They say it’s always best to trust your gut. But what if it tells you there’s something off with a particular person, place, situation, you name it? Today, we are diving into some hard-to-believe scenarios shared by people with very strong suspicions. The only catch is that they have zero proof of the conspiracies.
“What do you strongly suspect but have no proof of?” asked u/757jsmith on the r/AskReddit subreddit and the answers started rolling in.
Let’s scroll through the most interesting ones below, and who knows… sometimes life is stranger than fiction!
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Religion was created to control the masses.
Maybe todays religion, but from the beginning it was simply a way to explain things we didn't understand.
Our ancient (human) history is far more vast and impressive than we can even begin to imagine.
Suspect my Physically and mentally abusive ex husband was planning on offing me during our separation/divorce. He got a $75,000 life insurance policy on me during our separation. Found out 2 years after our divorce when he had overpaid the policy and the insurance sent me a refund check. Mistake on their part.
During our separation, he had invited me to join his “family” vacation at Grand Canyon, I said no. He invited me to the mountains that same summer to try to be a family again, I said no. Then he invited me to Mexico for “reconciliation, again no. ( I said no because the gut feelings I had and my mom told me not to) She had 3 dreams in a row that my soon to be ex husband would tell her I was dead.
I have no proof, just the insurance policy and my mom’s dreams. 2 years after divorce, he canceled policy. I didn’t know you could get insurance on someone without them knowing
Woman's clothes have either no pockets or crumby pockets to promote handbag sales.
I've heard this one so many times, but I've always wondered then why there aren't more companies that make both pants and hand bags.
The Kardashians usually wear solid colored clothing because it’s easier for them to photoshop
That the universe is teeming with life. Earth just can't be that special.
Ooor, there have been lots of planets like the earth before, maybe with higher developed civilisations like us, but their galaxy exploded in a supernova billions of years ago like it will happen to our galaxy. Maybe some of the black holes only exist because some alien experiment went horribly wrong. The universe is so big and so old and so crazy-for me, everything is possible..
That the developed world would function just fine if people were paid the same salaries, but worked only 3 days a week instead of 5. I strongly suspect the elite and governments want us working as much as possible so we don't have enough free time to cause unrest and improve society in a way that would negatively affect them. After all, since machines and factories have automated most forms of manufacturing, so why are we working as many (or more) hours as people from 150 years ago?
For those saying it's unrealistic, this sort of mass shift; please let me draw your attention to history. There were people who were certain the economy couldn't stand paying former slaves, allowing women into the work force, cutting back from 80 hour work weeks to 40 hour work weeks, not allowing children to work, and I'm sure there's more. The proposed idea would be a major shift but it's not unrealistic or outright impossible. I'd love to hear some economists debate the feasibility.
All those “questionnaires” and “create your X name” things on Facebook are created by people hoping to data mine secret question answers to steal your identity or bank info.
Your stripper name is the first car you owned + The street you grew up on.
Yo dummy, those are the secret questions to your bank account!
Cats can understand our words, but do not care. They are waiting for a moment to speak, but since we are so far beneath them it hasn't happened yet.
There’s no sales on Black Friday. It’s just hyped up and people don’t do the research. Something could have been on “sale” earlier in the year for the same price, but people flock to the stores on Black Friday and buy it immediately because in their mind... it’s the cheapest it has ever been.
That the "unsubscribe" method in spam emails, calls or texts are really just a way of confirming the number is attached to a real person.
That a lot of businesses in my hometown are just money laundering operations. 25 nail salons in a town of 70,000? 3000 square foot DVD rental shop in the best block of downtown where commercial rents are very high? Dozens of $10 barber shops sitting empty all day but remaining open? Red flags all around.
Yes! I always think this, like how can they make a profit, and afford to pay all of their overheads?
That my oldest brother is actually my bio father.
It just makes no sense to me otherwise. I have a butt chin and no one else in my family does. This older brother was(is?) an alcoholic, drug addict, and just a big mess all around. He brought different women to my parent's house every day and we would hear them f**k. It makes no sense to me that he came out of that with zero children. Makes less sense since he's ~20 years older than me, which means my parents would have had me at a dangerously (for my mom) old age. I know it's not impossible, but it just makes a lot more sense this way. Plus my parents always covered up for his wrongdoings so it honestly wouldn't surprise me.
I once asked my mom and she got visibility upset. Didn't even ask her outright, I just said I had a dream that they told me my brother was really my father. She got super mad and refused to even discuss or acknowledge my dream. Weird as hell.
I would still consider my mom, my mom. Wouldn't consider my brother my dad if he were because he's an ass. It's just something I think is highly probable.
