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Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered No matter what happens, no matter what I do or don’t do, no matter what I achieve or fail at: I know my dog will still love me and wag his tail when I get home.

UnbentJohnson , Thomas Report

Final score:

436points

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YoChicken 3 years ago

Oh yeah. That is just a known fact.

54points

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered That gardening is the secret to happiness.

Sounds super strange, especially coming from someone like myself - an ex world of Warcraft gamer. I had kids, got busy with work, wanted out of the suburbs, got some land in the country, and started planting stuff. Years later I have what I call a food forest. I have replaced lawns with fruit trees, bushes, vines, flowers, all woven together to mimic a natural forest - except everything in it is edible.

It has changed my life completely.

I just think there's something about being outside in the sun, feet on soil, hands in dirt, planting s***. Watching it grow in the background of your life. Going out and checking on it and watching how much bigger it is getting. Watching life find it, and now you get to live WITH the natural world, not isolated from it.

Birds making nests in your trees, frogs making home in your ponds, seeing bees all around your flowers, butterflies everywhere. Rabbits and squirrels moving in, then owls moving in to eat those. It's this wonderful trophic cascade that you started, and it's incredibly rewarding.

Plus, being able to just walk outside and get chemical-free nutrient-rich dinner is amazing.

I actually think a big reason depression is such a big thing these days is because we have all become so disconnected from the life that we evolved in for the last 6 million years. We evolved walking around savannahs and forests, pulling food off bushes and trees, out in the sun, feet in the soil, hands in the dirt. We couldn't be further from that, living inside our isolated homes, cars and offices. It's no wonder we're all so depressed.

I think gardening is the secret to happiness.

Suuperdad , Tejvan Pettinger Report

Final score:

401points

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Rai Grant 3 years ago

I think this poster is right :)

70points

Amaranthim Talon 3 years ago

That may well be the case. I too garden. But- this is completely subjective. A gear head may say fixing cars is the "key to happiness", an ascetic may say not indulging is-

15points

Seabeast 3 years ago

I love gardening, but I don't think it's the answer for everyone. I probably know as many people who find it tedious as find it rewarding.

12points

MadameLeota 3 years ago

I have a garden but I hate it. I hate being out in the sun, getting my hands dirty and bending over kills my hip. I have the garden because everyone around me pressured me into it. Definitely not for me.

9points

Karin Jansen 3 years ago

Haha, same! Bought a house with a big garden, convinced I'd get into it. Nope. Hate, hate, hate it. The bugs, the dirt, the bending over, the constant battle against the elements (water the plants, it's too dry, whoop, now it's too wet and there's weeds everywhere, whoop, now it's autumn, time to rake those leaves). Yuck.

1point

Vicky Z 3 years ago

Depends... a dead garden is not happiness( can't keep any plant alive)

6points

matilda 3 years ago

Read some tips, books, watch YouTube gardeners :)

3points

Ahimsa Soul 3 years ago

Begin small and something not too demanding, like a cactus, a succulent, a fern. And good luck!

1point

Auntriarch 3 years ago

Put plants in ground. If they live, good. If they die, buy a different plant.

-2points

Explicitly sick 3 years ago

First thing we did in the suburbs was overturned our lawn planted food and natives now I have a herd of bumble bees

4points

RoseTheMad 3 years ago

I couldn't live without access to internet, I'll admit that, but I also couldn't live without having even a small space to call a garden, where I can grow some herbs and such, which is what I currently am doing, alongside some tomato plants and peppers etc. When you have something you grow that you can turn into a meal that same day there's such a sense of pride that makes you feel great. That said, unfortunately sometimes sadness and depression can't be helped, I'm Schizophrenic and have DID so my mental health is rubbish, but gardening is a good way to keep your mind off of things too.

4points

Donny 3 years ago

Hard disagree on this one. You found your passion and that's fantastic for you, but everyone's secret to happiness differs. My parents love to garden but I despise it. I take greater comfort in city noise than wildlife noise. People suffer from harsh allergies to the point of death. Again, good for you, but never assume what works for you is an insta fix for all.

3points

Id row 3 years ago

May be good for this person's happiness, but this would be my nightmare.

3points

Rikke Visby Wickberg 3 years ago

I love the wild, the forests, the mountains, the moors, but not those manicured lawns and flower pots.

3points

Hannah Edwards 3 years ago

Gardening is good for the soul, mind and body.

3points

Ryan Deschanel 3 years ago

I practice gardening. I am the living proof this person is wrong.

