Name one thing you don't believe in, but you wish was actually true.

[capriciousday@lemmy.ml]

Hanlon's razor. It's pretty clear some people can be stupid and malicious simultaneously, or will even feign stupidity to hide malice.

[bademantel@lemmy.world]

You mean like a hermit? I think that's a rare fantasy. But if you want to do it, sure, go for it. Isn't there a lot of space and wilderness in Canada?

[christian@lemmy.ml]

If you want to show there are infinitely many primes, one way is to first note that every integer greater than 1 has a prime factor. This is because if an integer n is prime, n is a prime factor of itself, and if not it must have a smaller factor m other than 1, 1< m < n. If m is also not prime, it too must have a smaller factor other than 1, and you can keep playing this game but there are only so many integers between 1 and n so eventually you'll get to a factor of n that has no smaller factors of its own other than 1, which means it is prime.

Let's now suppose there is only a finite number of primes, we'll try to show that this assumption leads to nonsense so can't be possible.

We can multiply any finite number of integers together to get a new integer. Let's multiply all of the primes together to get a new number M. Then M + 1 gives a remainder of 1 when you divide by any prime number. Since dividing by a factor will always give a remainder of 0, none of the prime numbers can be a factor of M + 1. So M + 1 is an imteger bigger than 1 with no prime factors. This is impossible, so there must be a mistake somewhere in this argument.

The only thing we said that we're not 100% sure is true was that there are a finite number of primes, so that has to be our mistake. So there must be infinitely many prime numbers.

[hornywarthogfart@sh.itjust.works]

That people are inherently good. This not being the case is reinforced near daily by people's behaviors.

[cypherpunks@lemmy.ml]

[vinesnfluff@pawb.social]

Spirits.

It'd be cool.

[alice@beehaw.org]

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.

[cethin@lemmy.zip]

I would say most people are good. However, the human brain is pretty shit and easy to manipulate. It's easy to make people view other people as not human or other to them, or to not think about them at all. Maybe that is "not good" in some definitions though. When face-to-face, I will bet every time on someone treating someone well. I'll lose the bet occasionally, but I'll be right more than wrong.

[hiddenlayer555@lemmy.ml]

Everything's going to be okay

[drinkmonkey@lemmy.ca]

Karma doesn’t always ripen in this life, but upon reincarnation.

[drq@mastodon.ml]

@ParlaMint Afterlife.

Death is boring and awful. I don't want it. Nobody really wants it. If you think you do, a) get help and b) you really don't.

[leadore@lemmy.world]

That life is fair.

[winni@lemmy.world]

diskworld. I specially like the city watch

[cowbee@lemmy.ml]

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.

[iii@mander.xyz]

That's confusing cause and effect

[didros@beehaw.org]

It is evidence of my age that I assumed this link would be a Rick roll...

[kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml]

The world was ruled by the Illuminati and they were compassionate about it. Because what we are ruled by is a bunch of assholes.