Every episode of every reality show is either tightly scripted, or at least framed and re-shot so the producers can get the right amount of drama on the screen.
In my city something bad is about to happen.
I see a lot of mansions on sale, and houses with good location too. I think rich people know something that the rest of the people don't.
Pretty paranoid, sorry.
Not that paranoid. It's called "insider knowledge" and rich people hold often the position where they are informed about plans that could affect their properties. So it could be that soon you'll find that some very polluting industry is building a new plant right across the street because it suddenly has been designated as "industrial area".
Queen Elizabeth will probably live up to 120 years and longer. She is one of the best fed and most cared person on Earth.
If we invented something for immortality, she likely took it already.
That only about 20% of people actually do any work. The rest just get by looking busy.
I believe that many animal rescues self-perpetuate their own problem. Some rescues have VERY picky requirements - like salary minimums, yard size minimums, prior experience, age minimums, required seminars, required volunteer work, etc. Meanwhile you can just go to a breeder or a store, and be able to get a pet that day.
I understand wanting to make sure the animals go to a home equipped to care for the animal, but if it's so hard to get a rescuee pet that it drives people to stores, then those shelters will only ever become more crowded. A parrot rescue near me requires 6 months of volunteering for 3 hours every week before you can adopt... and there's a store nearby that just breeds and sells parrots. Which one would most people pick?
I couldn’t agree more with this! Plenty of people would love to adopt a cat or dog but live in a flat/apartment and are discounted immediately. I’ve never understood why having access to a garden is deemed more important than a loving home with people who care. Here in the UK many people would love to take on a rescue pet but are stumped at this first hurdle. It would be ok for me to have a baby in that environment but not a dog/cat?!? How does that make sense to anyone?
I believe my grand mother was a serial killer. She was married 7 times; each ending in a sudden death. She died in the 1980’s but everything is still suspicious and no one seems to know anything. I did find an article about her when she came to the US where her first husband died defending her after her ex-boyfriend climbed in her window in New York City. I also found evidence of her having been in prison before coming to the US.
That a relative is a CIA agent. She was in the Peace Corps, Vietnam era. Ever since she's been a "world traveler," somehow able to drop her work and "go hiking the Spanish version of the Appalachian Trail" or otherwise go to exotic locales. Sometimes she came back with injuries, "I fell as we were climbing some rocks." Her son is in the agency as an employee, not a spy, and he's married to a CIA translator.
Prince Charles will never sit on the throne. I believe he made a deal with Queen Elizabeth that in exchange for being allowed to marry Camilla he gave up his right to sit on the throne. Prince William will sit on the throne when Queen Elizabeth dies.
That Bath and Body Works has like, 13 unique scents. Every couple of months they just rotate the scents in and call them something else.
Starbucks baristas intentionally spell your name wrong so you take a picture of it and post it on social media to give the company free advertising.
I'm pretty sure that's a fact. I've read it so many times. It's free advertising for them
My dog sees supernatural events at our house.
Historians +200 years from now will be able to look at all of all of the private messages and data of people who have been long dead.
Similar to how we can read private letters of people from 1700’s.
Some zoos have empty exhibits and just claim the animal is in there, you just never see them.
I think my great great uncle was gay, but lived in a time where he had to hide that part of himself. He never had a wife or kids. He traveled a lot and was very into art. I asked my grandma a while back if she thought he was gay and she said he just wasn't interested in having girlfriends.
That my five month old knows exactly when I’m about to fall asleep and starts crying just to screw with me.
I believe that apple never actually intended for anyone to buy their $999 monitor stand. It was just an excuse so they could invalidate all warranty claims for the Pro monitor.
"We can't approve your claim due to the use of improper 3rd party equipment".
That your phone and laptop mics are hot and sending data to certain groups.
That my English teacher didn't read essays, and based grades on how we were in class.
Mattress stores are a money laundering scheme. No one buys that many mattresses.
That every single person who has submitted their DNA to their ancestor sites has officially damned themselves. That’s like giving away all the passwords to your devices. Our DNA is our coding, it is what builds us. If someone for some reason wanted that information for any reason that would likely ignore the integrity of bioethics, they could get to it. Rich person will die within 2 days without a kidney transplant? They could easily pay someone to check the database to find an individual who could potentially be the closest match. That person would have also submitted where they live. It would be pretty convenient for that person to randomly get terribly injured and be taken to the hospital where the rich person happens to be at. I know it sounds crazy, and there are 100 less crazy things people can do with out data. But with body autonomy rights starting to be taken away by some states, it’s essentially the government saying they own the rights to your body, it’s just not that obvious...for now. Y’all wait. Y’all mark my words.
