Pink flying fairies
Offline What would it take to make you believe in pink flying fairies?
I've prepared a number of scenarios. If the following situation would make you believe in pink flying fairies say yes, or if not say no.
1. Some random guy of the street told you that pink flying fairies are real.2. Your best friend tells you that pink plying fairies are real, and that he/she has seen them
3. The 5 people closest to you in life say that fairies are real, and that they have seen them.
4. You have personally seen a pink flying fairy(no drugs involved).5. You and one other person have seen a pink flying fairy together (no drugs involved).
6. You and a whole room of people see a pink flying fairy(no drugs involved).7. A video of pink flying fairy shows up on the internet and is claimed to be real.
8. A video of pink flying fairies is said to be real by experts you trust.9. A video of pink flying fairies is provided by a group you trust and is said to be genuine by trustworthy experts.
10. You have both seen a fairy, you have a picture of yourself with the fairy in it, and you several other people were with you and they all remember the same thing.
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None of these, because it could easily be something else that people are convinced is a fairy but isn't.
Now if I personally held a conversaton with it, and got it's name...then maybe. MAYBE. If I could verify somehow I wasn't being drugged and/or tricked.
Theism is why we can't have nice things.
Would any of the things listed above convince you that a creature that looked superficially like a fairy exited provided that you could verify somehow that you weren't being drugged?
I'd say that would be good enough for me
(although i suppose the kicker is... i dont trust anybody... )
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4, 5, 6, 9 and 10 potentially.
8 would probably put me on the fence.
Theism is why we can't have nice things.
I would probably accept 6,7,9, or 10. I would probably change my mind again latter if given a good reason.
I would say that if I saw the fairy, and I was able to schedule the fairy for a meeting with promenant people, and then the fairy showed up again, and multiple people confirmed the sighting, then at least I could say that it wasn't a delusion. If the being was pink and flying, and then communicated that it referenced itself as a fairy, then I think that would do it for me.
Dolt:"Evolution is just a theory."
Me:"Yes, so is light and gravity. Pardon me while I flash this strobe while dropping a bowling ball on your head. This shouldn't bother you; after all, these are just theories."
Just make believing in pink flying fairies feel better than not believing in them. That's the trick for everyone, how you do it depends on the persons makeup.
For me not just the experts saying they are real, they'd have to have a reasonable explaination for their existence and why they've never been discovered before.
Either that or assure me sex with a hot model for 'believing'.
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A picture would be pretty convincing:
http://shelleytherepublican.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/2480621334_011a82e8bb.jpg
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8 (maybe...only if 6 happened)
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