What do you believe firmly with zero evidence?

And I believe the opposite.

In my experience:

I believe that God does not exist… because there is no evidence.
I believe that God does exist . . . despite there being no evidence.

When I read about quantum mechanics, I believe that Coyote or the Monkey King must be running the universe.

I’m 6’3" and the college players I met all seemed to live up to their advertised height. Same with my 6’7" college offensive lineman friend.

For arriving flights, the Sadism Rationale makes sense – nobody wants to spend more time at the airport than they need to. But people departing from that airport usually have some time to kill, so they can be enticed to spend money at whatever retail outlets they pass.

I believe the internet could be considerably safer (i.e. free from ransom attacks) but for some reason making it so would jeopardize the profits of many familiar large companies.

To add to the talk about basketball players’ heights…

Wilt Chamberlain was 7 feet 1 inches tall.

Back in the 70s wrestling promoter Vince McMahon Sr. went to great lengths to prevent Andre the Giant getting his picture taking with Chamberlain and other basket players because Andre was billed as been 7 feet 5 inches and a pictured would exposed the Andre was nowhere near that height.

In 1983 Andre finally met Chamberlain with Arnold Schwarzenegger:

https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/gcaua5/arnold_with_wilt_chamberlain_andré_the_giant_on/

Edit: I would like to add professional wrestlers’ billed heights and weights are rarely accurate.

Dang - that picture is something else!! I’m 6’3"…about the same as Arnold, but only weigh 180 so a beanpole in comparison. :astonished:

I believe that during my lifetime, at least one celebrity who met an untimely death actually faked it and went to hide out somewhere. My top candidate is Tupac Shakur.

I firmly believe I am the best lover all of my exes ever had. Zero evidence, but I choose to believe it.

More seriously, I believe Dan Rather was set up by someone connected to W’s re-election campaign. The AWOL story, which the media had ignored 4 years earlier, was getting traction and weakening the swiftboat narrative against Kerry. Suddenly the whole topic becomes radioactive and the media drops it, with America’s short attention span counted on to spew “wasn’t that a forgery?” if anyone tried to bring it up again.

I believe the reason a “random” internet sleuth was able to debunk the forgery so quickly is that he already knew exactly what to look for.

It’s like a “powers of ten” video. I’m 6’2" and i used to have a five foot gf. I’m as tall next to her as Wilt is to Arnold. Now put her next to Wilt. Geeze!

Not Hakeem Olajuwon. I met him in a totally non-sports related way decades ago- a friend of mine (“H”) in high school’s father was his personal financial advisor, and I was over at H’s house and we were studying for an upcoming math test when Hakeem Olajuwon walks into their kitchen and says “Hi H!”

H just sort of went “Oh, hey Hakeem.” I goggled for a second, and stood up. I am and was a hair over six feet tall, and Hakeem was easily a foot taller than I am. He had to duck to get under the door frame into the kitchen to shake my hand and introduce himself. (“Hello, I’m Hakeem. It’s very nice to meet you.”). Really a very, very nice guy- never treated anyone there at the time with anything but respect and humility.

OTOH, I’ve met a few football players whose heights were… embellished. For example, Warren Moon was listed at 6’3", and standing next to him, if he was a legitimate 6’2" I’d be surprised. 6’1.5" is about what I’d say, considering that I’m 6’0.5".

I believe I had COVID in July 2020, despite a negative test at the time and a negative antibody test later that year, before the vaccine came out.

The illness I had wasn’t like any other I had ever experienced. It started one day with a fever, myalgia, and general malaise, then the next day I was still febrile and also had extreme fatigue and anorexia. After that day, the fever subsided, and my energy and appetite gradually returned until by about the 1 week mark, I felt pretty much back to normal. I had no respiratory symptoms.

I never get sick. I used to get a cold twice a year, every time the seasons changed, every fall and every spring, but that ended the better part of a decade ago, I assume because my immune system had so much experience with the commonly circulating cold viruses. I have a vague memory of one illness as a child, being taken to the doctor and told it was the flu, but I’ve never gotten the flu since then, and I’m required to get a flu vaccine every year for work. Plus, this was the middle of July, and no one I knew had been sick.

It would be an extreme coincidence to have false negatives on both the rapid test and the antibody test, but what else could it have been?

Here’s the data for tracking earthquakes in and around the UK. I make it approx 200+ quakes in the last 2 years.

Whe people write that sort of conspiracy stuff, it’s always interesting to spend a bit of time checking out facts.

I will always believe that there was a before the fact conspiracy to kill John F Kennedy although there was only one shooter. That shooter was Oswald. The rest of the conspirators abandoned him by failing to show up on ‘shooting day’ and left him to be the “patsy” as he so described himself.

I believe without evidence that there is a commercial airport somewhere that is NOT under construction.

I think I said this before here, but I don’t think Arnold is anywhere near 6’3". He was on a NFL pre game show with Terry Bradshaw and two other hosts and he was shorter than all of them by a head. Bradshaw is listed as 6’3".

Here’s mine. I don’t think Trump ever had covid. I think whatever happened to him months before when he was taken to Walter Reed at night and we were told it was to finish some tests for his physical(which I didn’t believe at the time) happened to him again. I think if he was really treated for covid and recovered in such a short time he is such a egomaniac that he would claim it was him that was responsible for the miracle treatment being available. The phony photo ops didn’t help matters.

I doubt that you can suffer anorexia for just a single day.
On the odds of both tests being false negatives, the chances are very low, as they try to avoid false negatives even at the cost of some false positives, it is a conscious decision. But still if there are maybe 1% false negative rapid tests and 0.1% false negative antibody tests, even when performed respecting all protocols to the letter, that would give a chance of one in 100,000 of both tests being false negatives. As several hundreds of millions of tests have been performed, this should have happened a couple of thousand times. Maybe you are one of them.

What’s the likeliest explanation for him being rushed to Walter Reed at this point?