Stuff You Believe in that Doesn't Officially Exist

[luclin92]

the Flying Spaghetti monster

it weird how people react when i tell them my beliefs and they dont believe me.

 

[deleted_by_strongbad]

I think there could be something to the collective unconscious. Maybe not as Jung portrayed it, but I could see there being some form of connection formed through the similar operating frequency of some brain waves with the Schumann Resonance or something. Just a hypothetical. I think it is generally more scientifically appropriate to assume the possibility of something until there has been definitive evidence to prove its impossibility than to only accept that which has been empirically proven.

Though I am more likely to disbelieve the accuracy of currently accepted mechanisms conceived hundreds of years ago, than I am to believe in the existence of random unprovable things.

 

[Shining_Pyrelight]

slender man...

I second this , there's a creepy tree outside my window and I still refuse to look out at night.

Also, Loch Ness monster, Kraken, Chupacabra and Bigfoot. Basically any cryptozoological creature I like to believe in. It's just fun.

And, this;
Seriously, either that's Cthulhu, the Cloverfield monster, or something else enormous lurks down there D:

 

[AgentBJ09]

Werewolves.

There's no such thing, yet I keep hearing about reports of the monsters, or people claiming to be one. Many in Germany, and Europe as a whole, some in America, ect. ect.

 

[FalloutJack]

"If there's a steady paycheck involved, I'll believe anything you like."

 

[captainwolfos]

Just so you guys know, minotaurs are biologically possible.

Yeah I think minotaurs exist, but only because some jerk decides he likes banging cows.

What?! I'm pretty sure its impossible to cross breed humans and cows. Otherwise... well lets not think about that. *Puts on nerd hat* And anyway, the Minotaur was originally a single unique mythical creature owned by King Minos of Crete, not a species of creatures.

Actually, wasn't the Minotaur the lovechild of King Minos' wife... or daughter or some other female relative and his prize white bull?
Because Zeus demanded it be slaughtered as tribute to him, but it wasn't, so Zeus made his [small]female relative of unknown forgotten status[/small] sexually attracted to the bull?

At least that's the story I learned, and half remembered.

On topic... Yeah, I'm going to go with aliens. Though why they would want to come to earth is something I simply can't quite grasp. Earth is quite uninteresting. You've made your journey, now go home.

 

[WaderiAAA]

Fairies, Unicorns, Dragons, Griffons, Centaurs, any animal or thing that has never been confirmed to exist but you believe does,

personally, I think Krakons exist, I think the sea is easily big enough for there to be something huge down there that we haven't spotted yet, and let's not forget that there are depths of the ocean that humans can never reach but creatures as big as blue whales venture to daily. Also I think that, by the power of statistics, no-one can logically deny the existance of aliens

so what about you?

If you mean Kraken, then they have pretty much already been discovered, they're just called "giant squid".

I believe in aliens. They don't officially exist yet, but they probably do.

 

[WaderiAAA]

I believe in 2012, does that count? or at least I hope something's going to happen in 2012, though probably the only thing that will happen is a power outage or something silly like that.

since nothing is really gonna happen..on new years eve night I'm gonna flip the power breaker at midnight and maybe set off some homemade explosives in my back yard just to watch every drunken idiot at my house for the party crap themselves thinking it's Armageddon

I believe it is supposed to happen on the 21st. The longest night (or day on the southern hemisphere) of the year, you know.

*goes to google it*

Yep, the 21st it is.

 

[Sigmar ov The Hammer]

I believe Troy wasn't a city in present day Turkey, but in present day England.

At least, I see the chances of that assumption being true above 50%.

This is an intriguing idea.
Please explain.

 

[rutger5000]

Spiritual energy as in the energy that allows ghosts, souls and fortune telling acceptable as theory in modern physics. (No I have not thought of such a theory) Also Luck.
I think of Aliens as statically proven, as should every atheist.

 

[Iwana Humpalot]

Conspiracy theory..

 

[interspark]

Spoiler: snip

Missingno.... Here's out there waiting to corrupt you when you least expect it
That is all..

and if i were to leap at him and "catch" him, i'd promptly have my "save file" erased and become a baby?

That depends..
Is the reward worth the price?

You decide

well, the 6th thing to catch my eye was a small, wooden cat with a twirly bit of metl sticking out of its back, designed to hold bits of paper, i think i can do without an infinite number of those

Look left, then up, then turn 90º, then look down, look right, then turn 45º
What are you looking at now?

my bedside rug type thing, ah well, i'm sure my cats will be happy

 

[Macrobstar]

Just so you guys know, minotaurs are biologically possible.