Yep! I will never willingly give away my DNA and I think it's utterly crazy that anyone does. Those ancestry sites make it all look so fun and interesting but there is something sinister about them. I just know it! In the same vain, I'd never have one of those Alexa (or similar) spybots in my house.
Have you ever had bloodwork done before? Cheek swab? Left any hairs at the gp? Then they've got your DNA.
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I see the logic, but I also don't believe the world is one big conspiracy theory where everyone is trying to destroy everyone else.
We are all getting destroyed without needing it to be a conspiracy theory
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I appreciate your opinion, but I found my biological family through DNA and I have no regrets
Oops I did Ancestry and 23andMe. Oh well, Ill just enjoy my kidneys while I still have them.
Don't know about kidneys, but nobody is going to want my liver after the last year or so
Load More Replies... It's not enough to share DNA for transplants. You need to be a blood match. Most DNA sites you send them saliva. I'd be more worried about the blood they take for "standard testing" for physicals and life insurance polices. My DNA results show I share DNA with 41,000 other individuals in the US alone.
More likely problem are insurance companies, but not exactly because of these ancestry companies but in general because of how much cheaper and faster the sequencing of DNA has become. Would be legal for insurance companies to demand your DNA sequence to see if you have the genetic tendency to certain diseases?
Well, i did 23 and me and found out i carry one gene for cystic fibrosis! It does tend to run in families. But we didn't have any children so I am good. But my sisters with kids, had genetic testing done for it prior to having first babies. Do not want to being a child in to this world with cystic fibrosis! To have a child with it, I'd have to have married someone with a gene copy of it also. But as we didn't have kids we are fine.
Load More Replies... It is a well known fact that those DNA-sites sell your DNA sample. Nothing new about it and if you've read their T&C before sending them your sample, you would have known it. As far as the "body autonomy rights" goes, during a pandemic you do not get to decide that it's your freedom to keep spreading a lethal virus.
It's not a "well known fact". One, one company has been 'caught' doing that, and I say caught because they already openly admitted to it before hand in their TOS. There was some genuine concerns with 23andme sold out recently, but so far that data seems to be secure still. That's not to say it won't ever happen, but it's certainly NOT the norm (yet).
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Nah. I like to look at as I may contribute to the solving of a crime by a relative. And, I don't live where I did when I submitted my DNA. But I did find out some valuable answers about my ancestors. Quite interesting to say the least.
Do tell! I'm researching my ancestors, doing quite well but there were some books lost and couldn't carry on. But found out that my greatgreatgrandmother had her son out of wedlock at 28 years old and married at 41 a 28 years old man. Quite adventurous for the end of the 19th century! I have quite a few illegitimate ancestors and the father's side is lost there. And in the older books mother's family name isn't even mentioned. Here DNA testing would come handy, but I'm not doing it. Better safe than sorry.
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If this is a thing, what about blood samples for tests? Gee, it's full of DNA! Whatever should we do with that? Pretty much any time you get tested for anything.
As the Simpsons once said, If you have ever touched a penny the government has your DNA. S7E1
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I did it and found a sister that no one knew about and I couldn't be happier. Worth the risk
If you send in your DNA to get tested, just use a fake name, and fake info. They post the results online, on "your" page, so no one has to know you. Decline any hits you might get saying so and so matches you and might be a relative.
My grandpa refuses to get any of the new iPhones with the facial scanner because he doesn't want the government to have his face. He has a driver's license...
As much as I would like to laugh at this, I expect to see a BP post in ten years about prophetic posts wherein this will be prominently featured.
The Golden State Killer got caught a few years ago because of ancestry sites, where relatives of him were listed. That's one of the good purposes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_James_DeAngelo
They catch killers with it, like the Golden State Killer. Unless you’re a criminal your dna will likely exonerate you from criminal suspicion.
Ha! Someone steals my DNA or organs and the jokes on them. I am broken.
They have been able to solve cold cases, so that is a good thing. Even if it was your Dad that got arrested.
If you’ve ever submitted a blood test, you’ve already handed over your dna.
Well every baby ever born, at least in most countries, has their blood taken and they have the DNA from birth, so of those babies are still alive then I'd say, your kidneys are safe!
