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Reason for Belief: Perception and Observation

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Reason for Belief: Perception and Observation

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Definition: What you see, feel hear etc. must be true. However, one person may perceive something completely different than another (e.g. Person A the dog is black. Person B the dog is blue). Two people could attend the same event and recall the same event, but may have different memories pertaining to the event.
Connection: I would like to present an optical illusion. My reason is many people may perceive it differently, and have different feelings surrounding the illusion.

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7 Optical Illusions That Will Put Your Brain to Work

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Definition: Simplicity is a very easy definition. In respect for reasons of belief, it means in the simplest terms it is the "easiest" answer. https://durhamcollege.desire2learn.com/d2l/le/content/231697/viewContent/2679248/View
Connection: This is likely the easiest reason for belief to disprove. Seeing a medium or a psychic and having your future predicted is easy to believe, but is it realistic? Is it realistic to believe that the universe was created by an all-powerful being within 7 days? We believe it because it's easy. http://www.iep.utm.edu/simplici/#SH4a
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Definition: We want to believe because it has an underlying special meaning to us, such as the automatic belief in God (please note I am not arguing this or trying to disprove, I am simply trying to prove an emotional connection), as it is easy to believe when born into it.
Connection: This photo suits emotional connection well. Many of us can relate to having that battle between logic (representing our rational thought - the brain), and emotion (representing what we believe because it makes us feel good - the heart).
http://www.positive-personal-growth.com/the-battle-between-the-mind-and-the-heart.html
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Welcome to Red Flags and Reasons for Belief!

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Welcome to Red Flags and Reasons for Belief!

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The goal is to express and explain different concepts surrounding the paranormal and unexplained. Please enjoy!

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Definition: Typically based on guess work and the belief of what ancestors have stated is true. Examples may include ancient Chinese medical practices, or even practices such as bloodletting (withdrawing blood to cure a disease) https://durhamcollege.desire2learn.com/d2l/le/content/231697/viewContent/2679255/View .
Connection: I have selected an image of the Mayan Calendar. My reason for this stems from the epidemic that the world would end in 2012 based on the predictions made with the Mayan Calendar. It was predicted that there would be no planetary alignment and thus creating an apocalypse. This myth was quickly debunked, as it is 2018 and we are still here. https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/maya-world-end.html

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Definition: The belief that higher powers such as governments are keeping information vital and private from its citizens.
Connection: While this website provides insight to the American government, it still provides insight that there are many things that the government wants us to believe or not believe, while covering many secrets that they believe the general public have no business knowing.

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There are secret bunkers literally everywhere.

Fact: there's definitely a lot our government isn't telling us. We're not talking about conspiracy theories, like who really shot JFK or that Area 51 is really populated by little green men. We mean the secrets hiding in plain sight, some of which we've found out about, and some of which are still mysterious. Speaking of Area 51-whatever is going on there the government is still weirdly secretive about. As that old saying goes, if you're not a little bit paranoid, you're not paying attention.

Here are 20 secrets that the U.S. government has tried to keep from its citizens, and what we do (and don't) know about them so far. And for more fun trivia, check out these 20 Secrets Disney Employees Won't Tell You.

Could drugs and hypnosis be used to control people's minds and turn them into unwitting assassins for the CIA? That's what the agency attempted to discover in the 50s, with a top-secret research program called Project MK-ULTRA. Turns out, LSD just makes people want to listen to 45 minute guitar solos.

There were a lot of crazy attempts to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro during the 70s, from booby-trapped cigars to poison milkshakes, but none quite so nutty as the exploding seashell. The CIA knew that Castro was a big fan of scuba-diving, so they plotted to plant a brightly colored conch shell in one of his favorite dive spots, triggered to explode when he touched it. They never followed through on it, although the CIA director did purchase two books on Caribbean mollusks. And for more great trivia, check out the 28 most enduring myths in American history.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt didn't want the public to see him using a wheelchair, so to keep that secret during his visits to New York, his train didn't stop directly at Grand Central Station, but rather a secret station called Track 61 that was never listed on any train map. Although it's now abandoned, the station was used by wealthy travelers and high-profile politicians who wanted to come and go to New York without being noticed. And for more historical facts, here are 30 things you never knew about royal weddings.