Yeah I think minotaurs exist, but only because some jerk decides he likes banging cows.

They are not. Theorethically, if we would master genetic manipulation, possibly. But not now, and never by normal breeding processes.

You are either a huge troll, or very misinformed.

Let him dream

 

[RogerKevin]

God. i can't but believe in a personal god. Something to pray to when my ass is on the line. Something to look up to and say "really?" when random chance completely screws me over.

Other then that, obviously I believe life HAS to exist in at least one other place beside Earth. Come on now. Off course aliens exist.

 

[Harlemura]

Ghosts.
Just what I believe happens when you pop your clogs. Hang about in invisible, spooky form just waiting to be Busted.

Also, fairies. Not really sure why, it's something I got in my head that they're always hiding behind flowers and stuff. The notion just never went away.
Wow, now I think about it, I was a flamboyant little kid...

 

[conflictofinterests]

Honesty in politics.

I swear, it's just GOT to be there!

 

[conflictofinterests]

God. i can't but believe in a personal god. Something to pray to when my ass is on the line. Something to look up to and say "really?" when random chance completely screws me over.

SNIP

The random number generator god? Or the Sims-player god? I would prefer the Almighty Dice God over the Omnipotent Sadist God myself.

 

[conflictofinterests]

slender man...

I second this , there's a creepy tree outside my window and I still refuse to look out at night.

Also, Loch Ness monster, Kraken, Chupacabra and Bigfoot. Basically any cryptozoological creature I like to believe in. It's just fun.

And, this;
Seriously, either that's Cthulhu, the Cloverfield monster, or something else enormous lurks down there D:

Something blew a bubble underwater, what do you want? When you hear bubbles, think whales, not kraken (adapted from When you hear hoofbeats think horses, not zebra)

 

[Faladorian]

Is this "doesn't officially exist" or "officially doesn't exist"?

Like, Yahweh isn't officially recognised as existing, but everyone knows Zeus is just a silly superstition.

Yep, and in a few thousand years kids will be reading a Christian Bible and say "people believed this???"

All gods share the same fate. Yaweh is just as likely to exist as Zeus is.

OT: Life on other planets. Nothing supernatural, but there's no way in hell that this is the only planet that can support life. There's probably one in every few solar systems. I'm not talking about ET phone home crap, but anyone who believes that life is so "special" that ONE planet can possess 100% of the life in the entire universe is a fool.

 

[Coraxian]

I believe Troy wasn't a city in present day Turkey, but in present day England.

At least, I see the chances of that assumption being true above 50%.

This is an intriguing idea.
Please explain.

Well, the theory was posed by a linguist who was translating the Iliad. He noticed the mention of a sea dark as red wine (not your every day mediteranian) and misty days. The extensive use of charriots, the practise of using two champions to settle a fight, saving both armies. Things like that. This got him to wonder whether the Achaeans (often translated to Greeks) might not be Greek, but of Celtic origin. Other factors come into play, like the tradition of the long epic songs by bards to convey history (read: the Iliad).

There's a whole book about the thing. Some assumptions are wilder than others: in the second half, concerning the Odyssey, he has a theory that that whole story is a map to travel to America and back, but he also brings some interesting arguments.

One of the strongest arguments for me were the names of the rivers described in the Iliad as surounding Troy in certain directions. Since names of rivers in europe often date back to very ancient times (the Romans were a practical people, why find a new name for a river if the people you've just decimated already had a perfectly recyclable one), the fact that there are 12 rivers described in the Iliad with a position relative to Troy and the fact that they can be located around an old hillfort in Cambridge, England (across the channel for the Achaeans), I got intrigued. Most fo the names were quite recognisable: Rhesus had turned into Rhee, Rhodius into Roding, Temes into Thames, Simoïs and Satinoïs into Great Ouse and Little Ouse respectively and so on.

To make a long story short (remember, he was able to write a whole book about it all): if I have to chose between archeologists that went looking in the mediteranian by default, where I'm sure plenty of ruined cities still remain hidden, or the speculations (which they are) above, I'm going with the zany speculations for once.

The fact that it all happened over 3000 years ago makes it not that big of an everyday issue in any case. At worst a bad dinner party conversation.