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What was the last thing you accepted on faith?
Why?

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What was the last thing you rejected due the lack of evidence?

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BlueVeins · 22-25

The last thing I kinda just accepted on... anything resembling faith was the idea that well-established, high-credibility learning and scientific institutions aren't totally full of it. At a certain point in my life, I realized that any "proof" involving even something like the Smithsonian or the New York Times was ultimately based on a fundamental assumption that these organizations aren't in some massive conspiracy to fool the public forever, which I can't actually verify due to the nature of conspiracy theories. I also realized that I realized that I didn't really give a shit.

Texasgurl

So you believe in a conspiracy?@BlueVeins

BlueVeins · 22-25

@Texasgurl I believe in some conspiracies, but not that kinda conspiracy in particular.

Texasgurl

There seems to be this idea that there are greater powers at work. I am inclined to think no human is that smart.

But I don’t know anything @BlueVeins

BlueVeins · 22-25

@Texasgurl Large groups of humans, though, can act as if they were singular, superintelligent entities. Indeed, if I had seen a factory or a nuclear reactor before learning anything about the advancedness of the economy or human cooperation, I'd have assumed that they were created by a being of godlike intellect.

I tend to agree that such a conspiracy is unlikely, but it's a big leap to go from unlikely to simply untrue. Yet, it's a leap I'm willing to make.