Just stupid! The things people believe!

[hazakura]

I was watching 'Penn and Teller BS!' It was about dolphins having spiritual and healing powers.It got me thinking,How do people believe these things? After watching commercials I something else,
Footpads that "Draw the bad energy out of you" And I just burst out in laughter.It was based on Ancient Japanese Healing,Which, is unlikely to be really helpful.Look at dark age Europe,They believed Dirt helped your health,Being surrounded by fire would save you from the Plague.
Now I'm really starting to think,Are people just stupid or looking for a nice placebo effect?
These are not based on Real research,come from questionable sources,and go against common sense.
And people are still buying it! Liston,I'm not trying to start a flame war,but How do people Believe these?

And if anybody Else has heard of these "New age medicine" And "Spiritual Healing"
That are just plan Stupid,please post them here,they'll give me a good laugh.

EDIT: Please no more Religious posts.

 

[colourcodedchaos]

Some New Age stuff actually works, though, quo videt acupuncture - bollocks on paper, really excellent pain relief in practice.

But the rest is a great big steaming pile of unadulterated horse-shit. Like, for example, the "Doctrine of Signatures" is making a resurgence amongst the more gullible A-listers.

For those of you not in the know, the Doctrine of Signatures basically boils down to this: If a plant looks like a part of the body, then it MUST be good for that part of the body, like toothwort for teeth, Old Man's Whiskers for baldness, goldenrod for jaundice, that sort of thing.

No, really. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP.

 

[Gooble]

Not quite directly related to this, but I still find it hilarious that the Catholic Church condemn the Harry Potter books for promoting witchcraft, despite the fact that witchcraft obviously doesn't exist!

 

[the monopoly guy]

oh yea, and for some cheap laughs, watch monsterquest or any pseudoscience show. It's just sad. No really, this onelady said bigfoot came up to her trailer (which was in the middle of nowhere) and asked her for onions to ward off the evil spirits...and then it asked ehr to join it's family for dinner...I popped a vein in my eye laughing and yelling at her and every inbreed dipshit that BELIEVED HER. I would like to rant for days about the idiots that buy into this crap but I'm afraid of brain aneurysms.

 

[hazakura]

Yes,I do know I'm being Biased,but We are forgetting the placebo effect. Just thinking it'll help will make you feel better.On a different note,Yes,I do know some work I'm into herbs,for example,I love using Dried catnip to help colds and Yes, incense is very relaxing,but I'm not just talking about medicine,but many other things. As for "Ghosts" I believe there is something,but it is bound by scientific laws. Somethings You can't prove against or for.
Thus I lean toward the Agnostic side of Christianity.

 

[werepossum]

oh yea, and for some cheap laughs, watch monsterquest or any pseudoscience show. It's just sad. No really, this onelady said bigfoot came up to her trailer (which was in the middle of nowhere) and asked her for onions to ward off the evil spirits...and then it asked ehr to join it's family for dinner...I popped a vein in my eye laughing and yelling at her and every inbreed dipshit that BELIEVED HER. I would like to rant for days about the idiots that buy into this crap but I'm afraid of brain aneurysms.

I'll bet I know HER position on legalizing pot!

I have a family member who believes 9-11 was a George Bush conspiracy because as Rosie O'Donnell says it would be the first time fire ever melted steel. (To really mess up these people, agree with them and point out that we've already harvested 85% of the Earth's W48x24 beams, so in twenty years we won't be able to build more than six stories high. If only there were some way we could melt steel and actually form our own beams...) She also believes the moon landing was fake.

Louis Ferrakhan believes that white people are demons created by an evil insane wizard to bedevil the black man.

A US Congressman (forgot the name) made a speech on the floor on the House when debating making English the official language of the USA and declared "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it ought to be good enough for us."

A woman in the town where I grew up believes that until the white man came to America, the Indians didn't have any language.

Witchcraft doesn't exhist!? A multi-ton metal death tube filled with explosive fuel can fly! You can't tell me there's no such thing as witch craft! . (Seriously, I'll never understand how they work.)

