@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.
Free will. I want to believe I can do as I please and am making decisions that could go either way. But I think it more likely that time is just unwinding, every action a result of some previous actions, all the way back to the big bang and it’s impossible to step out of this stream.
That rational and empirical evidence would cause people to reconsider their intuitive perspectives and lead into constructive conversation.
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?
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.
Good things happen to good people
The average person having empathy
Hanlon’s razor. It’s pretty clear some people can be stupid and malicious simultaneously, or will even feign stupidity to hide malice.
@CapriciousDay one of the most common misunderstandings about “razor principles” is that one should completely discard hypothesis that does not pass the razor. The thing is, razor principles is a priority-sorting mechanism, not discarding. The simpliest explanation for everything is God of The Gaps (and that’s how Occam’s Razor should had work in Occam’s reasonings), but we understand that God is not enough.
Same goes for Hanlon’s Razor. If stupidity is not enough, you should go with the next hypothesis - malevolent supidity.
A thing beyond our understanding on this world, I wish that thoses humans on top of the world would understand at least once that they can’t control everything, and that the world stays full of wonder.
I would have said also yōkais, but i actually believe in them so it doesn’t count i suppose.
That people are inherently good. This not being the case is reinforced near daily by people’s behaviors.
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.
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
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.
Magic
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.
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 @KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml is praying for boogeyman to be real. There are some genuinely great answers here but I really identify with this one, personally.
