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For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some 'organic element' since I couldn't accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

There's a giant ball of extremely hot plasma in the sky and we aren't supposed to look at it. What is it hiding? Surely if someone managed to look at it long enough, they would see the truth!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

there's people that don't like music.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I used to be like this, but with movies. When I first met my wife, she was utterly baffled at the concept of somebody not enjoying movies, and she made it her mission to make me enjoy them.

Come to think of it, she actually doesn't like music much. I've failed to change her opinion on that though because my taste in music is shit (and I'm proud of it.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The sun could've gone nova 8 minutes ago and we wouldn't know for another 20 seconds or so.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Well, we'd know by now

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Your bones are made of calcium, which is also a metal. You've got a metal frame inside your body.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is about 8.1 billion people in the world. Assuming romantic cliches to be true and that we all have exactly one soulmate out there, we would have a very hard time sifting them out. If you were to use exactly one second at meeting a person it would take you 257 years to meet everyone alive on earth at this moment, which due to human life span being significantly shorter and the influx of new people makes the task essentially impossible without a spoonful of luck. Moral of the story: If you believe you have found your soul mate, be extra kind to them today.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Soul mates are made, not found. You get with someone compatible to you, and through the sharing of experiences and affection, if nothing goes excessively wrong, they become unique for you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Definitely agree and beautifully put :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There’s no such thing as tides. Gravity holds the water as the earth rotates

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Tides are a phenomenon where the height of the edge of a body of water shifts relative to the shore. A phenomenon is a thing. Why should explaining its cause in those terms have any effect on that?