I saw a post asking why people believe in God. I was raped as a child, tortured by a rogue military group when I was going through military training at the age of 18, and then diagnosed with a difficult form of schizophrenia when I was 25 yo in the military. This world gives us a seemingly endless list of reasons to give up, and according to too many historical accounts I’ve seen, it’s always been this way.
But there are lots of hints that official accounts may not be correct. Just because people can’t prove something like the spiritual realm exists, it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. In the year 1700, no one knew about electromagnetic waves. Does that mean that they didn’t exist? I would argue not. The same argument can be made for anything that science can’t prove to be true, including the spiritual realm. It’s entirely possible that it just hasn’t been scientifically proven yet, and for all we know it may never be. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, though.
There’s also the fact that after so many millennia of horrible suffering (according to too many history books), the human race should have been done in a long time ago, simply from the sheer psychological weight of it all. But for some reason, it hasn’t been. The human race continues to recover, again and again.
Then there’s the fact that if there is no source of truth that exists outside of the human race and what it senses, then the only “proof” that humans ever have always eventually ends up pointing back around to itself. This argues that truth is purely evidence based, which leads to the fallacy I mentioned above about electromagnetic waves not existing in the year 1700.
These are just some thoughts I’ve had. I expect to get downvoted, but these are my personal observations, so I’m not really interested in being gaslit into negating my own personal observations. I expect that the comments will use my mental illness as a way to convince me that I’m not capable of seeing the world correctly, which would seem cruel to me. If your arguments are based on that, then you’re spreading hopelessness based on your own ignorance of how schizophrenia actually works, and hopelessness isn’t capable of creating anything of worth in life.