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I believe covd is bad and real. But a tiny part of my brain is like, naaaah, it's not real, it's fake like a movie. And I'm like, wtf brain, don't you see these horrific front line videos? And my brain is like naaaah germs are probably fake too, handwashing is just superstition

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I honestly feel like a part of my brain does not believe in germs, bacteria, viruses, or anything small. It thinks all the science and microphotography are just good world building like Lord of the rings but is ultimately a cute fantasy. Some parts of my brain are retarded.

7:16 AM · Mar 26, 2020

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@drethelin

Mar 26, 2020

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@Aella_Girl

Have you looked through a microscope yourself? I feel like that helps reify it.

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I have! It's been a few years though. I've also been binging microvideography on YouTube and it hasn't helped

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There’s gotta be a dick joke in here somewhere.

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Had that feeling in second year chem but it was just me. Science is a shared endeavor. scientists do reproduce and build on others work. The competitive nature of the field keeps the vast majority honest.

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I definitely get that feeling on the regular. I've studied and worked in STEM fields my whole life but part of me is just "nah, it's just faith in what some dudes have said and it just happens to line up with the tests sometimes." Wild.

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I often convince myself that death isn't real. I am like "I am the exception, it won't happen to me" and then I am like, 'why you?' and since I don't have an answer that usually stops the stream of thought.

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There may be essential lies we need to believe in order to function.

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Maybe nerds like Lord of the Rings and chemistry becuase they both require you to imagine detailed fantasy worlds with lots of rules.

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Now here's the scary part: *Everybody* is like that, except that most aren't self-aware enough to realize it.

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I felt like this about space until my friend's dad whipped out a telescope and zoomed in on the moons of saturn. Watching those rings with photons from the actuall space bodies reflected off the sun into the telescope made a huge difference.