3d ago

What popular belief do you disagree with?

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That a god exists.
- Or karma, or fairness.
  
  Karma is only the law of cause and effect nothing more, anyone saying it is anything else is misguided. When people start thinking in terms of good or bad coming to you for doing good or bad it is only as much as you have built systems in your life for good or bad coming to you, like not choosing to cause a problem for someone else because you feel bad means they aren't going to snap back at you.
  
  Karma exists. Western karma is nonsense.
  It's not supposed to fairness/consequences in this life but rather across lifetimes.
  
  It's fine for you to believe but I see it as totally made up to keep people in line.
  When we die we're dead and don't care because we are no more.
  
  You might be right, but you don't actually know that for certain. If your consciousness emerged from nothingness once, there's no reason why it could not do so again (albeit probably in a completely unrecognizable form).
  Personally, I am agnostic as to whether reincarnation is a thing or not, but honestly, when taking the numbers into account, oblivion sounds like a much better deal than spending my next billion lifetimes as a bug that lasts for only a brief time before being eaten in one of countless agonizing ways. (There is a reason why the Eastern religions that believe in reincarnation tend to emphasize that the ultimate goal is to escape it.)
  
  I mean, why not know for certain? We are made up from electrical impulses between our synapses and literally cease to exist on power down.
  Proving this of course goes into philosophy and belief which - as an Autist - eludes me in the reasoning.
  However I might be one of the few who can be pretty certain about it, since I died once already (heart stopped) and the following year I had to build myself up again not only physically but also from the mind in an indescribable way.
  So if that had progressed further I am very certain parts of what defines me as a person would've been lost.
- I'm right here dude
  
  Oh, thank Albert! I was looking for you.
  Here is the list of new things I want that I came up with since we last talked...
- Meh. I don't see that belief much on Lemmy.
  
  You didn't specify it had to be a popular belief on Lemmy. 🤷‍♂️
  
  It would be pointless otherwise.
  You'd just get a bunch of popular complaints about what those other people believe.
  It's what's popular here, and dissent from that, that's interesting
  
  You should've specified that's what you were looking for, then.
  
  if I underline every single obvious thing then we'll be here all day.
  
  Not with your attitude, we won't be.
  
  It would be pointless otherwise
  So we can't just vent about real-world issues? Everything in your post needs to be through the lense of this very specific social media platform?
  
  Oh, I get it. I would be like me saying you're a moron. Pointless because Lemmy as a community agrees with the statement.
  
  Yes, something classy like that.

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