2points

Jo Choto 3 years ago

I do not like gardening.

2points

Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

Spot on. We've begun the process of creating a food forest. This year, in addition to our normal huge vegetable garden, we planted blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries.

2points

Aleksandra Rusbasan 3 years ago

Dually noted, I'll start a garden when I'm older

2points

YoChicken 3 years ago

Unless you have no space, why don't you start one now? And if you are in a living situation with no space, like an apartment, why don't you find a community garden? Of course, I could be completely misreading your situation, but just wondering!

0points

Martha Meyer 3 years ago

Humans aren't made for living in concrete boxes. Something primal in us responds to being out in nature, I think. Unfortunatly, most of us don't have the luxury to live like that.

1point

Kira Okah 3 years ago

Not universal, there is nothing that I really detest more than gardening and touching non-grass plants. However - being outside, sitting on grass, by a flowing river, in a nice sunbeam - nothing can beat that.

1point

Red Hair Blue Soul 3 years ago

I too have done this! 100% true!!

1point

Ryan-James O'Driscoll 3 years ago

There is considerable research that agrees

1point

Alyssa 3 years ago

It’s just the fact of being outside in nature where we’re meant to be, away from technology and indoor lighting. Humans are meant to be in nature, not inside staring at screens.

1point

Kristal 3 years ago

Um. There are types of depression that is due to how a brain is wired ... you could have the most lush, healthy food garden and STILL have depression. Also, what does being an ex-WoW player have anything to do with sounding weird?

1point

Alyssa 3 years ago

Yes but the point is that nature etc can help alleviate symptoms. Maybe not fix it completely but definitely improve the chances of healing. And the WoW remark was saying he went from being an indoor video gamer to an outdoor gardener. Some people are both but he clearly wasn’t. And the gardening helped his depression whereas the video gaming wasn’t.

0points

Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

An ex Warcraft gamer is exactly who I would expect to garden and have opinions about it. I don’t find anything compelling or happy about gardening, it’s just a task. Love, friendships, pets, time and money are the secrets to happiness.

1point

Alyssa 3 years ago

A task for you perhaps but a hobby for others. Just like cooking and baking is a task for some but a hobby for others.

0points

Leona Martin 3 years ago

I just started gardening and now I'm hooked...I can totally relate to this one.

1point

Jigsaw's Puzzle 3 years ago

You don't need proof for this. It's an emotion thing.

1point

Deb Dedon 2 years ago

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything." Cicero

0points

Chilly Chili 2 years ago

"What are you certain of, right down to your bones, without proof?” But there is proof gardening does wonders for better mental health, or "happiness". https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/think-act-be/201906/10-mental-health-benefits-gardening

0points

Tracy Wallick 2 years ago

It's been proven in many studies that being outside in nature is a huge boon to mental health; sunlight gives you Vitamin D which helps alleviate depression, and just looking at and being around greenery reduces depression and anxiety.

0points

Sally Barry 2 years ago

Lovely!

0points

RenaMoonlight 2 years ago

I'm not sure what this has to do with being an ex WoW player. I know plenty of gamers who love the outdoors, nature, and hiking.

0points

Bechmeka 2 years ago

Exactly like my father! He still games from time to time, I do as well

0points

Natalia Allen 2 years ago

I want to do this so much. I have a front and back garden of just grass. I just don't know where or how to start. I would have to go very slowly, I do not have the funds to pay work to be done and I am older now and not sure I could do this myself even little by little. I'm sure it would help my depression and sense of no purpose but that is the very thing that cripples me most days and stops me even trying. Please save any criticism, today is a down enough day.

0points

Jeremy Fagan 3 years ago

um... chemical free is a misnomer

0points

Jessica Aubé 3 years ago

Also Food is made of chemicals … it is not chemical free ..

0points

Jessica Aubé 3 years ago

It this poster is confused about depression is Clinical depression is not solved with gardening Being sad or down or depressed in the moment absolutly can be solved with gardening for many people but not all

0points

Mazer 3 years ago

My friend saw gardening as a chore, I see it as a way to create. Especially rewarding if you can do it without chemicals

0points

Tracy Wallick 3 years ago

1000% agree. Gardening helped keep me sane during the pandemic.

0points

Ella Blackwood 3 years ago

This is beautiful. And I know it to be true. I grew up in such an environment and it was so grounding and centering. There was something so wonderful about being able to go and harvest your own dinner and make a delicious, healthy meal from scratch. It made me feel connected to the earth and our land, and once I left home, I have not had that feeling since. Of course, I have only lived in cities since college, but sometimes I really long to have my own garden again and have delicious garden vegetables on the table for every meal.

