necessarily, but the concept of parallel universes fascinates me. My dreams are so consistent and real that I would not be shocked if it was discovered that when I sleep, I'm experiencing the life of another me in a parallel world, and they're experiencing my life when they sleep. I've had recurring and continued dreams for as long as I can remember, and they're in a persistent and continuous world just like ours but with very minor changes.

I dunno, that probably sounds stupid from the outside looking in.

I share a similar view. When your dreams are almost so real it feels like you actually experienced them. It just has to be somehow connected.

Alot of people have said this and I'll repeat it - life on other planets, extraterrestial beings, etc. Also, the damn Vikings will win a superbowl.
 
Technically speaking, anything you believe that you're not 100% certain of or cannot be 100% backed up by facts, no maatter how much the data point towards a solution, then you're experiencing faith.

If certainty is not absolute, even when everything points out that an outcome is the most probable, you're having faith on said probable event.

Only in the loosest possible sense of the word. I chose to begin that sentence in my first post with "at best" for a reason.
 
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.

I was being sarcastic....
 
Alive 2017. That's the only thing that gives me hope for the future. It makes too much sense for it not to be a thing. A trilogy of tours, the culmination of two decades of work, the perfect finale to the Daft Punk legacy. It needs to be a thing.
 
Science. It's a faith based belief system, haven't you heard? I know because an actual philosophy professor told me.
 
That people misuse "Then" when it's supposed to be "Than" and vice versa, just to specifically annoy me.

Same thing with "On" and "In."
 
Half-Life 3

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I share a similar view. When your dreams are almost so real it feels like you actually experienced them. It just has to be somehow connected.

It really doesn't. Your brain lives real life all the time, and you only experience reality through your brain's interpretation of electrical signals your sensory organs send to it. It makes sense that your brain would be able to recreate real life as part of a dream, sometimes well enough to feel like a legitimate experience, since really there's no difference between the experiences except that your brain is improvising rather than interpreting. Sometimes the improv goes really well.
 
I really believe that before I die I'll get to see cool technological advancements that will make life way more enjoyable then it was before.

Don't think I'll see true neurological VR or Deus Ex style body modifications though. Maybe in another century or so.
 
Different partners at different times OR... Some kinda orgy? Ishida da last GAF Pimp :p

Or he is missing the apostrophe and he is a cuckold who watched another man bring his partner to orgasm and he just investigated afterwards while they went to shower together.
 
I absolutely believe that the Federal Reserve was the reason why President Kennedy went to Texas and never returned. I have no hard evidence of it, but I don't see any other explanation that actually makes sense.

Since him, no President has DARED cross the Fed...
 
i believe that aliens are out there in the universe somewhere.

i also believe in a creator or creators ...but i don't think any of the earthly religions are correct, but rather they're man made in an attempt to control people and try to keep order.

i just find it hard to believe that the universe and everything in it arose from nothing, etc. ...i feel some kind of supreme intelligence must have given rise to it somehow ...but then what gave rise to that supreme intelligence? its a mind bender.
 
1)Aliens:

When I was young I once had a science teacher have an open discussion with the class about the possibility of Aliens and I remember him saying that with the size of the Universe that in his opinion it was a mathematical impossibility that Earth was the only planet capable of sustaining intelligent life. I often think it's somewhat arrogant when people claim that its not possible just because we as humans have not developed the tech to find out, but its one of those things that impossible to prove unless they show themselves or we discover them.

2)Dragons:

I'm not sure if I would say I actually believe Dragons were a real thing, but I often do wonder if it's possible that there was a type of Dinosaur that survived longer then we have discovered yet that would equate to being a Dragon in the eyes of people in the past. I just find it interesting that almost all cultures have some kind Dragon myth and there being nothing behind it.
 
i believe that aliens are out there in the universe somewhere.

i also believe in a creator or creators ...but i don't think any of the earthly religions are correct, but rather they're man made in an attempt to control people and try to keep order.

i just find it hard to believe that the universe and everything in it arose from nothing, etc. ...i feel some kind of supreme intelligence must have given rise to it somehow ...but then what gave rise to that supreme intelligence? its a mind bender.
Quantum fluctuations in apparent nothingness, along with natural processes plus loads of time, pretty much account for everything. (There's a good lecture by Lawrence Krauss on this topic called A Universe From Nothing.) If you can presuppose the existence of a profoundly complex being, why not just presuppose a less complex universe?

