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30 Things People Are Certain Of Without A Need To Prove It, As Shared In This Online Thread
The whole world around us, all the facts and things in it, from the point of view of our knowledge, is divided into three categories: what we are not sure of, what we are sure of, and what we are ready to swear to defend with our life. That very hill to die on. And such beliefs are different for various people, of course.
The so-called "Socratic paradox" goes that "I know that I know nothing" and is attributed to the great Greek philosopher Socrates. And still, even the great skeptic, denying the possibility of any knowledge, in the end, as we remember, took poison, defending his own convictions. Of course, one should not be so radical, but still, each of us has our own truths.
And so, a few days ago, a thread appeared in the AskReddit community, the author of which asked a question about just this: "What do you swear on your life to be 100% true?" Today, the thread has over 42.6K upvotes and almost 28.5K different comments, and what is an indisputable truth for some may well be perceived by others as a very controversial issue. In the end, so many people - so many opinions.
Bored Panda has carefully sifted through the sand of the original thread's numerous comments in search of the golden grains of the best, most popular, and weightiest comments, so now feel free to scroll to the very end of this list, mark the most interesting submissions for you and, of course, leave your comments. After all, you, we are almost sure, also have your own truths that you would bet are 100% true!
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Being alone is better than having the wrong people in my life. Prove me wrong.
The average human is an idiot
That reminds me of a Carlin bit. Think of how stupid the average person is. Half of the people are dumber than that.
Money DOES buy happiness.
You cannot convince me otherwise. Sure ok it is not everything, you can be depressed and rich, but no one gonna tell me that money does not buy that cute stuff I wanted to wear or that delicious meal imma be cookin.
When you don't have to struggle for your survival, it greatly reduces the stress you experience, providing you with the opportunity to create happiness for yourself.
That disagreeing with someone's opinion isn't an attack on them.
People who insist their opinion will never change will always perceive disagreement as a personal attack. Their opinion becomes tied to their identity, instead of being a thing that should change with new factual information.
If your bus is late, spark up a cigarette and it will instantly arrive
What a mate of mine would call the magical bus summoning stick. Usually with a lot of sarcasm..probably because he wanted his smoke
The inside of USB ports are designed to switch round to ensure you can only plug in USB cables on your third attempt after twisting it round, then twisting it back.
You can make things foolproof but the world will make better fools
History is written and preserved and distributed by the winners.
Humans are capable of lying, twisting facts to show themselves, places and people they like in a good light. Modern world has PR agencies for rich and connected.
Combine the two and history as we know it is a twisted version of what really happened.
"History is written by the victors" is an extremely true statement. There are aspects of our past that have been completely and totally stamped out, twisted, and altered. Especially if that civilization didn't survive, didn't have a writing system, their writing system isn't understood or none of it remains. Think about all the groups the Ancient Romans wiped out, for instance. All we know about many of them is what's been written about them by the Romans... who would outright lie to paint themselves in the best possible light to look just. Everyone else were just "barbarians", after all. Even in more recent times before the internet (and indispensable resources like the WayBackMachine), it was pretty easy to change history. Burn/ban the books/photographs/scrolls/etc, kill those who know the truth, and obliterate any physical evidence. Done.
A sandwich is always better if someone else makes it for you
I dunno about this one. Condiment usage, cheese amount and placement, vegetables desired....it can get complicated.
Time passes quicker the older you get. Do the things right now that you want to do, don’t wait for later.
It is the kiss of death to change lines at the grocery store.
Aliens exist somewhere in this universe.
It would be the height of human conceit to believe that, in the vastness of the universe, we are the only ones. We're probably not the only ones in our galaxy, never mind the entire universe.
What also bothers me is the insistence that all life needs water and oxygen. Or is all carbon-based. That's an extremely narrow view of life and might prevent us from discovering life where it does exist.
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I heard a theory about this which I thought was quite interesting. Humanity has a fear of being invaded by a hostile alien force who want to kill us all and take over our planet. Credit to Hollywood for that one. But what if the aliens have been monitoring us and are afraid that we will do the same to them? Maybe they've watched us develop nuclear arms, seen how we treat each other and the way we are killing the planet which sustains us, and marked our species as a 'do not disturb' civilisation. I would, if I was them. We are not the intelligent creatures we think we are. We are the planet killing, people killing, everything killing monsters.
Aliens watching us and thinking "Nah, they'll kill themselves AND us. Swipe left"
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From the perspective of life on other planets, Earthlings are aliens.
I believe this one too. Given the infinite vastness of space, and the fact we know there is definitely one intelligent species in the universe (us), it's not much of a leap to think there might be another one somewhere.
It's kind of pretentious to believe we are the only life in existence (we as in life on earth). There is no undeniable proof earth is the only life; micro-organims are life and hence still would be "aliens". Shoot, there are theories there could be life under the ice of some planets or even micro-organisms in seemingly inhabitable atmospheres; may just be single-celled organisms but that's life. Just because nothing on earth can live in those conditions doesn't mean there aren't any organisms out there capable of living in them. Tardigrades can withstand space for a few days so there's definitely a possibility of others
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From a statistical point of view this is probably correct. From the point of view whether we will ever be able to prove this, I doubt it. E=MC squared - we are limited to sub FTL speeds and space is big, really, really big.
We're limited at the moment - but then we were limited to ground travel because we couldn't design a plane to flap its wings fast enough. I think quantum entanglement may be the answer.
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As Def Leppard would say, “Is anybody out there, anybody there? Does anybody wonder, anybody care?”
