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I'm not entirely sure what this list is. Maybe because nobody is entirely sure of it. Can anyone be?

Now, sure, you can dig deep into explanations, theories and hypotheses, but, for a moment, stop and think to yourself: is it truly that, or is it just a plot hole and so let's laugh about it and move on with our lives?

Whatever the case may be, folks online have been discussing the biggest of reality's plot holes that, if you ponder hard enough, will eventually drive you to madness. Probably. Kinda. Don't quote me on it.

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes Most mainstream religions aim to teach values about human decency. Yet they are mostly used to discriminate other people...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm agnostic. I swing more towards being an atheist but most of them seem a little to closed minded to sit well with me. Religion on the other hand is a well crafted money making machine that prays on the weak.

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.” - Jean-Luc Picard

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes You can only buy used mirrors.

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes That we only know people as they appear to be to us, not as they really are to themselves.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Eleanor Rigby, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door, who is it for? The Beetles

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes When you wake up, you forget your dreams. But when you are dreaming, you forget reality, so which one is the truth?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well since reality wakes in the same place everyday and your dreams send you off somewhere different every night I'm inclined to day reality is real

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes The Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, and the Sun is 400 times further from the Earth than the Moon is. This is what allows solar eclipse' to occur.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's what allows a "Total" eclipse to occur. If the moon were smaller or further away, it would be a transit; nearer or larger, it would be an occultation.

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes Consciousness. We go to sleep or pass out and it's just suddenly daytime? No, where's the wait!? I want 8 hours of lucid dreaming, damn it, I don't wanna wake up immediately!

It's like hitting the "skip cutscene" button or spamming A to jump through dialogue, it feels like someone's skipping something important.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

that's a part of my difficulty to go to sleep, i don't wanna be tomorrow so soon

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes How did they get that car into the middle of the mall.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I sold cars years ago. They get them into buildings and showrooms by driving them through a big door or glass wall that unlocks.. It's nerve wracking when there's a few centimeters of clearance on either side and the vehicle is expensive and fragile.

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes Inner voice and sight? I can hear it but not with my ears. I can see it but not with my eyes? I don't understand how this works.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is because we actually both see and hear with the brain.

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes What was before the big bang? Before that? And that? And that?and so on. Whats beyond nothing?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was no time before the Big Bang so this means that there isn’t really a “before”

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes Human consciousness. Like at some point in time you just go from being an unconscious ball of semi functional flesh to conscious human being. Like I'm sorry, what?

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

From my experience with many people,I’m not convinced this applies to everyone (myself not excepted)

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes The Planck Unit exists. In theoretical maths, we can divide a number infinitely. In reality, there's a smallest possible "something" that you can divide to, the Planck Unit. Remember relativity, a unit of space is equivalent to a unit of time. They're not two different things, rather two different ways of measuring one thing. This means there's a smallest possible distance to traverse, and a smallest unit of time to do so...the universe is NOT analog! It has a FRAME RATE AND A PIXEL RESOLUTION.

That s**t is bananas...

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes Me walking in a room and completely forgetting what i went into that room for.

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes I have four children, one just graduated high school, one just graduated college. One is already done with his first year of middle school. My youngest just turned 9 and a half years old, closing in on 10. She is actually wearing an old dance outfit that originally belonged to the oldest. I told her "hey, that used to be your sister's."

What am I getting at? Time can move so slowly at times, especially when you are waiting for something to happen. But then you get to be middle aged like I am now and you look back and it just seems like it went by in a flash.

Let me give an example that might be more universal. I work in education. We just had the absolutely weirdest, most bonkers and difficult school year probably of my entire career. Lots of tedious, difficult, and mind numbing work to pull it off. But then almost like a flash, looking back, it's over. It's time for summer again. And summer, where I live anyway, the summer goes fastest of all.

Time and how it feels passing versus how it feels looking back is a huge plot hole or a "glitch in the matrix" if you will.

And when I was younger people tried to explain how fast it went, like with fatherhood or my career and things. I could not believe them when they told me, but they were right. Luckily I took some pictures and built up some memories that will last because otherwise it would all be a blur.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes an hour takes forever to get through. Then you blink, and suddenly ten years have gone by.

