“I Believe, that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who’s life gives them vodka, and have a party.” - Ron White
“I believe that guns don’t kill people, husbands that come home early do.” - Larry the Cable guy.
For me I believe there are intelligent life forms out in the universe wondering if there are other intelligent life forms out in the universe wondering if there are other intelligent life forms out in the universe wondering if there are other intelligent life forms out in the universe…
I believe that I have understood the True Ultimate Meaning of Life with perfect certainty and clinical conviction twice in my lifetime, and both times the meaning was this: love is all that matters or ever mattered or ever will matter in this world. I don’t mean romantic love that makes you high, I mean the love that is often hard work, the kind where you commit acts that are loving regardless of what you feel inside in that moment, the kind where you see someone else suffering and you help. This sort of love is the only thing that matters. I don’t mean I discovered this as emotional truth, I mean I discovered it as objective reality, like gravity. Love will be here, always, long after everything else has faded away. I know it.
I believe there is no afterlife, but that “heaven” is a word describing the ability to leave this life with no regrets, at peace with yourself and others, loving as much as you could, giving as much as you could, and having been honest with others and true to yourself. That, to me, would be heaven.
I believe the ref-gambling problem was more widespread in the NBA, and did favor teams in larger markets and with popular players.
I believe Pete Rose bet against the Reds. Both sides know it, and that is the unspoken reason Rose will never get the HOF.
I believe the Patriots taped more signals than the Jets game last year, including all three of their Super Bowl wins. This gave them a decided advantage in those games, which is why the NFL destroyed the tapes.
I believe that if another All-Star caliber player had taken the same amount of steroids Bonds took, they’d have broken Aaron’s record, too.
I’ll never be able to prove any of these.
I believe that good, well-prepared, home-cooked or classy restaurant food, no matter how sinful, is less fattening than crappy fast food/depanneur junk food. This is because pleasure burns calories.
I believe there are lots of gods. That most of the gods of the major religions exist. And they all know each other. And there are other universes and other gods in charge of them. And sometimes the god or gods of one universe move on to another when people stop believing in them. And sometimes they just visit.
I believe that true artistic talents, like drawing, songwriting, painting, writing are inborn and genetic in nature rather than the result of learning or training. Learning and training can hone and refine those skills, but the person must have been born with the talent in the first place in order to truly be a success.
I believe that homosexuality is 100% nurture and 0% genetic, and further is usually a reaction to some sort of trauma.
I believe that since everyone, homosexuals included, suffers at least one trauma during childhood, Freejooky will find it easy to “prove” that or any other similar hypothesis s/he may care to hold. Investigating at what rate heterosexuals suffer the same types of trauma will be considered to be beyond the scope of the inquiry.
(Hamish adds that traditional psychological theories expressed numerous ideas about the origins of homosexuality, including: an absent father; a father who was not traditionally masculine; a father who was emotionally unavailable. Since traditional notions of masculinity involve emotional unavailability, we can conclude that everyone who had a father, masculine or not, as well as everyone who did not have a father, are all gay. Therefore, using traditional psychological theories, it is easy to prove that everyone is gay.)
I believe this too, in fact they have horses this size as well and they raise them on a farm in Pennsylvania. Once they get to a certain size they let the public see them but before then, they feed them spoon size shredded wheat and let them pull around matchbox wagons.
Dreamy W won’t ever let us go there so I can see them in person and prove it once and for all…
I have always suspected that just about every one of us has at least one deep, dark secret about ourselves that, if found out by the wrong person, could jeopardize one’s career, family, reputation, etc. Look at how often people whom society holds in high regard such as politicians, police officers, judges, clergyman, CEOs, etc. get caught with their pants down. Ordinary citizens get busted all the time for these things, too, though for your average blue-collar mill worker, getting caught with a prostitute doesn’t make the news as it would for, say, a police chief. For every Larry Craig and Jimmy Swaggart there is out there, there must be many more people held to higher standards of conduct whose indiscretions and other acts of debauchery go undetected, eventually taking such secrets to their graves with them. Such news stories about these people just goes to show that deep down inside they’re all really just like the rest of us. I really think that if we all really knew the whole truth about one another we’d all be shocked.
Really? I’m squeaky clean. I’m only 25 though. Give me time…
Personally a lot of political ‘‘scandals’’ don’t really strike me as all that scandalous. There are a lot of things about my past that could be used against me… I will probably never be able to get into politics because of my family history, my mental health problems in early adulthood, my unabashedly liberal positions on immigration and homosexuality and religion and the volunteering and activism I have participated in for these causes… but that’s not really a scandal, not due to anything I did wrong. It has more to do with the public’s inclination to choose to perceive really very mundane things in a negative light. The public is naturally wary of people who hold views or experiences they view as extreme.
I recognize your essential point, which is that we’re all human, imperfect beings… but the so-called ‘‘scandals’’ are rarely all that big a deal, because they happen all the time, to all sorts of people. Well maybe that is what you are trying to say. We most severely castigate those who dare to reveal their flaws to the public sphere, perhaps because we don’t like to be reminded of our own flaws.