No, this isn't a joke. The CIA seriously spent millions in the late 60s investigating whether domesticated cats could be trained to spy on the Soviet Union. The project was named Acoustic Kitty, because of course it was. It didn't work out, much to the surprise of nobody, but we still have this memorandum, published by the National Security Archive, to prove that spy kitties was almost a real thing. Oh, and speaking of cats: Here are 15 Amazing Benefits of Adopting a Pet.

Listen, if you need to test what happens to human bodies during radioactive fallout and you need around 900 human cadavers to do so, you can't be expected to "ask" all the deceased's families for their permission. Or at least that's what researchers for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission thought during the 50s. Decades later, in the mid-90s, President Bill Clinton formed an advisory committee to investigate and learned the whole staggering truth.

Long before we landed on the moon in 1969, the U.S. Air Force had other plans for the lunar surface. They proposed a "Lunar Based Earth Bombardment System" in 1959, which apparently involved blowing up a nuclear weapon on the moon. Why? According to physicist Leonard Reiffel, who was involved in the project, the whole point was to "impress the world with the prowess of the United States." Personally, we're glad they went with the "one small step for man" plan instead.

No one could have accused the U.S. government of having discriminatory hiring practices in 1945. Well, at least not if you were a Nazi. Post-World War II, President Harry Truman approved the hiring of thousands of German scientists and engineers, including Walter Schreiber, a medical military officer for the Nazis who found a second job at the Air Force School of Medicine in Texas.

It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but the CIA actually did propose committing acts of terrorism against American citizens and then blaming it on Cuba. A memo from March 13, 1962, delivered to the president by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and dubbed Operation Northwoods, suggested ways to justify a military conflict with the Castro's communist regime, including "Sink (a) ship near harbor entrance. Conduct funerals for mock-victims" and "...blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba." President Kennedy rejected the proposal.

Project 1794, a program created by the U.S. Air Force in the 50s, attempted to do what every science fiction-loving kid dreamed about: Create a flying saucer. Their saucer-shaped aircraft, which they never got around to completing, would have been capable of shooting down enemy bombers and flying at ridiculously fast speeds. If you feel up to the task of making your own saucer, check out the declassified blueprints.

Hundreds of unarmed civilians-anywhere from 347 to 504, including women and children-in the South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai, were murdered by a platoon of American soldiers during March of 1968. High-ranking army officers tried to cover up the massacre for years before it was revealed by U.S. reporters, but even then only one commanding officer was found guilty and served just a few years under house arrest.

When a U.S. B-52 bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed in Greenland in 1968, the government acted fast to make sure all the radioactive material was recovered. They got everything, or so they claimed. But in 2008, a BBC investigation revealed that one of the nukes was maaaaaaaybe still in Greenland somewhere.

This U.S. Navy attack submarine-the third and last last Seawolf-class submarine in existence, whose primary mission is finding and destroying enemy vessels-has been up to something recently, but nobody is entirely sure what. In September of this year, it was spotted flying the Jolly Roger, the skull and crossbones pirate flag normally displayed after a successful mission. But what exactly was that mission? The Navy isn't telling.

You'd never guess by looking at the Greenbriar Hotel in West Virginia that there's a 112,544-square-foot bunker hidden underneath the resort, with enough bedrooms to accommodate over a thousand Congressmen. The shelter was built in the 60s specifically for members of Congress, just in case Russia bombed us and a nuclear winter made the country uninhabitable.

They called it "enhanced interrogation techniques," but according to a Senate Report released in 2014, the CIA has possibly been engaged in wrongful torture of suspected criminals for years.

