Most mind numbingly stupid thing you believed?

[Aisaka]

I can't think of anyting that I believed right now, but once I did convince my friend that there was an animal named "Drop Bears" Then hide up in tree's and jump down on people, crush their skulls and then eat all their brains.

And the only way to repel them is to pour urine over yourself.

You mean kinda like this?

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Drop_bear

"A drop bear (or dropbear) is a non-existent Australian marsupial. Drop bears are commonly said to be unusually large, vicious, carnivorous koalas that inhabit treetops and attack their prey by dropping onto their heads from above. They are an example of local lore intended to frighten and confuse outsiders and amuse locals, similar to the jackalope, hoop snake, wild haggis or a snipe hunt.

It is often suggested that doing ridiculous things like having forks in the hair or Vegemite
Vegemite or toothpaste spread behind the ears will deter the creatures."

Surprisingly many people fall for stuff like that. Just be convincing enough and you make almost anyone believe almost anything.

Yes, like that.

Drop Bears are fun...

 

[Zacharine]

Please see my note in the topic about religion.

The story of noah's ark isn't religion. It's a particular story within a small collection of particular religions.

I did not mean it as a religious story either. I mean that at one point, I did consider the idea of a 600 year old man building a boat that could fit two from all the animals of the world into it, after which it rained so hard that Mt Everest was covered in water, perfectly and utterly believable.

Some might say they believed something equally outrageous about pixies, Santa Claus, unicorns etc.

 

[Aggressor and Usurper]

I really liked popular music, and I thought it was the best. I also thought that metal was one style of music and all it involve was screaming. Clearly, I was an idiot.

This. It's okay, I was an idiot too. Let us bask in the scorching fires of metal forgiveness.

 

[CINN4M0N]

I used to think that teachers lived at school. Like literally sleeped there and showered and everything (Remember this was a VERY long time ago). It didn't make sense though because my parents are both teachers and they always lived at home.

 

[Deleted]

*runs in* In before God! [sub]hope I made it in time...[/sub]

Also I used to believe that babies were delivered by cutting the stomach open down the middle and removing the baby, then sewing it back it.

Then I watched a video of a real birth, I was never the same since.

 

[Mikaze]

I can't think of anyting that I believed right now, but once I did convince my friend that there was an animal named "Drop Bears" Then hide up in tree's and jump down on people, crush their skulls and then eat all their brains.

And the only way to repel them is to pour urine over yourself.

Of course there are drop bears, they're basically really big, evil koala bears...with fangs. Just another part of Australia's wildlife that is out to destroy humanity.

OT: I used to believe spiders were my friends, no idea where this belief came from since I'm fairly arachnophobic.

 

[reg42]

I really liked popular music, and I thought it was the best. I also thought that metal was one style of music and all it involve was screaming. Clearly, I was an idiot.

This. It's okay, I was an idiot too. Let us bask in the scorching fires of metal forgiveness.

"Oh Kerry King, thou art be rocking
Hallowed be thy shredding skills
Thy world painted blood come
Thy will be done, on stage as it is in the VIP rooms around the back
Give us this day for some sick-ass licks and riffs
As we convince those that metal is the bomdiggidy shit
And forgive the times we listen to chilled music, as we forgive those who start playing poppy crap
And lead us straight into the mosh pit
But deliver us from the agro drunks
For thine is the metal, the awesome, and the bad-ass, for ever and ever. Amen"

I call it The King's Prayer.

 

[PixieFace]

I've always been a bit of a hypochondriac and quick to panic. I'd hear a disease as a kid and immediately think I had it.

For instance, in 4th grade I had about a week of pure fear because I was convinced I had prostate cancer. I didn't know what it was, but I was going to die from it. (I am a girl.)

In 5th grade, I heard a commercial for high cholesterol. I knew I had it because I had a tummy ache. I didn't understand why my parents thought it was so funny that I was asking for Pepto Bismol to cure my high cholesterol.

In 6th grade, I was also convinced for a while that I had AIDS, HIV, and herpes (at the same time!) and was going to die because I had a bit of a runny nose. Obviously that is a definitive sign of AIDS! God, no one understands!

I have since been laughed at enough by my parents to learn my lesson. To be fair, I was always a sickly child. Still am, but I know not to jump to conclusions so much. Mostly.

 

[Pegghead]

When I was a kid I believed that the world was once black and white, cartoon characters were actually people that they flattened onto backgrounds each episode, that Atlantis had been discovered by explorers and that babies came out of um...bums. Gosh how I loved being a kid.

 

[jultub]

As a kid, I actually believed that if someone on TV would put perfume on a microphone, you would be able to smell it at home.

I thought that you could smell things through the telephone

 

[AWAR]

When I was a kid I used to believe that people in the old days actually were Black and White.

Lol me too! I asked my grandpa once though and he explained

 

[danneloid]

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...

 

[The_Graff]

That when you flipped a coin, it would always land opposite side up.
So if it was heads when you flipped it, it would land tails.

That getting good grades in school would help me in real life.

damn, beaten to both of them.

 

[Abengoshis]

I believed my friends brother once hung himself out his bedroom window (second floor of their house) by cello-taping his p**** to the window-sill, and apparently that's how he got the "scar" on it. xD

I was VERY young.

 

[WestMountain]

When I were younger I thought that babies came from the poo hole...

 

[Tempest2009]

I used to belive that EA accutaly helped release decent games

 

[tkioz]

When I were younger I thought that babies came from the poo hole...

I remember thinking that as well when I a little brat, until an elder cousin clued me in, I think it's a common thing young boys old enough to know the usual stories about stalks and so-forth are bollocks think after all we can't imagine not having the dangly thing between our legs, and girls just have an innie version like an innie and outie bellybutton.

Oh to be young and innocent (dumb) again.

 

[yoyo13rom]

I used to believe that my maths teacher is me from the future(because of the many similarities we have: we enjoy the same music, same books, same type of clothes; the at worse, this is weird)

 

[The Zango]

When i was 7 i believed my dick twin friends when they said they had The Sims 18. It was a magical game where you could kill other sims get guns and see loadsa sex. Oh well you can always hope.