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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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#1
Sports. I get it, entertainment. But like, calm down. You aren't on the team. Take a breath.
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#2
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.
Sahil Islam 8 months ago (edited)
I think smelling the fumes from household items are also part of a social media trend
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.
#4
Elon Musk and other billionaire "geniuses." People are pretty freaking gullible.
#5
That 5G towers caused Covid. Like, wtf.
Jeremy James 8 months ago
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.
#6
Flat Earth. Literally don't believe it. I think these people are fictional.
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?
#7
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?
Brittania Kelli 8 months ago
As a devout Pastafarian I know his holiness will save us from the evil lizard overlords with his noodly appendage.
#9
Getting their ‘facts’ from some rando on YouTube who’s an ‘expert’ because they said they are.
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
People don't like to do research, and it it is just easier to believe what you want no matter how FU it is.
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.
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?
#11
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?
Luke Branwen 8 months ago
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.
FranklySpeaking 8 months ago
The key statement here: "...(A)s long as they're not d***s about it." I'll refer you to the history of virtually every mainstream religion since the beginning of time. They were ALL d***s about it. Also, you HAVE read the Bible, no?
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WindySwede 8 months ago
and also gives your money to a "priest" that flies jets and lives in a mantion?!!
Dan St John 8 months ago
There are thousands of religions and millions of gods and each religion thinks they have the one and only true god. The worst part of some religions is how they try and push their religious nuttery down everyone's throats. See MAGA
Just a bored scp 8 months ago
Well we’re talking about the PEOPLE, not the religion. I am a Methodist Christian. A very gay one, but I can be both.
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KariAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇵🇸🇩🇿 8 months ago
I'm a Muslim and i live by don't be tool bag to others. Be kind, don't judge, don't shove stuff down anyone's throat and just live your life
Michael Largey 8 months ago
Religion is around because people fear death, need guidance, and want answers to big questions. In other words, it's not going away. But it can progress. And regress, too.
aldebar 8 months ago
Why is the Big Bang, something that has only happened once and therefore can't be subjected to the scientific method through observation, widely accepted, but a miracle performed in the Bible isn't? They've both only happened once. They weren't repeated and can't be observed for consistency between cause and effect in the same way gravity or thermodynamics was observed. So why is a miracle any different?
Eugene the Jeep 8 months ago
Reasoning and logic combined with knowledge of physics and observation of the present state of the universe allows us to extrapolate the possibilty of the Big Bang. Bible stories are just that: stories made up by ancient cultures to impress the suckers and spread their religion by growing their numbers.
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 8 months ago
The line between what we think is magic and science is blurred when you get into the details. The Chinese have a satellite that transmits messages using quantum entanglement. If you look how it works, its almost identical to a D&D sending stone. If there is a god, isn't physics a lot easier way to run a universe instead of manually restarting it every second? “Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle.” - Terry Pratchett (atheist and humanist).
Ken Beattie 8 months ago
Hmmm nothing about that sounds like magic. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-reaches-new-milestone-in-space-based-quantum-communications/
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Toothless Feline 8 months ago
Psychology research has identified parts of the human brain that appear to respond to, or generate the feeling of, spiritual and religious experiences. This suggests that not only is the tendency toward spiritual beliefs innate to our brains, but it likely had survival benefits in early human communities.
flower petals 8 months ago
Earlier here I wrote about how at least one other species is believed to have a religion (the elephant), which implies that aspects of this could go much, much further back in evolution than to early humans.
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Jenny Bell 8 months ago
any debate about religion always reminds me of Midnight Mass with Bev Keane. Ooh that b***h 😂
Xenia Harley 8 months ago
ANY religion when it is used by people like they KNOW the word of God to be used to commit atrocities, death, starvation because God told you so. No, no God didn't. Don't justify being a hateful, horrible person.
#12
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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To be fair, if someone online says something horrible, racist, or insulting, I wouldn't blame people for getting worked up about it.
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...’
#14
Working extra hard at work will get you raises or promotions….
#16
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.
I’ll have a treble thanks. 8 months ago
Placebo effect? If it works and causes no harm, no big deal just don’t force it on others.
#17
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).
FranklySpeaking 8 months ago
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
#18
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.
Sahil Islam 8 months ago (edited)
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.
#19
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.
#20
Stanley cups. I don’t get it, at all, they make me angry because you can’t put them in a bag without spilling.
#21
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.
#23
Being threatened by things they don’t understand, and having a narrow threshold to boot.
WindySwede 8 months ago
"Argh, the [insert]-community, I must hate them so I can be a good [insert]" 🤦♂️🤨
#24
MLMs.
#25
Facebook...likes, number of friends.
LinkTheHylian 8 months ago
"I'll make him look like Lt. Cmdr. Data, but more of a twat." - God when designing Mark Zuckerberg
#26
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.
#27
Politicians. Like holy s**t, be interested in your *own* life a little more.
What do you think ?
Joseph McKinley 8 months ago
It appears jet contrails are missing from the list. Seems people do not understand how engines operate in a cold environment. Therefore, it must be chemicals.
Adrian 8 months ago
Chemicals are deadly! Thousands of people die every year from inhaling dihydrogen monoxide!
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M Zellmer 8 months ago
Drama. I found out some people purposely overreact and make things into negatives just to create drama because they think life is boring.
GhostlySnail (she/her) 8 months ago
Was friends with those people, it was exhausting
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Montanavanna 8 months ago
Oh, Jesus. OK, well it is typically defined as every person. That would be a generalization to say everyone is on their phones. The majority of people have no problems being on their phone while in the company of other people. Is that better for you?
Joseph McKinley 8 months ago
It appears jet contrails are missing from the list. Seems people do not understand how engines operate in a cold environment. Therefore, it must be chemicals.
Adrian 8 months ago
Chemicals are deadly! Thousands of people die every year from inhaling dihydrogen monoxide!
Load More Replies... M Zellmer 8 months ago
Drama. I found out some people purposely overreact and make things into negatives just to create drama because they think life is boring.
GhostlySnail (she/her) 8 months ago
Was friends with those people, it was exhausting
Load More Replies... Montanavanna 8 months ago
Oh, Jesus. OK, well it is typically defined as every person. That would be a generalization to say everyone is on their phones. The majority of people have no problems being on their phone while in the company of other people. Is that better for you?
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