Some people seem so sure about certain things, they must know them for a fact. Right? Well, not necessarily. They might be convinced themselves, yet have no proof to convince you with. Whether it’s a conspiracy theory they’ve made up or a strong belief based on personal experience (for instance, “that sandwiches taste 100 x's better when cut diagonally”), their minds seem to be set in stone.
Redditors discussed the topic after one of them asked what they believe is 100% true but can't prove. Quite a few people were willing to share, so scroll down to find their answers and see if there's anything you believe to be true as well.
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I believe that if you separated the population of any country or city based on either religion, skin color, gender, age group, economical class, political affiliation or eye color, you would find the same percentage of a******s in each of those subgroups.
That kids would be generally happier if all schools started later in the day, allowed/encouraged mid-day naps, and had cellphone jammers that were turned on at the start of the day and turned off at the end or in case of emergency.
Whoever started the flat earth conspiracy theory doesn't actually believe it-- they did it as a massive troll for their own amusement of watching dumb people dedicate themselves to something so stupid.
Most (all?) animals are much more intelligent than researchers give them credit for.
I can see a thinking creature if I watch any of them long enough. Praying Mantises especially!
That my generation (im 25 yo) will bear witness to a cataclysmic event that dramatically restructures the geopolitical system and society as we know it. I am talking an event on par with the great depression or WWII. Perhaps even the fall of Rome or the plague. I feel it is just about time for the wave to crash.
Every generation feels this way and also believes THEY are the only ones to fix it. This is not a new or even original thought. As you get older, you learn it's all cyclical and ever changing. What we are going thru is the result of the industrial revolution and the only thing that can make it better is to go back in time to before we had machines that emit waste, like the early 1800s.
The horrible (?) truth is that if humanity loses its technology to the point that society returns to pre industrial revolution levels, we can never recover it again. The industrial revolution was completely dependent on the ready availability of fossil fuels, and they are just gone. If we blow this chance then we are locked into an agrarian lifestyle forever.
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.... mass migration of peoples all over the world due to climate change along with failures of crops and interruption of global trade that we now rely on. Couple that with American un-civil war, localized wars having an increasing global effect and the break down of the post war democratic consensus, is there any wonder we're f****d? And its all of our making, and there is no point in blaming any single generation because people have had the same nature since they left the plains. .. as the Bard put it ....' life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing' .... happy days!
Sorry kid, you'll be lucky to live to an old age. Global warming is going to screw your generation into oblivion. I was taught about it in the 80's, did everything I could to spread the word and change habits, turns out people are lazy and don't care. My neighbour had some builders over the other day, one of them didn't like his pasta salad so threw it into my cardboard recycling bin meaning nothing in it can now be recycled. That's the mentality of 80% of the population, I didn't have kids for exactly that reason. The only way your generation will survive is a mass cull.
Right now, wars seem to be fought for oil. Oil is a finite resource that we’re coming to the end of, at least for reserves that are relatively clean, relatively easy to get to and extract, and not located on protected land. Eventually, we’ll (hopefully) move away from it, and on to cleaner sources of energy. The next resource that will spark wars is clean drinking water. We’ve polluted so much, and have not curbed emissions that are causing climate change, so droughts will become more and more common. Yes, floods will too, but floodwater is far from clean and drinkable, and flooding kills crops and removes topsoil. Droughts and floods mean fewer food crops will grow to maturity, so not only the availability of clean drinking water will diminish, but food supplies will too. Whoever controls the food and drinking water supplies will rule the world—-and you know they’ll try to get the maximum profit—-not just money but power and world dominance—-from it they can. For example, the largest source of clean drinking water is the Himalayas—-and China is exerting greater and greater control over the entire range. Too many areas of the world already walk a fine line of self-sustainability when it comes to food crops and drinking water, so they will be the first to fall. In other areas, farmers will no longer be able to support their families by farming, so they will sell their land and move to the cities to seek work. Not knowing the going rate of pay, salaries will drop, as they country folk will take jobs for less, and the glut of workers will turn the job market in favor of employers, who will take full advantage of it, as we have seen in the past and present. Often, there are huge differences in religions and values between country and city people. This, plus the lowering of pay and increase in competition for work, will start conflicts which could spiral out of control and become wars. Then we’ll have refugees flooding the shores of neighboring countries, which will start the process all over again. So climate change doesn’t just stop at weather, it has profound social and political effects as well. If people would just look away from Fox News, social media fluff, and online gaming for a minute and really have a good deep think about it, they’d realize the potential dangers from their own inaction. IF they’d actually do that.
