When was the last time you believed in unbelievable?

Question

stillsea: tell me more, please...

Answer 1

I find this question most interesting, as it really addresses a number of issues. First, what do you believe in? Second, if you believe in it, can it be unbelievable? Third, is it possible to choose what you believe in?
It is easy to "believe" in physically observed elements of the universe around us, epsecially when we share that universe with others who agree with our observation. It is harder to "believe" in complex explanations of phenomenon when two or more observers disagree on the nature of the phenomenon (for example, think about some of the explanations given in the past for the Northern Lights or think about the arguments at a ball game about an umpires call of a pitch as a strike or a ball.) Hardest to accept is belief in the existence of unobservable things like protons and neutrons and electrons (I, for one, have never seen any of these subatomic particles, yet our scientists tell us they exist...)
The only way I can "believe" in subatomic particles, which I can not directly observe with the tools I have at hand, is to suspend my personal "disbelief" in these objects. The problem with belief becomes even more paradoxical, as I sit here at my keyboard, struggling to bleieve that the keystrokes I am making will somehow be converted into a stream of electrons I can not see or feel or experience, that these electrons will somehow be converted into pulses of light that will travel over a fibreoptic cable (whatever that is???) and be converted back into electrons.... so that these words will magically appear on your computer screen and somehow get into your eye, then your brain, then be recognised as having some meaning... Unbelievable? When I was younger, before Al Gore claimed to have created the internet, it was totally unbelievable. And now, I suspect I am not only believing in the unbelievable, but using it to respond to your question. In fact, as I look around me, most of the technology I see is totally unbelievable. If I close my eyes, will it all disappear in a "poof"? Perhaps you will not see this answer. Perhaps you will read it, and understand that most of our "beliefs" defy rational explanation. It is real hard to believe that a little piece of silica (sand) can be manipulated by man and turned into a chip which can then be used to make a computer. It is real hard to believe that computer can then be used to communicate all over the world in a few seconds. Truely, I believe in the unbelievable all the time.

Answer 2

I put this in the same category as "Miracles".

There are no such things as miracles, only manifestations of previously unknown physical laws.

As time goes on, quite often what was once unbelievable will become commonplace. Look at whats in your hand right now. How long ago would it have been unbelievable?

There are not many things that are truly unbelievable

Answer 3

The other day. What some people think is unbelievable is totally normal to others! All depends on who you are.

Answer 4

Every day I go to work, the unbelievable happens.
Yet, I still don't believe.

Answer 5

when I actually believed I could win the lottery if I entered.

7 years later of entering once a month with different numbers each time ("lucky dip") with the national lottery, I have not even ever won the minimum £10 for getting 3 numbers out of 6.

I think I am actually born to be unlucky.

Answer 6

11 September 2001
7 July 2005
21 July 2005

Answer 7

When i drank 11 pints of Stella & could still tell the taxi driver were i lived.

Answer 8

When some guy beat me at poker playing a 2-7 offsuit!


wtf!

Answer 9

Every day of my life, when the weather fails, when the wind blows and every morning when the sun rises.

Answer 10

Never