0points

Heather Mullen 3 years ago

I can't garden, I'm allergic to the molds present in soil, and air, and everywhere.

0points

Iapetos 3 years ago

Lawns are for idiots.

0points

Anita Pickle 3 years ago

It is true! We are part of the earth. Just like the wild creatures. Things that grow are here to sustain us. We lost that connection along the way. Sadly many never have been in a garden, or eat fresh things from the soil. All asphalt, concrete and packaged foods.

0points

Layla Summers 3 years ago

This is exactly why I want to go off the grid some day :')

0points

Julianne Hannes 3 years ago

I can't afford a yard same with 90% of the population

0points

Missy Moo Moo 3 years ago

With my spare time I make quilts and I feel exactly the same way as I do when I garden. Picking fabric colours, selecting a pattern, cutting, sewing, wadding, quilting, edging, sewing a label on it then giving it away feels exactly the same as tending to a garden. Creative, rewarding, meditative, and giving. Everyone in my family has at least 2 quilts, friends, neighbours, everyone has a quilt and I know when it's cold, the people I love and care about are warm under my quilt

0points

Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago

This might be taking it the wrong way but it sounds like he said he got fed up of his partner and kids and left them and started a new life? I mean the rest of it is great, but I can't tell if that's what he meant or not?!

0points

Marcia Cash 3 years ago

How many kids today have never run barefoot in grass that hasn't been sprayed with poisons, or played games that didn't have any rules written by someone else?

0points

Marcia Cash 3 years ago

My grandchildren will never know the joys of a clean, unpolluted swimming hole.

1point

Sam rice 3 years ago

I'm a 33 year old tattooed nerd and a parent and I have been gardening for 5 years. I'm meh at it but I love it. I'm very proud of my mediocre garden

0points

Suzy the observer 3 years ago

Agree 1000%

0points

ThePracticalSarcastic 3 years ago

mask-free fresh air and sunshine are literally some of the best medicine you can take.

0points

Amy Begun Saab 3 years ago

Same feelings

0points

... 3 years ago

I agree. I didn't have even single houseplant for past ten years. Then pandemic hit and I got to spend a lot of time in the countryside ar my parents house, work remotely and do some gardening. Six moths ago I moved to countryside, I have a small yard with lots of flowers and some herbs and veggies growing and I'm happier than ever since I was a kid.

0points

Vasana Phong 3 years ago

It’s a calming and soothing hobby, my husband found cooking to do this for him

0points

Thay 3 years ago

That sounds amazing. Ive always wanted a big garden. Someday i will

0points

GenXandEarnedItAll 3 years ago

This shoild be #1!

0points

Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago

We re-did the entire garden and filled it with native plants, and what felt like just overnight it started attracting all these native birds and insects - some of which I'd never seen before, like the Blue-Banded bee! Our garden went from a depressing patch of lawn and a half dead wattle tree to alive with birdsong, and it's amazing. We don't have to go to the park for picnics any more. :D

0points

Duncan 3 years ago

I like doing gardening

0points

Ahimsa Soul 3 years ago

This is easy enough to prove, like most hobbies. Surely there are studies that prove that investing time in a hobbie increases levels of dopamine, etc.. For me is cooking, extra happiness if cooking for someone else.

0points

Zophra 3 years ago

Me too! Me too!

0points

Sue Grigg 3 years ago

I agree! Gardening is very satisfying.

0points

Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

I am glad she enjoys it.

0points

Suzanne Haigh 3 years ago

Gardening, what do they call it, yarding? Just a though because I love gardening, natural and edible please

0points

Suzanne Haigh 3 years ago

"What do Americans call it" sorry seems to have been missed out

0points

Signe Manat Hansen 3 years ago

Gardening got me out of a depression. I do most of my dad's garden work all summer because I love it and he's lazy :p

0points

Toko Danganronpa 3 years ago

I have a lovely garden, and this is definitely right.

0points

Casey Burns 3 years ago

Beautiful. Well said sir, well said.

0points

James016 3 years ago

The last flower that I planted hasn’t died so there may be something to this.

0points

Terry Gu 3 years ago

Gardening gives me sadness

0points

denzoren 3 years ago

Maybe it's also that connection with nature and the energy.