Covid was a fart in the wind. With the climate changing we are probably 5 to 10 generations from exterminating ourselves.
Climate change, far right rising everywhere, finite resources, mass extinction, viruses currently thawing with the permafrost... Yup, we're in for some rough times. I fear for my grandkids growing up in a world much different from the one we knew. After all, us boomers only had the fear of nuclear war to contend with ;-)) Trouble is, that risk is still there, added to the others.
Global uprising of the poor and working class! Let's take down the 1% and put measures in place to ensure that no one can amass that much wealth while starvation etc are still killing millions!!
That's okay, my generation thought we'd all die in a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Ooh, and Christians have been insisting we're living in the "end times" for two thousand years. It's always been an apocalyptic cult.
Into each generation comes a major event that changes their world forever. Its the nature of change, of growth, of learning, and of life. Its not a contest its just the way it is. Its always earth shattering....then its just history.
It's obvious that this is going to happen soon due to our exponentially increasingly unsustainable treatment of the environment.
Every generation believes it is witnessing the end days. [This isn’t original. I just cant remember who originally said/wrote it]
We're definitely on that road. I'm thinking something more horrific than anything we've ever experienced. But maybe not. Hopefully not.
Unless we will experience another world war, it will be more like the Fall of Rome: This was not an event, it was a century long decline of political and cultural institutions, a shift of powers within the empire over the course of several generations, and the establishing of smaller local entities at the cost of centralised institutions (like EU, UN, WTO etc.)
Climate change and so many people having an appetite for fascism are the biggest threats.
Very likely as it will be a climate disaster pretty soon. I doubt that humans will make it to the end of this century.
I keep feeling like it's about to happen but then somehow it never does.
If you're 25 you have already lived through - Credit Crunch, COVID, Cost of Living Crisis (worse than the depression of the 30s) and the beginnings of what is going to be an awful war in Europe involving all the major powers. (as bad as the Ukraine War is it is going to expand and this will be worse than WW1 and WW2 combined)
I think you have a point. The decline of the West and the rise of China may be it? The western decline is largely self-inflicted and could be reversed if common sense prevailed
Throughout history people have felt this. Look at all the post apocalyptic movies and books that have come out over the past century. They’re all normally set around 10-20 years in the future.
The end times are drawing near. In the end times there will be sickness, famine, fires, death etc.
The fall of rome is actually a good example that it has not to be a great event. Its demise gradually took place in a span of 500 years. But yes, to me it also looks more like driving towards a cliff at full speed what we are doing this time. Edit: grammar and spelling.
Every generation experiences at least one or more.. WW-I & the Spanish Flu. The Great Depression & WW-II. The Atomic Age & the Cold War. 9-11 & then the subsequent wars. Now it's the COVID pandemic & then some unforeseen event. It might happen soon or in the next 10 years. It could be a limited nuclear war or Yellowstone's volcano exploding. Who knows. If something really drastic happens, many younger people will have no idea on how to survive. When you go to a chicken dinner & a teenager does not know what to do with a half of a baked chicken, a baked potato, or corn on the cob, they won't be eating in a major catastrophe.
I have thought this for a long time. Like, I just feel like something is coming, and it's going to be something unexpected. Then again, I read a lot of dystopia. The Red Queen series, Hunger Games, The Selection series. Do I think this will be how things go, not really, but I do believe it will change the US from what we know.
When I met my partner 10+ years ago, we’d lightheartedly debate the sanity of “doomsday preppers” based on their predictions. Now, horrifically, some of it seems far less implausible (to be clear: we only bought a small generator, not all in with an old unground bunker :)
Definitely. Within the next 15 years, more likely between 5 and 10.
It is time for the wave to break. A melting South Pole will do. Expect a sea rise of 6 meters by the year 2100. Most of the world's population lives near the sea.
Or...it won't be some big cataclysmic event. Maybe it will be something more subtle and insidious. Maybe the change has already happened but we just haven't seen the effects yet.
Not wrong. Climate change is driving vast migrations destabilizing established boundaries and causing reactionary politics to dominate former democracies.