You probably know Julia Child as a famous American chef and TV host. But according to files released by the U.S. National Archives in 2008, she was also one of our secret weapons during World War II, when she worked for the Office of Strategic Services (which would become the CIA) and personally developed shark repellent to protect Navy men in shark-infested waters. That's right, her first recipe was shark repellent.

Think journalists have it hard today? They had nothing on reporters in 1963, some of whom were spied on by CIA agents as part of Operation Mockingbird. In documents declassified in 2007, there were reports of several journalists having their home and office telephones wiretapped, solely because they had contacts with "senators, members of Congress, and other well-placed individuals."

You won't find it on any city map, but 13 stories below Grand Central Terminal in New York is a secret basement known only as M42, which housed the rotary power converters that kept the railroads running during the second World War. Adolf Hitler wanted to sabotage the converters, which apparently would be as easy as pouring sand into them. Armed guards protected the room, with orders to shoot anyone who tried to enter carrying a bag or bucket of sand. At least one attempt was made, by four saboteurs working for Hitler, but they were stopped before they ever found the secret basement.

Here's what we know about the U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane. It's been in orbit around the Earth (off and on) since 2010, it's only 29 feet long, and nobody has any idea what it's doing up there. Well, the Air Force does, obviously, but they're not telling. Some have speculated that it's a battle ship of some kind, capable of shooting down or capturing enemy satellites.

Probably the most famous secret military base in the country, Area 51 is located in the middle of the Nevada desert, 83 miles outside Las Vegas, and is used for... something. There have been wild rumors of extraterrestrials and crashed alien spacecraft being stored somewhere in the facility. The CIA didn't even acknowledge that Area 51 existed until 2013, and all they'll admit to is that the base has been used to test spy planes.

Every July, the rich and powerful and politically connected gather together at a 2,700 acre campground in northern California for their own version of Burning Man. What really goes on there is anybody's guess, but the guest list has included U.S. presidents and oil barons, and activities have included everything from druid worship to planning for the Manhattan Project. This isn't some conspiracy theory, this is where guys like Rumsfeld, Kissinger, and Rockefeller go to vacation and do things they don't want the rest of us to see.
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National Secrets The Government Doesn't Want You To Know

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There are secret bunkers literally everywhere. Fact: there's definitely a lot our government isn't telling us. We're not talking about conspiracy theories, like who really shot JFK or that Area 51 is really populated by little green men. We mean the secrets hiding in plain sight, some of which we've found out about, and some of which are still mysterious.

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Definition: Someone of authority, such as a leader of a country or someone such as a teacher or parent to a child who states something is true, so it is believed even without supporting facts.
Connection: I have picked this video to use the commercial examples. In this case, celebrities will make an endorsement to sell a product and to make money of of the endorsement. They may not necessarily believe the function of the product to work, but because of their position of power (the ability to sell and appeal to their fans and supporters), it is easy for them to convince the public that the product does work and that the public should purchase it.

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Definition: All natural refers to typically natural medical practices, such as natural health, use of crystals, use of organic food etc.
Connection: Many ancient civilizations used various gems and crystals because they believed they possessed healing properties. Today, many people still rely on the healing powers of gems, and are even used in facilities such as spas. The crystal, such as amethyst is placed on a point of the body, and it contributes to healing. This is a great website for someone who is interested in learning more about the powers of crystals.
https://www.livescience.com/40347-crystal-healing.html

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Elizabeth Peterson and Jonathan Gordon and Rachel Ross

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Crystal Healing: Stone-Cold Facts About Gemstone Treatments

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Crystal healing is an alternative medicine technique that is supposed to tap into natural healing energy.

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Definition: To search for evidence to prove one's belief.
Connection: I have picked this image as it represents what many of us are guilty of. Many of us will feel a medical symptom and begin to research said symptom. Once we start reading on the symptom, we convince ourselves that we have a disease or illness.
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