Lumisal
@Lumisal@lemmy.world
- Comment on end times are here 2 days ago:
Nah, he doesn’t have a huge Christian following / congregations supporting him, such is actually one of the requirements for Anti-Christ.
No joke Trump fits it extremely well. He even was essentially given a golden calf.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 1 week ago:
It’s funny that it was leaked that Russia specifically pushed for third party voting and candidates only during a major election when Republicans had a chance of winning
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 1 week ago:
I assumed it was a joke and that’s why they posted to shitposts, but looking at their comments here no longer sure.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Cassette Beasts. Really loved that game, and is in that style.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 week ago:
I believe in it, but only because things have occurred to me that cannot be explained by science.
And even those that have occurred to me I doubt some of, but those that happened to me and those with me simultaneously? That I have a harder time explaining.
Just 2 examples I can think of, out of multiple:
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First was my computer turning on at night (this was awhile back and that old computer was loud and had a bright blue power light). The first night it didn’t scare me - I thought maybe the power tripped or something and that somehow turned on the computer (it was connected to a power strip with a fuse switch to protect it from surges). I turned off the power strip switch and just went back to sleep. I would just turn it back on in the morning. Second night, it happened again. Woke up to it on. Thought maybe Windows had a virus or something (Windows 7 at the time, upgraded recently from Vista) and maybe it wasn’t actually shutting down. Just turned it back off. Next day, take a look, can’t find any malware, shrug. Third night, again. Same routine. Except, the monitor was on standby this time too. Just told myself I probably just forgot to switch off the monitor, even though it has a bright orange light that is on when on standby. Thing about me is even as a preteen, I had difficulty sleeping with any lights on. But still, maybe somehow missed it. Next day I reinstall Windows cleanly. 4th night, same routine. Monitor was also on again. A little eerie but maybe just forgot again. 5th night, same. Except, when I go turn off the power strip switch, I noticed something I had momentarily forgot: I had completely unplugged the power strip to the wall. There was no power running through it. Yet both it and the monitor were powered on. Now, I don’t know about you, but I think it’s very reasonable at that point in time, to start freaking out a bit, because while my knowledge of physics at 13 wasn’t that great, even to this day I don’t know how a computer and monitor can stay on without being connected to a power source, much less turn on in the first place. I did not sleep there that night. But, the next morning, I did investigate. Everything was off by then. I tried pressing the power switches on the computer and monitor. Nothing. The power strip was indeed still disconnected. I even opened up the computer in case someone somehow in my household where only I was tech savvy or the government put a battery inside to remotely turn it on for some reason. Nothing, hardware was normal. I convinced myself I must’ve been dreaming. I turned the monitor screen to face the wall though anyway. Except it happened again on the 6th night. And this time the screen wasn’t on standby but on. How did I know? Not only was it emitting a grey light onto the wall it was facing, but the switch light was green. You had to press a button to turn on that monitor. And I had not plugged that computer back. It still had no power. I’ll admit, I wasn’t brave enough to turn the monitor around and see what was on the screen. Maybe you would, but again, I had, at that point, other experiences happen to me in the past. This one just had more physical proof. I did, however, go wake up my dad and asked if he saw that the computer was on. He did indeed see it was on. Therefore, I now know I’m not just dreaming it. I told him to go unplug it, since he didn’t know it was already unplugged, just to be sure. He went, froze, and said it’s not plugged in. He thought I was messing with him, I told him no, this has been happening and in wanted to make sure it wasn’t just me seeing this. We exited the room. Next day we got rid of the computer, and I got a new one.
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This other example is much shorter, but basically me, my aunt, mom, and 2 cousins were celebrating my cousins birthday. His birthday, coincidentally btw, is on Halloween. After he blew out the candles on the cake the lights began to flicker, and a glass statuette of an angel my aunt had on a shelf flew at us and cut his sister on the face as it exploded against the wall. Then the lights turned off only in the dining room and kitchen. There was a pale woman suddenly in the kitchen wearing a black dress with red high heels, brown hair, and a yellow flower pinned on her dress we all saw and confirmed with each other later. The lights then turned back on. They are not the type to play that kind of prank. After that happened, me and my cousins on 3 said at the same time what we saw. My aunt and mom said they saw the same thing. This I also cannot explain. It’d be one thing if we said different things, but we didn’t.
With all that said, despite everything that’s happened to me, ironically I’ll be the biggest skeptic you’ll meet when something strange does happen, or when watching those ghost videos or such. I think the grand majority of ghostly sightings are probably just hypnogogic hallucinations. I think the huge majority of online videos and photos are faked, and explain how they can be faked easily (helps that I worked in one of those Halloween houses setting things up).
I don’t think belief in the paranormal is by default irrationality, and I personally cannot state that without being a hypocrite after what has happened to me. I think belief without skepticism is, however, irrational. If anything, my experiences pushed me heavily into the sciences growing, looking for possible explanations for them.