The fall of the Roman Empire wasn’t a fall, it was a very long decline that took nearly 1000 years. Nothing lasts forever, not even the earth and sky.
I think it will happen much sooner than people believe. The changes we're witnessing are exponential
I feel for you. I fear if it happens soon enough for you to be young enough to deal with it will be while I'm too old to manage and before I'm gone.
sounds like covid when the politicians and governments used fear to control the world en-masse
If this person is American, we are basically teetering on the edge of civil war/ fundamental change in our democracy that seems to be leading to something pretty horrible.
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A lot of people don't actually believe in whatever religious organization they belong to and use it to manipulate those that do and amass power for themselves. Church of scientology isn't the only example, but it's a good one. See also the fact that if everyone genuinely believed killing yourself for your religion would lead to eternal paradise, suicide bombings would be reserved for the highest ranking officials.
Small/lack of pockets in women's clothing is a thing so that fashion companies can sell more purses.
My thoughts exactly, this is what i've been saying to all my male friends, with a demonstration as well; the difference in size is astonishing.
That anything and everything we do on our mobile phones, even when you think you are being secretive by using invented usernames and arbitrary passwords, is being logged and electronically documented somewhere. Privacy is a thing of the past.
That's true but not in some dark conspiracy way, but just the way this technology works. it's dots connected from your phone to another site out there. it's like you order coffee somewhere, they write it, fill the order, gives it back to you. the order still logged, the money is logged as received. it's the exact same thing, you just don't think of it this way cuz you just click some buttons on your device.
Giant creatures exist in the deepest parts of the sea.
But even with all the technology that we have today -- satellites, buoys, underwater vehicles and ship tracks -- we have better maps of the surface of Mars and the moon than we do the bottom of the ocean. We know very, very little about most of the ocean. This is especially true for the middle and deeper parts far away from the coasts. ~Gene Feldman (NASA)
That there's fragments of history behind the legend of Arthur.
A long time ago the only iron they had access to in Britain was bog iron - literally clumps of mud pulled from bogs. They would use them to make iron weapons but the quality of the metal was poor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_iron
"pull the sword from the stone and you will become king of Britain" - this means if you learn to get iron from iron ore (stone) you will get weapons good enough to make your people conquerors.
"a magic sword from a lake"
Heard of quenching? at some stage someone was forging swords with their new iron and accidentally dropped it in some water (or stuck it in because he was tired of waiting for it to cool down) and to his surprise found the new sword seemed "magically" stronger than non-quenched swords.
Remember; millennia ago history was largely (completely, sometimes) passed down orally from generation to generation and changed in the process.
The legend of Arthur that we have now is in fact the relicts of actual historical events so old there's nothing left of them except the legend...
Not all legends are true; but some may be fragments of oral history.
That sandwiches taste 100x's better when cut diagonally.
King St. Old Town, Alexandria VA - there are two, count em TWO, wig shops one building apart. They are outdated shabby looking places whose windows are filled with the fakest looking wigs, mustaches, and toupes on mannequin heads. It's on the main street, in a very wealthy town. Other businesses come and go under the competitive pressure of the area and high leasing prices but these shops stay open without a single customer. My mom lived there in the 80s and they were there; I live there now and still they stand unchanged. 100% a front for two competing mobsters.
edit: y’all are bolstering my conspiracy theories, now I’m going to investigate the stores myself. If I die you know what happened.
Companies like 23 and me will eventually sell customers dna to health insurance companies, and some folks will be charged higher rates if not kicked off their insurance.
Facebook suggested friend algorithm is partly based on people that have stalked you.
There is an infinite number of universes.
Excellent comment. I believe that there are at least eight different types of multiverse (multiple universes). There are new universes that you get to be going through black holes. There is the quantum multiverse where the decisions we make now cause the universe to split. There is the braneworld multiverse of 11 dimensional space in which 4-D universes float. There is the multiverse of "eternal inflation". There may be a topological multiverse where the universe folds back on itself, and there is the far universe beyond the visible boundary in which the laws of physics are different.
I believe “Bad Luck” exists to steer us in the right direction. For example, turning around because I’ve forgot my wallet to find I’ve left the door front door open. That’s why I’m not so upset about having to cancel a recent vacation. I had vehicle breakdowns, one after another, on a road trip. Had to cancel after only 200 miles and go home. Maybe something horrible would have happened out in the desert if I’d continued.
