[ SECRET POST #2075 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2075 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Twilight]


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[Christian Bale, Scott Disik]


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10. [SPOILERS for Misfits]



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11. [SPOILERS for A Song of Ice and Fire]



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12. [SPOILERS for the Vampire Diaries]



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13. [WARNING for rape]



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14. [WARNING for suicide]

[Truffaldino from Bergamo (1976)]


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15. [WARNING for pedophilia, rape]

[DC Comics]


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16. [WARNING for depression]

[Zac Little/AngryFilmsProduction (YouTube)]


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17. [WARNING for child abuse]















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

When evidence is inconclusive, I neither believe nor disbelieve (and if it's something I care about, I continue looking for more evidence). If evidence leans one way, my belief is some variation on "probably X, but maybe Y." In fact, the vast majority of my beliefs fall into that latter category to varying degrees of "probably" and "maybe," because there's always the chance of new evidence arising or that I've misunderstood the evidence I do have.

I'm a bit confused by your implication that arriving at one of multiple options means a choice is necessarily made. "Choice" to me implies an act of volition, a conscious decision. Is that not what "choice" means to you?

[darkmanifest]

In fact, the vast majority of my beliefs fall into that latter category to varying degrees of "probably" and "maybe," because there's always the chance of new evidence arising or that I've misunderstood the evidence I do have.

That right there is what most people do, I think. Their beliefs are fluid based on what they've learned most recently. They either give one of many possibilities primacy, hold all possibilities in equal favor without committing to any one, or rejecting them all until conclusive evidence is provided. Or all of the above depending on the day of the week.

I would say the choosing lies in what possibilities they want to acknowledge at all. When evidence is inconclusive or unavailable, they believe or disbelieve the various options, they don't, as you seem to, withhold final judgment until further information can be provided.

Which I suspect is where your confusion is coming from? When conclusive evidence is not available, you therefore don't conclude - it's not a choice for you because there's nothing to choose, either something is proven or it isn't. Whereas others may not wait for conclusive evidence, they make their own conclusions without any additional information other than "This is what I want to be true." Does that make sense?