Thank you for flying Southwest Airlines, and the next time you get the insane urge to go blasting across the sky at five hundred miles per hour in a pressurized metal tube, we hope you'll think of us.

 

[Lvl 64 Klutz]

The Dark Ages arguments are kind of off... I mean, science wasn't exactly at the forefront during those times, so explanations weren't very complete. For example, these days, we'd say "being surrounded by fire" warms the body and warmer conditions increases the body's immune system, thereby decreasing the chance to get the plague.

Every belief stems from some truth, even if it is unrelated or even just a minuscule truth.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Humans can find truth in anything, and if it's something you know nothing about, it's all the more easy to convince them of something. I could tell you that 4-pass motion blur is better for 3D animations when the higher the number is better, ideal would be 32-pass. But how would you know that? I saw an interesting thing on Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe about this kind of thing.
He had a friend of his explain how a TV show about a steaming bowl of shit would make tons of money. Link. The part is about 1 minute from the end. [http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=_bQ229AZIUM]

 

[zebubble]

oh yea, and for some cheap laughs, watch monsterquest or any pseudoscience show. It's just sad. No really, this onelady said bigfoot came up to her trailer (which was in the middle of nowhere) ... more stuff

I'll bet I know HER position on legalizing pot!

I have a family member who believes 9-11 was a George Bush conspiracy because as Rosie O'Donnell says it would be the first time fire ever melted steel. (To really mess up these people, agree with them and point out that we've already harvested 85% of the Earth's W48x24 beams, so in twenty years ... some more text

To be fair, if you watch a documentary on the 9/11 stuff, there is some odd stuff in there. However, basing a conclusion on one fact is never a good idea.

A US Congressman (forgot the name) made a speech on the floor on the House when debating making English the official language of the USA and declared "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it ought to be good enough for us."

Ok, I admit. That made me laugh.

A woman in the town where I grew up believes that until the white man came to America, the Indians didn't have any language.

That also made me laugh.

Witchcraft doesn't exhist!? A multi-ton metal death tube filled with explosive fuel can fly! You can't tell me there's no such thing as witch craft! . (Seriously, I'll never understand how they work.)

Thank you for flying Southwest Airlines, and the next time you get the insane urge to go blasting across the sky at five hundred miles per hour in a pressurized metal tube, we hope you'll think of us.

No comment.

Anyway, let's not forget about the people who believe in UFO's and Alien Abductions and anal probing and whatever. Just Google for conspiracy theory or some truth saying or something and see what comes up, you may be surprised.

Also, never forget: Chris Hansen was never real.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

After watching commercials I something else,
Footpads that "Draw the bad energy out of you" And I just burst out in laughter.It was based on Ancient Japanese Healing,Which, is unlikely to be really helpful.Look at dark age Europe,They believed Dirt helped your health,Being surrounded by fire would save you from the Plague.
Now I'm really starting to think,Are people just stupid or looking for a nice placebo effect?

and you would think that with the internet available that people would at least spend 3 minutes to google something to figure out that it's bullshit. i love how the commercial says, "It contains ions..." No shit! what doesn't contain ions?

another big fraud is that massive asshole Kevin Trudeau, who sells holistic healing books on tv. he's the "health cures the medical industry doesn't want you to know" douche bag. if you google him, in 1 minute you discover that in the early 1990's he was convicted of credit card fraud, fraud and larceny with the aid of his Mega Memory product.

 

[jim_doki]

I believe Sherlock Holmes (or someone like that) said it best, "From the Astrologer we got the Astronimer, from the Alchemest we got the chemist. Magics of yesterday are the sciences of today." (paraphrased)
the point is that whenever there's something we dont understand that works, we call it magic. there is probably a psychological effect in a lot of cases (that can't be measured)and i'll admit it's a copout answer. But stuff like Dolphins who have healing energy could be possible, if they (and this is just a for example, i dont believe it) they released a sort of pheremone that sped up the body's immune system or increased white cell count or something. Science's job is to find out what's happening. nothing can ever TRUELY be discounted until solid evidence is found.