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My dad doesn't trust them either, although he has different reasoning. His is they use your DNA to find criminals and arrest them within your family, even if they committed those crimes years ago
They're not looking for random criminals. If someone has a rapist or murderer in their family, it shouldn't matter how long ago they committed the crime. But considering that there are rape kits sitting around that are YEARS old that have never even been processed, the only way that this is going to happen is if it's a high-profile, unsolved murder case. Even then, DNA would have had to be left at the crime scene, the sample would have had to have been large enough to test AND the sample would have had to have been preserved. Your dad is "worried" about something that's completely unlikely to happen. Unless, of course, he IS the criminal some department is looking for. It was a bonus for me. If I had a family member that committed the kind of crime that this would potentially solve, I'd give more DNA, go into their home and get their DNA for the police and help the police arrest them.
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no one wants my dna. I am a boring 60 year old. my dna has no real value. I think people are just paranoid.
Governments owning the rights to people's bodies?? Well they've been stopping women from having abortions forever. Maybe men just need to get used to it too
Of course you're putting your DNA in some sort of database to be sold when you do that, but damning themselves? Homeboy needs to touch grass.
Damn. I really have wanted to try one of those ancestry deals because I know nothing of the dude that impregnated my mother thus producing me (he hasn't earned the name father or dad)
Except there's a waiting list for organ donors, and no amount of money will get someone to the top of that list. Now, black-market organ transplants, that's a whole 'nother ballgame.
Yep snd if they needed a kidney, they could pay me and I'd give them one.
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I'd totally pay 15 dollars for a ticket to this movie; hurry, write the script!!!
Hmmmm... Of course none of that confirms if they are doners or if their family will give permission or that they'll actually be at the top of the list to receive. Paranoid stupidity.
On the plus side; these sites combined with human curiosity is helping identify murderers, rapist, plus Jane, and John Does! By getting murders off the streets, this is potentially saving your llife, or that of someone you care about.
As a true crime fan, I'm seeing more and more cases solved by familial DNA searches. So if you submit yours to one of those sites, and your cousin commits a crime, they can find him through you. There are pluses and minuses to all tech.
I agree 100%. If you dont believe this is even remotely true, fine. But look up how many heart transplants Rockefeller has had. Using the medical matrix for continuing care, he should have been done after the first transplant failed. It is highly recommended for all kinds of reasons to not give anyone your DNA for any kind of database. Just ask your family about your ethnic background.
doesnt matter, if ANY ONE OF YOUR RELATIVES does this, 99.999999% of YOUR DNA is already available, as is your information
They’ve already used DNA ancestry tests to find criminals, including tests submitted by their relatives.
I did my DNA as did my son and my daughter. I’m here to tell you if anybody wants body parts from my body all I can tell you is good luck!
Admittedly, I sent my DNA in. I wound up locating my long-lost biological father, and honestly? For a payout like that, I'm kinda willing to take the chance of the above theory since those odds are so incredibly slim anyway.
soo paranoid! Actually they use it for selling to research studies, they make big money off of funding that stuff.
I think this is a far bigger problem in places like the USA where medical insurance can deny you based on your genetics. Countries with universal healthcare don't have this problem.
Interesting premise. But DNA has nothing to do with donating an organ. It has to do with blood, tissue compatibility. DNA doesn't figure in to this.
When I first heard this idea I figured I didn't want to know my ancestry that desperately that I would pay to give away my DNA information. Even if it's not true now, doesn't mean it won't be in the future. But then, there are probably many other ways of getting your DNA, like blood tests or swabs at the Dr.'s
100 percent agreed on this one! I'll never do one of those DNA tests.
Actually...if you want access to someone's DNA, you can get ahold of it. Apparently it's not that hard. There's an artist that made a whole exhibit about this. https://www.popsci.com/anonymity-artist/
My dad loves ancestry stuff so he did that test. I told him he just paid someone to collect his DNA; and in the not too distant future, when big corporations unleash their clone armies on the world, one of those clone army soldiers will look just like him.
"That's how they get ya'." That is my standard responses whenever my family ask me to do an ancestry test.
I was always wary of those sites, because every single ad amounts to "Wow, I never knew I was X% of Y nationality!" I picture one person throwing darts at a map while a second person counts the money. I've been tempted to submit my own sample and my brother's to compare results that should be identical
Same here in the UK unless you have health conditions that can make your organs unusable for transplants, live HIV/AIDS, Leukemia, Cancer or any autoimmune disease.
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That Earth has been visited by one or more advanced civilizations, and may even be watching us stealthily.
Maybe the whole Christianity thing is records of aliens walking on our planet. Think about it. The kingdom in the skies, Jesus' miracles and his superior knowledge, his resurrection -> ascending to the sky -> not reappearing for ages.... It sounds like this ruler of a kingdom called Heaven sent his son to go explore planet Earth, he had bad experiences with our rather barbarian ancestors, went back home and doesn't want to come back.
