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?
Same for the adoption process. There are so many hurdles to they system that people are put off of going through it, but nowhere near as many restrictions for having a child through pregnancy.
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It’s a shame. There’s an animal rescue here that says up front about their high standards - “we do not allow renters to adopt animals”. Most places require evidence of landlord’s consent, but this rescue just bans people who rent their homes entirely. Totally unfair and illogical.
That's completely stupid!!! You can be a landlord and be abusive and a renter and be a loving person!! There is no logic in that!!! In my country most people are renters!! Noone would be able to adopt!
Load More Replies... Although it makes sense to set some requirements, it is ridiculous to deprive an animal of a loving home because the owner doesn't live in a mansion with a 600 acre yard. That said, you don't want someone living on a tiny flat and working 10 hours a day to get a greyhound or a terrier.
I agree with the working hours, but greyhounds are one of the breeds best suited to living in a flat or apartment because once they've had their walk and their 'zoomies' they are total couch potatoes.
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I was looking on Petfinder just this week and saw a cat that I wanted to read more about. The shelter wanted to know what type of water I would use. WHAT TYPE OF WATER? They also had other Dbag questions, but this was the most insane. Almost emailed them to tell them how ridiculous they were with their questions in a full blown rant.
Yes we had tried to adopt a pup from petfinder as well. We lived in an apartment at the time with a german shepherd and mal. There was a 5 acre park in the middle of the complex and my husband and I both work from home and run. We've trained our shepherd and mal to heel and run with us, plus the park and throwing balls, playing with other dog etc. Tons of play and exercise! They said no strictly based on the apartment and the dog needing a back yard. What?? Even when we had a back yard the dogs didn't stay out there, they're in the house with us.
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Sometimes it’s not the animals’ actual requirements, it’s more the paranoia of the people running the shelters, and very often they’re totally wrong. Many dogs and cats that the shelter employees deemed difficult and needing very specific treatment, food, and living conditions (like a large yard and no other animals or no kids), turn out to not be difficult at all, are quite content with any food and living conditions, get along great with children and other animals, are happy with daily walks and don’t need a yard—-as long as they feel loved, safe, and secure with the people who adopted them. The rental thing is down to landlords who have been burned by tenant with animals who left their units trashed (chewed woodwork, massive urine stains deep in the carpet, fleas, etc), and just don’t want to take the chance of that happening again. It’s understandable, but sad that responsible pet parents can’t find a place to rent.
The rental thing wasn't a requirement of landlords (though that may also be true), it was mentioned because it was a requirement of shelters - that you can't adopt one of their rescues if you rent your apartment.
Load More Replies... I agree! I’ve been trying to adopt for 2 months! And they want my landlords phone number, 3 non family references and they want to do a home check. Which I can over look but then they are charging $500 average for the dogs that have been there for a long time. They call it “donation”. It’s beyond ridiculous.
The fee does seem pretty high, but if they are a reputable association then they should give the dog to you fully vaccinated, with all tests done, a microchip installed and identification. And all that is expensive, so they have to cover these fees. Also the food it takes to feed them while they were there, maybe different treatments. Maybe paying a foster was involved, or transport from another place... Saving animals is really expensive.
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This is exactly what happened to us. Tried for literally years to get a rescue dog for our 4 acres of land. Our only ask was that the dog was big because we live way out in the country. Huge yard, nice house and a family of three. I am self employed and work from home so the dog wouldn't ever be alone, we keep a few chickens for the dog to look after and I wanted my kid to grow up with a pet before she went to school. After 8 years of rejections because we "don't have a fenced yard" my kid turned 11 I finally broke down and bought a dog. Took me three weeks to find an adequate puppy (who we love and is now 2years old) and it still cost the same as it would've to go through a rescue.
Just need to enact a few laws. Limit the number of licensed breeders allowed for breeds of cats/dogs and charge them a fortune to be licensed. Use that money to pay more animal control officers who can investigate unlicensed animal breeding and exact massive fines on anyone doing so and confiscate all animals involved and get them neutered and rescued. Make it illegal to sell any animal that is not neutered. That would stop people buying animals just because they're cute babies, and stop people trying to run baby animal mills by selling off puppies/kittens after a few weeks and then starting the process again. Animals would basically have to be 4 - 6 months and neutered before they could be sold.
Absolutely not!!! My daughter works at a sanctuary rescue and a majority of the animals have actually been dumped by breeders! A female dog used for breeding is usually done by the age of 4 and her body is so used up that she's considered geriatric. Many have major neurological problems because breeders very rarely do genetic testing. The reason rescues have such strict requirements is 1. The high raye of returns when people are incapable of taking care of the animals 2. Making sure people understand the cost of owning an animal (food, vaccinations, emergency vet bills, etc) 3. Making sure that the animal is comfortable; many come from a traumatic background and require a lot of love, patience and training. It is truly heartbreaking to see the condition these animals are in when they are rescued and everything is done for their benefit, not your convenience
Yep. But f**k the animal rescuers for wanting the animal to actually be looked after and not neglected and abused, right?
