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minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·4 days agoIf Betelgeuse goes supernova tomorrow, I wouldn’t believe my eyes either.
minus-squareInitiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days ago… you would if you genuinely believed it was supposed to happen tomorrow…
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoIt could happen tomorrow. I would still initially react with “holy shit look at the sky”.
minus-squareInitiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoThat’s not how belief works. “It could happen tomorrow” isn’t a belief, it’s just a vague, noncomittal thought. “The rapture will happen in our lifetimes” is a belief, and the vast majority of people - religious or not - simply don’t believe that.
If Betelgeuse goes supernova tomorrow, I wouldn’t believe my eyes either.
… you would if you genuinely believed it was supposed to happen tomorrow…
It could happen tomorrow. I would still initially react with “holy shit look at the sky”.
That’s not how belief works. “It could happen tomorrow” isn’t a belief, it’s just a vague, noncomittal thought.
“The rapture will happen in our lifetimes” is a belief, and the vast majority of people - religious or not - simply don’t believe that.