You convinced yourself of that, right? 
I believe that couples that have successful long term relationships risk divorcing within 2 years time when for whatever dumb reason they end up getting married to make it “official”
So if you’re happily co habitating- dont get married!
Well, yes, if they never got married there would be no “risk” of divorcement, right?
I believe that, through sheer genius and mathematical brainwork, mankind can break the lightspeed barrier.
Nothing crazy about that! (unless you’re from Pittsburgh)
I don’t bleieve in gravity [show me a gravitron - huh huh - can’t]. Our ankles are held down by invisible goblins. [read somewhere here on the SDMB]
I believe UFO’s and alien sightings are really us from the future, in time travel contraptions, looking in on the past. They don’t want to alter history, hence the reason they avoid direct contact. They are regular humans who have changed physically, or evolved, over time, hence the reason they look so different. And as for the people with abduction experiences, they’re being sampled for a possible remedy to some future medical crisis, and being interviewed for information, then memory wiped and let go, only sometimes the memory wiping doesn’t work so well.
BTW, I’ve never seen one.
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I believe that I have free will, despite philosophic arguments and neurologic evidence to the contrary.
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As others above, I also believe in the “many worlds theory”, because it ‘just feels right’ to me. I believe that, despite the crazy enormity of nearly infinite splitting of the universe every microsecond! Even weirder, if every possibility occurs in the multiverse, what does that say about #1 (free will)? :dubious:
How is this a crazy thing to believe? I think almost no one wants to be a heroin addict. Am I missing something?
Grin! With ya! Maybe “free will” addresses the relative probability – the “probability density function” if you want the technical maths term. In a deterministic universe, every choice is equally represented, but in a free will universe, the probabilities are skewed in the direction of our volition and intent.
(And, on Judgement Day, God takes into account the entire vast envelope of all of our possible life-lines, frowning upon all the millions of murders we have all committed…and smiling at all the millions of Nobel Prizes we have all won!)
(Okay, I don’t actually believe that last bit. But the other two…yep.)
Thread win.
I took this be mean that if heroin were to be legalised, civilisation would not collapse due to everyone deciding to become heroin addicts.
I believe that genetics is far more powerful than people want to admit. Extremely far more powerful, and the source of much unexplainable behavior.
I believe we will never travel outside our own solar system. Ever.
Contradictory beliefs?
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Not necessarily. We could develop FTL, then, when we try to get out of the solar system, run into those crystal spheres Kepler told us were out there.
What… too crazy?
Dwight Gooden was the greatest pitcher of all time.
Yeah. Alcohol is legal, does anybody want to become an alcoholic?
I believe that aging evolved as a mechanism to prevent cancer in early life.
But not everybody has a positive reaction to alcohol.
I absolutely have no real-life proof of this, but doesn’t heroin really only have one feeling: goooooooood?
So maybe people don’t want to become alcoholics because it makes them sad/angry, but they’ll become heroin addicts because it makes them feel so good