That I might win the lottery, I suppose. Luckily, this belief is limited to $1 twice-weekly drawings and does not extend the more expensive scratchcards or, worse yet, the kind of gambling that could find me indebted to the mob or something like that. Still, when people refer to the idiot tax, I hate to think I'm paying it.
Course, if I do happen to win, I'll say I knew all along and laugh in the face of more sensible folk.
I believe the Singularity as described by the prophet Raymond Kurzweil will arrive within my lifetime and I will be free from the meaty shackles of my body.
No, OK, that's more of an absurd hope.
I believe humans can be the caretakers of life on Earth if we can find a way live on it without destroying it as much as we do today. We take wonder in the smallest and largest of creatures, and we have an (I think) instinctual desire to care for the babies and elderly of many many species.
This is what I was going to say, but I don't think it's really all that absurd.
The fountain of youth and the elixer of life has been just around the corner ever since the renaissance. It's a pretty common belief.
So was humans flying (I mean look at Icarus), but guess what?!
Though this is probably what I hold that others see as irrational, were going to see an explosion of amazing technologies within my lifetime. It's going to be so sweet.
I have a few superstitions that I don't actually believe but constantly act on. Like, that it's bad luck to walk on handicapped signs in parking lots. In high school I had a girlfriend who thought that and to this day I unconsciously avoid them myself.
That when i think i see something that upon a second look isnt there, i am seing into the past or future. Only what i see is just random everyday stuff of no importance.
* I believe that the Singularity will occur during my lifetime and that the ensuing technocratic utopia will be just as awesome as I think it could be.
* Snakes are out there. They're waiting and they're hungry for my blood. I'm well aware of the biological and physiological problems with this belief but it keeps me from willingly swimming in rivers and lakes. Oddly it doesn't keep me out of the woods. I'm also not any more afraid of snakes than a healthy awareness of their poison would make me when I see them in person. My wife teases me mercilessly.
It's not really a belief but I have this deep-down, irrational fear that either science is just flat out wrong or that I'll go irrevocably mad without noticing it, leading to all kinds of horrible superstitious things happening. I have severe problems with mirrors despite knowing very well exactly how mirrors work and that there's nothing supernatural about them. Also, dolls creep me the hell out for no good reason and always have.
Cops, like, the TV show? Or cops, like, the guys who murder black people and get away with it?
Fixed.
And I guess my absurd belief is that the political landscape of America will fundamentally change within my lifetime, but that's probably just Hopium still coursing in my veins and leading to delusions.
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The fountain of youth and the elixer of life has been just around the corner ever since the renaissance. It's a pretty common belief.
So was humans flying (I mean look at Icarus), but guess what?!
Though this is probably what I hold that others see as irrational, were going to see an explosion of amazing technologies within my lifetime. It's going to be so sweet.
This also has been happening since the renaissance, but much more so in the last hundred years. The elixer of life has been happening you know. Modern medicine?
I dunno I don't think these are absurd beliefs, in the sense that I think they're really common.
I don't think you should judge yourself as being absurd for being human. :P
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Cops, like, the TV show? Or cops, like, the guys who murder black people and get away with it?
Fixed.
And I guess my absurd belief is that the political landscape of America will fundamentally change within my lifetime, but that's probably just Hopium still coursing in my veins and leading to delusions.
If we become a fascist dictatorship next election, I'm blaming you. That's fundamental change, after all.
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That there is some form of higher power. God or whatever you prefer to call it. Somebody or something has to keep shit in line. I'm not overly religious or anything, but I was raised catholic. So its something in the back of my head I guess.
Rapidly pressing or holding down the elevator button makes it show up faster.
You know, sometimes it actually does. Some elevator algorithms actually do weight floors where someone is pressing the button continuously higher than floors where none of that shenanigans is going on.
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My absurd belief is that honesty will grant me fair chances in life, such as when I make mistakes in the workplace.
So far, experience points to being a lying fuck is better to survive in the real world. But I'm a sucker like that.
I believe in reincarnation of some kind. Not sure how it works, I believe it happens somehow. Part of me feels it is absurd but on some basic level I just believe it.