0points

Dino_Nuggies 3 years ago

My dad is

0points

[deleted] , Interdimensional Guardians Report

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered That there is other intelligent life in the universe. We may never encounter it, certainly not within any of our lifetimes, but it's out there somewhere. The universe is too goddamn big for us to be the only ones.

Final score:

378points

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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago

It would be the height of human conceit to think that we're the only ones in such a vast universe.

164points

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered That the near complete absence of financial literacy education in American public schools is 100% on purpose.

vivalabeava , Joe Coyle Report

Final score:

363points

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Daenarys 3 years ago

I agree with this to a point. We allow politicians who like to boast about how they did poorly in school, were the class clowns, etc dictate what should be taught in school. If you're the rich people who want to keep good education out of reach for the poorer people the best way to do that is to vilify public schools and demand more 'rigorous' testing policies that have little to do with actual student progress. This way the public schools have to spend more time testing than they do teaching so that the poor students get less education than the kids whose parents can afford private schools who aren't subject to those required tests. It's funny how politicians constantly point to public schools' failing standardized test scores, and tout private schools as the answer, yet never talk about how those private schools don't have to offer Special Education, take standardized tests, or even follow the mandated common core standards.

63points

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered That we would be happier if we returned to a more natural way of living rather than the 9-5 rat race.

maybebaby8 , Hans Splinter Report

Final score:

351points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

I'm not sure if i want to return really really back when you could die only from cutting your finger.... but I'm nostalgic about the 90's as many are!

58points

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered Flat earthers are just doing it for attention. They really don't think the earth is flat.

DeshaundreWatkins , CBC News Report

Final score:

329points

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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago

The Flat Earth Society is trolls. They HAVE however gotten OTHERS to believe them.

131points

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered If I'm stuck in traffic and switch lanes because the other lane looks like it will move faster, the lane I just switched from will automatically go faster.

mlime18 , Amanda W Report

Final score:

260points

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Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago

i'm pretty sure big rig truckers talk on their CB radios to each other to coordinate making sure every time I merge onto an interstate one of them will be there in the right lane just as I am merging on.

57points

saugoof , NASA Robotics Competitions Sheyene Gerardi Report

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered Most company CEO's don't really know what they're doing. Whether their business thrives or fails has more to do with luck than anything else. There are exceptions, but most of them have a completely warped sense of their own "brilliance".

Final score:

249points

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sofacushionfort 3 years ago

it’s their executive secretaries who fill the gap.

85points

#10

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered I'm quietly convinced I made a bestselling mystery novelist change the way he writes because I criticised him on Reddit.

The novelist in question is Chris Carter; the books are the Robert Hunter series. (Yes, the guy who has built a career on looking for serial killers is named Hunter. He works for the LAPD's Ultra-Violent Crime Unit. It's not a series that's overburdened by subtlety, is what I'm saying.) They are as schlocky a bunch of thrillers as you could ever hope to find, but for some reason I can't get enough of them, despite the fact that they're... very much not great. They lean pretty damn heavy on ridiculous tropes, and I've never seen a more Mary Sue lead than I have in this series, but the biggest complaint I have with them is that the same line appears almost literally word for word in the first nine books ('Hunter’s biggest passion was single malt Scotch whiskey, but unlike most, he knew how to appreciate its flavor and quality instead of simply getting drunk on it.'). I made a comment about it on Reddit on an r/books thread about your favourite terrible authors.

That post was made in January of 2019; in April, his book Hunting Evil came out, and the line was nowhere to be seen. I didn't think much of it until his new book, Written in Blood, came out a few days ago, and also didn't have the line in it. This comment is also one of the top answers if you google his name and the book series via Reddit -- exactly what you'd do if you were looking to see if people on the internet were talking about your books. I also can't find any evidence of anyone else pointing this out in a review or suchlike.

So yeah... in short, three months after I made that comment, he broke the habit of a decade of writing and finally decided that after nine stories that used this as a crutch for Hunter's personality, it was too much.

I know you're reading this, Chris. I know.

Portarossa , MSmith220 Report

Final score:

232points

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TheReader19 3 years ago

I laughed so hard at the last line

120points

#11

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered 100 years from now only a handful of kids and grandkids will have any memory of my life.

200 years from now, at most I'll be a photo in an old family scrap book with my name in the margin space.

300 years from now no one in my family will know I existed outside of a half finished family tree.

Yet ultimately all of their hopes and pains, successes and failures, dreams and depressions will be the direct result of my having existed. So it isn't that bad.

