People will believe what they want to believe, see what they want to see, and hear what they want to hear. Reality doesn’t have anything to do with it.
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There are over 300 million people living in the U.S. and almost 7 billion people on this planet. Name something, anything, and I guarantee you I can find at least 1 person who’s done it. Nothing is unbelievable. “No one would do that” is a falsehood.
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I approach any argument or disagreement with the idea that maybe, just maybe, the opposing argument might be right.
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People may appear to act illogically, but everything everyone does carries with it some kind of internal logic. There is a reason for all the crazy shit that people do. In that moment, to them, it made sense, even if it was just an autonomic response.
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We underestimate our ancestors. People living 10,000 years ago, or even 110,000 years ago were just as smart at figuring out problems as you or I.
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We mistakenly think old technology must be primitive. The ancient Romans knew how to make concrete, but that knowledge was lost for thousands of years. What other knowledge did our ancestors posses that we do not? Yet somehow it’s easier to believe aliens helped the Egyptians build the pyramids then accept the fact that we just don’t know how they did it. They obviously built them, because they’re there.
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No one questions that a high school drop-out working as a patent clerk could come up with the theory of relativity, yet some people insist the son of a glove maker from Stratford-upon-Avon couldn’t possibly have written the plays attributed to Shakespeare. If there can be natural-born mathematical or scientific geniuses, why not literary geniuses?
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Everything is subjective. Even history. All the supposed facts we think we know are filtered through the perspective of whoever recorded them.
In and Of Itself
2 years ago
Wait wait wait. Are you saying that aliens had nothing to do with the building of the pyramids? You're crazy.
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