That my abusive step-"father" went to jail, not exile, for 8 years when I was a teen and that for a few years prior we were actually running from the law, not hiding from the government because of his activism.
This suddenly dawned on me about a month ago, more than a decade later. Kinda like how it suddenly clicks that the dog didn't go to a farm.
For those asking for the story, here's what I vaguely remember. I just did the math and this was almost 20yrs ago.
I'm Kenyan and at that time, we were under the dictatorship of Moi, another asshole, and back then you couldn't say anything that painted the government wrongly. I was too young, maybe 13, to fully understand but what we were led to believe by my mother is he did something bad to the government. At that time it was common for political activists to go into exile so we didn't question it. For about two years prior, I rem them making us move cities and stay indoors. The two kept disappearing without warning for weeks at a time leaving me behind to babysit my 3 siblings. My mother ain't a Saint either but that's a story for another day. Towards the end, we lived in a 4 bedroom bungalow and were instructed to stay in the bedrooms in the back at all times, never switching on the lights in the living areas that faced the main street. We skipped a school year because of this. Then one day she came back alone and he never came back. Later she mentioned he might be in Turkey. I think I made the connection that he had fled there and left it at that. Tbh I was too happy that he was no longer at home and I was finally free. His presence had been a constant darkness in our lives. Years later, my mother mentioned he's back and asked if we wanted him back. We all said no. He moved back to his hometown. I've never seen him again. Back then they only kept manual records. If I wanted to find proof, I could check for his records at the high courts but honestly he was and still is good riddance so why bother.
That my ex wife’s boyfriend hurts my boys. They used to tell me it happened but I never had proof. I then saw a mark one day and they said it was cause of the boyfriend and she explained it away. (All of these times id call cps and nothing came of it)
One time my boy told cps that when he talks bad about the boyfriend, mom hits him, but still nothing happened. After that point they stopped telling me things, which in my opinion means that they are just afraid of being hit by mom for telling me things about the boyfriend.
That I have some crazy rare unknown disease and anytime I go to the doctor they say everything’s fine even tho I haven’t felt the same for 6 months
Our daughter has a rare mutation and we learned the hard way that it is most likely that in some cases you know more about yourself than any spacialist.
Some sort of dragon may have existed and went extinct. Not a fire breathing one obviously, just a very large winged reptile. I mean if pterodactyls existed it’s certainly possible. And it would explain where the culture of dragons came from.
The dragon myth probably came about from dinosaur fossils. Humans have digging the earth up for a very long time
That Disney is far too powerful to not be manipulating Rotten Tomatoes/movie consensus. The Last Jedi scored 90% and was more reviled that the prequels, which doesnt add up. I think Disney has excellent quality control and love nearly all of their new and old movies, but I think behind their wholesome appearance they are the most shrewd, ruthless business in Hollywood.
Also since news broke that their theme park isnt doing well, there has been a lot of "feel good" posts showing park staff engage in acts of kindness e.g. comforting a child with autism, swooning over a child's costume. While I do think that these are genuine, I dont think that these hitting front page of Reddit/Facebook is a coincidence and that they are astroturfing.
PETA is secretly funded by the meat industry to discredit animal rights activists.
Not true, but they do get a lot of money from donations. But they do need loads of money to run their kill shelters and pay off people who know too much about their ruthless destruction of healthy animals. Their motto is "The only good pet, is a dead pet."
The crosswalk buttons you are supposed to press at intersections don't actually do anything.
in Australia they do, but I can't speak for the country you're in
Dentists ask you questions with all that stuff in your mouth because they think it's funny to watch you struggle
I think it's part of their training to be able to translate. Because when my dentist asks me if it's hurting and I go 'Gaarrl...ss.ss y...ees ...sspiitt ssp, iiitt....s ss does.. you f..f…f...... uc....ker ker, cough......ssspitt'... gurglle..... . He understands.
All the "bad press" incidents that happen to these big companies, are actually staged by the big company themselves as a form of advertising.
Remember the "Starbucks christmas cup" one? They had some Christmas s**t on their cups then took it off? Christians went mad about it. But here's the end result: You couldn't go on Facebook for a week without seeing that STARBUCKS woman logo everywhere. Some local papers and news even talked about it.
Then what was the damage? Christians supposedly didn't like it (but my theory is that Starbucks' advertising company themselves created the memes on FB and circulated them). But do you know of any that really stopped drinking coffee over it? Everyone else didn't give a s**t. So the result? Not much impact for your logo and name being everywhere in the media for a week. How much is that worth in advertising dollars?
