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Offline Nudibranch

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Weird peer beliefs
« on: May 06, 2012, 03:58:14 PM »
So I'm currently living in a youth homeless shelter because I am broke and tired of living with my family, and while being here I've had more exposure to strange conspiracy theories and worldviews than anywhere else I've lived. I constantly hear people ranting about how 'they' put 'prozac' in the water supply to keep people docile, that there are literally fetuses in Pepsi products, and one guy even came up to me and tried to tell me that menstrual cycles controlled the weather. The list goes on; there are even staff members here that believe in reptile people and that the world is going to end this year.

What are the oddest ideas you've overheard or been approached with?

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Re: Weird peer beliefs
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2012, 08:50:33 PM »
If "they" put prozac in the water then judging from the news it isn't working very well. Perhaps they need more prozac.
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« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2012, 09:07:33 PM »
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« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2012, 09:25:23 PM »
Oh boy... Between living with the hippie vegan urban "survivalists" ("off the grid") and the bible humping militia type survivalists (also, "off the grid") in the deep desert, I've heard 'em all. I don't even know where to begin. I will say, however, that between these two populations, they share almost all the same ideologies/world views, and their conspiracies overlap significantly (they also lack access to or otherwise refuse mental health care, or health care generally, and are entirely undereducated). Everything from Obama being a hologram, to a crippling fear of "government workers" (always undefined boogie men, sometimes in invisibility cloaks sneaking about the house hiding things, to black op spooks i.e. me asking too many questions), everything that happens is a covert government op or government conspiracy or sleight of hand to distract.

A childhood friend, total tin foil hat pot smoking anarcho-lefty hippie type, believed microwave ovens caused all illnesses. He would turn paper white when walking into someone else's kitchen. He claimed he stopped drinking water, insisting he only obtained moisture from his food (fruits I guess, as we're dealing with a raw food vegan here), and drank only his own urine or juice (because nature is the best filter for his fluids AND he claimed his body, after decades of vegan tuning, has become a super pure juice machine. Potable water, from the tap, of course, contained mind control substances. He had a big phobia over fluoride). He also does home surgery on himself and composts his and his family's feces (in an extremely improper unhygienic manner). He has a beehive in his back room that he hasn't the heart to disturb on account of the insects' welfare (don't get me started on the 10,000s or palmetto bugs everywhere day or night, and the lice and the bed bugs). Generally, his household is a public health problem and nuisance to the surrounding community. It's actually quite sad now that I think about it.

An ultra conservative wingnut I once worked for believed that there is an ocean portal somewhere in the north Atlantic allowing access to the hollow earth where the benevolent hyper intelligent giants dwell. Well, the hippie also believed this too. The things specific to the winger nut revolved mostly around the accumulation of firearms. Lots of crazy with that guy and his buddies.

Dimension hopping Sasquatch, the order of the E.T.s; greys and greens and reptilians, crop circles, chemtrails, mind control radio waves, telepathy, demonic agency, ghosts, trutherism, mysticism, ancient astronauts, anti-vax, anti-medicine. anti-establishment EVERYTHING. Typical C2C fare.

I'm really going to have go back into the way back machine to find the craziest madness I've come across...

What's up with this youth homeless shelter? Are you doing okay?
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« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2012, 09:57:39 PM »
You had me at "home surgery on himself".

What the actual hell.
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« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2012, 11:31:02 PM »
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.

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Re: Weird peer beliefs
« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2012, 11:31:28 PM »
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.

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Re: Weird peer beliefs
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2012, 01:05:22 AM »
Pretty boring here. Most I've had was a colleague suggesting I see a naturopath when I mentioned that I wasn't feeling great.
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Re: Weird peer beliefs
« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2012, 02:15:42 AM »
An alarming amount of people in my area believe that the US never journeyed to the moon. My friend lived with his ex-girlfriend and her best friend, who was somewhat into new age things. She used to swear, in all seriousness, that she could see auras and heal people with poisoned or fractured or whatever energy.

I hate to kiss and tell, but, lets just say I healed that energy all right. Healed the shit out of it.