If there is another intelligent species capable of space travel somewhere out in the universe, they have probably found us already, have seen how we act, and are now hiding out---refusing to turn on the outside lights and are keeping the curtains closed, hoping we will just go away.
Yeah, they've taken one look at our planet, said NOPE and hightailed it away from us
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I am quite sure the rules of gaussian normal distribution maintain that we will never ever be able to meet them. But to assume they don´t exist is sheer hubris
They just don’t want us to know they exist, because we’d take our problems to their planet as well.
statistically, it would be impossible for them not to exist (or have existed). however, it would be nearly impossible for us to ever communicate
I think there's life out there, but I doubt technology will ever advance to the point we can contact them. I also don't think life needs to evolve to our idea of what makes life possible so we're looking with a very narrow view - we might not be capable of surviving in the same environments
And they're watching trying to figure out just what in the actual f*ck we're doing. I know they're probably like "damn these ones hit different than those ancient civilizations, these ones been losing their minds for a while now"
Someone said that there are two possibilities = that there is intelligent alien life somewhere and that there is not. Both are equally frightening.
Maybe, but don't forget about deep time. In the 13.7bn years of the universe's existence, we've only been around 200,000 of them and we've only been sending signals into space for about 130. There's no reason to suppose we'd overlap temporally with another intelligent species, let alone one close enough to talk to.
There's tons of possibilities as to why that might be. Some I can think of off the top of my head: 1. We're not considered intelligent enough, interesting enough or valuable enough to bother with. 2. They don't recognize our attempts at communication. 3. We don't recognize their attempts at communication. 4. There's some 'Prime Directive'-like system in place that says we're too primitive to disturb. 5. They have already contacted us, and it's being withheld from us because "They" feel the general populace will freak out. 6. Our attempts to communicate are like a whisper on the far side of a busy, noisy hallway- they don't hear us.
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It's not whether there's aliens out there, but whether we could ever recognize them,and communication over the vastness of space is likely impossible
But what defines aliens? Is it just form of life or a lifeform with a high functioning intelligence?🤔
There is as much evidence that earth is the first place to produce life as there is that it is the trillionth. The OP statement is not empirical fact, it is a belief that is unproven. Hitchen's Razor applies to the OPs statement : "That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence".
So true. I used to be an alien. Said so right on my green card: Resident Alien. But then, in 1995, I became a U.S. citizen and they stripped me of that status.
I look good in the mirror. I look terrible in photos.
I have NEITHER of those problems. I look like hell all the time, everywhere.
If you’re running late you will be stuck at every possible red light.
The way people drive and the way they use a shopping trolley are directly linked.
Not being available 24/7 despite being reachable 24/7 is fine
Everything is temporary
People don't *genuinely* care about deaths of strangers they don't personally know or haven't met. If people had the option to choose to sacrifice 10 lives of people they have never met to save 1 they love, they would do it without hesitation - they probably wouldn't admit it out loud, but they *would* agree to it.
Heck, most people would sacrifice 10 people they don't know just to get a better price on a mobile phone.
If I’m having a bad day it can always get worse
rocks are soft and squishy. They just tense up when you touch them.
Black Bears are learning that they could benefit from a friendly relationship with humans after seeing how easy domesticated dogs and cats have it. They are in the early stages of trying to domesticate themselves.
Source: none. I just see tiktok videos of bears being cute near people.
The makers of baby wipes intentionally wrap them in a way so when you pull 1 out the container you get 2-3 and waste them because they are a b***h to put back in
Wipe dispenser box, at the the time I purchased it I was half convinced it was a waste of money but 3 kids later and it has proved its worth everyday!
reddit is a cesspool of misinformation.
I enjoy reddit in general, as I stick to stuff that's rather tame. However, I came across a thread the other day for identifying mushrooms in the wild, and I thought, "Do you actually want to trust your life to this collective?"
There's definitely something amiss in this universe and we're not ready for it.
Mr Lovecraft had just a glimpse of it and look what it has done to him
That the printer will always run out of ink or that the paper will get jammed when you're already rushing and stressed.
Happens all the time.
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Here is a good one: If you post a comment on Bored Panda that is 100% true but an unpopular idea, people will down vote it - not because they think it is inaccurate, but because they don't like it.
This or they complain about a common sense opinion you have and then you have to remind the ops that you have the right to your opinion
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When you’ve been waiting, be it in a doctor’s office, or getting an oil change, or waiting for a train or metro to show up, whatever it is - the quickest way to speed up the wait is to pull out your phone, put on your readers, get comfortable and start really getting into a meme page or a website. Whatever you’re waiting for will happen within moments. Works every time.
The attractiveness of a slice of pizza matters. A good-looking slice tastes infinitely better than an ugly slice.
Mine: There are no gods, magic is not real and the word "supernatural" does not make sense at all.
Here is a good one: If you post a comment on Bored Panda that is 100% true but an unpopular idea, people will down vote it - not because they think it is inaccurate, but because they don't like it.
This or they complain about a common sense opinion you have and then you have to remind the ops that you have the right to your opinion
Load More Replies... When you’ve been waiting, be it in a doctor’s office, or getting an oil change, or waiting for a train or metro to show up, whatever it is - the quickest way to speed up the wait is to pull out your phone, put on your readers, get comfortable and start really getting into a meme page or a website. Whatever you’re waiting for will happen within moments. Works every time.
The attractiveness of a slice of pizza matters. A good-looking slice tastes infinitely better than an ugly slice.
Mine: There are no gods, magic is not real and the word "supernatural" does not make sense at all.