Likewise, How about when Nike was going to make that flag shoe, and then, supposedly, Kapernick had the whole thing called off? (Lol, i'm sure he's at the Nike strategy meetings). You supposedly lost your chance to buy the flag shoe I guess, but what was the result? Again, they were everywhere on social media and news for a week. That Nike swoosh logo everywhere.
There is an old adage in marketing... There is no bad press, there is just the press. If you can convince people to love you, you can commit any crime against them and their pride will not allow them to admit they were wrong. IE: people who vote party line.
That humanity still has the same base desires it has throughout all of time but society is built to keep us from being the barbarians we once were and it is a very tenuous relationship.
I think my local newspaper and news stations make up fake Facebook profiles to post inflammatory statements in the comment sections of their news releases.
There are frequent commenters whose profiles have a basic name, no friends/random internation friends, basic profile information and only one profile picture who will make some outlandish comment that starts a war.
That my grandmother had a child before she married my grandfather.
When my grandparents met and started dating, my grandma was only 13. My grandpa was 20. They married when she was 17 and he was 24, right after he came back from serving in WWII. That was about as much of the story as anyone in my family ever knew: they'd been dating, then he went overseas, and she wrote to him while he was gone. When he got back, they got married.
A few years after my grandma died, my grandfather suddenly mentioned that they'd actually been broken up for a while before she started writing to him.
After they'd dated about a year, he went to pick her up at her house one day, only to find she wasn't home. Her parents informed him that she'd left to live with some cousins a few hours away, and she'd be gone for "about a year". He got upset that she hadn't told him about this in advance and ended the relationship.
When another year-ish had passed and she returned home to her parents, she started writing him overseas and apologized, and they started "dating" again.
My grandpa told this story very blandly and seemed to believe that the situation was what it said on the tin, but of course in the 1940's-60's it was quite common for teenage girls to "go live with relatives for a year" as a code for having an out-of-wedlock pregnancy. My grandpa would never have admitted if they'd been having sex, but I'm betting they were, she got pregnant, and she was sent off somewhere to have the baby.
I've done commercial DNA testing, so I'm on the lookout for someone to turn up as a sibling match to my mom someday. The only other explanation for my grandma suddenly leaving town would be if her parents didn't approve her relationship with my grandpa, but from everything I know of them they were perfectly fine with their 13 year old daughter dating a guy in his twenties.
That the purpose of life in the universe is purely to create a new universe.
To me this is the only way for any life to ensure it's survival forever. And i'm not talking about just human life, I think the chances of us surviving are super slim.
Consider this.
We can safely assume that every problem life will ever encounter will have a solution. Given a species has enough resources to exploit any resources it wants, luck is on their side, and they don't hit any Fermi walls then the only limiting factor to life solving a problem is time.
In the universe time is not infinite. There will be a time where the very atoms in the universe start to decay. This is life's final deadline. If life in its varying forms cannot find a way to escape the universe before this happens, life in the universe will die forever. And how does one escape a universe while being inside a dying universe? You must perform the genesis of a new one, or perhaps several new ones.
This is the ultimate problem to solve because the universe makes it so. So if the Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. Life is the powerhouse of the universe.
Matt Groening and the simpsons writers are from the future..stuck here giving us hints about the future
I think, they are just intelligent and observe the society closely..
There's one company in a town local to me who board up windows, nobody else in the area seems to do it. Every single window, door, abandoned shop, all done by this one company.
They've got a ridiculous sized HQ, and have put a decent amount of money towards fixing up other buildings in the area.
So I've got a theory they're the ones doing the damage or paying people to do it, and then obviously getting the job of fixing it up as they're really well known in the area.
Despite having no proof of this I am 100% confident I am onto them.
Or.... they board the buildings up to keep squatters out and prevent vandals from smashing the windows. Which indeed would be ridiculous, because nobody in their right mind wants to protect their properties from being vandalised.
Bigfoot is actually a cultural memory from humans who migrated from Asia and that’s why there are stories about Yeti and Sasquatch. The actual creature though died out tens of thousands of years ago.
Oil company lobbyists are behind the whole paper straws thing. The waste from straws is so inconsequential, but yet almost overnight, half the restaurants in the world switched to these horrible paper straws that leave a weird residue in your mouth and disintegrate before you're done with your drink. I feel like this was someone's sinister idea to make the general public resent environmentalists, and it's working, because those damn paper straws always seem to strike up a conversation about how global warming didn't wind up being as big of a deal as Al Gore said it would be.
Dishwashers are designed to fail shortly after the warranty expires.