I think in your case, your ancestors may be looking out for you! In my case, I probably did something terrible in a past life and I am only here to suffer this time around.
Talents shows on TV plant the people who they audition and the judges are cued to ask questions based on their stories.
The US government artificially deflates the price of cheap high calorie low nutrition foods because poor fat people don’t overthrow governments, poor hungry ones do.
Very naive thinking. the government is lots of departments, with changing agendas according to who is in power (politically). think about the arguing about everything you see every day in the news. now think that all of them just do and agree on one thing for decades... it's just common sense that cheap products are made of lower ingredients, so they just cost less to make.
Late to the party, but I believe that infants, toddlers, and young children have emotions, thoughts and feelings just as rich and complex as adults, if not more-so due to the magnitude of each new discovery.
That ancient civilisations were WAY more advanced than we give them credit for, this line of thinking can go a few different ways, some more ridiculous than others but I think as a baseline it is true. edit: If you are feeling adventurous check out subreddits like /r/alternativehistory or /r/CulturalLayer . There are a lot of questionable posts but it's interesting stuff and some higher quality posts. It's mostly in good fun of course it's hard to prove any of this type of stuff.
The management at my work have installed some sort of signal-jamming Faraday cage around the toilets so the staff can't spend time in the toilet using the internet on their phones.
That the vacuum shop down the street is a money laundering operation. Never a customer in the store, no new inventory since what looks like the late nineties to early aughts, and yet, they've been open for business since the 1950s. A specialized vacuum shop could never survive in this walmart era, there's just no way.
Also Mattress Firm. Same deal, I just know it.
Most of the long winded top posts/comments on reddit are written by professional or aspiring writers who actually do not have the first hand experience they claim to have.
are you telling me that some people put false stories online for attention i have never heard so much dribble since the time i was astronaut war hero that invented the question mark
When you look at a person completely unaware of you, they have the impulse to turn and look at you too.
In the 90’s business leaders all bought stock in student loan companies and began demanding BAs for entry/middle level jobs.
I thought it was more about being legally able to hire less women and people of color. We were less likely to hold college degrees than white guys up until the 80's. American companies are still fast tracking white guys over everyone else!
I’m into conspiracy theories, but at the end of the day I don’t have a strong belief in any of them. I have an open mind towards them, but I also acknowledge that they are just theories. I’m sure some of them are probably true, but there’s no way to tell which ones are and which aren’t. But I do firmly believe this: There is enough evidence to prove that the CIA and the rest of the government won’t give a flying f**k about the well-being of American citizens if it means their goals will be met. The horrors of MK-ULTRA, bacteria being sprayed across San Francisco to test the effects of biowarfare on their own citizens, all of these events actually happened. If the government would do that s**t to their own people, some of the conspiracy theories don’t sound so crazy now. When it comes down to it, you really are the CIA’s lab rat whether you like it or not.
The larger the number of people who would have to keep it secret, the less likely it is.
Gatorade switched to curvy bottles to hide that they are 4 ounces smaller Edit:I am not saying it can't be proven that the bottles are 4 ounces smaller, I am saying I can't prove that the bottle shape was changed specifically so consumers wouldn't notice.
The timers at McDonalds to determine when the fries are done frying move at a rate of 2 units per second in order to make employees feel like they're moving too slow and to work faster.
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I remember the last time I was in a regular mattress store. Only one there, two employees. Neither Keen to help me, and after laying on just two trying to find something comfortable was asked right after "is this the one you want" like I just got here and it's gonna last me 10+ years give me some time or advice. Could've just been bad employees but it really felt like I was intruding.
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Here's a simple, non-"threatening" conspiracy theory: Scientists downgraded Pluto so they won't have to admit they were wrong. Here's the timeline: (1) Pluto is recognized as a planet. (2) Scientists spend decades denying the existence of any tenth planet in the solar system. (3) Not one, but two objects about the same size as Pluto are discovered, but their discovery goes unannounced while they are confirmed. (4) Scientists announce that they've decided Pluto isn't a planet. (5) The existences of Eris and Haumea are confirmed and publicly, but since they're not "planets," they don't get much attention. This happened; I just can't ascribe motives. In fairness, Pluto is smaller than they once thought it was. They once thought it was larger than the moon.
