What’s your most insane belief?

[MeiganMcSeinna6]

as in , people would see as strange you would think that

I would say
Hollyoaks is world class.

OMG I'm on page 13

Rainbow bridge 😘 I will meet my fur babies again

[quote Treesandsheepeverywhere]@NoNoThankYou
TreesandSheep I just had a gentle laugh at that as a subtle dumping method. I can't decide whether he's quite sweet or a bit of a wanker grin (maybe both?!)
You sound very nice too, though!

Thank you. He certainly was a bit of both. It was a very confusing relationship that taught me a lot.

@ThatWardrobe
And did you then marry your next date@Treesandsheepeverywhere?

I did, that was the freaky part. It had happened with all 4 of his previous gfs.
I'd never really thought about getting married but he was adamant I would marry straight after him. He used to reference my husband when drunk or in his sleep. I was heartbroken when I finally ended it despite how dysfunctional it was.
I met my now husband 6 months later and we both knew at the end of the first date we'd marry. It wasn't until after DH proposed that ex's words popped into my head. After we got married, he ex messaged out of the blue. When I mentioned I was now married, he said, told you. .
I hope he finds he's forever after.[/quote]
That's unbelievable! Five in a row! Sad about him knowing it and saying it in his sleep. Poor man!

@Onthebrink87
totally get the feather thing .. I am convinced when I see a robin it’s my mum .. always pops in my garden just at the right time she’s needed ..I also have had a “ proof “ feather left on my bed when I was feeling down one day and needed to know she was around ( weirdly it was a pigeon feather too .. found in top of my kindle I had left on the bed !! )
Our old cat Hercules ( cos he was mahoooosive!!) stayed around for a while after he died .. we would hear him padding around, hear the funny little noises he used to make when he jumped and feel him walk passed us in the house ..those kinda things … insane ? Maybe .. but definitely comforting

I believe that fairies might be real.

I also believe that our soul isn't just in our body but much bigger, and this bigger part we aren't aware of is our "higher self". I sometimes think, when passing other people "I don't know you, but maybe our higher selves are greeting each other" or if people are arguing, I wonder if their higher selves are chuckling indulgently and saying to each other "what are they like?!".

That the dinosaurs had good stuff like computers and shops and pop tarts and we just never found the evidence in the fossil record.

….I also believe that if I make myself very floppy and somehow grip the floor with my feet I’ll be super heavy and impossible to lift. ‘Now try it!’ I used to say to my OH, adopting the pose. And he’d lift me up and say ‘nope’. I’d just assume I wasn’t doing it fiercely enough.

@squirmyworm

….I also believe that if I make myself very floppy and somehow grip the floor with my feet I’ll be super heavy and impossible to lift. ‘Now try it!’ I used to say to my OH, adopting the pose. And he’d lift me up and say ‘nope’. I’d just assume I wasn’t doing it fiercely enough.

I mean — I kind of agree with you, it really feels like this SHOULD work. Even if laws of physics blah di blah

Ha @Mothership4two I do the salt thing too and also don't believe in the devil.

We must be hedging our bets 😂

This is more my DM than me as she is vey woo.

Years ago (this was all my late teens/early 20s and I am 41 now). I saw some psychics with her and she brings up the following regularly:
One wouldn't read me - said nothing bad would happen but there was something stopping her
One said I would marry a blonde haired, blue eyed man. I did - shocking i know(!)
And the one my DM talks about most is the one who said I am an old soul and this is my last time on earth. I am here to guide everyone around me who is newer. The 'proof' of this is that I am very laidback (seen it all before l assume) and that I very rarely jump when there is a loud bang .

So there you go 🤷🏼‍♀️

That I might learn to play the piano eventually.

'Morning Mary, how's Marcus ?'

^re magpies

'Hey thought, hey wisdom!'

^re a pair of Crows or ravens

@TacoSunday

This is hard to explain but I think that good people (like me!) aren’t actually any better than criminals and people who do bad things. How do I not know that I wouldn’t be like that if I had their upbringing/life? All humans are just a mix of genes and then their life experiences.

This is hard to reckon with when you meet truly nasty people but then again....why are they like that? Aren’t they, like me, just trying to meet their human needs? Theirs just happen to be a bit fucked up. And how do I know that if I was inside their body and not mine since birth that I would be any different?