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The fountain of youth and the elixer of life has been just around the corner ever since the renaissance. It's a pretty common belief.
So was humans flying (I mean look at Icarus), but guess what?!
Though this is probably what I hold that others see as irrational, were going to see an explosion of amazing technologies within my lifetime. It's going to be so sweet.
I believe within the next 150 years we'll have advanced to the point where computers and/or robots will be able to do the majority of work for us.
However, this will cause major economic and social upheaval due to the fact that only 40% of the population will need to work and our economy is based on the assumption that 95% of them will. Cue artificially holding back the tide by having humans do jobs that machines could do better, or major rage from the 40% still working while the other 60% are served by robot slaves.
I also believe eternal youth and drugs that can make you physically fit will show up in the next 150 years.
I'm really hoping the eternal youth thing is sooner rather than later, I'm hoping to surf from one life-extending technology to another til eventually I can get immortality. My current expiration date is...2055? So there better be something by then.
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Course, if I do happen to win, I'll say I knew all along and laugh in the face of more sensible folk.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
This is what I was going to say, but I don't think it's really all that absurd.
we're it, in fact
So was humans flying (I mean look at Icarus), but guess what?!
Though this is probably what I hold that others see as irrational, were going to see an explosion of amazing technologies within my lifetime. It's going to be so sweet.
dream a little dream or you could live a little dream
sleep forever if you wish to be a dreamer
another one here who still does this. sometimes I press really hard on the button and Dpad and think it is working.
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They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
I believe that this is what will follow the swine-flu.
dream a little dream or you could live a little dream
sleep forever if you wish to be a dreamer
* Snakes are out there. They're waiting and they're hungry for my blood. I'm well aware of the biological and physiological problems with this belief but it keeps me from willingly swimming in rivers and lakes. Oddly it doesn't keep me out of the woods. I'm also not any more afraid of snakes than a healthy awareness of their poison would make me when I see them in person. My wife teases me mercilessly.
It's not really a belief but I have this deep-down, irrational fear that either science is just flat out wrong or that I'll go irrevocably mad without noticing it, leading to all kinds of horrible superstitious things happening. I have severe problems with mirrors despite knowing very well exactly how mirrors work and that there's nothing supernatural about them. Also, dolls creep me the hell out for no good reason and always have.
Cops, like, the TV show? Or cops, like, the guys who hand out speeding tickets?
Oh, Poldy, you're so emo.
More in the DFW, are we always doomed to stew in our skulls?, empathyless loneliness.
Fixed.
And I guess my absurd belief is that the political landscape of America will fundamentally change within my lifetime, but that's probably just Hopium still coursing in my veins and leading to delusions.
This also has been happening since the renaissance, but much more so in the last hundred years. The elixer of life has been happening you know. Modern medicine?
I dunno I don't think these are absurd beliefs, in the sense that I think they're really common.
I don't think you should judge yourself as being absurd for being human. :P
I have no evidence to back up that idea.
The idea that a company will be loyal to me if I am loyal to them.
I just use luck as another word for any forces you can't possibly account for.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
I was coming in here to post it. In my head, I know it's wrong, but I want to believe, damn it.
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This made me wince.
Why would you set yourself up for this level of constantpain.
I was going to post that, but decided not to.
You know, sometimes it actually does. Some elevator algorithms actually do weight floors where someone is pressing the button continuously higher than floors where none of that shenanigans is going on.
So far, experience points to being a lying fuck is better to survive in the real world. But I'm a sucker like that.
I believe within the next 150 years we'll have advanced to the point where computers and/or robots will be able to do the majority of work for us.
However, this will cause major economic and social upheaval due to the fact that only 40% of the population will need to work and our economy is based on the assumption that 95% of them will. Cue artificially holding back the tide by having humans do jobs that machines could do better, or major rage from the 40% still working while the other 60% are served by robot slaves.
I also believe eternal youth and drugs that can make you physically fit will show up in the next 150 years.
I'm really hoping the eternal youth thing is sooner rather than later, I'm hoping to surf from one life-extending technology to another til eventually I can get immortality. My current expiration date is...2055? So there better be something by then.
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