Dire88 , Vera Likhosherstova Report

Final score:

227points

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ADHORTATOR 3 years ago

200 years from now you' ll be totally forgotten

88points

poopellar , Ann Longmore-Etheridge Report

#12

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered The average middle class person of today has luxuries and a standard of living that far surpasses that of Kings and Queens from centuries ago.

Final score:

225points

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Rae Reyn 3 years ago

I have several items of purple clothing, spices from all over the globe, and have easily over 100 books. Also I don't sh*t in a pot.

218points

cweaver , Meenakshi Sundaram Manivannan Report

#13

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered 1 in every 3 or 4 people is not capable of critical thinking. And I'm not making some kind of point about politics or anything - I mean those people are literally incapable of taking in information and synthesizing it with other information and coming to their own conclusions. They're basically robots programmed by whatever source is most convincing to them.

Final score:

214points

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iblowsheep 3 years ago

Everyone is capable of critical thinking, it's just that people compartmentalize that which they think critically about, and that which is off limits to questioning or skeptical inquiry.

39points

#14

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered My phone is listening to me, it’s simply not a coincidence any more how my targeted ads change directly related to and after a conversation. People say we are just more predictable than we think but I mention something I haven’t even thought about for years and there it is on Instagram.

koreanwing , Kārlis Dambrāns Report

Final score:

210points

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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

How's this for freaky. I was hanging out with my brother and we were talking about inflatable spas. At that time my phone had no internet access AT ALL, it was completely disabled from the actual phone provider. Anyway, I get home later and go on the ipad. As soon as I open facebook there is an ad for an inflatable spa. Like wtf, how does that even happen.

84points

#15

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered I don't care who you are or what you think, or even what the science says - Geese are evil creatures.

Sabiis , Robin Zebrowski Report

Final score:

204points

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Susan Green 3 years ago

No they’re not! People are the evil creatures.

73points

#16

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered That a LOT more famous actors than we realize are secretly the children of other famous actors from the previous generation. I call it the Hollywood Bastard Theory.

DarthToothbrush , DoD News Report

Final score:

195points

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Requiem 3 years ago

None of them are a secret, even john Vioght has always been known as Angelina Jolies father.

27points

#17

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered Back when I was 10 there was a competition for schoolkids to write a treatment for an episode of Doctor Who, with the best one being developed into an full episode in the next series and the winner receiving a writing credit. I was a huge fan of DW at the time and the competition was actually run through schools, so my teacher made the entire class do it, but I was very excited.

I began writing a story about the Doctor landing on a planet full of defective cybermen, who's programming had gone a wry and had been left on this asylum planet to rot. The Doctor lands there in response to a mysterious distress call from a woman and attempts to find and save her while avoiding the dangerous dysfunctional cybermen and the looming threat of planetary destruction at the hands of the normal cybermen. I finished my short treatment and gave it to my teacher to submit. Unfortunately it turned out the competition was very strict about the formatting of submissions and mine was returned because I had used the wrong formatting in some way, it seemed like a weird reason. I was a bit disappointed and that was the end of that.

But then, a year or two later, there was an episode of DW called Asylum of the Daleks, which seemed incredibly similar to my story except with Daleks. So incredibly, eerily, similar in fact, that to this day I am absolutely convinced that Steven Moffat saw my script and came up with a formatting excuse so that he could remove me from the competition, steal my story, change the bad guys and claim it as his own. I have zero evidence, I don't even still have the treatment I wrote, or any letter from the BBC about my submission, and yet I know in my bones that Steven Moffat stole his script from 10 yr old me.

vanhet , BBC Studios Report

Final score:

191points

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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago

My wife's school was doing a production of Grease. (As faculty, she had a bit part she totally hammed up.) Colin Ferguson was supposed to be in town doing a standup show that got cancelled. The next night his stand-up kept referencing Grease. Everyone his age has seen Grease... from America. But why suddenly make jokes about a 40+ year-old play?

13points

#18

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered My cat knocked over the water glass on purpose.

beep_bop-boop , Sunny Ripert Report

Final score:

187points

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Susan Green 3 years ago

Of course it did.

72points

#19

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered That alien lifeforms will be nothing like we have ever imagined

CallMeCurious , Beckie Report

Final score:

184points

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Earl Grey 3 years ago (edited)

Carbon isn’t the only element on which to base a life form. Under very different conditions of availability, temperature, pressure, etc. something like Silicon might get the job done just as well.

