Just stupid! The things people believe!

[Nikomikiri]

My mom thinks that the guy from Mindfreak is possessed by the devil.

Okay, this is probably a touchy thing to post about but I just have to mention a commercial I heard and saw the second half of.
My papa is in the stage of life where he feels that he needs to suddenly become a religious person so that he won't go to hell. He watches the Christian Network a lot, and due to his bad hearing it's always very loud.
My bathroom is across the hall from his office, so I was in there one day and heard this, "Are you in debt? Do you worry about where your family is going to be forced to live if you're house is taken away? Do you have money lenders calling you day and night, making you afraid to pick up the phone? *he waits for a dramatic effect and I walk out of the bathroom to catch the end of the commercial* Jesus can help you. By accepting Jesus Christ as your Savior you will find that your money troubles will eventually go away. Your lives will seem so much richer with His presence in your life."
Now, I don't know about everybody else, but I busted out laughing and kept laughing for a good hour off and on. That was just brilliant.
Now, I can understand that if you accept a certain faith and dedicate yourself to it, you may be able to organize your life a little bit more when you think some higher power cares for you, enabling you to feel like things have become easier and all that.
But unless Jesus plans to come in with some major cash in hand that he's going to split between all of his followers to get them out of debt, I don't think he's ACTUALLY going to help you.

 

[Nikomikiri]

You have a very, very gullible step brother.

One of my friends convinced her younger sisters that she was never born, she just spawned out of a pool of murky liquid.
...granted, her sister was about seven at the time.

Funny though.

We had fun at school with the gullible freshmen at one point. Just stupid little things. One girl was convinced that my friend Chris's first name was actually Bonzai. He was telling her about it and would randomly turn to us and pull us in, we'd go with it out of instinct. Some of the things they would believe...

 

[AlphaWolf13]

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

I choose not to read your comments anymore. Just based on the fact that you won't CAPITILIZE...



Have a good day...

 

[SeaCalMaster]

I choose not to read your comments anymore. Just based on the fact that you won't CAPITILIZE...



Have a good day...

I choose not to read your comments anymore. Just based on the fact that you can't SPELL...



Have a good day...

 

[mew905]

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.

A rocket engine allows the space shuttle to travel at 8000 meters per second (28,800kph) to reach orbit and stay there. at the moons perigee (closest point to earth) its 363000 km away, and its apogee is 405,000 km away (furthest point from earth), at the furthest point, it would only take (theoretically) 14 hours to reach the moon, and about fuel, they can simply burn fuel to reach their speed (28,800 kph) and 'float' the rest of the way, then possibly either slingshot around or burn more fuel to come back. Within about a day and say, 8 hours (including 4h time to come around the moon, thats of course slowing down along the way for say, sight seeing )

LOL I find it funny how people think Jesus spoke english. I also find it funny how alot of people figure Jesus was white (statistically speaking, he should have been almost arab-looking). But I DO believe the US Gov't was responsible for 9/11. The fire doesnt have to melt steel, they took out the structural integrity that held the upper bit up, when it starts crashing down, movement is increased and therefore hits the floors below it with more force (lets say between each floor the steel managed to hit 4.9m/s, that means that a 500KG steel girder (I think thats pretty light, not sure) would hit everything under it with 250KG of force, and the next with 500KG not including the extra weight from the next floor, nor the slow-down from impact. 8 floors down that 500KG girder plus say 9 more girders under it, are now moving at 44.1m/s, with 4500KG behind it = 9th floor impact takes a 20250KG hit). Keep in mind more than one girder was collapsed, while others were buckling because they had to take on the extra load, and eventually gave out. Heat didnt help the matters as they soften and expand the metal, giving it nowhere to go and BOOM! down comes the tower. Keep in mind these are 20 ton flying death-tubes going 750kph that hit the towers.

Also, I understand why bin-laden is so pissed of at america, same with saddam. Both were trained by the CIA (bin laden for the Vietam war I think) as special ops, or mercenaries or something, and the states said "see ya!" after the war was done. The US trains their own enemies, thats why its so difficult for them to get em LOL.

