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?

I thought this was gonna be a really funny thread about genuinely batshit stuff like lizard cults and fairies, and the trans issue came up in something like the third comment.

I do see what you mean (although to me there's not much difference bewteen believing in fairies and believing that a man saying "I'm a woman" makes him a woman - they're both magical thinking). It means it descends into a gender ideology argument - but only because people posted to try to shut it down, so the arguments started. If they hadn't, it would have just been among the list of batshit things.

Also some other topics have appeared multiple times, and some of the "batshit" things have been disagreed with or disproved. The difference is those posts engaged in a genuine discussion or debate. The ones responding to gender ideology being batshit instead just sneered and told us not to talk about it.

That reason she's fat is because she drinks too much diet coke.

By that token, so are you.

if you don’t want this thread to be about trans, stop posting.

You’ve misunderstood the meaning of “derail”. The OP asks us to answer a very simple question. If every poster up to this point, page 22, answered - as I did - “that people can change sex”, they haven’t derailed the thread. They’ve simply answered the question.

Is there an unwritten rule that the OP actually wanted every poster to give a different answer - ?

You can moan about posters giving the same answer but we don’t care. We’re answering the question. Your point is actually pointless.

I actually believed in 2008 that Obama's election would prove that all Americans, no matter their race, could achieve the nations highest office - and all would be well.

I was shocked and disappointed how Obama, and his wife, divided the country racially.

if you don’t want this thread to be about trans, stop posting.

I'm largely ambivalent. It's up to you. It looks like you want it to be about it more than anyone. As long as you can put us gender critical women in our place.

@BlossomsOnATree

It's westerners that hold this belief maybe these particular ones are holding onto their pride that their ancestors couldn't have got this wrong. Whereas, in what is now India and other nearby countries since their civilization it's always been considered that the world is a sphere.
I think it's a pride thing.
(India being a more ancient civilization)

That there's no more dinosaurs because they were too big to fit on the bloody ark.

Jim Morrison feigned his own death and is still alive somewhere parading under the alias of Mr Mojo Risin.

The only tangible reality is that which can be seen, felt and experienced through the limits of human perception.

TSIFT that's interesting - though some ancient Greeks also knew it was round.

There does seem to be a strong element of superiority about a lot of the conspiracy theory beliefs. It's not just about the belief itself, but being of the special class that knows the truth and isn't the sheeple.

A distant relative believes you must never wear bare feet in the kitchen as you will get electrocuted by the fridge.

There was a show in America which told the story about a heart recipient tracing their original family as in the family of the heart donor via what they dreamt - so who knows?!
The hospital came onto say that they didn't give the information as they don't have it themselves.

A distant relative believes you must never wear bare feet in the kitchen as you will get electrocuted by the fridge.

Whereas for me it's because I might stand in cat vom.

I agree - it's beyond horrible and hurtful to say something like that, particularly to someone who has been so traumatically abused.

@Bergamotte, in the early days of fossil discoveries, people used to say they’d been put there by the Devil, to ‘maze men’s minds.’ (Presumably meaning to make them disbelieve the Genesis story of creation.)

Has anyone said that they once believed that Centre Parcs was in a massive dome that covered a huge site, and you just stayed within the dome all the time? I confess I didn't realise it wasn't for quite some time the early adverts gave this impression

I have a friend who sent me a link to a YouTube piece by Rachel Elnaugh, a batshit crazy anti-vaxxer who said the vaccine would be full of nano bots so the authorities could control us. Friend believed RE was really onto something.

Religion

I also knew that transgender people would be mentioned too. Many of you, sure are predicable (and wrong).

I also think that by coming onto a thread and listing the idea as “batshit”

You cannot actually change biological sex though. It is just as batshit as believing any number of improbable things. You can't decide for other people whether they can believe something is batshit or not. Believing that Brexit was a good idea is not batshit in the same way, because the EU isn't a scientific mandate.

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the presdent wasj kennedy and they still this of course they waited in dallas
sometimes jfk jr too

I also knew that transgender people would be mentioned too. Many of you, sure are predicable (and wrong).

The belief mentioned is that you can change sex. It is not possible for humans to change sex. Fish can change sex, and can also breathe underwater naturally. Humans can do neither of these things. It's a belief exactly in line with the one you mention.