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Being a kennel volunteer there is a reason that people are vetted so thoroughly before an adoption of an animal. I have seen what happens when someone on the spur-of-the-moment decides to an adopt a dog and then 2 days later decides it's not for them. We have had dogs that have been abused malnourished And so far gone that they had to be ethanized. The shelter I work for is no kill so the dogs here are free to stay until they find there forever home. There are a lot of bad people in this world and it takes very strmake sure they're not the ones that get the animals.
Exactly. But people with ZERO experience of animal rescue just LOVE to tell the rescuers how evil and cruel they are for expecting you to meet the bare minimum of care requirements to not neglect and abuse the animal that was just rescued from neglect and abuse. God these posts make me so angry. I'd love to show all the people here complaining about how evil shelters are, some of the abusive and downright sociopathic adoption enquiries I've gotten that considered my requirements (like access to f*****g water, like NOT SETTING THE ANIMAL ON FIRE) so f*****g unreasonable.
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I feel the same way about human adoption after I meet a lady in Portugal that took her 7 years to be able to adopt. So much burocracia.
Sometimes yes. I have had three cats from rescues and I am grateful. The rescues asked a lot of questions and were picky with me, but I understood their perspective on adopting. I emailed one rescue and had the kitten the next day. I can only speak to my experience.
Actually we literally had that happen. Got a cat from a breeder first, no issues whatsoever. Adopted a second from a shelter and we had an application process, phone interview, etc. Owning the first cat with vet records definitely made it easier (as did having a personal connection with the shelter). But like, c'mon. Animals get euthanized over a complex application process
I adopted a German Shepherd from a rescue once. We did have to fill out an application, and that was it. I did offer to pick her up, but she said no, I will bring her to you. She did want to make sure that we had a big yard for her to run and play. I don't mind that. I have never heard of any of those other things.
I understand this but at the same time rescue animals can come with emotional problems and/or physical ailments. Rescues do not want animals returned (happens a lot) because that causes more trauma for the animal. So they try to make sure you are prepared for the commitment and that the animal has what it needs to thrive in your care. Big yard for active dog. Patient handler for animals that have suffered abuse. Etc. we were lucky and got a great dog. He is 8-9 years old, so pretty calm but he has a sensitive stomach so some homemade foods and plenty of walks. He sheds continuously. I’ve seen people return dogs who got sick or the dog was not paired with the right family situation.
I didn't even knew this was a thing. I send a lot of my rescue cats abroad to western Europe via different associations and shelters. I knew that they have higher standards, but never thought they are this high, and I find this incredibly stupid. I get it that we have to vet the persons adopting, but certainly they shouldn't give their new born to you to be able to do so.
I remember trying to get a dog from a local rescue. I could produce a human baby with less side eye.
WTF is wrong with adopting shelter dogs near you? They need help, too.
We adopted one. Immediately decided we wanted another. They wouldn't let us. We had to wait a few months. But oddly, we we wanted to adopt even more, two at a time wasn't an issue..
In my town there is a "Lady" who has appropriated the Humane Society of our town. She "Manages" several feral cat colonies by trapping and selling the kitens.
I agree. My bf and I were at a Petsmart. Saw a cat we wanted to adopt. I was 65, he was 74. They refused us saying we were too old to adopt since the cat would outlive us.
Absolutely ridiculous at the moment. "Rescues" are just hoarders in disguise. My grandchildren will never know the joy of having a pet dog. they will be priced out of the general public upper limit, and will be so inbred that they will be full of cancer and other physical ailments. Small dogs (cross breeds) are priced around $6000 now. (au)
This must be only outside of the US. There was no issue about me living in a flat or apartment. This is nonsense.
I agree. We once tried to adopt from a lab rescue in our town but we were turned down because we were away from home more than 8 hours a day, and we didn’t have a fenced in yard, even though it would have been an indoor dog.
I used to run a guinea pig shelter. I had extremely reasonable requirements, like an adequate cage size (because people love putting them in shoeboxes), access to appropriate food (because people love giving them bird seed), appropriate temperature control (because people love leaving them in the sun and boiling them to death), and so on. It was still never good enough for people. As soon as you say something so totally outrageous as "You can't burn this animal to death", people lose their f*****g minds. The worst part of running a shelter is not even dealing with the animal abusers - it's dealing with the potential adopters and being abused and threatened over your "unreasonable" requirements to actually look after the animal you spent six months and ten thousand dollars rehabilitating after it was abused from the very things you claim you should be allowed to repeat. If you're confused by a requirement, ask about it, instead of abusing and bashing the shelter workers. It's there for a reason.
Agreed. I've had a dog since I was a kid. A few year ago we decided to adopt another rescue after we grieved our prior rescue for about a year. We were only allowed to foster the dog after paying a $200 fee, filling out about 10 pages of paperwork and agreeing to return once a month for 3 months for wellness checkups. After that, then the dog was officially ours. I love my dog, don't get me wrong. He gives me kisses and keeps my feet war at night, but he's a dog.
