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When I was five, I sincerely believed in Santa and the Tooth Fairy, at seventeen - that at least someone in this world could stop Michael Jordan on his way to the sixth ring, at thirty - that the ratings of songs on streaming services reflect their true popularity. As Thorin Oakenshield said, “I’ve never been so wrong in all my life...”

Well, that's the thing about growing up and gaining what people usually call ‘wisdom’ - that over the years, we change our views on things, and what we believed with all the fervor of a neophyte in our youth seems ridiculous years later. However, not always - and our selection, based on this viral thread in the AskReddit community, is intended to convince you of this. Or at least give rise to a good discussion.

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So Sports. I get it, entertainment. But like, calm down. You aren't on the team. Take a breath.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe they aren't on the team, but they feel like they do. It's a kind of extended family, I guess. I'm not a sport enthusiast by any means, but I can see people are drawn to that feeling of community, of supporting each other when it comes to team sports.

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So Social media in general. Too many people believe every clickbait headline, or buy in to whatever trend is taking over. Feels like people can't self soothe and need the validation or something, it's just weird.

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6 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think smelling the fumes from household items are also part of a social media trend

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So Having a loud exhaust or sound system in your car.

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In fact, it’s pretty common for humanity to revise its views over time. For example, a couple of centuries ago, we knew ‘for sure’ that only birds and angels could fly in the sky, half a thousand years ago the very idea of printing books looked like complete nonsense, and around the same time almost the whole world was damn sure that the Earth was actually flat... hmm, well, not the best example, I agree.

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So Elon Musk and other billionaire "geniuses." People are pretty freaking gullible.

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So That 5G towers caused Covid. Like, wtf.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The version I heard is that the 5G signals activate nanobots in the vaccine that edit people's genes to make white people less white. Or possibly trans, I can't remember.

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So Flat Earth. Literally don't believe it. I think these people are fictional.

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In fact, if you look at the selection of the most popular opinions from the original thread, you can see that almost half of the examples given are somehow related to the Internet. Yes, that’s right - three decades ago, scientists seriously believed that the very opportunity to gain access to all the knowledge of humanity almost directly from your favorite couch, the opportunity to discuss anything with a person on the other side of the globe - this is the path to unprecedented progress in knowledge! And where on [flat] Earth did we take a wrong turn?

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So My dad once told me he believed that 9/11 was a hologram...

How can anyone, any age, take that seriously? Like, I'm supposed to take advice from someone who believes in bizarre theories like that? I wouldn't be surprised if he believes in lizard people and spaghetti god; or, I don't know, we evolved from dolphins.

How does any grown-up take him seriously?

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a devout Pastafarian I know his holiness will save us from the evil lizard overlords with his noodly appendage.

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So Social Influencers.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm too stubborn to take advice from friends, how I'm gonna take on the ideals of these wannabes?

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So Getting their ‘facts’ from some rando on YouTube who’s an ‘expert’ because they said they are.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People don't like to do research, and it it is just easier to believe what you want no matter how FU it is.

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However, there is nothing surprising - all sorts of weird ideas and theories have always existed, but if previously their spread was actually hampered by distances between people, as well as the banal factor of time and money, then the Internet erases boundaries not only for knowledge.

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Suppose I had some really stupid ideas about a hundred years ago, then, in order to get people interested in it, I have to spend a lot of time and money to write a book, publish it, promote it in bookstores and magazines... Today? It’s enough just to create a topic on Reddit and write a post, isn’t it?
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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So ‘Reality’ tv. People get so invested. .

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I never understood this....why would a complete strangers life mean anything to me? I care about what's in front of me, that's plenty.

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So Religion.

I'm not trying to be edgy, but true believers. Really?

I could understand using parables to educate, but the adults that believe the miracles and magic... I cannot fathom it.

I simply have to accept that's how humans are. There's a survival reason we see faces in the shadows. It may have been a tiger or not but I can think about that as I'm running away safely. The same quirk of imagination gave us religion.

Arg!

Oh well. At least it also gave us music.

We're a weird animal aren't we?