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes Magnets, bro.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Magnets are evidence that there are unseen forces all around us. Also evidence that just because one person doesn't understand something doesn't mean it is not explainable.

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes Death. The thought of it, the unsureness of what happens next, for most people that's where life's plot armour dies.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's either nothingness or eternity, no 3rd option, and thinking about this f#cks me up REAL bad. I hope I'll gain some higher level of consciousness after death so I'll be able to comprehend it better.

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes Who made the terms of agreement so long.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How many terms of agreement have we agreed to without ever reading them?

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes I’ve found it increasingly infuriating that doubling down on a lie, no matter how egregious seems to work 80-90% of the time.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is also why liars need to be held accountable. especially if they are in positions of power/authority

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes Time.

You think that time is a measurement of existence. If I stand there looking at my watch for a while, I can go "yup 5 minutes of existence passed."

But in space thats a lie. Me going 5 minutes passed but my buddy in a space ship will go "Actually that was only 1 minute of existence."

Thats like putting a ruler under water and the light refracting distorts the ruler so now it measures differently. It makes no sense!

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think they may have discovered a piece of the mysterious dark matter.

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes How construction cranes suddenly just appear on their construction site.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They build a foundation/base and then other cranes start adding onto the foundation until you get these construction cranes

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes If an entity were to stop time for millenniums, there would be no possible way of anyone knowing (unless any visible change but that’s just being picky).

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes Lot's of historical figures seem to have had straight up plot armour.

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes What is reality? Am I a figment of your imagination, or a figment of mine?

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Argh!!! It's really frustrating trying to word the response correctly, because it's so hard to explain! Generally, when suffering from a delusion, it feels so real that nothing could shake that belief, so much so, that it's easier to be convinced that something real is a delusion than that the delusion isn't real. So technically, if I am delusional, and I could be convinced that you are a delusion, you are most definitely real and not a figment of my imagination. Those few that are self aware delusional, still believe that it's real, but have the internal battle of acting according to what they think is most normal.

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes According to what we understand of matter & energy transfer, there should be no matter in the universe. And yet there is TONS of matter in the universe. Literally what the f**k happened? Someone deux ex machina'd the universe itself.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There should either be no matter because there should be an equal amount of matter & antimatter or the matter should be clouds of evenly distributed hydrogen & helium yet a bit of fluctuation here and there has enabled our universe to be the way that it is

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That you are, in this reality, the reader, the character/narrator, and the writer all in the same pocket of time.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You may be the main character in your perspective, but to everyone else your just a background character. What the hell is my perspective and why am I me? I am a conscience piloting myself and THAT is what throws me off. Why am I? That's the question.

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes That I’ve never seen my neighbors bring in groceries into their homes.

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes Oh all of history is pretty b******t when you pay attention but maybe that's just because in any sensible timeline humans have nuked themselves to extinction.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and history is written by the winners. I often wonder what the world would have been if the native Americans (north or south) hadn’t lost

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes "Everything that humans like, either [ends] them or it's a sin" Just think about it. Why can't we find healthy food as tasty as a street hot dog? Why did we create a god that condemns things that we like to do? Why it seems that we evolved especifically to suffer? Something is wrong here.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We like high salt & sugar content in our food because back when we were hunter-gatherers, those things weren’t common to come across so you needed to take as much of them as possible to survive

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes What happens when we get as fast as we are going to get?

You know... the current world record for the men's 100m sprint is 9.58 seconds (Usain Bolt) ... but you would imagine that there will come a day when a man beats that... then another and another... but eventually we will be as fast as we can get (because you can't go backwards), so then what?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wasn't there a study that showed that sprinters exerted comparatively very little force on their muscles & limbs? I think the end result of the study was that humans have the potential to achieve over 40mph.

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“You Can Only Buy Used Mirrors”: 30 Of The Most Confusing Mind-Blowing Reality Plot Holes Whenever I hear a physicist say "All of those things you learned about Newton's laws are actually false and just approximations for these other things that make no sense."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They’re not false, they just only work on a macroscopic scale. If you want to know where a thrown ball will land, or how to fly a probe to Europa, you’ll do just fine with Newton. But if you want to know about quantum events or black hole event horizons, then F=ma just isn’t going to cut it.

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