I believe that the reason why so many people are going crazy in America at least is because they are approaching the end of their life and they have been told the whole time they've been alive that they would be living through the end of times, and if it becomes true then their lives have not been wasted but if it is not true or if it doesn't happen until after they die then their lives have been wasted and it's driving them crazy.
"Christianity is a death cult," essentially. Why bother to make it better here when paradise is guaranteed?
I heard "the moment you start praying is the moment you've given up trying" the other night. I almost spat my tea.
That global democratic socialism can work. Currently the only states successful in implementing it are oil-rich nordic countries, and I want to believe it can work elsewhere but it'll be hard to prove.
No, Norway is social democracy.
Sweden and Finland have no oil, and if anything are even more "socialist" than Norway.
Back to the drawing board on your premise.
absolute truth.
I've mentioned them before and they're semi-related, in a broad sense:
I believe the Congressional baseball game shooting was likely intended to benefit Trump.
I believe it's likely that the Russian government has knowingly promoted interracial cuck porn, in some capacity.
Inductive reasoning. I don't have any non-circular reason to believe that previous experience should predict future events. But I'm gonna believe it anyway.
That's... huh. Yeah I guess you're right
I believe that there are metaphysical aspects of reality and unfalsifiable truths science and mathematics will never be able to prove.
I know that this isn't what you mean, but paradoxically mathematics has been used to prove that it can't prove everything: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems
Gödel's incompleteness theorem is one of the main things that I like pointing to when talking about stuff like this, thanks for bringing it up. Its a good supporting piece that helps show there are limits to logic and knowability. I think physics models will eventually have their own version that puts theories of everything in jepoardy.
I do think our current physics theories are inaccurate at the extremes. To quote Zach Weinersmith:
Now, we’ve basically got it all worked out, except for small stuff, big stuff, hot stuff, cold stuff, fast stuff, heavy stuff, dark stuff, turbulence, and the concept of time.
I think our model of cosmology is likely way more wrong than we think. I LOVE it when we get new data that challenges our accepted notions, which is why I'm loving all the "how are these ancient galaxies so big" stuff coming out of Webb.
My running theory is that what we call the universe is an inverse version of what we would consider to be the real universe, were we not stuck in this crummy inverted one.
What we know about the age of the human species, and other life, the earth, the universe etc. depends on so many guesses that we know essentially nothing.
Specifically, I think that elements and materials may have changed some of their properties and behaviour at some time in the past.
We do not know that. Most people just assume they have remained constant at all times. And we build quite many of our guesses on this assumption.
If, for example, C14 has changed it's disintegration rate at some time, then quite many of our guesses would be very wrong.
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