There's no valid scenario I've ever heard of where assuming the existence of a creator makes more sense than assuming the self-sufficiency of the creation. How many more things does science need to explain before we accept the obvious conclusion that magical explanations have no place in a physical universe?
 
I actually believe the opposite of the "aliens are out there" folks: I believe humans are the only sentient species in the Universe (that is, sure there's probably life-forms of one kind or another but no other sentient ones)
 
if i told you, you would laugh.

But I will say this. Science only knows so much right now, our understanding of the universe is tiny to say the least. Who really knows what the answers to many mysteries are, and with that I will never say something is true or false if we can't answer the question with an alternative.
 
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.

moar pls
 
Quantum fluctuations in apparent nothingness, along with natural processes plus loads of time, pretty much account for everything. (There's a good lecture by Lawrence Krauss on this topic called A Universe From Nothing.) If you can presuppose the existence of a profoundly complex being, why not just presuppose a less complex universe?

There's no valid scenario I've ever heard of where assuming the existence of a creator makes more sense than assuming the self-sufficiency of the creation. How many more things does science need to explain before we accept the obvious conclusion that magical explanations have no place in a physical universe?

Why were there quantum fluctuations instead of just absolutely nothing? (I don't believe in God, but the Lawrence Krauss explanation doesn't actually explain why there's something instead of nothing, since quantum fluctuations are a thing.)
 
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.

Holy hell. It's terrifying, but I always really want to believe these stories (I'm not saying I don't believe you).
 
Square Enix will eventually turn itself around into a global media brand on par with Disney. The last 10 years are just their "Disney in the 80s" growing pains period.

I have no evidence for this. I just feel it in my bones.
 
i just find it hard to believe that the universe and everything in it arose from nothing, etc. ...i feel some kind of supreme intelligence must have given rise to it somehow ...but then what gave rise to that supreme intelligence? its a mind bender.

People seem to intuitively assume that it is more likely for there to be nothing than something by default. But I am not aware of any good argument to support that intuition. Can "nothing" even "exist"? Wouldn't that "nothing" be "something" because I can distinguish it from everything else?

There is also another way to think about it: if nothing exists that means that there also exist no laws, no restrictions. But without any restrictions everything can happen, including the emergence of something.
 
People seem to intuitively assume that it is more likely for there to be nothing than something by default. But I am not aware of any good argument to support that intuition. Can "nothing" even "exist"? Wouldn't that "nothing" be "something" because I can distinguish it from everything else?

There is also another way to think about it: if nothing exists that means that there also exist no laws, no restrictions. But without any restrictions everything can happen, including the emergence of something.

I'm not trying to be a dick here, but I don't really get these arguments. Nothing couldn't "exist" because not existing is part of the very definition of nothing. And nothing couldn't be "something" because nothing, by definition, is the exact opposite of something. Also, if no matter or energy existed, then I don't see how anything could happen, even if no laws existed. Laws of physics just describe what matter and energy do. If no matter or energy or quantum fields or anything like that existed, laws wouldn't and couldn't exist.
 
There is circumstantial evidence.

I've stopped waiting for ThreeSixty to get back to us on the concrete evidence he claimed he had: that the one God exists.

I wonder what that circumstantial evidence is tho

My belief: sentient, alien life is out there in the universe. They'd be just as freaked out to be visited by us as we would of them.
 
Life on other planets. Can't prove it, obviously, just seems like a lot of wasted space if there isn't.
Or at least I want to believe.
 
I'm not trying to be a dick here, but I don't really get these arguments. Nothing couldn't "exist" because not existing is part of the very definition of nothing.

My point is that it is not a given that really nothing at all could exist. It's different to talk about a non-existing chair in my room and about nothing existing at all. In everyday life, "nothing" is defined as the absence of something in the presence of something else. For instance, you have empty space and air where a chair could exist. But to imagine absolutely nothing is another category.

And nothing couldn't be "something" because nothing, by definition, is the exact opposite of something. Also, if no matter or energy existed, then I don't see how anything could happen, even if no laws existed. Laws of physics just describe what matter and energy do. If no matter or energy or quantum fields or anything like that existed, laws wouldn't and couldn't exist.

I wasn't just talking about laws of pyhsics. I had metaphysical rules in my mind. The kind of fundamental ruleset you talk about when you think about the set of all possible worlds.
 
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