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.
God
Showing people irrefutable proof of something will change their minds.
Most people at their core are good people
Damn, ya beat me. I’m not good people to so I know from first hand experience.
I was gonna go with “most people give a damn”, but I think you phrased it a bit more positively.
I think “good” and “bad” are hard terms to apply to people objectively, but I do believe that most people value social coherence and are willing to do (the minimum amount of) something to maintain it. If you can’t believe at least that it means that all of those thin blue line people are right, and I’m just not willing to believe that’s true.
I used to think the Anne Frank quote was inspiring. Now I just see it as bitterly ironic.
Justice
That humans can survive the climate disaster they created.
It’s ok the earth will survive.
Gosh I hope not. I don’t dislike you, I dislike humanity. I’m sorry you got caught up in this mess, but you gotta go.
That our benevolent alien overlords are gonna show up aaaaaany minute now…
Fucking seriously… I wish there were aliens that could save us from ourselves, but it’s just oligarchs all the way down…
Religion, mythology and probably anything mystical. It’s very easy why people believe in them, they’re so alluring and genuinely wish they had truth to them. Unfortunately the only truth to be found is ancient wisdom, and even that can be very iffy sometimes.
you may be interested in mysticism then.
I’ve always held that the true purpose of religion is to create atheists, and not in the modern edge lord I reject your god way.
I’ll do some reading, any recommendations would be appreciated!
Religion to me has always seemed as a way to create order in a seemingly orderless world, rationality set aside. I like philosophy for this reason, although it can be very pretentious.
This was one of the first times I kind of put everything together
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/on-mysticism-ego-suffering-love
The have some reading recommendations I never seem to get around to.
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?
An afterlife. Might be nice.
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.
The ‘common’ part of ‘common sense’
The falseness of it has been well theorized by Antonio Gramsci https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hegemony
Also the sense part. Common no-sense…
My cat can understand everything I say but chooses not to listen
I mean, there’s real data to support this. If you don’t believe it that’s like me not believing that hurricanes exist just bedsitter I haven’t been through one.
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.
That there’s a place for the hopeless sinners who’ve betrayed all mankind just to serve their own beliefs.