59points

NeighborhoodNerd0 , Jean-François Gornet Report

#20

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered There’s a travel agency that’s been around in my town for as long as I can remember. I wholeheartedly believe it’s a front for the mob.

Final score:

171points

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Dave P 3 years ago

There are lots of stores that seem that way. Places that no one uses but always are open...usually fronts for money laundering.

77points

#21

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered Epstein didn’t kill himself

spazmcgee1 , Reuters Report

Final score:

159points

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Jazzy Mc. Jaz 3 years ago

yea he had fractures that people who hang themselves don't have.

31points

#22

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered That the entire U.S. mattress industry is a front for criminal organizations. Virtually every city has more mattress stores than it needs. When was the last time you bought a mattress? So then why does a city of 80,000 have like 7 separate mattress retail places within like six blocks?

TheLostPariah , American Matress Report

Final score:

151points

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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago

They rent the showrooms out to prostitution. (That's a joke. I hope.)

55points

#23

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered There is some godzilla s*** at the bottom of our oceans. Deep Sea gigantism will not fail me.

demonardvark , Lars Behnke Report

Final score:

138points

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AlmightyOne 3 years ago

I believe this too

29points

#24

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered I am essentially a good, decent person. I may not act this out successfully, it’s the fact that I keep trying to act it out relentlessly that makes it true.

[deleted] , Leonid Mamchenkov Report

Final score:

136points

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TheReader19 3 years ago

Facts

19points

#25

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered Most of this is just busy work

[deleted] , Joey deVilla Report

Final score:

126points

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Emma Byrne 3 years ago

Most jobs can be done with 6 hour days 4 days a week. This insanity about working 8-6 Monday to Friday is just to keep people busy so they don't have time to look at the way the world is being steered by the super rich.

73points

#26

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered That 1-2 generations down the line, our use of technology will lead to extreme mental health issues. My brain feels deep fried from time to time and I haven't seriously started using a smart phone before I was already an adult

sad_panda91 , cloud.shepherd Report

Final score:

126points

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TheReader19 3 years ago

I agree, so many young people seem to have depression and anxiety

34points

GrootTheTree , Bro. Jeffrey Pioquinto, SJ Report

#27

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered I’m really, really f*****g lucky. But like in a subtle way like if there’s a 95% chance I’ll get hurt doing something stupid I’ll come out unscathed. Sometimes I think there’s a guardian angel watching over me making sure I don’t kill myself by being an idiot.

Final score:

113points

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TheReader19 3 years ago

I seem to be really lucky/blessed and 'land on my feet'. Get my sister who's a really good person seems to be cursed

32points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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#28

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered Life on other planets. Not green one eyes aliens but even insect's and things like that

TrizziiDaZombie , Nicholas Jones Report

Final score:

107points

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HooowlAtTheMoon 3 years ago

Again, there has to be other life somewhere in the universe. It's 100% out there somewhere.

33points

#29

As an Asian, I can safely say without a doubt that you don't need cups to measure the water when cooking rice.

duckimaquackquack Report

Final score:

101points

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TheReader19 3 years ago

Eyeball people, that's all you need

24points

#30

Not that it is something I believe to be true, but something that I often think about is the Butterfly Effect. Like little things I do during the day could affect the total outcome of my day.

Hey_I_Work_Here Report

Final score:

100points

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Chillace 3 years ago

i overthink this every night. well if i didnt drink that cup of water than i wouldnt have stepped on my cat which wouldnt have scratched me wich wouldnt have made me fall and hit my head giving me this headache

26points

#31

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered My brother deleted my game save on purpose. He was old enough to read, he knew what he was doing.

Raichu7 , Kirt Edblom Report

Final score:

88points

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TheReader19 3 years ago

This is the reality of siblings

46points

#32

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered Burger King hash browns are just tater tots

Benjaminbuttcrack , Willis Lam Report

Final score:

87points

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Chillace 3 years ago

to be fari a hashbrown is a tatertot pancake

46points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

#33

Dogs go to doggy heaven

iselacookie Report

Final score:

84points

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ScarlettofHydraIsland 3 years ago

All pets go to the sunny fields outside the gates of Heaven and wait for us. When we die, they’ll be there and will walk through the gates with us.

