Interesting topic.

The human mind is weird, mix that with different characters and we have an interesting zoo. :>

I do think in the past the world progressed a lot due to people not knowing that much and believing. Now most people know more, should accept some more that they don't know all though (that's a hard one) and try to empathize more. That'd be nice.


Anotehr topic, sorta, reading a good book now, comparing how the Habsburg monarchy could exist for 600 years, though mainly focussing on the last 100 years and trying to understand what worked, what didn't. Why it went wrong and in which ways it could be compared to the EU. Or not. Without real answers, it's super interesting. I've always been more of a history than math nerd. ;-)

@Moi:
Then you accept that some things are impossible, such as humans flying with their arms xD

Astrology falls clearly in the kind of things that are not true. All evidence shows it.
It can be amusing though, and I understand people who likes entertaining themselves with that kind of stuff.
But believing it, no, there is nothing to believe there.

Beliefs have their place elsewhere.
Such as religion. God is one of those concepts that can't be neither proved nor disproved, it's fundamentally something to believe in.


@Jolien:
Do you really think the world progressed a lot in the past? If you try to measure the speed of changes, I would say it progressed quite slowly compared to nowadays.

Anyway I've always felt that the main reason why religions and such were always so important is because they allowed to set some ground and rules for moral behaviour, which otherwise would be quite incoherent - anybody would do as they please.
That's like the base of having a society, sharing rules to work it out.
And also it helped everybody to feel they had their place in that society, which is good needed for a proper individual development. And imho it's one of the problems of actual societies - many people don't feel like they belong anymore.


Habsburg monarchy, hmmm, never thought of that comparison. I guess I should learn more about that monarchy to be able to understand it.
Btw I always thought the USA is quite like the Roman Empire xD

Ooooh the topic of beliefs is a pretty complicated one I can't really say I believe in astrology, but I've had someone work on my astrological portrait once, and she said "someone of the sign of the Lion is watching over you", and my grandma was a Lion (she didn't know that) and I've always thought she was there watching over me. I know it's no actual proof but it still makes me wonder, ya know?
Same goes with spirit calling and such. Someone from my family was able to summon spirits and read tarot - no idea how he could do that but he did. Pretty scary stuff happened around him. Never happened to me, thankfully haha, but it sure made me very cautious toward occult.
Also I'm... well, kind of a witch - I mean not an actual witch with broom etc of course XDD More of a pagan I'd say lmao. I've been trying to find sense in this world, and it seems logical to me to think that if there is some kind of cosmic force out there, it's probably the forces of Nature. I think having the skill to self-convince yourself that things are gonna go right because (crappy example incoming) you lit up a candle and did a little ritual with salt and plants, is quite positive for anxious people; it helps feeling less stressed :) that's always a plus!
Not gonna thread into historical topics because I don't remember a damn thing from my History lessons but it sounds interesting!

Complicated AND controversial.
But we are brave enough to discuss it. And hopefully not hate each others afterwards


Most of those things simply work because YOU give it the right interpretation.
About 1/12 of the people you know are a Lion, so it's likely you will find someone of that sign (a relative, a close friend, a coworker) you can interpret as "watching over you".
Some people have a very strong intuition though, and may hint at unexpectedly accurate facts, but if they do they hide it behind a masquerade of astrology because it looks cooler or whatever.


Yeah, as I've mentioned we have strong pagan traditions, so I'm alright with pretty much all of it.
Many rituals are strong for the mere fact that they are rituals.
I have bathed my own son in 7 herbs which were soaking for a whole night on St. John's day. I just don't believe it's magical, but it's still so damn cool.

See? Ghosts are one of that kind of things that have never been disproved, therefore they could be something real - just something rare that not everybody sees or understands.

I have never seen one, but I think everybody has sometimes felt that sentation of being watched. It feels so so so real that it's hard to believe that it's all imagination, right?
Ghosts - if they exist - don't have to be like they are in the stories or in the movies, they might be a mere residual "something" (for lack of a better word xD) of living people which is somehow lingering in this world.
Or maybe we actually live in more dimensions than we think, and when we die only our physical dimensions "die" and other dimensions remain.

Of course probably most of claims of people seeing ghosts may be some sort of trick, but even if we accept that it does not mean ALL ghosts are tricks...


Never heard of that show.
Looked him up and found a very interesting article criticizing him :D
https://boingboing.net/2020/10/26/the-m ... icism.html

Ghosts and the like are totally real. I've had too many personal experiences with them to not believe so. Aliens are more likely than we may be able to prove with today's tech, just given the sheer number of exoplanets we've found that can sustain life as we understand it.

As for why people fake evidence? They either want attention, or they're trying to justify their beliefs.

Ghosts is quite a broad concept anyway.
Ghosts need to be seen or can they be invisible? They need to be related to a previously alive human form, or can they simply be spirits of any other kind? Do they need to have some conciousness or can they be just remmanents of a soul?

Aliens, depending on how you see it.
I mean, extraterrestial intelligent creatures with high technology, able to travel to another planets and a body which allows them to thrive in our Earth... well, that's a very specific definition.
Now if you understand aliens as any extraterrestial living creature, without the rest of sci-fi-esque requeriments, then it's more than likely that they exist. The universe is just so big!


Attention seekers the whole lot, if you ask me.
And some may see the money in it too.