Stupid things you used to believe in

[Rival]

I used to believe that when Charles became King, Britain would start lots of wars because kings like wars.

Reminds me of something my friend said at school...

'When William becomes King, what will we be called? The Willies?'

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[Luchito Prays]

I used to believe that time flows.

Also that Einstein was a genius.

Believed that space was a vacuum.

A child game of mine that if I walk over a crossing line on the side walk, then such will be the end of the world.

I don't think my belifs were "stupid" but just the product of deviate propaganda forcing the minds of people to believe in things which are not worthy at all.

However, I still am very careful of never walking over the horizontal lines of sidewalks...

 

[Petmenor]

I rarely play the lottery. When it hits 300 million or more I might buy a ticket. I know that I am going to lose, but it is cheap entertainment. Other than that I do not gamble. I have a housemate that does and if I have to pick her up I can walk through the casino without even the slightest temptation.


Casinos work by draining the cash from the addicted. I have been able to make some good money on this website though. Lotteries work on a different basis. A huge number of the players are like me. Throw the state a buck or two, I won't miss it. Meanwhile my housemate's part time boyfriend, who makes more than I do, can't even afford his own home and has to at times live where he can do home repair to help with rent. He is the sort of person that casinos love. He can hold down a good paying job, but his money is gone quite often before his next paycheck.

You're right that casinos and lotteries operate differently, though they both rely on the hope and dreams of big wins to draw people in.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I started this thread so that you can own up to stupid things that you used to believe in...

...but no longer believe in and now consider stupid

I have a few, but for me this is the main one:

Every person has a "god shaped hole" in them which means that they cannot be completed until something God shaped fills their hole. This can be done with many things but ultimately the best way of filling it is to fill it with God.
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Also, why did you believe what you believed?

Because I heard some sleazy religious dude on a "faith" television station say it and I thought it sounded kinda cool
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And why did you stop believing it?

Because it is possible to feel whole and authentic as a human being without God

Indeed, it is obvious that many atheists are more whole and authentic human beings than many theists

And, assuming there is a God-shaped hole, surely it is the shape of what fills it that matters, rather than what exactly it is???​

That God, Jesus , and the angels lived on the clouds. I used to think it was an actual land mass above our heads.

Mind you, I was about 7 or 8 years old at the time.

 

[Subduction Zone]

You're right that casinos and lotteries operate differently, though they both rely on the hope and dreams of big wins to draw people in.

Lotteries do not try to make their product addictive as possible. If anything they do the opposite. That the odds are impossibly stacked against you are made obvious. There is no constant gratification and urge to try again. The percentage of people that are harmfully addicted to them is almost zero. Casinos on the other hand do try to addict their patrons and are quite good at it. I know too many people that throw away their needed cash. I have a housemate whose bankcard I have to hold for her. Otherwise, she would spend her rent money and I would have to evict her. She finally realized that having a secure place to live was a higher need.