Asklemmy

Free will. I want to believe I can do as I please and am making decisions that could go either way. But I think it more likely that time is just unwinding, every action a result of some previous actions, all the way back to the big bang and it's impossible to step out of this stream.

Most people at their core are good people

That rational and empirical evidence would cause people to reconsider their intuitive perspectives and lead into constructive conversation.

Karma - there are way too many shitty people who just continue to be shitty because nothing ever comes back to bite them. Meanwhile, people who actually try to help are kicked around the most.

Showing people irrefutable proof of something will change their minds.

That our benevolent alien overlords are gonna show up aaaaaany minute now...

That humans can survive the climate disaster they created.

The notion that "facts matter".

I've spent my entire life believing that facts don't care about feelings. That scientific truth doesn't require your belief in it in order to be true. That at the end of the day, reasoning will beat emotion...

By far the most dis-heartening thing about the last few years (to me) has been accepting the idea they "facts" are "whatever is shouted the loudest".

It, more than anything else, makes me feel helpless. If the enemy isn't even playing with the same fact-sheet... How do you even begin to fight that?

Religion, mythology and probably anything mystical. It's very easy why people believe in them, they're so alluring and genuinely wish they had truth to them. Unfortunately the only truth to be found is ancient wisdom, and even that can be very iffy sometimes.

Trickle-down economics.

U.S. democracy

The revolutionary potential of the American people.

Reincarnation - I’d like to believe I’ve met others before, maybe even many times. It would explain some stuff like why you’re irrationally drawn or repelled by certain people.

A thing beyond our understanding on this world, I wish that thoses humans on top of the world would understand at least once that they can't control everything, and that the world stays full of wonder.

I would have said also yōkais, but i actually believe in them so it doesn't count i suppose.

The world will recognize the good deeds you do

The average person having empathy

An afterlife. Might be nice.

Hanlon's razor. It's pretty clear some people can be stupid and malicious simultaneously, or will even feign stupidity to hide malice.

That people are inherently good. This not being the case is reinforced near daily by people's behaviors.

Ghosts. My 18 year old cat passed end of last year and she was one of my best friends. I just wish that instead of me knowing that the shades of her I see are actively produced by my mind (i notice me doing them) that she'd really spook around me, that i could just embrace the little shade and show her that i still love her. Well now I'm crying at work

Heaven. Or just the idea that some part of the consciousness outlives the body. I really hate that this is all I get, there's so much I'll never get to do just because my parents decided when I was too young to decide for myself.

Magic

That Democracy can be an effective check on Capitalism. Liberalism is my favorite fairy tale. If all the propaganda I was fed as a kid in the 90s was actually true, I'd be in paradise.

The world was ruled by the Illuminati and they were compassionate about it. Because what we are ruled by is a bunch of assholes.

diskworld. I specially like the city watch

The 'common' part of 'common sense'

That life is fair.

My cat can understand everything I say but chooses not to listen

God

@ParlaMint Afterlife.

Death is boring and awful. I don't want it. Nobody really wants it. If you think you do, a) get help and b) you really don't.

Material conditions will improve in my lifetime