Things you believe in with no evidence

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Not much that I can think of. I wouldn't say I believe in life on other planets for example, I'd say I believe it's likely. And I'd say that belief is supported by evidence, namely life on Earth and the sheer size of the universe. But I could be wrong, believing something is not the same as thinking it's absolute fact. There's varying degrees of certainty of every belief, and it should be proportional to the evidence.

But...

Gigglepoo said:
George R. R. Martin will finish A Song of Ice and Fire.
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Yeah, this.
 
OrlanisWorks said:
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.
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1.) Recorded history. Several pieces of non religious text write about the existence of Mohammad, Jesus, Abraham (the guy who built the Kaaba), etc.. It may not refer to God, but it refers to them.

2.) As I think about the world and us, I'm more convinced of a higher being. The predictabilty of physical systems with math. The electrical-chemical-mechanical systems that make up our bodies. Our bodies know how to size their pumps (heart). Our bodies know how to regulate the acidity levels in our blood, through the use of a buffer (bicarbonate). So many examples. We are designed... We live in a designed environment.
 
HUELEN10 said:
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...
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I haven't heard this one. What'd he do?
 
DrFunk said:
Tales From Topographic Oceans was Yes's best album
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D:


Tbf I think isolated instrumental segments of it are pretty awesome, while parts of it are unbearable and make my ears cringe.

Then again, that goes for almost every Yes song.

the-pi-guy said:
That all other GAF posters are bots.

AI is becoming too cool.
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I used to think, or rather consider the possibility, I was the only real person in the world and absolutely everyone, everything that surrounds me is a projection of my own mind, like a very elaborate dream.
 
EBreda said:
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.
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Well that was fucking spooky.
 
Super Mario 2 is a dream about Mario's memories on Yoshi's Island

Shockwave survived Unicron's attack on Cybertron

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EBreda said:
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.
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Sounds like textbook sleep paralysis/obe.
 
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I'm pretty sure that Russia mostly invaded Ukraine in order to secure a warm water port, because they were worried they might lose access of Syrian ports of Assad was ousted
 
From the moment I opened my eyes after I was born, I have believed that what my five senses are telling me is reality is reality. I have no evidence, though.

DrunkShogun said:
We will enter a future where mechs are used for war as well as social life.
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That's a future I wish I could believe in!
 
HUELEN10 said:
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...
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Wasn't the fed the reason the titanic sank according to that thread the other day? My memory is hazy and I'm too lazy to check. Seems the fed is causing all sorts of shenanigans.
 
Ghost_Protocol said:
Karma. I genuinely believe that what goes around comes around. Good or bad.
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This, although I don't view karma as a reactionary force affecting just me or doling out immediate repercussions. If I try to positively affect the world around me then hopefully that energy will continue on to/through other people, likely without them knowing it was me. If everyone tries that then we will live surrounded by positive energy and good things will come of it. Same deal in reverse for negative energy...if you walk around acting like an asshole all the time you set off a chain of assholishness that makes unnecessary shitty things happen.
 
Razorback PT said:
I believe other humans also possess consciousness the same way I do.
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Additionally, the notion that humans possess some form of consciousness in general. The free-will versus determinism debate is largely semantics in my opinion: the answer you reach depends on how you define the two terms. It can be argued that free-will can't exist because we can only act based on the information we have - even the assumptions we make are based off of past experiences, schematic relationships, or general principles we have defined - and therefore someone who had total control over a person's entire experience of reality could control that person... but this "hard free-will" requires all decisions to be made without considering consequences and strikes me as particularly devoid of meaning, even the human constructed notions of purpose. A free-will where you choose what actions to take even if the physical system you are contained within and the laws of physics do constrain the realm of possibilities you can conceive is what the common person means when they say "free-will" or "consciousness", anyways - pointless to switch targets to argue against this hard definition by acquiescing to the definition people hold anyways, then claim that you somehow defeated that supposed concession by addressing the straw definition that wasn't the initial proposal when what you are framing as a concession was your opponents argument in the first place. Too often I see motte-and-bailey fallacies employed to slide the definition of the supported of the two terms to make concessions to a strong argument, then watch as the definition is slid back to the broad claim when the challenger is finished. I also think recent theoretical applications of quantum physics to biology may help explain consciousness as well, but there's no real empirical proof yet.
 
Kenstar said:
Have you heard of physics and the square cube law, a planet a billion times larger would collapse upon itself, and galaxies aren't 3% of the size of the observable universe
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I understand this.

however, this assumes we human beings on earth have substantial information about the nature of ALL celestial objects across the universe.

We assume all there is is galaxies, planets, stars, comets, etc...and nothing else

but maybe there are other bodies or objects we don't know about, that aren't planets that could be huge and have some kind of intelligent life.

the universe is way too big and we know very little about it, just take a look at the article about the star with the huge, unkonwn artifact in front of it caught by the Kepler telescope.
 
Dons aluminium foil hat.

Things I suspect:


  • The earths crust has numerous interior spaces of a substantial size - some with their own eco systems. Bit like the aero bar below.

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  • Previous advanced ancient civilisations existed on earth.
  • Secret space programs using whizz-bang technology. Navy Star Program / Solar Warden.
  • Secret underground bases on mars and other planets / moons. Alternative 3 spoof!
  • A sparse but functioning ecosystem on mars.
  • Planets / stars are conscious entities, solar systems are conscious entities etc.
  • Separation from the physical body. Life force / soul / spirit / whatever.
  • Wedge shaped Skylake MacBook Pros with only USB - C ports.
 
1- As others, life on other planets. We do have evidence for this though really. We know the conditions required for life. We know there are other planets out there with similar conditions to our Earth. It's just maths really.

2- Ghosts. Because I've seen one 95% sure. Not only that, 3 other people also saw it which gives strength to the sighting for my normally skeptical mind. I think it's possible they are glimpses into another time or dimension though. Or something else, they aren't necessarily Ghosts in the traditional sense.

3- Lee Oswald shot JFK, but there's more to the story than the official verdict.
 
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