7points

#34

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered Dejavu comes from previous dreams

shiftycornfeathers , TCL8TO7 Report

Final score:

76points

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Jazzy Mc. Jaz 3 years ago

Makes sense

20points

#35

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered My ex-boss used Covid as an excuse to make me redundant because I was the only member of his team to be hired by someone else and not him.

box_frenzy , Alan Cleaver Report

Final score:

73points

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TheReader19 3 years ago

Sounds real to me, can you do anything about it?

23points

#36

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered That my last boss secretly hated me even though we had, on the surface, a very positive relationship.

mejok , Martijn van Exel Report

Final score:

69points

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TheReader19 3 years ago

Nothing wrong with this, so long as they didn't hinder you or affect you emotionally. ( You don't have to like anyone so long as you do no harm).

26points

#37

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered That my cousin stole my holographic 1st edition Charizard Pokemon card back in the early 2000's.

axxonn13 , noodlz_ Report

Final score:

66points

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TheReader19 3 years ago

Is it worth money?

19points

#38

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered That the funeral home by my house is run by some sort of criminal organization.

I always see the same gangster looking guys hanging out in front of it smoking cigars and drinking beers.

-eDgAR- , wetwebwork Report

Final score:

65points

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TheReader19 3 years ago

Men in black?

23points

50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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#39

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered I watched flight 93 go down. I would never share that in real life because it’s f****n grim and no one would believe you (the geography of the reports are off ). I saw it clear as day from Kent state’s main campus (Ohio). I didn’t know what I was seeing other than I remember thinking “that plane is way way too low (we had a aviation college so planes were common) and too big and it’s jerking around like how a toddler drives a power wheels truck....”. Continued on to class. You don’t wanna be late even at a liberal college.

CozmicOwl16 , Andy Mabbett Report

Final score:

65points

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Jo Choto 3 years ago

I'm not sure what you saw, but you didn't see a plane that crashed around 200 miles away from you. There were enough ordinary people who WERE in that part of Pennsylvania that DID see it crash and then there were all the reporters who went out to that place, who are not part of a conspiracy to pretend that the plane crashed around Canton, Ohio just because. Like you said, you're next to an aviation college. That would be the most likely explanation for it.

31points

#40

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered Reddit supermods have the ability to give unlimited free awards on reddit. This allows them to make certain opinions more visible and normalizes paying real money for reddit emojis.

[deleted] , OC: 19 Report

Final score:

63points

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kim morris 3 years ago

ah, back when Reddit had no subs, there were no 'awards', no ads, no trolls, back before the great digg migration. Back when it was this small site few knew about and when we saw mention of it anywhere else we were like, quick! hide! we've been spotted! Those were the good old days.

14points

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#41

McDonald’s coke hits different than any coke I’ve ever had.

Locust627 Report

Final score:

33points

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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

Yeah, it's more flat and weak.

19points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#42

The Truman show was made to make me think the entire world watching my every move was a ridiculous notion. But I know better...

CleanUranus Report

Final score:

29points

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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago

I'm not paranoid... You're all just trying to make me THINK I'm paranoid!

26points

#43

Getting a name tattooed on your body is a curse both on you and the person whose name is on you for as long as you wear it.

h00paj00ped Report

Final score:

28points

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Ria C. 3 years ago

This seems to mostly apply to romantic partners, that I have encountered.

10points

#44

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered My sister ate the whole ice cream-box without asking my parents.

Klea6 , Kristina Report

Final score:

22points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

When someone tells you "no i didn't eat your ice cream that you kept at the fridge for later", they for sure did and you don't need proof!

8points

AltUniverse_1 , State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory Report

#45

Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered There is probably 7 degrees of separation from everyone and a serial killer. That number is probably lower than 7.

Edit: Make it 3 degrees. I don't know the real number. The number doesn't matter to me, really- the point was we're all close to a serial killer.

Final score:

20points

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iblowsheep 3 years ago (edited)

i think half of people are just one asshole in traffic away from serial killer, the other half are the asshole in traffic

25points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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#46

Teddy Roosevelt cured his childhood asthma by sheer force of will.

p0tat0p0tat0 Report

Final score:

12points

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Seabeast 3 years ago

More likely he grew out of it, as people sometimes do.

17points

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What do you think ?

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sturmwesen 3 years ago

Universal truth: snacks taste better if mom/someone else makes them.

31points

VeninTheNonBinaryRogue 3 years ago

Same thing if you steal the snacks form a family member

3points

TheReader19 3 years ago

I am now off to explore the surrounding town centres to see which local businesses are a front for organised crime, secret government agencies and other life forms living here under cover

29points

sturmwesen 3 years ago

I nominate our local thai restaurant. Not once has there been a customer inside.