There is a group collecting illicit and immoral activites committed by people online who think they are protected by anonymity. This information will later be accessible for anyone who is looking for reasons to oust someone from a position of power or authority.
That promotion you want in 20 years? Out comes that drunk quasi-[offensive] Twitter post from 2015 sent anonymously to HR. Promotion denied. Your rival mysteriously gets it instead. As that post would qualify as public information, it's unprotected from libel or defamatory charges. This could become a seriously large-scale business worked by algorithms and an AI.
My dog may not have gone to live on a farm, but my parents have never given a clear explanation of this.
Saying "OK Google" is Pavlov teaching humans to comply to AI and machines
What is more Pavlovian than instantly going for the mobile/cell phone when a notification pings?
Only about 10% of lottery winners actually win those huge power balls, Of course someone real has to win sometimes. Can’t have no winners or people would get suspicious. But honestly, who would know if there was no real winner? Since the chances are so small, nobody gets suspicious if their ticket doesn’t win. Basically free money for the state to use. Not to mention the states that allow you to remain anonymous.
35 - 40 foot sharks exist.
They have the whole ocean to hide in (which we are rubbish at exploring) and they have learnt to avoid contact with humans. They come close to land occasionally to hunt when food is scarce, then go back to the deep ocean.
There is some evidence out there to support this theory, but it's all sketchy af.
That my wife is throwing one of each pair of socks away.
My phone isnt really at 100% when it tells me it is.
It isn’t. If it actually hit 100% (and you left it continuing to charge) the battery would overheat and explode. The same works in reverse, which is why a phone seems to last longer than expected when at 1%. They’re not accurate readings and they’re not supposed to be.
Like 90% of the job listings on Monster are fakes designed to collect analytics from users, [all] so Monster can sell your data to advertisers.
Those who have power subtly control the population openly. The population doesn't realize they're being controlled.
The people with the most power on earth are not in the public eye and you will have never seen their face or know their name.
That banks are responsible for university attendance mandates.
When my parents went to college, there weren't attendance mandates. They would work, study, turn in assignments, show up to tests, and pass just fine.
now, even if you study, do fine on the tests and the homework, they will deduct a letter grade (or more) from your final grade if you have X or larger number of absences.
My thought is that the banks want you to not be able to work (as much or at all) while you're in college, so you're forced to take out more student loans to provide living finances. So probably bank lobbyists are responsible for pushing legislative mandates and accreditation mandates for attendance using a correlation between better attendance and higher grades. True, the correlation exists, but that is a self-fulfilling prediction when you are *deducting a full letter grade for an excess of 3 absences*.
Tobacco companies are driving the whole 'VAPING IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN ANYTHING ELSE' sentiment I hear
Umm, the largest e-cigarette companies are owned by big tobacco, so that doesn't make much sense
Construction companies make the roads impossible to navigate on purpose. Pretty much every major road in my town is under construction, and they always leave the road worse than it was originally. It has to be intentional.
True. it 's an international plot. In my town we have a road works manager who has the task to coordinate road works so traffic still can get around in our town. She manages time and time again to make the town inaccessible because all the major junctions are closed due to road work. When you follow the detour signs you are guided from one construction site to another.
That the ginger ale at this diner I go to every day is just coke and sprite mixed together.
Corn Hole is a conspiracy by the insurance industry because they feel Horseshoes is too dangerous.
That some Canadian guy who owns an antique shop that I bought a camera from in April recognized me. He acted flustered when I came in and I came back the next day to make my purchase. He sold me the camera for what I thought was a reasonable price and threw in an owners manual in near perfect condition. A quick google search reveals that it's an extremely rare camera that was only produced for two years. 1/1000 still in existence are operational and 1 out of every 1000 working ones still has a certain part (mine does). This guys whole shop was based around antique cameras and my dad talked shop with him for a while and he even explained to me how to find film or modify some for my camera. He knew what he was selling me and lost a LOT of money on the transaction. I even got it appraised to confirm my suspicions about what it was.
I have one! I think Kraft and Nabisco are in cahoots. If you fold a slice of Kraft's American cheese (any brand really) in fourths, each quarter slice fits perfectly on a saltine.
And get this! A whole slice fits perfectly on a slice of..bread!
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I basically make about $10 a year online. It's enough to replace naff all. I was amazed how crap and time consuming it was when I tried it. Stay in school, kids!
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Every accusation you hear made by a member of the US Republican Party is an admission of guilt. GOP = Gaslight, Obstruct, Project
Can you blame them? They are old and afraid. Scared that the best is behind them and the future is too scary (even the 30yo ones). "No! No! No! Keep it the way it was and make other people pay for it" is the GOP battle whine.