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« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2012, 02:17:46 AM »
An alarming amount of people in my area believe that the US never journeyed to the moon. My friend lived with his ex-girlfriend and her best friend, who was somewhat into new age things. She used to swear, in all seriousness, that she could see auras and heal people with poisoned or fractured or whatever energy.

I hate to kiss and tell, but, lets just say I healed that energy all right. Healed the shit out of it.

So you're saying that you realigned her chakras ?

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Re: Weird peer beliefs
« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2012, 02:37:39 AM »
An alarming amount of people in my area believe that the US never journeyed to the moon. My friend lived with his ex-girlfriend and her best friend, who was somewhat into new age things. She used to swear, in all seriousness, that she could see auras and heal people with poisoned or fractured or whatever energy.

I hate to kiss and tell, but, lets just say I healed that energy all right. Healed the shit out of it.

New agers always seem to be easy....

Source: Been a nightclub patron and college student for 4 years

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Re: Weird peer beliefs
« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2012, 08:37:28 AM »
I guy I used to work with had gravity all figured out. It seems that mass has nothing to do with it. Instead, there are just certain random spots in the universe that attract mass, which then accumulates in those places.

I'm surprised no physicist has hit on this truth.   
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Re: Weird peer beliefs
« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2012, 09:16:09 AM »
Lots of UFO and ghost people here.  I tell them I don't believe aliens would travel all the way just to probe some cow in Montana.  They come back with the statement that the Universe is too big not to have life somewhere else.

As for ghosts, I really don't have a good rebuttal.  They have *evidence* and I just don't have any confidence in their methods or findings.

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« Reply #13 on: May 07, 2012, 12:06:33 PM »


What's up with this youth homeless shelter? Are you doing okay?

I'm doing just fine, might even be moving in with a friend in the next couple of weeks; my only real complaint about the place is the lack of education. Thanks for asking!


Yesterday someone I'm hang out with sometimes told me she had 'converted to Demonology'. What.

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Re: Weird peer beliefs
« Reply #14 on: May 07, 2012, 12:33:37 PM »
You had me at "home surgery on himself".

What the actual hell.
It started in the 90s. The first incident I remember him telling me about was a large hard lump in his arm which he had extracted with an X-acto after boozing himself up. He regaled me in horrifying graphic detail about how this "tumor" was dangling by a tendon like thread, as he put it, after he had cut it free from the surrounding tissue. He then packed the largish incision with cayenne pepper, which he believes is a magic powder given to us from our astro gods to cure everything. I have no idea if he was describing a stubborn subcutaneous cyst or something much worse. He, of course, believes doctors are on the take of every conceivable nefarious conspiracy in his paranoid world, as he pretty much suffers from this to a T (or possibly this). Home dentistry too, as dentists push the mind control agent fluoride. Doctors are evil and are trying trying to kill us, according to him and his family. He refuses to take any "big pharma" product for anything, but instead orders mind altering fungi online from dubious sources, which he mixes in with his pot (with cayenne pepper of course). He also believes cigarettes cure lung cancer, and thusly sucks them down all day.

I'm slightly surprised he's still alive.

He's done other procedures on himself, apparently, but that first one he told me about is scarred into my brain permanently. I can't unknow it. I lost touch with this guy the other year after he got a little too paranoid about me. There's another poster here, a friend of mine who also grew up with this kook. Let me see if he's online. Seriously, I can't make this shit up.

The thing that killed me about him, at least when we were friends was this; because he has a 9th grade education and a series of mental illnesses and behavioral disorders, and because he either refuses to work or is completely unemployable at this point, his existence depends entirely on public assistance. BUT, in his mind, "government workers" are out to get us, and government is evil et cetera... But he'll take food stamps and financial assistance from it just fine. He also could never define what he meant by "government". I realized, after talking with him the other year, that he couldn't distinguish between the three branches on the federal level and the various agencies at that level, he also couldn't distinguish government on the state level from the fed, the three branches of the state's government, or even on his own city's level of governance, let alone his district or county. Government, to him, is a nebulous boogie man that encompasses everything that happens in the world, and everyone from the garbage man to the school teacher to the cop to the public health people and social workers checking up on him to medical practitioners to every single thing on TV and on the internet are part of IT. THEY are trying to GET US.
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