Things that are actually pretty weird when you think about them?

Magnets. They seem like magic to me! I've studied how they work and how magnetic forces function, but at the end of the day, it's still magic.

Theatre is really weird, and if it's well done, you can believe you are there, in the world with the actors.

When I was little, a family member once got me to use my imagination in a really big way. They put me in a laundry basket, lifted me into the air, and told me I was in a hot air balloon. Because I was blindfolded, I felt that I was really high up, especially when I was told about the tiny scenery below me (by somebody crouched on the floor, so they would sound as if they were low down). My mind did really funny things when I couldn't see!

@JJsDinerWaffles

I don't think any atheist would argue that things are not/were not created, but that's not a strong argument for assigning who or what is doing the creating.

@almondfingers22

This thread indicates that things are created, not that there is one creator. 'One creator' is a human rationalisation. As is 3 creators, or no creator, or many creators, depending on which belief system you choose.

Hot flushes. Since people obviously didn't live for anything like as long as we do now, who on earth was the first poor soul who lived long enough to have a hot flush? And what did she think was happening to her, did she think she'd accidentally sat on a fire or something?

Also people who do those motorbike stunt things, where they fly over 16 buses and do a spin in the middle. How the hell do you practise that without breaking yourself into a thousand pieces?

I always find it weird to think that other people now live in houses I used to live in, places that were my home are now their home.

@whitewineandmagnums Hahahah I've thought of this

[quote JJsDinerWaffles]@Eckhart oooh interesting! Well I believe in a Trinity so - 3 bakers?![/quote]
What about all the other hypothetical bakers? The Hindu bakers, the pagan bakers....?

Do babies cry in the womb?

@Eckhart oooh interesting! Well I believe in a Trinity so - 3 bakers?!

(although obviously either is possible, and without more info, I can't ever know)

@JJsDinerWaffles

So many posts on this thread point TO the evidence of a creator, rather than away from

Why does it indicate one creator, though, rather than a million different creators?

If I see a table full of cakes, I don't assume there to be 'a baker'. I'd assume lots of people have been making cakes.

I know they're not really used anymore, but fax machines always used to fascinate me! How, what's basically a photocopier and telephone, could copy the information to anywhere in the world.

How all the memories you have, and indeed your very consciousness, are basically chemical reactions in the brain.

Also, animal instincts regarding mating and birth. They don't have ante natal classes so how do solo pet animals (who have never seen another of their pack go through this) know exactly what to do when their babies are born? Do they even know they are pregnant or do they just think 'Wtf is happening to me?!' when tiny things start coming out of them?

I think they do. My dog had a false pregnancy before we had her spayed and started nesting, I.e looking for somewhere to have the pups.

@almondfingers22 I agree! So many posts on this thread point TO the evidence of a creator, rather than away from.

Space. Apparently it's infinite so there's no end to it, BUT at the same time it's expanding. What's it expanding into if there's nothing but space out there?

"Hymens. Why don’t men have something to ‘lose’ when they first have sex too? "

Look up a TED talk on YouTube by two Norwegian women. According to them, the hymen isn't a membrane/skin that you lose. You always have it, it just might/might not tear.

"on mainland Europe the accents / dialects spoken in boarder places are understood by the people on the other side of the boarder, this goins in continuum of about 10 miles, so if you are French but on the Belgian boarder you will understand the Flemish spoken just over the boarder.

You can go in a continuum of 'understanding' from Calais to Russia with people in the same 10 miles understanding but not understanding people further away."

I'm afraid I don't believe this. Any source for it?

Life in general, how cells can be made from nothing and then form into living breathing thinking things, the world and space and how it goes on for ever, if I think about it too much my brain kind of feels dread

It also slowed women down too and you can't fight as well side saddle. Have tried and while it's not uncomfortable, I did feel restricted. Don't care how elegant I looked.

Spelunking you are spot on, side saddle was invented to protect the hymen. From wikipedia:

In Europe, the sidesaddle developed in part because of cultural norms which considered it unbecoming for a woman to straddle a horse while riding. This was initially conceived as a way to protect the hymen of aristocratic girls, and thus the appearance of their being virgins

Dogs can totally understand human language. Dogs have been trained to use sound boards to 'speak'. There are dogs who can understand complex instructions.

Which makes it all the more weird that you never see dogs fetching the newspaper these days...