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

[PutItInYourPocket]

I've just been thinking about this as I've been lay in the bath.

I'm currently pregnant and baby goes mad when I'm in the bath and I was watching him kicking and squirming inside me and just thought... This is actually pretty odd when you think about it. I have a living thing that's moving around inside me!

A friend had to have a blood transfusion not so long ago and she can't think about that for long without feeling squeamish that someone else's blood was inside her!

What other things do you find strange when you really think about them?

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.

@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.

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

@FenellaVelour

Every day, someone on Earth unwittingly does the biggest poo in the world for that day.

This is amazing! And you would never know!! Where is the medal and cash prize??

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

Do babies cry in the womb?

[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....?

@whitewineandmagnums Hahahah I've thought of this

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.

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?

@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.

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!

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.

@Metroland

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

Thanks. 🙂 It’s so weird that such a little piece of flesh has influenced how women have been allowed to live for centuries.

@Metroland

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.

I read this as you tried fighting sidesaddle

Another one for me is flowers. So basically you can have a small seed and a pot of brown earth, some light and some water. From it will grow a stem of bright green with a beautiful yellow head of golden leaves..... where are those pigments from?

I have so enjoyed reading this thread ......

Having random curious thoughts about things and then speculating through them and often not getting an answer is something that takes up way too much of my brain space and time lol.

What fascinates me is how some people seem terrified of thinking too deeply about anything - they either brand it a waste of time and energy or some sort of heresy even when it's something that can have no real world consequence just by discussing thoughts. I'm quite fascinated by the concept of the Mandela effect, and some of the memory things have really made me question my own recollections - I know that it is all most likely because the human brain is fallible / other perfectly scientific explanation, nothing to see here move along - BUT what if it was time travellers tweaking stuff for shits and giggles? Would make a fun film concept (and has pretty much been done) - but I have had conversations with people where they have virtually become apoplectic because they just think it's all ridiculous so no point in talking about it all...... people are sometimes so scared of what seems to be unknown, but I'm fascinated!

And also God versus ghosts - a chap talked to a burning bush and it's God - someone sees someone they didn't even know was dead in some cases and people fall over themselves to say it's impossible. Truth is we can't KNOW 100% either way in either scenario because we have no evidence. And weird stuff does happen - was it Arthur C Clarke who said that magic is just stuff that science hasn't explained yet?

And on that note - wouldn't it be so bland to live in a world without mystery? If we nail everything down then what would be the point of existence at all?

And why are we here?

LOL OP you've got me started again - but thank you - remembering these mysteries exist is one of the things that help me out of my despondency and the feeling of drudgery of each day.

I ordered a box of seeds once for a large allotment project I was involved with. The box was about the size of a small microwave, and contained seeds for lots of different vegetables.

Somebody said to me that the little box had the potential to feed the world, given a few generations. Blew my mind, just to hold it in my hands.

Then someone else said 'Think of all the genetics that have gone into it, too. You are holding so many millions of years of historical development in your hands...'

Language. A word was invented for every being, thing, item, thought, colour. And made it catch on so others learnt it and could use it to communicate. Then the same thing in other countries using different words. Then we learnt to put these words into symbols to write down. And a collection of those symbols spells out words that everyone can read.
Where would you even start with it
Swear words are just a sound but we've made them socially offensive.
Also names. They are a word allocated to a person or animal that the person who chose it liked the sound of.

Sexual attraction. Why do I look at some human beings and think “yeh, this one has the right collection of attributes that makes me want to take my clothes off and touch them on their private places”?!

We all come from people who survived the Black Death.

The wee running commentary voice that's in your head, it never shuts up, but it's not actually a voice, but in your head it's your own voice.

Love this thread!

I find the names we have for things odd -who decided that the thing we eat off is a plate, or that a particular animal is called a chicken, or that the thing we sit on is a chair/sofa etc. I often wonder if there were arguments about what the names should be

The order of a meal i.e. starter, main, dessert and who decided what was acceptable for each course? Why is soup acceptable for starters but not dessert. Or steak is fine as a main course but wouldn't be ordered for a starter.

Possibly a bit grim but the dying process when someone comes naturally to the end of their life. I cared for my Nan in her last two weeks and although I didn't really think about it at the time, now I find it remarkable how the body closes down in stages. Like it knows you no longer need food etc. Very bizarre.

@rosegoldivy I've often what language a person who is truly bilingual has an their inner voice. Say a polish person living in England and in there dreams if I appear do I speak English or Polish. My children have friends who were born here but parents don't really speak English but their first language would be English as they only really use their parents native language when speaking to them. How ever the first language they learned was their parents. This thread is making my head hurt but it's the best one in ages 😊

I often wonder who made the world and planets, and if there is a God, who made them? And who made that person? If God just......came to be, from what form? From a big bang maybe? Or jelly or some substance? And what made the stuff that caused the big bang or lifeform to appear? And what created the thing that made that, that caused and created God and the world? And who created that who created that who created that who created God? And etc on and on.

And if heaven is real, is there ever a time that it can become over-crowded? Can the planet become over-crowded with the ghosts/spirits of deceased people so they are all bumping into each other's apparition form? Is there somewhere in heaven you can go where you can be alone and get some peace, and not see, like 50 or so other spirits?

Lastly, this one puzzles me most but not being religious I wouldn't know who to ask this question of. Say if you were married to your first love and your husband pre-deceased you, and you unexpectedly found love a second time re-married, who would you be reunited with in heaven and be obligated in ghostly form, to be with? Your first husband, or your second husband? Or would it be like a threesome/bigamy in ghost form? If you loved your second husband more than your first, but your first husband wanted you both to be together in heaven, who would God dictate you choose? So many questions.

I haven't thought of hell yet and all it entails. I don't really want to. lol