'It's like a ghost, but that's not possible because ghosts do not exist." A little quote I got out of one of my schoolbooks, and because that sentence was way more interesting than the rest I started to think about it. I mean, if you've never seen a ghost, how do you know it doesn't exist? If you think like that you just assume they don't exist. Just because there's no evidence. But do you need evidence for everything you believe?
I think I've said it at some point before, but I don't believe in God, or Allah, or Buddha or any other god. I'm an absolute atheist, but that doesn't mean God doesn't exist. There are so many religious people in the world (I think I've read somewhere that 3/4 of the world population is religious) and they all believe in something/someone without having any physical proof. People also believe in angels, the afterlife, aliens, magic, unicorns without having any proof. Do they exist? We don't know, but that doesn't mean you're not allowed to believe in their existence.
The thing is, if there's no evidence, you can neither deny nor proof its existence, so why would we immediately assume that it doesn't exist?
If you think of it, those things actually do exist. Somehow we've thought of those things, so they exist in stories, in our heads. Or as Dumbledore said it: "Of course it is happening inside your head, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
I believe that the things you want to exist do exist, even though they might only exist in the minds of the people who believe that exact same thing. Vague? Maybe it is, but I guess that's what believing is like.
Any thoughts on the subject?