The current, new definition of a planet is absurd. A much simpler notion of when is a planet big enough to be a planet would be that it is large enough that its own gravity forces it into a round (spheroid) shape (this is a simplified explanation of "hydrostatic equilibrium.") EDIT: Yes, it must ALSO revolve independently around a star.
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Here’s one…Trump never expected to win the first time, why else was nothing ready when he took office?
Eh, even if true, I wouldn't imagine he'd be that prepared either way! Doesn't seem like his style... But in 'politicians not expecting to win' I'd put Boris Johnson and the Brexit vote. That celebration press conference he was giving "wtf" vibes
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@Makabert Abylons...we don't know what truly lives down there....I'm not going down there to find out!!
Ghosts are people who look like us from another universe. But sometimes a loophole happens and we can see into their world. That also might be why ghosts look like dead people. But I have no proof
That when elected politicians drink a 'special' toast to their success that then alters their brain waves turning them in to self serving, ego massaging, money grabbers who forget what they are there for and don't care about the masses.
There are plenty of well-documented "initiations" to ensure only the "right" sort of person becomes politically powerful, from Bohemian Grove to the Trilateral Commission. And that's the known stuff. I suspect Jeffrey Epstein's island was used to "compromise" people such as John Roberts and Bill Clinton.
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Just because you have a different opinion is not a reason to down vote one BP. Down votes get people banned. They are intended for hate speech and bullying, not a difference of opinion or just being mean to some you don't agree with on other posts.
I'm surprised, "Gender is fluid and one can switch between male and female,"isn't on the list bc it's something people believe despite not only is there no evidence backing it up there's also tons of facts that can't be argued against disproving it.
Sex is biological. Gender is a social construct. Learn the f*****g difference.
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I remember the last time I was in a regular mattress store. Only one there, two employees. Neither Keen to help me, and after laying on just two trying to find something comfortable was asked right after "is this the one you want" like I just got here and it's gonna last me 10+ years give me some time or advice. Could've just been bad employees but it really felt like I was intruding.
Load More Replies... Here's a simple, non-"threatening" conspiracy theory: Scientists downgraded Pluto so they won't have to admit they were wrong. Here's the timeline: (1) Pluto is recognized as a planet. (2) Scientists spend decades denying the existence of any tenth planet in the solar system. (3) Not one, but two objects about the same size as Pluto are discovered, but their discovery goes unannounced while they are confirmed. (4) Scientists announce that they've decided Pluto isn't a planet. (5) The existences of Eris and Haumea are confirmed and publicly, but since they're not "planets," they don't get much attention. This happened; I just can't ascribe motives. In fairness, Pluto is smaller than they once thought it was. They once thought it was larger than the moon.
The current, new definition of a planet is absurd. A much simpler notion of when is a planet big enough to be a planet would be that it is large enough that its own gravity forces it into a round (spheroid) shape (this is a simplified explanation of "hydrostatic equilibrium.") EDIT: Yes, it must ALSO revolve independently around a star.
Load More Replies... Here’s one…Trump never expected to win the first time, why else was nothing ready when he took office?
Eh, even if true, I wouldn't imagine he'd be that prepared either way! Doesn't seem like his style... But in 'politicians not expecting to win' I'd put Boris Johnson and the Brexit vote. That celebration press conference he was giving "wtf" vibes
Load More Replies... @Makabert Abylons...we don't know what truly lives down there....I'm not going down there to find out!!
Ghosts are people who look like us from another universe. But sometimes a loophole happens and we can see into their world. That also might be why ghosts look like dead people. But I have no proof
That when elected politicians drink a 'special' toast to their success that then alters their brain waves turning them in to self serving, ego massaging, money grabbers who forget what they are there for and don't care about the masses.
There are plenty of well-documented "initiations" to ensure only the "right" sort of person becomes politically powerful, from Bohemian Grove to the Trilateral Commission. And that's the known stuff. I suspect Jeffrey Epstein's island was used to "compromise" people such as John Roberts and Bill Clinton.
Load More Replies... Just because you have a different opinion is not a reason to down vote one BP. Down votes get people banned. They are intended for hate speech and bullying, not a difference of opinion or just being mean to some you don't agree with on other posts.
I'm surprised, "Gender is fluid and one can switch between male and female,"isn't on the list bc it's something people believe despite not only is there no evidence backing it up there's also tons of facts that can't be argued against disproving it.
Sex is biological. Gender is a social construct. Learn the f*****g difference.
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