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

[Ifyouwannabe1]

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 that was April?😊

Evangelical christians

Your last three posts have comprised simple personal insults. You are making the debate toxic.

other people read these posts, you know

I never go barefoot indoors-I've had both cat and dog hairs work their way into my soles before now; and they're very painful

Plenty of people have posted on the thread that religion, including transubstantiation, Covid denialism, voting Tory (or Labour) and antivax beliefs are batshit, but there aren’t hordes of antivaxxers from the Covid board getting on the thread to tell us all off for being “boring”, “toxic” or whatever, I notice. Or Brexiteers jumping on to argue about Brexit. It’s only on the changing sex issue that suddenly the thread is full of disapproving posters trying to police others about the topic.

Which is quite the indication that there is something uniquely odd about this set of beliefs, which is setting off some kind of special reaction. We’ve all heard more than enough about Covid, Brexit and Tory/Labour party politics, I’m sure; but it’s only one issue that’s being policed with disapproval and finger-wagging. Why so? Could it be that it’s a little bit too close to home to point out the religious, manifestly “magical thinking” basis of the whole ideology?

If you think gender ideology is toxic because women (shock horror!) want to discuss it, do you say the same about any other political or religious discussion? Do you pop into the Covid board on the regular and do a bit of finger wagging at the posters there?

I think you’ve misunderstood what the poster actually wrote.

She was saying that years ago her when her husband was a kid, his teacher was explaining about people holding unscientific beliefs and included the example of the moon influencing the tides as an incorrect belief.

In other words, the teacher didn't realise that the moon did in fact affect tides and thought it was part of superstitious folklore.

A friend of mine about 10 years ago excitedly informed me that humans will evolve soon and lose our little fingers, because no one uses them whilst typing anymore.

🤷‍♀️ I didn't even know where to start....

Because I didn’t need to, I was describing a batshit ideology, not any particular people - I have nothing against trans people, it is the ideology that so many find batshit crazy, and too many people go along with it because they haven’t actually thought through how crazy “born in the wrong body” actually is.

I’m confused. Which bit is a batshit belief?
Turning away from religion or believing in a mythical being?

Birds control the weather (crazy)

That the Duke of Edinburgh arranged Diana's car crash to stop her marrying Dodi. No amount of logic would sway her.

The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 decriminalised sex between men (albeit over the age of 21).

It was the defining step forwards in Gay Rights.

Haha if I lost my fingers I'd be out of a job

That’s crazy. It was obviously the Queen.

@Trying20
I don’t agree that believing you can change sex is batshit and think you’re a bit batshit for putting it in the same category as fairies. 🤷🏻‍♂️

You clearly think the belief that humans can change sex is rational. Please explain how you came to that conclusion?

At what point in "transition" would you say someone's sex has changed?

I worked with someone who was brought up in a religious sect and he believed that men are supposed to be the ‘headm of the family and make all decisions that women and children follow - but he was to be benevolent and take their wishes under consideration as their protector or some
wu b bullshit. Fairly normal
and quite sweet otherwise, although he was 23 and honestly believed all of this. He was also a virgin so got married at 23 to someone who was the fringes of his church,
mainly to get laid we all thought.
he very patiently put up with any teasing around this and always had a counter argument to anything anyone said about his beliefs.

You can't prove God doesn't exist the same way they can't prove God does exist.

Did you know there's a big but invisible unicorn orbiting the sun just between Mercury and Mars, controlling everything we do and hearing all our thoughts? You can't prove there isn't.

What do you mean by "bulletproof coffee people"? 🤔

They got that one the wrong way round. 😂
Both are real. (Bearded dragon)

Okay - by your approach, I think your views on trans right are batshit and you can’t decide whether or not I’m allowed to think that

Trying20: you don’t know what her views on trans rights are. You know her views on people who think the DNA in every cell in your body can change from XY to XX.

And many of the people who believe this are not even trans.

Absolutely this. ^^

A friend believed all babies were born with blue eyes and they changed colour as they grew.

Came on to say the belief that you can change sex but I can see many other people got there before me.

Those criticizing people saying it seem to think that saying you think gender ideology is batshit is the same as saying you think trans people are batshit or trans rights are batshit. That's patently not what people are saying. And what you're failing to take into account is the many trans people who DONT believe in gender ideology, who don't think they actually change sex. There's plenty of gender critical trans people who see it as purely a medical issue. Not this quasi religious movement (cult)

Also center parcs, I too was in my late twenties before I realized the dome was all a lie.

Does your friend also think the moon is a hologram?
We might have the same friend lol.