That our benevolent alien overlords are gonna show up aaaaaany minute now…
Our benefactors.
Yeah, I think Posadism is my answer too
Fucking seriously… I wish there were aliens that could save us from ourselves, but it’s just oligarchs all the way down…
Epic of Gilgamesh.
Anyway, if they were so benevolent and so much smarter than us, why would they impose their will, and especially if interference might make our extinction more rapid?
Don’t worry, the aliens will come, and they’ll be oligarchs in their society too.
karma
What do you think karma is?
Aliens visiting Earth.
I know it’s a statistical impossibility that we’re the only life out there. I just don’t believe they’ve ever been here. Since we haven’t been either conquered or uplifted yet.
Personally im in the they came, they saw, they said “wtf”, they left, camp.
I mean lets be real. If i were an alien i wouldnt wanna uplift humans. Id want us to stay on our little rock and not bring our drama to their solar system.
That Democracy can be an effective check on Capitalism. Liberalism is my favorite fairy tale. If all the propaganda I was fed as a kid in the 90s was actually true, I’d be in paradise.
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.
Karma - there are way too many shitty people who just continue to be shitty because nothing ever comes back to bite them. Meanwhile, people who actually try to help are kicked around the most.
That’s not the point of karma. And thoughts count, so what you wish for others comes back.
Karma doesn’t always ripen in this life, but upon reincarnation.
Material conditions will improve in my lifetime
Showing people irrefutable proof of something will change their minds.
There are only finitely many prime numbers and I will not hear otherwise.
And your irrefutable proof is…?
If you want to show there are infinitely many primes, one way is to first note that every integer greater than 1 has a prime factor. This is because if an integer n is prime, n is a prime factor of itself, and if n is not prime then it must have a smaller factor m other than 1, 1< m < n. If m is also not prime, it too must have a smaller factor other than 1, and you can keep playing this game but there are only so many integers between 1 and n so eventually you’ll get to a factor of n that has no smaller factors of its own other than 1, which means it is prime.
Let’s now suppose there is only a finite number of primes, we’ll try to show that this assumption leads to nonsense so can’t be possible.
We can multiply any finite number of integers together to get a new integer. Let’s multiply all of the primes together to get a new number M. Then M + 1 gives a remainder of 1 when you divide by any prime number. Since dividing by a factor will always give a remainder of 0, none of the prime numbers can be a factor of M + 1. So M + 1 is an imteger bigger than 1 with no prime factors. This is impossible, so there must be a mistake somewhere in this argument.
The only thing we said that we’re not 100% sure is true was that there are a finite number of primes, so that has to be our mistake. So there must be infinitely many prime numbers.
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@ParlaMint Afterlife.
Death is boring and awful. I don’t want it. Nobody really wants it. If you think you do, a) get help and b) you really don’t.
I’ll admit, my disbelief in afterlife really doesn’t make me fear death because while it’s boring, it’s only boring for everyone else. For the person dead it’s nothing. Boring is a sensation, and death has none of that either. It’s neither good nor bad, just nothing.
The world was ruled by the Illuminati and they were compassionate about it. Because what we are ruled by is a bunch of assholes.
LOL. This is great! A few weeks ago the illuminati was some sort of boogeyman. Today, things are so bad @[email protected] is praying for boogeyman to be real. There are some genuinely great answers here but I really identify with this one, personally.
There is a gospel passage about how much will be expected of those whom have been given much. I’ve always heard this interpreted as how church leaders will be judged harshly in the afterlife. I wish this and hell were true, just for the sheer shock and disbelief of all the hypocritical religious leaders who’ve done so many terrible things and continued to preach hate.
Hanlon’s razor. It’s pretty clear some people can be stupid and malicious simultaneously, or will even feign stupidity to hide malice.
That life is fair.
Reincarnation - I’d like to believe I’ve met others before, maybe even many times. It would explain some stuff like why you’re irrationally drawn or repelled by certain people.
The thing that’s always gotten me about reincarnation is the lack of memory of past lives. Even if it were true and some small part of a person lives on, is it functionally different than a permanent death if they retain nothing from their past lives?