7points

Toko Danganronpa 3 years ago

Very interesting post. I hope to see more like this in the future. I do agree with the alien theories for sure, simply from a mathematical perspective.

7points

Libstak 3 years ago

I think we share earth with life forms that our 3 dimensional senses cannot conceive . Sometimes we mistake them for ghosts or aliens if we catch a glimpse. Why? Because I know that there are hundreds of life forms right now that cannot conceive of us for instance creatures who know the world only by taste or smell or touch. I often wonder as well what ants recognise, is human distinct to them from DOG or are we all strange blobs that they don't differentiate between from their tiny little perspectives.

4points

howdylee 3 years ago

All these comments about aliens... I'm convinced octopi are aliens. Can't tell you how they got here, but their capabilities are astonishing - almost out of this world ;)

2points

California Jones 3 years ago

Gov't Spring Cleaning Files.

1point

Mauve Mouse 3 years ago

That the soul is immortal.

1point

Julianne Hannes 3 years ago

That reincarnation is real and time does not go in a line but a circle

1point

TmKhr 3 years ago

Similarly to the Dr Who text, I remember once drawing fan art for a game and sending it to this publishers fan art email address. Later when the game was released, there was a vehicle that suspicously looked a lot like my fan art. I'm glad if they really used the art to make something, even though the game turned out to be quite awful.

1point

Marylen 3 years ago

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Unfortunately, many people believe the following without good evidence: Aliens came to Earth, anti-vaccine, alternative medicine, horoscope, religion, etc.

1point

Anna King 2 years ago

Like the Dr Who one, I entered a songwriting competition in 1993 and submitted a cassette demo of a song I'd written, but never made a backup copy. A couple of years I suddenly heard a song almost identical to mine but with different lyrics - it was Kiss From A Rose. Seal claims to have written it in 1987, but I wonder if the competition was a front for a record company to harvest some song ideas.

0points

Dominika Greenwood 3 years ago

The lottery is fake. Either it's rigged (only certain types of people win it, let alone those that have won it multiple times), or the money that is won isn't all of it (part of the money gets taken by the government).

0points

Zaza 3 years ago

I'm certain without proof (there might be proof out there but oh well) that Slash is incredibly handsome and he always hid/hides his face to make sure we appreciate his music and won't be fans on account of his looks

0points

guy greej 3 years ago

I truly believe there a life after death. An experience, something more after the fact. And every single person alive will be surprised one way or the other despite some having gud guesses they'll be surprised by the actual thing.

0points

Dave Jones 3 years ago

Pitying African Americans will never lift the most desperate out of poverty without them being taught behavioral changes. The same for the most desperate impoverished whites. It not the system. It is how you interact with the system. The Asians proved that.

0points

Anita Pickle 3 years ago

Stove pop is superior

0points

Ahimsa Soul 3 years ago

My boyfriend and I believe it's easier to wash someone else's dishes than our own. More often than not, he'll do the dishes and tidy up my kitchen and has a 2 day stack of dishes waiting for him in his flat.

0points

cheryl strickland 3 years ago

Trump is one of our biggest embarrassments.

-1point

Mad Mar 3 years ago

Life. We can create it or remove it. We destroy species and just move on. Eventually we will all be one mixed race of humanity. But for some reason although we are all human we can't get along. We war. We humiliate. We steal an murder. But we all are the same. If people understood that basic fact that we live all the same, we could get rid of war and hunger and poverty an adjust the mean scale to equality for everyone and have utopia on this planet and become a better species. With that we could accomplish great things on our planet an enjoyable harmony with the planet an the universe itself. Also black holes aren't flat like depicted but at 3 dimensional orb intaking at all angles. Thank you.

-1point

Kim Knight 3 years ago

I believe that we're causing a future water shortage by throwing away glass and plastic bottles with just a bit (or a lot) of liquid closed up in them. One day we will root around in landfills for water.

-2points

Brett Connor 3 years ago

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sturmwesen 3 years ago

Universal truth: snacks taste better if mom/someone else makes them.

31points

VeninTheNonBinaryRogue 3 years ago

Same thing if you steal the snacks form a family member

3points

TheReader19 3 years ago

I am now off to explore the surrounding town centres to see which local businesses are a front for organised crime, secret government agencies and other life forms living here under cover

29points

sturmwesen 3 years ago

I nominate our local thai restaurant. Not once has there been a customer inside.

7points