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?

Andy Warhol in A to B and Back Again said something about not eating honey because it was bee sick.

That wearing tight jeans makes girls infertile.

That dinosaur bones/fossils were buried by God to test the faithful.

Yes. Gender ideology has genuinely shaken me not only because of its content but because it has demonstrated how shaky enlightenment values are in the West.

My husband had a teacher [admittedly many decades ago] who told them that people used to believe lots of unscientific superstitious nonsense, for example they thought the moon influenced the tides.

More recently my daughter did A-level biology with a girl who thought chickens fed baby chicks on milk. Because chicken breasts.
This young woman went on to become a primary school teacher.

No it isn’t. There are animals that change sex. Doubtless one day biological science / genetic engineering will make it feasible in other animals. Take that how you will.

A workmate couldn't be convinced that meat came from real animals.

This. It's actually mind boggling.

Someone I know with synesthesia frequently describes themselves as having 'special magical powers' and refuses to acknowledge that it's a neurological condition.

If the earths flat then where are the edges ? Why do we not hear about people falling off ?

That he was ‘protecting’ his wife by having relationships with other women behind her back. That he was providing ‘therapy’ for the OW by having affairs with them. That he remained an honest and decent man and not at all a lying manipulator.

With a very large pinch of salt.

Our ndn believes that the Covid vaccine contains a chip that communicates with Satan, only those without the chip will be taken to Heaven when Jesus returns (very soon apparently). Earth will be turned into the new Hell and everyone left behind will be tortured and live for eternity as punishment for getting the vaccine.

No it isn’t. There are animals that change sex. Doubtless one day biological science / genetic engineering will make it feasible in other animals. Take that how you will.

I was referring to humans.

So soon we'll also be able to fly, or breathe underwater because some animals do, cool.

My late MIL was appalled that we left a wall socket switched on but no plug in it, the electricity would leak out apparentll.

My husband's aunt is a vegetarian but eats any and all fish because they don't have souls and it's the soul that matters when deciding what to eat.

That there was no foul play involved in the disappearance and death of Noah Donohoe, an innocent and beautiful child from Belfast found naked in a drain two years ago.

I'm not a flat earther but I find it a fascinating conspiracy theory and have watched several documentaries to try to gain some insight into this question.

There's a few reasons. For religious flat earthers, they basically believe that all science is fabricated as a way of steering people away from God and testing people's faith. Since science is what discovered the shape of earth, they believe it to be a lie.

Secondly they believe in a ruling elite, many subscribe to the illuminati conspiracy theory, and believe that all those in power are keeping knowledge to themselves and feeding us misinformation instead, so supposedly we can't trust literally anything we've been taught it schools. It's all gibberish to throw us off track and make us more malleable and easy to control.

They consider that because the earth looks flat (I disagree with this) that it stands to reason that it is flat, and that that's one of the biggest and most obvious lies we've taught, proving that we can't trust anything we've ever been taught.

I hope I explained that well enough. It's a very involved and complex theory that's hard to summarise concisely, and to non-flat earthers their reasons are still pretty cuckoo, but it gives you some idea.

Thank you, I'll wear the badge with pride!

That an oil that is liquid at room temperature solidifies inside you when consumed and causes constipation.
Apparently, I was the misinformed one...

OMG this is hilarious!

Because they don't survive to tell their tale!

In real life, a proper covid denier. Believes the whole Bill Gates/5G/vaccines to control people stuff. I was the whole time he was talking.

That the whole universe was created by one magical guy.