Aliens have to exist. Statistically speaking, this cannot possibly be the only planet to support life, intelligent or not. It's just that the other ones that do are probably very very far away.
I think ghosts exist, but they're not really dead people. It's more a matter of distorted realities briefly crossing into one another.
As for the government spying on everyone. Who cares? Even if they are watching everyone 24 hours a day, seven days a week, they need absolutely millions of staff to do it. If you Assume that one person can look through the complete lives of three people a day by fast forwarding through things like sleeping, eating, and other mundane tasks that waste time, but don't contribute anything to societies well being, or detriment, then you'd need one third of the population to be watching the remaining two thirds, and each other. can you really imagine over two billion people being paid by the government to keep tabs on everyone? can you imagine how much all those wages would cost?
Same with CCTV footage. I worked in a supermarket, and a lot of the time CCTV was never being watched. Because we knew from experience that nothing would happen a lot of the time. Most people behave themselves and do nothing. The only time the CCTV came in to play was when we'd actively caught someone stealing, when the CCTV was then used as evidence that it had happened after the fact. That's what a lot of CCTV is, it's just there recording everything, so that if something should happen, it's on camera, and can be used as evidence. You might be being watched by camera's at all times, but very few people are watching those cameras, and they watch very little of it.
I think ghosts exist, but they're not really dead people. It's more a matter of distorted realities briefly crossing into one another.
As for the government spying on everyone. Who cares? Even if they are watching everyone 24 hours a day, seven days a week, they need absolutely millions of staff to do it. If you Assume that one person can look through the complete lives of three people a day by fast forwarding through things like sleeping, eating, and other mundane tasks that waste time, but don't contribute anything to societies well being, or detriment, then you'd need one third of the population to be watching the remaining two thirds, and each other. can you really imagine over two billion people being paid by the government to keep tabs on everyone? can you imagine how much all those wages would cost?
Same with CCTV footage. I worked in a supermarket, and a lot of the time CCTV was never being watched. Because we knew from experience that nothing would happen a lot of the time. Most people behave themselves and do nothing. The only time the CCTV came in to play was when we'd actively caught someone stealing, when the CCTV was then used as evidence that it had happened after the fact. That's what a lot of CCTV is, it's just there recording everything, so that if something should happen, it's on camera, and can be used as evidence. You might be being watched by camera's at all times, but very few people are watching those cameras, and they watch very little of it.