As for crap thats unbelievable: Check out bretharians. What a bunch of idiots. One guy is charging $25,000 a year for a class to teach this crap, he gets rich while others die. Its sickening, and I personally wish they would die as well... The world doesnt need people like them.

Have you ever noticed people who GET taken advantage of in such stupid ways, are looking for false hope, are very vulnerable, or generally easy to fool.

 

[Ultrajoe]

People believe in alot of things, its called being human.

 

[Eagle Est1986]

A friend of mine regularly tells his friends a completely made up fact, usually I wouldn't approve of this as tricking your friends isn't really that nice.
However, this one time he managed to trick a young teen into believing that coconuts were bear eggs and that a certain type of bear climbed palm trees at night and layed it's eggs there. Quite genius that the poor boy believed him.

 

[werepossum]

SNIP
LOL I find it funny how people think Jesus spoke english. I also find it funny how alot of people figure Jesus was white (statistically speaking, he should have been almost arab-looking). But I DO believe the US Gov't was responsible for 9/11. The fire doesnt have to melt steel, they took out the structural integrity that held the upper bit up, when it starts crashing down, movement is increased and therefore hits the floors below it with more force (lets say between each floor the steel managed to hit 4.9m/s, that means that a 500KG steel girder (I think thats pretty light, not sure) would hit everything under it with 250KG of force, and the next with 500KG not including the extra weight from the next floor, nor the slow-down from impact. 8 floors down that 500KG girder plus say 9 more girders under it, are now moving at 44.1m/s, with 4500KG behind it = 9th floor impact takes a 20250KG hit). Keep in mind more than one girder was collapsed, while others were buckling because they had to take on the extra load, and eventually gave out. Heat didnt help the matters as they soften and expand the metal, giving it nowhere to go and BOOM! down comes the tower. Keep in mind these are 20 ton flying death-tubes going 750kph that hit the towers.

Also, I understand why bin-laden is so pissed of at america, same with saddam. Both were trained by the CIA (bin laden for the Vietam war I think) as special ops, or mercenaries or something, and the states said "see ya!" after the war was done. The US trains their own enemies, thats why its so difficult for them to get em LOL.

As for crap thats unbelievable: Check out bretharians. What a bunch of idiots. One guy is charging $25,000 a year for a class to teach this crap, he gets rich while others die. Its sickening, and I personally wish they would die as well... The world doesnt need people like them.

Have you ever noticed people who GET taken advantage of in such stupid ways, are looking for false hope, are very vulnerable, or generally easy to fool.

Thank you for those excellent examples of the stupid things people believe. Bin Laden being trained by the CIA as a mercenary during the Viet Nam war is ... classic. Worthy of South Park, that.

 

[Nikomikiri]

Oh oh oh, extreme moment of stupidity!

A World History class at my school was studying the Middle East, and the religions in that area. They got on the topic of Jesus/Jews/Christians.

Teacher: What religion did Jesus create?
Idiot girl: Christianity, duh. *everybody chuckles*
Teacher: Okaaaay, what religion was he born into?
Idiot girl: What the f***? I already said it, Christianity.

Oh the joy I get from laughing at/wanting to smack the crap out of stupid people.

 

[Thais]

...the probability that something like the Law of Gravity is wrong is so negligibly small that it would be more likely for everyone on Earth to suddenly become completely and incurably insane...

99.99% of the enlightened secret dolphin masters agree that this has already happened. Look into your crystals and the glowing meta corups of white light energy behind your navel and you will know this to be true...

 

[Furrama]

Hey, you can say whatever you want about the footpads, but the crud that comes out of them is gross.

And strangely smells of sausage....

 

[Thais]

so make paying illegals the same as americans a top priority of the government, you can do it under the guise of 'universal rights for all americans'.

if you need to pay illegals the same...

Wheres the incentive to hire them?

*gasp* I actually agree with Ultrajoe! Help! The sky is falling! Suddenly I believe in Jesus! AAAAAAHHHHH!

