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.
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.
Aliens exist.
From a purely statistical standpoint - they have to. The universe is too damn big for us to be alone.
And the thought that we're the most intelligent species in the universe is just too depressing.
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Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
The second one isn't unless you deliberately imagine alien life as terrifying enemies. There might be the same Joes tired of their work, credits and Flat Planeters.
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They have not contacted humans because they have not found intelligent beings on earth 🌍
More likely, they are too intelligent to want to come near us
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I 100% believe that. Earth, a single floating rock, has millions of living species. Why can't other floating rocks?
They visited an Ikea, then entered and are still lost somewhere in a store.
Research the "Fermi Paradox". It's fascinating, especially the set of possible answers.
I love reading stuff about the Fermi Paradox. My favorite theory, which makes so much sense to me, is The Great Filter!
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I think its one thing to say Aliens exist and have visited us, and another to say Aliens exist seems highly unlikely the only life in the universe is on earth.
I'm adamant that it's a very cocky thing to think we're the only ones in the universe, let alone our galaxy.
I agree but I also would guarantee they're not wasting their time buzzing the earth and abducting people.
Sure, they would we have 70% water covering our planet, and we produce nuclear power. I can totally see passing crafts using our planets resources even if we aren't truly aware of it.
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Keep in mind: Aliens are non human creatures from other planets. Meaning it is quite possible that they could be microorganisms, adapted to live in conditions that are unlike earth, and also be of a different form of intelligence. Aliens are not just weird humans from other planets.
the scariest thing would be to believe they don't exist and that we truly are alone
The scariest thing is to consider the philosophical consequences of that.
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I think it would be arrogant to think that the only life in the universe is on Earth. We are probably being monitored.
The common theme of almost every major scientific discovery has been that human beings are not special. Everything we learn is another push away from our being the 'center' of existence. Why should this be any different?
Anything not impossible is certain if given enough time and chances. The universe is infinite.
Arthur C. Clarke — 'Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.'
Sure. But there's a big difference between aliens existing somewhere in the universe versus them coming here to cut up cows and probe Billy Bob.
Heard a theory that they know we exist but are staying away from us bc we’re dumb😭
I also believe we will see open intelligent contact in my or my children's lifetime.
Its something i do believe but not in the crazy tinfoil hat conspiracy kinda way
William Shatner has a good point. Why would aliens travel all that distance to earth and then hide?
I'm to the point now that yes intelligent aliens are most likely out there or have existed. I also believe that due to the vastness of both time and space the chances of ever having contact with other intelligent live is very low. That and I'm still not convinced that intelligent life is sustainable. Granted it's the only example available but intelligence seems to be counter to long term survival since we devote more of our resources to things that destroy us than things that benefit us all. In other words we might not be around long enough to make contact with intelligent aliens.
So much of universe is unexplored so there are so many possibilities. For me it's kind of depressing that only earthlings exist.
Thought for you to ponder : if aliens don't exist, why do most religions pray to the sky?
There's too much going on in our own atmosphere to allow the idea that we are alone. The accounts of people being abducted are way too vivid and detailed in my eyes to be completely faked. The real fear is in their eyes, and you can see if someone is making s**t up. I've never been a big Trek fan, but if in 2017 we had finally built Stargate I would have done everything to get on one of those ships.
It's a strange argument and sometimes I do genuinely believe we could be alone BUT if it happened here, then it's a possibility within any universe or galaxy. That's what we forget, that we exist so why not? Life is complicated but it 'finds a way' - Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park!
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.
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.
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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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