Educating a potential parrot parent is a great idea. Long-lived, intelligent birds do NOT thrive in a cage. They're highly social and require the kind of interaction you'd give a child. Exotic bird rescues are full of neurotic birds who plucked themselves bare in frustration.
Is this a joke? Where do you think the parrot rescue rescue parrots from?
The state of CA requires all pet stores to sell only rescues. They are not allowed to obtain and sell from breeders.
True, but it's not really their fault. Pet shops should just be banned to begin with, especially those who sell exotic animals. Living beings are not merchandise. Just taking care of all the pets who are already in rescues should keep real animal lovers happy and busy for years to come. People who go buy pets on a whim and will eventually abandon them weeks later are not to be satisfied.
I just started working with a rescue, and while I do agree that they are too picky, they also get applicants that deserve to be denied. Most recent application was one person who has had 5 puppies/kittens over the past few years and has given them all away after having them a few years. But I also feel like we could help so many more pets from kill shelters if we just weren't so picky on most applicants.
I'm currently fostering 7 kittens and it's OMG AMAZING but I'm also pretty sure my request to foster would have been denied if I wasn't so persistent and talked with a different lady.
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I'm sure there are some practices that seem (or are) a bit excessive, but it's not so much about making it harder for decent people to adopt, it's about stopping monsters from adopting. It wouldn't make much sense to go through the painstaking process of rescuing animals and paying for expensive care, etc. if they just turned around and gave an animal to some monster who just wants them to use as bait in dog fights or sell them to research labs. That's the reason they make it hard.
Yeah but i would adopt because the stores most likely use something like a puppy mill
i think there may be some validity to this. i also think that some of the rescues are a way for the foster agency/rescue site to make money for supplemented income. i get that there needs to be a fee to pay for a rescue because that fee is usually what is going to help feed and care for the other animals still at the site. but, many rescues make deals with vets for vaccinations and/or spays at discounted or donated costs and the money then remains with the foster. why do i think this? because when i was looking to adopt there were some rescues that charged up to $450. they said to cover vaccinations and spay but i later found out that spay was free.
I completely agree. I wanted to adopt two rabbits but they not only wanted to do a house inspection, but to meet my landlord who lives in a different state. Uhhh. No. So a friend was moving and gave me his rabbit. And he's the most spoiled thing there is.
In the city where I live our shelter is ran by a bunch of snotty people who look down on everyone around them. We have a large backyard with a large wooden 6 ft privacy fence. I won't go to this facility to look for a buddy to adopt because of the way that they make you feel when you walk in the door. My best friend died a year ago in November and I drove to the next town over to find a little guy to help me get through her loss. That shelter was incredible! I had paperwork filled out, adoption fee paid and we were headed home within a 1/2 an hour. I love this little guy so much.
White people problems - When I was little we had a brown and white boxer name "Duke". Neighbor: I like your dog. Where did you get him? Me: You know that liquor store around the corner from the park? Yeah, well he was hanging out there for a few days so I brought him home. Lesson: If you buy a dog, they act entitled, if you find a dog (literally rescue a dog from the streets) they will be grateful.
100% Years ago I wanted a Golden Retriever. Found a place that adopts the puppies out. But, they have to come out to your place a pre-approve the house, yard, etc. Then they come monthly for 6 months to do checks, then they come 3 times a year for 2 yrs. I was like, no thanks. I'm getting a dog, not a human child. I went to a breeder and bought a puppy.
I would love to adopt a dog, but the fees at the places near me start a at $500. I know it’s a way to fund the rescue and make sure pets go to people that can afford to take them, but it’s still crazy too me. Our last dog was returned to the pound so he only cost $23.
Wait until you find out how much veterinary care costs, mate. Animals are expensive. Don't get them if you want something cheap and negligible.
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I didn't have this specific issue when I adopted my dog from a rescue nearby, I had her day of, but some of the older volunteers there were really harsh on the fact that my husband and I worked full time. They kept asking are you sure you have time for her, are you positive? Well 2+ years later she is fully house trained and crate trained and gets to go to doggy camp and rarely if ever actually has to be in her crate. It was just very pushy.
Far too many charities, but especially animal charities, get wills written in their favour, play on "oh the poor fluffies" to get donations, etc, but those donations which "go to the running of the charity" means management get a cushy wage for doing not much of anything while volunteers do all the work and accost people in the street.
Just another self-imposed authority that wants access to your home and your life. Then they make you feel obligated to jump through a bunch of hoops to get some critter that may not even work out for you. I found a breeder for my dog. A very specific type, with specific attributes. Got what I paid for, didn't have to answer to pet-nazis.
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.
That companies (such as smartphones companies) are holding back their best technologies waiting their competitors to release something new so they release something a bit better but not the best they can do
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
