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What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It?
An anonymous reader writes "That's what online magazine The Edge - the World Question Center asked over 120 scientists, futurists, and other interesting minds. Their answers are sometimes short and to the point (Bruce Sterling: 'We're in for climatic mayhem'), often long and involved; they cover everything from the existence of God to the nature of black holes. What do you believe, even though you can't prove it?"
AND SO ARE ANGELS
I believe that AIDS is man made although I cannot prove it. IMO, South African scientists worked with American military scientists on developing and testing AIDS. In America it was tested on homosexuals, in Africa it was tested on black women.
We know for a fact that South Africa had nuclear weapons... the Americans probably helped them gain that technology too. We also know that AIDS affects blacks more than whites and that at one time SA was really trying to reduce the population of blacks for political reasons.
Too much circumstantial evidence for me.
Yeah, except that the choice of where you stick your penis has *no real moral value* attached, one way or another.
P.S. I'm straight, but I'm outraged at people who think that one's sexual orientation has anything to do with anything. Fucking bible thumpers. Go shove the "good book" up your ass.
"If you could only see what I've seen with your eyes..." - Roy Batty
Yeah I really hope that one day someone will prove to me that I have free will. In the meantime I have to say that I don't 'believe' in it because it does not fit into what we know about the world(Please don't post about quantum effects: they only make the system unpredictable, in the true sense, but that doesn't automaticxally allow free will. However I still continue to believe that I have free will on a day to day basis as to do anything less would be very depressing.
My appreciation of Douglas Adams is far deeper than yours.
I believe that Bush is missing some grey matter or is mentally ill. His family history is dysfunctional and he too had chemical abuse issues that I am sure didn't help mental capabilites. I think history will prove this out in the meantime I will pray that he doesn't screw the world anymore than he has.