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm surprised I had to scroll this far for this. I'm not even religious, but like, come on... let people believe in stuff as long as they're not d!cks about it. Also don't claim something "all religions" when you actually mean two specific flavors of Christianity and extreme Islam.

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So Online people's opinions.

Who gives a s**t what some random c**t on a screen says? Never understood how fully grown adults get so worked up over it.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair, if someone online says something horrible, racist, or insulting, I wouldn't blame people for getting worked up about it.

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However, no one is immune from the fact that everything that we believe in today, that we are so sure of, will not turn out to be ‘strange nonsense’ a couple of centuries or even decades later. After all, twenty years ago, Pluto was officially listed as a planet...

Okay, I still feel bad for Pluto, but in the meantime, feel free to read this selection to the very end, vote for the submissions you agree with the most, and maybe add your own ideas in the comments below. In the end, as the ancients used to say, ‘truth is born in disputes...’
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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So Horoscopes.

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So Working extra hard at work will get you raises or promotions….

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So How other people live their lives.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, isn't one life enough? Why gossip and carry on about others so much?

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So Crystals. I like rocks n s**t. I'll buy one if it looks cool for the right price. But it never fails when I grab an interesting amethyst, the seller tries to tell me what it's good for.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Placebo effect? If it works and causes no harm, no big deal just don’t force it on others.

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So Gossip in general. I live in a small town and it is maddening how people here are so serious about it. It's not light fun chatting, it's all SCANDAL and we need to take ACTION. I swear a lot of people's problems would be immediately solved if they just stopped giving a s**t what everyone else does (to an extent).

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So I think kind of revolting against modern medicine is something that I feel is awkwardly privileged.

Like, if I get really sick emergency medical care can get me.. while I consume raw eggs, raw milk, raw food ( I don't know of anyone who I know is doing the third thing, but I'm seeing weird trends of this type of c**p on Tiktock or Instagram.)

And don't give me started on vaccines... there's this weird kind of good faith argument that if someone dies of pneumonia or covid, that's nature taking its course, but if these individuals die of anything after the modern jab, it's all vaccine related and untimely.

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6 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If medication is a sin then why does it save lives? Why were doctors made if we aren't allowed to take their help? Why in religious texts that the messengers of God/Gods (depending on which religion) healed people if nature was allowed to take its course? Are questions I asked my friend who shared the "anti-med" belief. He couldn't answer any of them and didn't come back to school for a month after that.

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So This is niche but community theatre. The DRAMA among grown adults is insane, worse than when I was in high school.

Like yall, we are singing and dancing and wearing silly costumes. It’s not that serious.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Artistic endeavors have always attracted the more dramatic among us.

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So Stanley cups. I don’t get it, at all, they make me angry because you can’t put them in a bag without spilling.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't get the attraction: they're too big and look akward.

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So Cryptocurrencies, the Metaverse, and other such b******t technologies. Also, in the case of men, the Alpha/Sigma male s**t, and in the case of women, the Witch-Tok and other such girly s**t.

Miserable_Ad_2379 , Ivan Babydov Report

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Remember men----Alphas are phased out by de-bugged Beta versions

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So The royal family. What in the actual f**k?

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's a bit ridiculous how much coverage is given to the British Royal family in the U.S. This isn't news! We were founded specifically to not have to follow them

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So Being threatened by things they don’t understand, and having a narrow threshold to boot.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Argh, the [insert]-community, I must hate them so I can be a good [insert]" 🤦‍♂️🤨

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So MLMs.

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So Facebook...likes, number of friends.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"I'll make him look like Lt. Cmdr. Data, but more of a twat." - God when designing Mark Zuckerberg

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So The Disney Adults who get all bent because their favorite movie for little girls got remade and they dint like it none. Like it ain't that serious Mary.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes because no one batted an eye when they didnt cast an actual purple person to play Ursula in Little Mermaid.

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So Politicians. Like holy s**t, be interested in your *own* life a little more.

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28 Things Adults Take Way Too Seriously And Look Pretty Ridiculous When Doing So Giving kids tablets.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I dont think giving a child electronics is an issue, I think not monitoring what they are doing is an issue. Schools now have kids working from tablets, what is the difference?

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