Most mind numbingly stupid thing you believed?

[arbitterm]

I shared a bunk bed with my older brother. He had top. At night, he would turn on a small radio and listen to music. When I inquired about where the music was coming from, he convinced me he had a band of ants that were playing for him. Since the radio was so small, when I tried to peek up at his bunk, he simply covered it with his hand and said the ants were shy. I believed him.

 

[Grayjack]

When I was a kid, I loved Naruto.

*Raises flameshield*

 

[Mandal0re]

Well i used to believe in an all powerful deity who created the entire universe but who had a very special and personal interest in my life and the individual life of every human being and had prepared a special paradise for me when i die. Actually,less believed and more had that presented to me like fact until i got old enough to think for myself at which point it took about half an hour to come to the conclusion that that idea is infact fucking retarded.

edit: and santa(until i was like 11...),and that spain was the capital of france.

 

[The Night Shade]

Santa i think thats the only kinda stupid thing i believe

 

[Sholokov]

The Zero Punctuation review of Duke Nukem Forever

 

[Brotherofwill]

My grandfather once told me something like: "Whoever goes against the stream or the wind is the fastest" as a saying to go against the odds.

I took it literal. It took me a few years to realise that you don't go any faster if you cycle against the wind, man I really spent a lot of time trying . Physics pretty much changed my world view after I understood the concept of friction. It did make me stronger though .

 

[SimuLord]

I'm from a Catholic family. More to the point, I grew up in the Boston archdiocese at the same time my more pious elementary school classmates were getting violated by the priests.

I'm a pagan now.

 

[zero_raver]

That black people were just a special effect for TV shows

 

[Mozared]

When I was young my brother once told me that if you snorted your nose the snot would go into your skull and fill up the area around your brain - leading to possible death if you did it long enough.

I literally subconsciously took this as a sensible truth until I turned 13 or 14, when I actually gave it some thought and realized the whole theory makes no scientific sense at all.

Edit:

When I was a kid, I thought all scientists looked like the scientists in the Pokemon games.

But they do, don't they?

 

[Maltyz]

The Zero Punctuation review of Duke Nukem Forever

OMG! Ditto!

 

[tthor]

My friends convinced me at one point that there was a version of Celebrity Deathmatch where celebrities fought against pokemon.

i would pay good money to see that!

 

[tthor]

Vampires, ghosts, zombies, Santa, some sort of deity, the Easter bunny, a man that "lived" in a pile of rusty metal scraps where i used to live (he was evil as well) and in evil dentists, still do...

you...
you stole my avatar! D:<
this injustice shalt not be forgotten!~

 

[GamingAwesome1]

My parents convinced me that God controlled the weather.

Then that one science lesson rolled around and me and my family's whole belief in God dissapeared as I relentlessly picked holes in it to the point where I was kicked out of a Religious Studies lesson for asking too many questions.

God my school sucked.

 

[Phoenixlight]

When I was a kid, I loved Naruto.

*Raises flameshield*

I don't understand, did you believe that it was real?

 

[Lazy Kitty]

That one of my uncles could make stuff like the mask from "The Mask"...

 

[DividedUnity]

That I was in love with a certain person.

 

[troth]

The hand in the toilet. I was told that there was an evil hand living in my toilet that would grab me if I stood to close. That's when I starts peeing off the sink. haha no, no I didn't do that.

 

[Grayjack]

When I was a kid, I loved Naruto.

*Raises flameshield*

I don't understand, did you believe that it was real?

No, I just liked it.

 

[Spoonius]

When I was about 8 years old, my dad used to tell me that if I stayed out in the rain, I'd float up into the sky. I damn well believed him too.

I also used to think that letters were spelt with other letters.