What is something you believe in but cannot prove?

I believe I can fly….okay maybe that’s after 27 cans of stella, but I can dream can’t I?

That we live in a computer simulation.

I believe in reincarnation and that all management staff totally forget being an actual worker. There is anecdotal proof of that last one, though management denies it.

God, love exist.

I believe that humans evolved on a different planet. When they realized that manned flight to another star was impossible (unable to carry enough fuel, unable to carry enough food, go too fast and radiation will kill everyone on board, go too slow and it will take millions of years to reach the nearest star, etc., etc.), they shot off packets of DNA to all the likely stars in the galaxy to “infect” native organisms and evolve into humans. We are the result of that experiment and the first of many to develop a technological civilization.

there are several problems with that hypothesis

Well, you took the one that I was going to say first :-p

That the afterlife is one big, eternal lucid dream.

Aliens

Elvis is alive

I believe that people (and animals) are interconnected in ways that are totally unseen and one day it will be realized that we are all just a part of one united organism.

I believe that there HAVE to be decent humans who are also liberals somewhere.

I believe there is a God and that he/she/it is altogether more strange than we can possibly imagine. I know that in Christian belief, He created us in His own image but I frequently think that an image is only a copy, and not even a first generation one. (like the difference between a high quality reproduction of a Holbein and the original – like the portrait of Thomas More in the Frick Museum, seen many years ago and never forgotten.)

Other life forms on other planets. Mind you, in saying this, I don’t necessarily mean X-Files stuff. If there’s some planet somewhere with fungi growing on rocks, that’s a life form. I don’t discount whole civilizations, intelligent beings, ’‘monsters and creatures’’ and stuff, but if there are some, I highly doubt that entertainment illustrates it accordingly. I mean every race on Star Trek seems to basically emphasize one human attribute to be defined by…
As far as sightings and alien abductions go, well I don’t call it bullshit right away. but the fact remains that most of that can usually be debunked through psychology and hoaxes. It’s no different than when people in the middle ages thought that vampires and ghosts haunted them in their sleep.
So yeah, aliens. I believe they might exist, but fucks if I can ever prove that.

I believe in aliens.

I believe in fate. What’s meant to happen will happen regardless of what you do to prevent it.

Being happy is a choice.

I believe in God, I can’t prove God exists though (and I’m not going to try!) Sorry, that’s quite a boring, predictable answer.

That the dog who was lost, was in fact ‘disappeared’ by its guardian. That the woman who thought gypsies had taken it, was actually the victim of a cruel misdeed that saw her own dog lost also. That the woman who got rid of both dogs, was unscrupulous but also quite scared that I really could see the truth, when I performed dowsing and a psychic scan to find the animal. What I got was a vision of the home it no longer occupied and a sense of deep yearning…

that everything will work out…

I believe in a universal intelligence, God, spirit, universal law, whatever floats your boat.

This is not to be mistaken for any affinity for organized religion.

I also believe I am very astute in my observations of others, but, I can’t prove it.

I believe that I have the largest penis ever but can’t prove it because I don’t want to hold mine up next to every single other penis there is.

@Blondesjon Lmao that made my day :D

Words have power
God, Satan, angels, demons, heaven, and hell exist
Animals have feelings
We are souls that have bodies

I believe that all the things I believe including this belief are non-provable.
So, I try not to believe things- and also to not worry about it.

@Blondesjon, sir, I do believe you are mistaken. It is in fact I who has the largest penis ever.

I’ve got a good 5 inches here.

Not many women can handle that kind of diameter.

I believe I’m invisible when no one is looking at me.

I allow myself only one unprovable belief. I believe that I solipsism is a useless belief.

Just about everything I was taught in school is something I can’t prove:

•  I can’t derive all the mathematical formulas I learned.
•  I can’t conduct all the necessary experiments and observations to prove what I was taught as science.
•  I can’t prove the received principles of psychology, sociology, economics, or political science.
•  I can’t go immerse myself in a foreign culture and language to prove that what I’ve learned of German, French, Latin, Sanskrit, or any other language is authentic.
•  I can’t undertake my own study of history from primary sources and examination of artifacts.
•  I could (theoretically) go read all that philosophy, and I have read some of it myself (trusting in the unproved faithfulness of translators’ renditions), but I’m not qualified to analyze and distill it all to prove that the summations I was taught are valid.
•  I can study literature, grammar, and composition and evaluate them for myself, but my understanding of them and my analytic tools were passed down to me by my teachers.

And I do, for the most part, accept that what I was taught is true; not without skepticism, to be sure, but in the main I do think much or most of it is provable, even if not by me.

Education would be a poor thing if every student had to start from scratch and redo all their predecessors’ work. We would never progress very far. We have to accept some things as givens, having confidence in their authenticity and demonstrability (and learning something about the methods of deriving and validating information so that we know how it can be done), in order to build on them.

I believe that the majority of what I know cannot be empirically proven. Some of it because I lack the facilities and equipment, some of it because I am bad enough with remembering my sources that it is hard for me to back many things up, and mostly because I feel no need to prove what I know in the first place and thus have a psychological block against doing so most of the time.

@CaptainHarley I feel the same way about Conservatives :p

That I love my S/O. I can’t prove it, because love means something differerent to everyone. But I know that I love him. I can attempt to show it by example in the little and big things that I do every day. But demonstrating what I think is love, is not proof to the non-believers.

Some people don’t believe that love exists at all, or if it does, that it’s stupid or worthless. You can’t prove love to those people who don’t believe in its validity. Everybody else just knows.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard , I generally check in before bedtime here in good Olde Engerlande… And looked at what you said again. 5”? The size of a baby’s head. Great. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to take you on to try and prove that! ;o)

That aliens live among us and are mucking up our knowledge of science in subtle ways to hold back our progress. Mainly in the areas of physics, cosmology, and quantum mechanics.