@TacoSunday I don't think that's a crazy belief at all; I think it's very likely that any of us could do bad things, if our lives/circumstances led us that way.

That ghosts exist.
Thst the universe/ solar system is like a clock and the stars have some influence on our lives...the moon definately does.

@oldwhyno

You don't HAVE to sneeze. Any sneeze can be avoided and you don't have to use your fingers, a tissue or anything like that, just sheer nasal concentration.

I love sneezing. I hate losing a sneeze.

Refering to previous comments...why is believing in homeopathy and crystals any more worrying thsn believing in a temperamental MALE sky fairy called God who dishes out rewards and punishments and whose followers decimated / colonised tribal people all over the world?
I would say even daft homeopathy is far more benign than a so called god.
I put male in capitsls as the belief in a male god is responsible for repression of women and the patriarchal dominance i believe.

It’s not homeopathy and crystals that are worrying...It’s the marked trend in recent years toward ridiculous cultic behaviour on a grand scale - magical thinking, anti-scientific, anti-rational thought, at its core being an attitude of no-boundaries-at-all-because-we-no-longer-must-strive-to-do-or-be-good.

I’m not religious, I’m agnostic at best. But I firmly believe that if man created God in his own image, it’s because it was absolutely necessary to do so, to contain the evil that lies in the underbelly of humanity and ensure that good has sufficient chance to prevail. And we are no more sophisticated and evolved now than we were thousands of years ago. Those perimeters in society existed for very good reason and their absence is already being felt now and will wreak havoc in years to come unless the tide turns.

But that’s really a discussion for another day.

(I recognise the irony that many people will look at that and say, but that’s what religious is like, at least in part. Might be true, but it is, I believe, on the whole, the lesser evil and dangerous of two imperfect systems. However it’s much too much to discuss on this thread. And I’ve not set it out rigorously here because it would take a thesis to do so. I must also add that not all religions are equal.)

Sigh. Insert in place of ‘religious’ in that first sentence of the second comment...

Bloody great post, @Ninkanink. Depressing though.

@Bellend101

That if you eat two bananas in a row then spin around, you die. I heard it once and I know it sounds fucking ridiculous but I am way too scared to prove the "theory" wrong.

Just tried it. Exactly 2 bananas in quick succession, followed by spinning anticlockwise. Still alive. I'll try clockwise tomorrow and let you kno..... aaaaaaaaaaghhhhhh......

@Brainwave89

To think when I see a robin, that it is actually my long since passed mum coming to see how I am....

I’ve always felt that robins are messengers. Loads of examples connecting them to dead people in my life - for instance, I lost my mum last year. The day before she died I saw 2 dead robins (one crushed in a car park, the other drowned in a bucket of water - have never ever seen a dead robin before or since) and I knew my mum’s time was up.

When I was in the depths of grief, walking in the woods on my own and crying many months later, I asked her where she was. I shit you not, a robin suddenly flew down onto the path in front of me. It followed me for a kilometre or more, landing on branches right next to me or on the path ahead as I walked, looking at me all the time and totally unafraid of me or my dog. Again, I’ve never seen one in the woods before or since, let alone have one follow me like that. Probably a coincidence but it doesn’t feel that way.

Btw, all you magpie people are plain wrong - surely everyone must know you say “Captain, captain, oh my captain” to the lone unlucky one, then you quickly search for another one who’s the bringer of joy … (literally no idea where I got that bit of crazy from - tend to keep it to myself ).

Thanks @lazylinguist!

Yes, it is horrendously depressing. But on a good day I also find it very hopeful. Survival instinct is built into us and dictates that sooner or later good must prevail, for the continued security of humanity. We may fall into the depths of depravity but at some point the world has to right itself. It just remains to be seen how low we fall and how long redemption might take.

The paradox of my belief sounds insane: I believe that belief does not prove reality. So, my belief does not prove that my belief is true. Nonetheless, reality might be able to prove my belief true. So belief alone does not prove belief. The only sane thing about it is that I don't dwell on it.

@OverweightPidgeon

I believe that if I stretch my legs out in front of me with nothing supporting them underneath then my legs will bend the wrong way and my feet will hit me in the face .

Bahahaha!