Truth Bombs: 40 Facts That Shocked People Into Questioning Reality

Then OP might even more be shocked that crops do the same, with pheromones. If plants in one end of a field get nibbled on, they send warning signs, so other plants can start a defensive action. Usually the sap is getting bitter, so they are less tasty. Due to modifications, most crops are muted today. In combination with giant monocultures, without any shelter and breeding areas for "good" birds and insects nearby, more chemicals and gene-manipulation are necessary. In some countries, it spiraled out of control. And that the wkrld population went from 2.5 billion in 1950 to 8 billion today doesn't help either.

There is a strong argument for Gaia and Douglas Adams' "interconnectedness of all things". We are all part of a giant computer!

Check out a book called Braiding Sweetgrass. Weaves together Indigenous knowledge and science. She discusses this phenomenon

Our brains would be overwhelmed to be able to see *everything* happening around us; instead, we get to see , and hear, and smell, and taste the best things.

I once heard a Maple tell Walnut, “You’re nuts”.

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I can't picture anything in my mind.. I'm an avid reader, but it's just words to me, I didn't know until recently that people could actually see what they're reading in their heads..

My inner monologue won’t shut up, but my mind’s eye is blank.

The voices in my head say they find this difficult to believe.

Everytime I read this it totally blows my mind. I have a vivid imagination and a nonstop internal monolog. Sure, a quiet mind might be nice for a few minutes but I crack myself up and would definitely miss being able to picture the various absurdities my brain can cook up. I feel sorry for those people.

People can hear their voice in their head? What do they mean inner monologue - like they hear a voice talking as they think??? That sounds obnoxiously annoying.

Your first clue that it was all a lie should have been Joseph Smith's claim that he translated the Book of Mormon from gold tablets with the help of a magic hat and seer stone.

And the Freemasons took their practices from The Knights Templar, and back and back...

"i found these gold plates and only i can read them with these magic stones. and no, i will NOT let any one else see them!" he was caught cheating on his wife, so he told her that the magic plates said that he could have more than one wife, so he was not cheating.

religion is a disease that sprouts from fear, as Bertrand Russel once stated

People are liars and that wasn't any different 2000 years ago. I said what I said.

Hypocaust. Good scrabble word.

The Minoans had hot and cold running water going to their homes.

Hypocausts.

Because we are idiots, teaching history and ancient cultures as they were some kind of "cavemen". There is still the term the "Dark Ages" referring to the years between the fall of Roman Empire (476) and discovery of the american continent by europeans (1492). In fact, those centuries were full of progressing and gaining knowledge in different fields of science. And of course, the period beforre the "Dark Ages" is considered by many even darker. Geez, people are really disappointing with their arrogance.

Hypocaust system. The Romans used the same idea to heat the baths.

And yet we tend to think the versions of other people *I have in my mind* are accurate representations of who they are

People can only perceive based on their own experience and stand point. That's why it's said the world is a mirror, what reflects back to you is what you believe, not what is actually there.

My dad just died, my sisters and I learned so much about him from sorting through old pictures and talking memories with our mom, getting ready for the celebration of life. Some examples included finding out that him going to med school was a case of a friend saying "hey, I've got an extra application, want to apply with me?", the fee was $20 (in 1952), he won it in a poker game that night, sent off the application and got in thus leading to long, and illustrious career (not joking- he was a pioneer in a few things) or finding out just how much he helped a family from the Sudan immigrate to here and get on their feet or finding a picture of my paternal great-grandfather from 1876 & it's a dead ringer for one of my nephews.

None sees you the same way as yourself.

%48 of population of America see trump one way.