Belief
(I apologise for any potential typos in advance, my keyboard seems not to like me and I never notice until it's too late)
One of the things I look for in the posts here is trying to understand the mentality of belief. The main things being why people would believe in a god (specifically one that does horible things) and why people seem to value their guns (Americans especially).I think understanding the mentality of both of those things is important especially when they ignore the damage done by their belief or even excuse it.
Everyone does believe something though and most of those things don't really have an impact or really lead to anything negative. So I'm (randomly) gonna list some of mine.
The afterlife. This is the only one I've ever mentioned here before (at length anyway). While I've never associated with any religion (and nor has my family in any real way) I've always felt there was some form of afterlife. I do believe in the soul, that there is an essence of a person that carries on beyond death. I don't think any religion has a monopoly on the afterlife (to me that comes off as insane and is a big reason why I disregard religion entirely). I'm not sure on what specifics there are of the afterlife, but the main thngs are the standard 'reunited with loved ones' and also that it's what you make of it. There's an episode of Ameican Dad which features personal heavens, where the main characters each had their own idea of heaven and I think that describes what I think it is petty well. (Mine would include a mix of doritos, pepsi, galaxy chocolate, awesome sci-fi stuff, video games and scantily clad Welshmen.)
Slightly related is ghosts. I believe that they could be actual sprits as well as the.. 'recordings' of things played out over and over. The former is mostly related to two experiences. The first was when I was younger. I was heading up the road (I can't remember why) and I saw this kid running along in front of me. I thought nothing of it because, hey there's nothing strange about seeng a kid right? Well it turned a corner to go down a drive. Agan, nothing strange there. But by the time I got there (and I was only a few paces behind) the kid was gone. The drive was blocked by a gate, which was locked, and there was nowhere the kid could've gone. To this day I think that kid was a ghost. The ghost of who, I dunno. I never did see their face clearly, but yeah. The second many experience is more a feeling than anything. I used to live in a flat, before my grandprents died. In the last weeks there I started feeling uneasy. I don't know why, but it wasn't just me. The dog would start barking at nothing and my friend had the same sort of feeling too (although she heard voices too). I dunno why it suddenly started then since nothing like it happened before but... I dunno.
Away from the supernatural to life here. I do think that certan cryptids exist. Ater all there are parts of the world we've yet to fully explore so who's to say what's out there. Species are still being found that are previously unknown so, yeah, here could be other to.
And then there's life elsewhere, out there. Do I think there's life in the universe? Absolutely. The universe is simply too big or us to be the only one. Personally, I think there's life elsewhere in the solar system, not necessarily on Mars but on Europa. It does, after all, have a massive liquid ocean so the possibility for life is extremely high. I don't expect it to be intelligent life but even fish would be some life, life that's not our own.
Do I think aliens have visited us? I don't know. It's possble they coould be observing, but I'm less sure about making contact. Any race that would watch us for any length of time would see we historically do not play well with others. As a species we have had a dsgusting habit of destroying those which are different than us. Any race watching would be wise to take that into account and only make contact when we are mature enough as a species and a world (which we are sorely not).
Like I said in my other post though I do believe we have to come together as a species to advance. That means being a bit more unified, in terms of universal human rights and dealing with their abuses. In not letting religion having governments in their pockets.In being able to co-operate on more proects like the ISS. We are, sadly, a long way from achieving that properly, but hopefully that'll change and we can actually become a more unifed world and species rather than a myiad of dsparate counties.
I am almost certain I've missed something out that I meant to include when i started this, but ah well. I think I've covered the main ones.
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