 

[Thais]

And another thing to get some people going:

Q: Are we not men??

I are, in fact, not men.

 

[One Jump From Eden]

WAL MART: police were called to a local Wal Mart recently with reports of a baby in a trash can, upon investigation it turned out to be a burrito.

That is a real police report.
Holy shit.

No words can express how much more than "holy shit" this story deserves.

It seems that you already have.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Some people thought that Portal and Half-Life 2 had different physics engines and preferred one to the other, unaware that they used the same engine.
Nothing can stop my Necromancy POWER!

 

[MarcusStrout]

I love when people believe stereotypes of placement, like, for instance, me as a hick from Maine, no matter how many times you bring up the blatantly obvious evidence against it.

I was arguing particle physics and the ideas around the LHC near Geneva with a Mass professor, and he was convinced that I had no idea what I was talking about because I was from Maine. He seriously said, your a backwoods character, what do you know?

WHAT!? BACKWOODS!? I dont blow my own horn, but I am the least hickish person I know, and I friggin STUDY that shit. The guy was a moron, and drove too fast. He's not the only one.

 

[PlasticPorter]

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.

Ha Ha. Yeah that show is hilarious. I loved the "Skunk-ape" episode where monsterquest went so far as to dig up this guys dog from when he was like 3 and desecrate its corpse on national television. Me and my brother just turned and looked at each other and he goes.
"SAVE MUH DOG MONSTERQUEST! THE SKUNK-APE GOT MUH DOG!"
The crazy flower children hippies on that show are just too much.

 

[PlasticPorter]

SNIP
LOL I find it funny how people think Jesus spoke english. I also find it funny how alot of people figure Jesus was white (statistically speaking, he should have been almost arab-looking). But I DO believe the US Gov't was responsible for 9/11. The fire doesnt have to melt steel, they took out the structural integrity that held the upper bit up, when it starts crashing down, movement is increased and therefore hits the floors below it with more force (lets say between each floor the steel managed to hit 4.9m/s, that means that a 500KG steel girder (I think thats pretty light, not sure) would hit everything under it with 250KG of force, and the next with 500KG not including the extra weight from the next floor, nor the slow-down from impact. 8 floors down that 500KG girder plus say 9 more girders under it, are now moving at 44.1m/s, with 4500KG behind it = 9th floor impact takes a 20250KG hit). Keep in mind more than one girder was collapsed, while others were buckling because they had to take on the extra load, and eventually gave out. Heat didnt help the matters as they soften and expand the metal, giving it nowhere to go and BOOM! down comes the tower. Keep in mind these are 20 ton flying death-tubes going 750kph that hit the towers.

Also, I understand why bin-laden is so pissed of at america, same with saddam. Both were trained by the CIA (bin laden for the Vietam war I think) as special ops, or mercenaries or something, and the states said "see ya!" after the war was done. The US trains their own enemies, thats why its so difficult for them to get em LOL.

As for crap thats unbelievable: Check out bretharians. What a bunch of idiots. One guy is charging $25,000 a year for a class to teach this crap, he gets rich while others die. Its sickening, and I personally wish they would die as well... The world doesnt need people like them.

Have you ever noticed people who GET taken advantage of in such stupid ways, are looking for false hope, are very vulnerable, or generally easy to fool.

Thank you for those excellent examples of the stupid things people believe. Bin Laden being trained by the CIA as a mercenary during the Viet Nam war is ... classic. Worthy of South Park, that.

To Quote maddox if you think that the US government blew up the towers not only are you wrong, you are provably wrong.
If our government had the cutthroat nature to blow up hundreds of its own citizens as well as its own pentagon then why the hell wouldn't they use their super secret awesome spy on everyones internet and phone line technology to hunt down kill and silence the one asshole in his moms basement who "cracked" the "conspiracy."
Its just bullshit made up by stupid idiots who deal with shock in stupid idiot ways or are desperate for attention, so way to go and be a sheep and fall for whatever is lucky enough to come up on your web browser.