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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

God doesn't exist (though there is a tiny, tiny chance there's some higher power that doesn't intervene, because the human intelligence gap is unreasonably huge, making humans undeniably special)

Every organized religion is a cult

Free will is an illusion

Aliens most likely exist, given the insane size of the universe and we know life can exist here

Humans will still always give in to their brutal tribal instincts and that's why the world is how it is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I believe I'd like another drink.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I believe the pen in front of me exists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

That coffee cup is suspicious though.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just listen to the rhythm of my heart!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you believe in love after love?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

No one needs more than 500sqft of living space per capital until poverty is eradicated

War is absurd and the consequence of greed and senile, old, fucked up and immoral men

Democracy doesn't work without a limit on speech - specifically hate speech, authoritarianism, and ethnic superiority ideology

Fascism is the greatest concern of the western world right now

Genocide deserves instant disavowal and should convince any sane person to immediately support removing any government official or politician from office who doesn't oppose it

Black Lives Matter, and American history has treated black Americans awfully (see prison industrial complex)

Housing isn't an investment vehicle. Tax speculative purchasing of housing. Support government building high density housing like the HBD system in Singapore or Austria's housing system

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We believe in nothing, Mr. Lebowski.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Nothing.

And tomorrow we come back and we cut off your chonson.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

A good cup of coffee and the universe does not care about existence.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

Free will is an illusion.

Either as Hard determinism (60% confidence in this theory), or as in some form of Quantum randomness (40% confidence in this theory), you cannot just willy nilly pick something. Its just an algorithm, and, possibly, a little bit of randomness, if Quantum randomness is true.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I also believe in both this Lemmy user and Sasquatch.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I believe what doesn’t kill you makes you…stranger.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I believe in social democracy, I believe that it is the best political ideology.

It combines a free society with a government provided safety net.

I see communism as being too restrictive, and unregulated capitalism as being way too out of control.

A progressive social democratic country with a strong government seems to me as combining new ideas with a stable foundation.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

What can go wrong will go wrong.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

What you need is a rain out.

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The indomitable human spirit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Only that which has evidence to support it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That my dogs will aways be happy to see me

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The world is made of magic, it just differentiated into so many forms, that one of them is science and that's what many people believe is all there is.

I feel in the mood to explain more about this:

Similar to european school's history classes tend to be focused on european history (we call that "eurocentrism"), our worldview is focused on humans, i think that's called "anthropocentrism". While humans are important, it's not everything there is. There's also plants and other living beings, and in fact there's many more of them than of us. I try to consider that.

I'm calling the unity of all life "magic", i came up with that and it's supposed to be a play-on-words on the german word "Magen" (stomach) (representing that plants and animals are connected through an important relationship that is food). Also the stomach is the organ most physiologically/spatially central in the human body, in my opinion. So i imagine that everything's in the human is built around that "central" organ that is the stomach. That makes sense as the intake of food is the root of all animal existence, that enables animal's existence in the first place. Thus "everything is created from the stomach outwards", as supportive organs to help the stomach collect and digest food.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (21 children)

Believing in something seems to imply thinking something to be true without having evidence for it - otherwise it would be knowledge, a justified true belief. So I know a couple things, like that I exist as a conscious being, and have practical empirical knowledge of the rest of the sensory world too.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The power of friendship (I have no friends)

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