Topic: Weird peer beliefs

[AQB24712]

Words fail me, Wicked C.  Except this:  Ahmahgahd.

[WC]

Oh, he also kept the lump he "surgically" removed in a jar, suspended in vodka. He was quite proud of it at the time. He has a nasty scar on his forearm.

[Ah.hell]

My roommate believes all drugs are poison, from vitamin c tablets to Tylenol, and that human could live 200 yrs+ if it wasn't for slow and constant poisoning from these drugs.

Does he get high alot, because IMHO in my experience people who believe stuff like that also get high alot. 

Edit because that's what I meant.

[341gerbig]

My roommate believes all drugs are poison, from vitamin c tablets to Tylenol, and that human could live 200 yrs+ if it wasn't for slow and constant poisoning from these drugs.

Does he get high alot, because IMHO people who believe stuff like that also get high alot.

Oh yes, major toker

[H. Drummond]

Good grief WC!

I only have the local beliefs in curanderas, brujas, and the occasional skinwalker claim.  We also have our share of old hippies and new agers who make up stuff as they go along, but the ones I've met are nowhere near that sort of hardcore.  Yoinks!

[Sordid]

@WC There are no words.

[Ah.hell]

Almost everybody I know believes organic food is always better for the environment and your health.  Most people seem to believe its been scientifically proven beyond any doubt.  Not that far out, its just that practically everybody I know thinks this. 

I have a coworker that uses an emf meter to find ghosts.  Another coworker sees a chinese herbalist fairly regularly.  A former coworker is now an acupuncturist.  I know a guy who's mom is a lesbian but has recently converted to Catholicism.  His mom was a board member in their former church.  WTF.  The guy in the cube next to me spouts a new conspiracy practically every day.  I started sharing them with you but most are either incoherent or just how the world works filtered through a lens that sees most things as a sinister plot.  Seriously, the guy thinks both business and unions are out to screw the working man.  Before my current GF, I went on an OKcupid date with a women who work was a child psychologist that believed vaccines caused autism.  She was a smoker. WTF

So I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, not a lot of right wing nuttery but plenty of newagy and eastern wisdom to to go around.

[Halleyscomet/Wakefield]

Find user jonthm on youtube.

Granted I think that guy does actually have some sort of brain injury, but he's a prolific video maker and his videos are just about the most ridicolous nonsense i've ever heard.

http://jonsthings.blogspot.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/JonThm

He suffered major brain damage as a result of a car crash. One of his videos has diagrams of the kind of injury he sustained. He's not really a conspiracy theorist or nutjob but an example of what happens when large swaths of the human brain are reduced to a mass of crushed bone and pulp without causing a catatonic state or death.

It's a fascinating example of a brain running in random directions, without any remaining capacity for evaluating ideas against data.

[arthwollipot]

Seriously, you guys make me love my co-workers even more.

I work with The Lawyer From Coonabarabran ('cause there's only one), and her husband works at the Mount Stromlo observatory. She told me once that her daugter said about her father "My dad loves science and hates Jesus".

I knew I was working in the right place then.

[Obsequious]

If I ever met somebody who thought "they" were putting Prozac in our water, I would ask that person how much he thinks Prozac costs, and then ask him how "they" can afford to put such an expensive medication in our water without charging us for it.

Economies of scale, I would imagine.

[Karyn]

If I ever met somebody who thought "they" were putting Prozac in our water, I would ask that person how much he thinks Prozac costs, and then ask him how "they" can afford to put such an expensive medication in our water without charging us for it.

Economies of scale, I would imagine.

I'm sure the Federal Reserve Bank and their ability to print endless amounts of money has something to do with it.

[EhJayArr]

Two close friends (who are decently well-grounded, skeptically speaking) are trying to stop fapping for a month, because the heard on forums that it will up their testosterone levels, and make women unwittingly more attracted to them, and also make their sex better.

 

[341gerbig]

Two close friends (who are decently well-grounded, skeptically speaking) are trying to stop fapping for a month, because the heard on forums that it will up their testosterone levels, and make women unwittingly more attracted to them, and also make their sex better.

 

Ive got friends doing that, it comes from this site:
http://www.yourbrainonporn.com/

[amysrevenge]

Two close friends (who are decently well-grounded, skeptically speaking) are trying to stop fapping for a month, because the heard on forums that it will up their testosterone levels, and make women unwittingly more attracted to them, and also make their sex better wrap up in about 5.2 seconds.

 

FTF them

[goodthink]

scary thing is, there are anti-depressants in our water. No idea if it is mainly prozac, but it's there. Something about people flushing their un-used scripts.