 

[the monopoly guy]

I'll bet I know HER position on legalizing pot!

you could tell this was not drug induced stupidity.

I have a family member who believes 9-11 was a George Bush conspiracy because as Rosie O'Donnell says it would be the first time fire ever melted steel. (To really mess up these people, agree with them and point out that we've already harvested 85% of the Earth's W48x24 beams, so in twenty years we won't be able to build more than six stories high. If only there were some way we could melt steel and actually form our own beams...) She also believes the moon landing was fake.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=911_morons



And as for the women that thought native americans didn't have language, well that's jsut plain racism...which too is somehting that stems from stupidity.

 

[WraithGadra]

She also beleives the moon landing was fake.

I'll be honest, so do I. Not in a conspiricy sort of way, but more of an, it's a good trillion miles from us. How did they 1: Get there in the course of a week 2: why haven't we gone back and 3: We didn't actually have the technology to safely store a reproducing supply of oxygen until the later seventies early eighties. (I think we just really wanted to beat them ruskies.)
The reasons the government gives are just a little, empty. But hey, me being psychotic and terrified of planes is not the subject at hand .
Anyway, there's more to the world than science can prove and even scientists know it. Bottom line. They'll say crazy things that you don't understand, and "show" you proof, when chances are, it's probably a randomly drawn pie chart. I'm now going back to my hut so I can pray to the horrible thunder bird demon in hopes that my crops grow this year.

A US Congressman (forgot the name) made a speech on the floor on the House when debating making English the official language of the USA and declared "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it ought to be good enough for us."

LOL, guess we should be speaking hebrew then.

"Wanting to beat the ruskies" is one of the most compelling arguments for the moon landing. The landing was tracked by both China and Russia, as well as multiple amateur astronomers. Combine that with the fact that America beat Russia to the moon was a major embarrassment to them. If it was faked, the news would have spread across the world rapidly.

 

[PurpleRain]

Gah, the ignorence of some hurts. Who's read or knows of The Secret. It's a book done by a bunch of people that believe how positive atoms attract other positive atoms, being positive (emotionally) will attract positive outcomes. This goes onto saying that the universe will give to you: money, power, car spots, etc, if you stay positive. Wow, just wow. They fail to realise that atoms and an emotion are two completely serprate things.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

She also beleives the moon landing was fake.

I'll be honest, so do I. Not in a conspiricy sort of way, but more of an, it's a good trillion miles from us. How did they 1: Get there in the course of a week 2: why haven't we gone back and 3: We didn't actually have the technology to safely store a reproducing supply of oxygen until the later seventies early eighties. (I think we just really wanted to beat them ruskies.)
The reasons the government gives are just a little, empty. But hey, me being psychotic and terrified of planes is not the subject at hand .

first the moon is just under 400 000 km away, in under a week wouldn't be difficult
second there's no reason to go back to the moon, cept to say "yeah we went back"
third air tanks are a great thing and were around

also who's to say NASA hadn't made a renewable air supply in the 60s and it was declassified or made by a privatized firm after NASA made theirs?

A US Congressman (forgot the name) made a speech on the floor on the House when debating making English the official language of the USA and declared "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it ought to be good enough for us."

LOL, guess we should be speaking hebrew then.

actually he spoke aramaic not hebrew

To be fair, if you watch a documentary on the 9/11 stuff, there is some odd stuff in there. However, basing a conclusion on one fact is never a good idea.

actually not really, it's all pretty easily explainable, it's just most ppl would rather believe something stupid

A US Congressman (forgot the name) made a speech on the floor on the House when debating making English the official language of the USA and declared "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it ought to be good enough for us."

Ok, I admit. That made me laugh.

actually that's an urban myth

my friend met a guy who told him that Canada was in the dark ages and we lived in igloos and had snow all year round, the funny part is they were standing on the shores of the detroit river, even funnier is detroit is north of windsor