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I know they've shown it in old movies and whatnot, but I'm really starting to think our universe is just a massive cell within another giant creature or being, and we're cancer to it slow destroying the single atom we inhabit until we spread to the next one and so on. Makes 100% sense to me.
Oh, forgot to add that "global warming" is 100% real and it's just the giant beings immune system trying to kill us off. Think about it, when you're sick your bodies immune system causes you to have a fever to kill off the infection.
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My one is: technology for faster than light travel is already on possession of most powerful governments right now. It's impossible all those UFO movies are just a coincidence.
There is a *very* broad streak of barely concealed antisemitism running through the English aristocracy. All the "old money" families with the titles, and the stately homes, whose ancestors at the time of the Crusades were in debt to their eyeballs to Jewish moneylenders.
Most of these Are just conspiracy theories, but #2 (about a soon-to-be ex plotting to kill his wife) Is way too real... This was the only one that send chills to my spine...
Superb thread providing much food for thought as well as some amusement. Thank you Bored Panda :)
I also have one. That the aliens or Greys of popular culture and UFOs are not aliens but humans from the future who have developed time travel technology and have physical adaptations to better live on their adopted planet Mars. It sounds far fetched but this is technically more feasible than traveling the vast reaches of space from another planet to earth. And the reason they are mostly interested and mainly seen in military bases and nuclear weapon sites is because they are trying to prevent our own self destruction.
Oh, I have one too!!! The big tissue companies invented the common cold infections in a lab and let them loose onto humanity so that they could sell lots of tissues to people.
My one is that the antivax movement was started to remove woman’s rights and get them out of the workforce back to being baby factories. If we loose herd immunity that the vaccines have given us childhood diseases that have almost been eradicated will come back with a vengeance. If a young couple wanted just two kids they would need to have 5 just to have two live to adulthood. That would mean the woman would be perceptually pregnant during her early adulthood during a time she would have been carving out her career
I have one! I think Kraft and Nabisco are in cahoots. If you fold a slice of Kraft's American cheese (any brand really) in fourths, each quarter slice fits perfectly on a saltine.
And get this! A whole slice fits perfectly on a slice of..bread!
Load More Replies... I basically make about $10 a year online. It's enough to replace naff all. I was amazed how crap and time consuming it was when I tried it. Stay in school, kids!
Load More Replies... Every accusation you hear made by a member of the US Republican Party is an admission of guilt. GOP = Gaslight, Obstruct, Project
Can you blame them? They are old and afraid. Scared that the best is behind them and the future is too scary (even the 30yo ones). "No! No! No! Keep it the way it was and make other people pay for it" is the GOP battle whine.
Load More Replies... I know they've shown it in old movies and whatnot, but I'm really starting to think our universe is just a massive cell within another giant creature or being, and we're cancer to it slow destroying the single atom we inhabit until we spread to the next one and so on. Makes 100% sense to me.
Oh, forgot to add that "global warming" is 100% real and it's just the giant beings immune system trying to kill us off. Think about it, when you're sick your bodies immune system causes you to have a fever to kill off the infection.
Load More Replies... My one is: technology for faster than light travel is already on possession of most powerful governments right now. It's impossible all those UFO movies are just a coincidence.
There is a *very* broad streak of barely concealed antisemitism running through the English aristocracy. All the "old money" families with the titles, and the stately homes, whose ancestors at the time of the Crusades were in debt to their eyeballs to Jewish moneylenders.
Most of these Are just conspiracy theories, but #2 (about a soon-to-be ex plotting to kill his wife) Is way too real... This was the only one that send chills to my spine...
Superb thread providing much food for thought as well as some amusement. Thank you Bored Panda :)
I also have one. That the aliens or Greys of popular culture and UFOs are not aliens but humans from the future who have developed time travel technology and have physical adaptations to better live on their adopted planet Mars. It sounds far fetched but this is technically more feasible than traveling the vast reaches of space from another planet to earth. And the reason they are mostly interested and mainly seen in military bases and nuclear weapon sites is because they are trying to prevent our own self destruction.
Oh, I have one too!!! The big tissue companies invented the common cold infections in a lab and let them loose onto humanity so that they could sell lots of tissues to people.
My one is that the antivax movement was started to remove woman’s rights and get them out of the workforce back to being baby factories. If we loose herd immunity that the vaccines have given us childhood diseases that have almost been eradicated will come back with a vengeance. If a young couple wanted just two kids they would need to have 5 just to have two live to adulthood. That would mean the woman would be perceptually pregnant during her early adulthood during a time she would have been carving out her career