And therefore to me, it is only logical for someone who has not experienced something unexplainable in any possible way to by default doubt the paranormal. That should be the default. Everyone should be a skeptic until it happens to you.
But it’s also left me pondering - how do you, rationally, test for these things? If they are actually uncommon - the true paranormal events without explanation - how would you go about setting up an experiment? Nevermind getting enough samples to test for - most of these things just happen suddenly. A lot of events that are actually unexplainable happen without warning, with no ability to control when it might occur. And that’s before adding in that some of these things might have the possibility of human level intelligence and/or be malicious.
I think something is occurring in regards to the paranormal events. I just don’t think we have the technology yet to figure out what. Sure for now we have names like ghosts and ghouls and so on. But maybe eventually in the future we’ll be able to explain the things even better - particularly the ones without current explanation I’m referring to - and then it’ll just be another thing, much like miasma simply became bacteria and viruses and so on
- Comment on Beta Animals 2 weeks ago:
Same since I can’t see tags 😂
- Comment on Beta Animals 2 weeks ago:
I thought XXX Chromosome was fine?
- Comment on 💀🌈🙏🌈💀 2 weeks ago:
That would imply at least 30% is bi/pan.
And even at 80%, early humans already had it really rough. There seems to have been 2 near extinctions of modern humans in the far past, so when the population is about 1000, having 200 not contribute is pretty big. Especially with the higher mortality rates early humans had in regards to birth.
It’s more likely the percentage started extremely low and increased over time as population stability increased, since then it would reach a point where 10-20% not having kids wouldn’t be as big a deal since there would now be hundreds of thousands or even over a million.
- Comment on 💀🌈🙏🌈💀 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think the human race would have survived 50/50 split
- Comment on hot midi trax 2 weeks ago:
They didn’t have Hot n Ready at Little Caesars when the N64 was out. That started around the beginning of the Wii era
- Comment on YouTube sponsorship starter pack 4 weeks ago:
I’m sorry y’all… I’m the one who convinced and helped out the owner of raycons to advertise on YouTube and podcasts before they launched there business, and I did so for free 😭
They’re just rebranded Ali express Chinese stuff with better packaging btw. At least back then they were, I don’t know about now
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 5 weeks ago:
Ah, but what if you live in a non English speaking country?
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 1 month ago:
I don’t know if the polar vortex would go that far south so commonly in the past though. Climate change has made it wobble like crazy I’m recent years. It’s why we end up with warmer days in Finland now with no snow when it moves that way.
- Comment on ai generated logo 1 month ago:
Not meta enough.
Have a CGI artist make a video that looks like a video created by AI of fake people drawing it.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 month ago:
I’m not a bot, but you are 💃
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 1 month ago:
It’s just the ancient Greek take
- Comment on Heave-ho! 1 month ago:
It may or may not also allow me to hold the power of the sun, in the palm of my hand
- Comment on Heave-ho! 1 month ago:
I have 2 partners but only 2 arms unfortunately. Though I have been able to do half of each before at the same time
- Comment on I have seen a lot of movies where the Catholic School Nuns smack a students hand for being disruptive or something is this a trope or a real something? Like most notable in Blues Brothers 1 month ago:
In El Salvador, the nuns were way more hardcore than just using a ruler.
Once one made my dad kneel on raw rice while holding up books for half an hour.
My mom has to do something similar too but with salt outside in the sun, but for a bit less time.
- Comment on I have seen a lot of movies where the Catholic School Nuns smack a students hand for being disruptive or something is this a trope or a real something? Like most notable in Blues Brothers 1 month ago:
I did. She “used to be a Lesbian”, but wasn’t able according to her.
Anyhow, she was very cheery and happy living there apparently.
- Comment on Heave-ho! 1 month ago:
I kinda believe you because I’m designing a bra because of my partners bigger sizes 😅
And I’ll be doing the patent application soon so I also don’t want to say what it is 😂
- Comment on Hurry pls it's urgent 1 month ago:
They’ve done more than donate. They also rigged some stuff to benefit Hyperland developer specifically from something they didn’t qualify for as well or some such.
- Comment on Hurry pls it's urgent 1 month ago:
When WW3 comes out before GTA6.
But seriously, fuck rockstar. Orc studio treating their workers like shit, what else is new.
- Comment on Your name better be Caleb 1 month ago:
Alcohol Free Kozel
- Comment on Who care about book 2 months ago:
I’ve known someone who spoke like that in real life unfortunately. She might have had about the same literacy levels and opinions.
I wish it was 0% but it’s at least 20%.
Why not higher? They couldn’t really use a phone either, and this person somehow does.
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 2 months ago:
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Goes on to enslave the world is apparently the same thing as killing an eldritch being with an army of friends you amass and being a hero apparently.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 months ago:
For starters, not relying on US payment processors.
- Comment on Contain them 2 months ago:
You wouldn’t like how people in Finland speak then 😅
(We have hän for s/he but almost everyone just uses se {it} in spoken language)
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 months ago:
I have one
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 months ago:
Shopify is American