What are the worst misconceptions you know of?

[MetallicMonkey]

That anyone who is religious is automatically racist, closed-minded, and homophobic.
Also, that playing video games means you have no life.

 

[Arsen]

- Native American society was peaceful before the white man came and destroyed everything.
- That warfare is unjust in terms of offense.
- That wrongdoing isn't black and white. The circumstances are grey, the sin is still the sin.
- That believing in God means you are close-minded and "brainwashed" to believe since birth.
- That evolution and the whole "we evolved from apes" segment of it aren't two seperate philosophies.
- That evolution itself has no scientific inconsistencies that are beyond explainable.
- That many stories and scientific myths aren't wrapped around the story of "adaption" which has been termed as "evolution".

 

[moosek]

Schizophrenia isn't Multiple Personality Disorder. MPD is (obviously) a personality disorder, which is far more prevalent in women. Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder.

 

[zhoominator]

That America is a country when its actually a continent.

Uhh, what about Canada and Mexico? Are they not part of the North America continent?

I think that was his point. Not sure, but thats how I read it:

ie, When people say 'America' they usually mean the United States of America, as opposed to either of the 'Americas'. I think that was what he was getting at.

Ah, that makes more sense... Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Yep, that's exactly it. I was born is South America, which, together with North (and, for some, central America) make up America, the continent. Therefore, technically speaking I'm an American.

Wait, so now there are only 6 continents? I was under the impression that North America and South America were seperate continents. I don't know, maybe we're just taught differently in the UK.

 

[Thespian]

One that really, really irritates me is a commonly used Christian argument, which is that Darwin's theory, or really just Evolution in general, is the idea that the Earth and all of it's inhabitants were created by "Chance".

Where people got this idea I shall never know.

 

[angelbe2232]

Simple question, what misconceptions do you know of that are just blatantly wrong?

Mine would be that all Muslims are terrorists. If that was the case then there would be, literally, a billion terrorists in the world. I seriously doubt that.

Your turn.

I lead you to the Wikipedia List of Common Misconceptions. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions]

Ahhh, he beat me to it.
Also, all bisexual/lesbians girls will make out with their girlfriend in front of you on command. This does not happen. EVER.
All dictatorships are bad. This really depends on the dictator.

 

[lightningmagurn]

I own guns and I play videogames. This means not only will I shoot up the school, columbine is my fault.

 

[angelbe2232]

Simple question, what misconceptions do you know of that are just blatantly wrong?

Mine would be that all Muslims are terrorists. If that was the case then there would be, literally, a billion terrorists in the world. I seriously doubt that.

Your turn.

I lead you to the Wikipedia List of Common Misconceptions.

Ahhh, he beat me to it.
Also, all bisexual/lesbians girls will make out with their girlfriend in front of you on command. This does not happen. EVER.
All dictatorships are bad. This really depends on the dictator.

Actually it does happen very rarely. And it's totally awesome... Wait, define "command"...

Snapping fingers, it happening.
Things like that.

 

[Small Dragon]

Parties that involve alcohol and testosterone stocked up boys is bound to go down well.. but don't we all see how this is going to play out?

 

[Declan Murray]

Anyone who thinks that Barack Obama wasn't born in america, or anything else like that (he's a muslim, he's a terrorist, he's a communist) that is just not factual

 

[AgentNein]

- That evolution and the whole "we evolved from apes" segment of it aren't two seperate philosophies.
- That evolution itself has no scientific inconsistencies that are beyond explainable.

I'd like some uhh, clarification on these two 'misconceptions' if you could.