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

[omgitburns@discuss.online]

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?

[davel@lemmy.ml]

This has falseness of it has been well theorized by Antonio Gramsci https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hegemony

The Fascism of Common Sense

[crime@hexbear.net]

Yeah, I think Posadism is my answer too

[crime@hexbear.net]

Material conditions will improve in my lifetime

[glent@lemmy.ca]

What does mysticism have to offer generally?

[nabdad@lemmy.world]

U.S. democracy

[iseth@lemmy.ml]

Trickle-down economics.

[datavoid@lemmy.ml]

Don't worry, people can change.

Trust me, I used to be a huge piece of shit

[xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml]

Personally im in the they came, they saw, they said "wtf", they left, camp.

I mean lets be real. If i were an alien i wouldnt wanna uplift humans. Id want us to stay on our little rock and not bring our drama to their solar system.

[thedeed@hexbear.net]

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/your-cats-can-tell-when-youre-speaking-to-them/

[sickos@hexbear.net]

[emotional_engi@lemmy.zip]

Our benefactors.

[thericofactor@sh.itjust.works]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humankind:_A_Hopeful_History

[christian@lemmy.ml]

I don't remember where I read this quote originally and I can only paraphrase it, but observing people living in a capitalist society and concluding that human nature is self-centeredness and greed is equivalent to observing workers in a factory that is poisoning their lungs and concluding that human nature is to cough.

[christian@lemmy.ml]

There are only finitely many prime numbers and I will not hear otherwise.

[tc_209@hexbear.net]

The revolutionary potential of the American people.

[djdarren@thelemmy.club]

No one can stop you ordering a huge steak and a glass of water.

[bademantel@lemmy.world]

That's a nice quote, thank you. I looked into it. It's by Andrew Collier:

To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that human nature is egoism, is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough.

[korhaka@sopuli.xyz]

Primary goal is to survive in the environment you are in, how many might have a desire to escape that environment but lack the ability to do so? Leave it all behind and live in a cabin in the woods isn't exactly an unheard of idea.

[korhaka@sopuli.xyz]

And your irrefutable proof is...?