What’s the most batshit belief you’ve ever known someone to hold

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just met up with a long time friend (lovely, but utterly away with the fairies) who honestly believes the earth is flat as well as a whole host of other similarly crazy things. It got me thinking what’s the most batshit thing you’ve ever known anyone to think?

Sounds like someone had poorly explained ovulation to him

and we HAVE a winner

That kier starmer would make a good PM.
I suppose if it's only for an afternoon, it's worth a try.

That if you want something enough, the universe will give it to you.

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Yes! A friend once told me to “put it out to the universe”. She actually spent money on books about this bullshit.

I saw a porn star being interviewed once. She says she didn’t insist on her make Co -stars using condoms to prevent transmission of STDs, HIV etc because the most important thing was to not worry about it… she genuinely seemed to believe that worrying reduced her body’s ability to fight off std’s. More than not using condoms would.

This is/was a popular opinion on MN. I thought posters were being sarcastic they weren't.

That humans have the right to bring into existence, torture and then murder animals for a meal

That turmeric is a valid, more healthy alternative to treat aggressive triple negative breast cancer than chemotherapy. Even more so if it is organic turmeric.

She had this special toaster bag for fish.

You sure this wouldn't work 🤔

Had they got malaria mixed up with cholera maybe? Thought that carrying their own clean water around was the answer…

I don't think people always realise what a big killer malaria is throughout Africa and it's a constant battle because the mosquitos develop resistance to the nets and sprays.

Beachsidesunset · Today 10:48
That people can change their sex.

Yes, this.
But look out, you’ll be deported any minute.

someone cut me out of their life because they found out I’m Jewish.

they genuinely believe we eat food made from Christian baby’s blood.

Yup

An old colleague genuinely believed that terracotta was made from turtles - was genuinely outraged that nothing was being done about their plight (becoming garden pots) and someone should tell David Attenborough to sort it out. Her colleagues all fell about laughing, and she was so convinced that she was right/ her team were winding her up saying she was wrong that she came into us in Legal to put them all straight. This woman was an otherwise sharp, 30 something YO team leader, so not like she was particularly gullible or scatty.

Christ knows how we did it, but we all managed to keep straight faces until she left the room!

There are so many, aren't there?

Flat Earth
Prayers can cure cancer (or anything else)
Brexit was a great idea
People can change sex/men can be women, etc.
Moon landings didn't really happen
Homeopathy works

To be genuinely batshit it has to fly in the face of all available evidence or just have no evidence or it at all, so I don't think we can include party-political beliefs, no matter how crazy they may seem from the 'other' side -- people can, and do, argue these from evidence, even if that evidence is 'wrong' from the other side of the fence.

This one irks me so much. And if shockingly the universe doesn't "reward you in abundance", it's you're own fault for not "manifesting" correctly. 🙄

I saw a video on insta by some woo guru talking about how if manifesting hasn't worked for you, it's because you held on to the intention. Supposedly you're to set the intention, release it to the universe, then let it go. And here I was thinking the whole idea of the Law of Attraction was to focus on the thing you want?

They gaslight people and move the goalposts so it's always you're own fault this nonsense hasn't worked for you.

I was very much in the cautious camp, but that poster was delightfully batshit.

There was another poster who opined that even if you were already purchasing essentials you shouldn't pick up a bar of chocolate or a bottle of wine with your essentialshop as the time it took to get it was time being used for frivolous, unacceptable reasons.

That if a man fathers a child with you they are legally obligated to pay your rent or mortgage until the child leaves education.

When the father of their child left they didn’t do this but more than one relative still trots the line out about being legally obligated 🤦🏻‍♀️

Also believes you have more rights to their money/property if your not married.

The late Norman St John- Stevas MP once said in a radio interview that the only sex education he received was from a nun who told him that rats were male and mice were female

That people can change biological sex.

That the covid vaccine was intended to wipe the vaccinated out.

That it's illegal for women to keep their maiden names on marriage.

She also thought the Channel Tunnel was made out of glass and you could see all the fish swimming around when you drove through it..

That would be amazing! They should have made it like that.

I knew someone who had his house ceilings covered in ceramic tiles to “stop the neighbours’ wifi getting in” and damaging his children’s brains. He firmly believed that there was some kind of mind control going on through wifi. He actually earned a lot of money in a large investment bank, which doesn’t say much for the intellectual quality of their bankers. I didn’t have the heart to explain the basic physics of wifi to him, but his touching reliance on ceiling tiles was quite something.

Another one: that bits of easily copied badly drawn “digital art” are somehow magical “non-fungible” stores of millions of pounds, and will be worth absolute fortunes in the future, when the most valuable things in existence will be ugly cartoon drawings of apes.

That babies shouldn’t wear hats because they breathe through the soft spots on their heads

That lockdowns could eliminate Covid