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ParlaMint@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months ago

Name one thing you don't believe in, but you wish was actually true.

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Name one thing you don't believe in, but you wish was actually true.

ParlaMint@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months ago
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  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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    Poster with a photograph of a flying saucer, with the text "I WANT TO BELIEVE" underneath it. This is the original version of this famous poster, shown in the first three seasons of The X-Files, prior to photographer/artist/ufo-cult-founder Billy Meier's copyright complaint which caused it to be replaced with different photographs in later seasons.

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    The average person having empathy

  • Jarix@lemmy.world
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    Wishes

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    The world will recognize the good deeds you do

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    Magic

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    Ghosts. My 18 year old cat passed end of last year and she was one of my best friends. I just wish that instead of me knowing that the shades of her I see are actively produced by my mind (i notice me doing them) that she’d really spook around me, that i could just embrace the little shade and show her that i still love her. Well now I’m crying at work

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    The notion that “facts matter”.

    I’ve spent my entire life believing that facts don’t care about feelings. That scientific truth doesn’t require your belief in it in order to be true. That at the end of the day, reasoning will beat emotion…

    By far the most dis-heartening thing about the last few years (to me) has been accepting the idea they “facts” are “whatever is shouted the loudest”.

    It, more than anything else, makes me feel helpless. If the enemy isn’t even playing with the same fact-sheet… How do you even begin to fight that?

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      I recommend reading False Witnesses and following it up with Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing.” People license themselves to believe what’s convenient, not what’s true.

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    Spirits.

    It’d be cool.

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    That people are inherently good. This not being the case is reinforced near daily by people’s behaviors.

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      I found a wallet on the ground by a truck outside a store recently that had a lot of cash in it. I looked at the license and while I was heading in to see if they could call the owner I saw the guy rushing back out of the store looking panicked. I gave him his wallet back and he acted like I was the one that took it from him. If I was gonna steal from you I’d have cleaned it out and tossed it asshole. Then later when I mentioned that id found a wallet and returned my coworkers were all giving me shit for not just stealing his money. Not one person out of 8 had any opinion other than just steal it. I already don’t have a great opinion of people but that really reinforced my opinion.

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    Heaven. Or just the idea that some part of the consciousness outlives the body. I really hate that this is all I get, there’s so much I’ll never get to do just because my parents decided when I was too young to decide for myself.

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    That there’s a place for the hopeless sinners who’ve betrayed all mankind just to serve their own beliefs.

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    My cat can understand everything I say but chooses not to listen

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      https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/your-cats-can-tell-when-youre-speaking-to-them/

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        quagsire-pog

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      I mean, there’s real data to support this. If you don’t believe it that’s like me not believing that hurricanes exist just bedsitter I haven’t been through one.

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    The ‘common’ part of ‘common sense’

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      The falseness of it has been well theorized by Antonio Gramsci https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hegemony

      The Fascism of Common Sense

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    @ParlaMint cryptids. Fun thing is, that makes me extra-sceptical on such sort of things. I’m so willling to believe, that I have to double-check, triple-check any evidence I get just to be sure it is really the thing, not just me wishful-thinking.

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