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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?"
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That I got first post.
AND SO ARE ANGELS
I mean, beliving in god would be an abvious answer, but i dont believe that a god exists, although i cant prove it
(as semantics freaks know, the "almighty" bit in his job description can mess with all deterministic logic: "this proves god doesnt exist!" "HA! He is almighty, so he just make your result seem like that to question our Faith!")
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
as highlighted by the presidential debate, there are some who believe it is natural and some who do not. Bush said he didnt know and Kerry was sure that it was natural. Of course there is no proof of it and he couldnt say why he thought so. No one really knows what compells an individual to mate with the same sex. That doesnt stop people from caliming its all about genetics. Of course, if it were genetics, according to Darwin, it would be a trait that should have been wiped out long ago since homosexuals cant reproduce.
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.
Fuck Jesus, Apollo, Thor, Buddah, Vishnu
fuck them all in their greasy asses
Fuck GOD
Hail satan!!! Satan please take my bastard soul!!!
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.