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When I was five, I sincerely believed in Santa and the Tooth Fairy, at seventeen - that at least someone in this world could stop Michael Jordan on his way to the sixth ring, at thirty - that the ratings of songs on streaming services reflect their true popularity. As Thorin Oakenshield said, “I’ve never been so wrong in all my life...”
Well, that's the thing about growing up and gaining what people usually call ‘wisdom’ - that over the years, we change our views on things, and what we believed with all the fervor of a neophyte in our youth seems ridiculous years later. However, not always - and our selection, based on this viral thread in the AskReddit community, is intended to convince you of this. Or at least give rise to a good discussion.
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#1
Sports. I get it, entertainment. But like, calm down. You aren't on the team. Take a breath.
anon , Tembela Bohle Report
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Alexandra Alexandra Community Member Follow
Maybe they aren't on the team, but they feel like they do. It's a kind of extended family, I guess. I'm not a sport enthusiast by any means, but I can see people are drawn to that feeling of community, of supporting each other when it comes to team sports.
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Flat Earth. Literally don't believe it. I think these people are fictional.
vladkornea , Porapak Apichodilok Report
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Sage(formerly Impasta) Sage(formerly Impasta) Community Member Follow
Cats would have pushed everything off by now
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Social media in general. Too many people believe every clickbait headline, or buy in to whatever trend is taking over. Feels like people can't self soothe and need the validation or something, it's just weird.
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Sahil Islam Sahil Islam Community Member Follow
I think smelling the fumes from household items are also part of a social media trend
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In fact, it’s pretty common for humanity to revise its views over time. For example, a couple of centuries ago, we knew ‘for sure’ that only birds and angels could fly in the sky, half a thousand years ago the very idea of printing books looked like complete nonsense, and around the same time almost the whole world was damn sure that the Earth was actually flat... hmm, well, not the best example, I agree.
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Elon Musk and other billionaire "geniuses." People are pretty freaking gullible.
GladysSchwartz23 , movie-screencaps Report
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Sage(formerly Impasta) Sage(formerly Impasta) Community Member Follow
His engineers do all of the work he takes credit for.
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That 5G towers caused Covid. Like, wtf.
c-fox , Baatcheet Films Report
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Jeremy James Jeremy James Community Member Follow
The version I heard is that the 5G signals activate nanobots in the vaccine that edit people's genes to make white people less white. Or possibly trans, I can't remember.
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How can anyone, any age, take that seriously? Like, I'm supposed to take advice from someone who believes in bizarre theories like that? I wouldn't be surprised if he believes in lizard people and spaghetti god; or, I don't know, we evolved from dolphins. How does any grown-up take him seriously?
My dad once told me he believed that 9/11 was a hologram...
Haunting_Meal_3599 , Aidan Bartos Report
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Brittania Kelli Brittania Kelli Community Member Follow
As a devout Pastafarian I know his holiness will save us from the evil lizard overlords with his noodly appendage.
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In fact, if you look at the selection of the most popular opinions from the original thread, you can see that almost half of the examples given are somehow related to the Internet. Yes, that’s right - three decades ago, scientists seriously believed that the very opportunity to gain access to all the knowledge of humanity almost directly from your favorite couch, the opportunity to discuss anything with a person on the other side of the globe - this is the path to unprecedented progress in knowledge! And where on [flat] Earth did we take a wrong turn?
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Having a loud exhaust or sound system in your car.
SoberButGrateful , Oscar Sutton Report
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Hans Georg Hans Georg Community Member Follow
Some people just want to annoy other people.
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Social Influencers.
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Libstak Libstak Community Member Follow
I'm too stubborn to take advice from friends, how I'm gonna take on the ideals of these wannabes?
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Horoscopes.
KnoBreaks , Josh Rangel Report
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Sahil Islam Sahil Islam Community Member Follow
This is stupid
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However, there is nothing surprising - all sorts of weird ideas and theories have always existed, but if previously their spread was actually hampered by distances between people, as well as the banal factor of time and money, then the Internet erases boundaries not only for knowledge. Suppose I had some really stupid ideas about a hundred years ago, then, in order to get people interested in it, I have to spend a lot of time and money to write a book, publish it, promote it in bookstores and magazines... Today? It’s enough just to create a topic on Reddit and write a post, isn’t it?
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‘Reality’ tv. People get so invested. .
Princess_Jade1974 , JESHOOTS.com Report
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Libstak Libstak Community Member Follow
I never understood this....why would a complete strangers life mean anything to me? I care about what's in front of me, that's plenty.
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Getting their ‘facts’ from some rando on YouTube who’s an ‘expert’ because they said they are.
Rockindobbs , Jesus Loves Austin Report
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Charles McChristy Charles McChristy Community Member Follow
People don't like to do research, and it it is just easier to believe what you want no matter how FU it is.
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#12
Who gives a s**t what some random c**t on a screen says? Never understood how fully grown adults get so worked up over it.
Online people's opinions.
TheNameless00 , Nicola Barts Report
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A̷͇̘̓͜l̷̼͇̣͒̌ͅȩ̷͍͙͗̅̀͊̏̾͘x̶̋̍ A̷͇̘̓͜l̷̼͇̣͒̌ͅȩ̷͍͙͗̅̀͊̏̾͘x̶̋̍ Community Member Follow
To be fair, if someone online says something horrible, racist, or insulting, I wouldn't blame people for getting worked up about it.
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However, no one is immune from the fact that everything that we believe in today, that we are so sure of, will not turn out to be ‘strange nonsense’ a couple of centuries or even decades later. After all, twenty years ago, Pluto was officially listed as a planet... Okay, I still feel bad for Pluto, but in the meantime, feel free to read this selection to the very end, vote for the submissions you agree with the most, and maybe add your own ideas in the comments below. In the end, as the ancients used to say, ‘truth is born in disputes...’
#13
Crystals. I like rocks n s**t. I'll buy one if it looks cool for the right price. But it never fails when I grab an interesting amethyst, the seller tries to tell me what it's good for.
JellyfishSavings2802 , Alina Vilchenko Report
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Placebo effect? If it works and causes no harm, no big deal just don’t force it on others.
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How other people live their lives.
Birdy304 , Oliver Sjöström Report
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Libstak Libstak Community Member Follow
Yes, isn't one life enough? Why gossip and carry on about others so much?
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I'm not trying to be edgy, but true believers. Really? I could understand using parables to educate, but the adults that believe the miracles and magic... I cannot fathom it. I simply have to accept that's how humans are. There's a survival reason we see faces in the shadows. It may have been a tiger or not but I can think about that as I'm running away safely. The same quirk of imagination gave us religion. Arg! Oh well. At least it also gave us music. We're a weird animal aren't we?
Religion.
Elizabetha_W , Pixabay Report
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WindySwede WindySwede Community Member
and also gives your money to a "priest" that flies jets and lives in a mantion?!!
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#16
Stanley cups. I don’t get it, at all, they make me angry because you can’t put them in a bag without spilling.
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I don't get the attraction: they're too big and look akward.
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Gossip in general. I live in a small town and it is maddening how people here are so serious about it. It's not light fun chatting, it's all SCANDAL and we need to take ACTION. I swear a lot of people's problems would be immediately solved if they just stopped giving a s**t what everyone else does (to an extent).
buffalopantry , Anna Shvets Report
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FranklySpeaking FranklySpeaking Community Member Follow
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
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Being threatened by things they don’t understand, and having a narrow threshold to boot.
Whiskey-Blossom , cottonbro studio Report
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"Argh, the [insert]-community, I must hate them so I can be a good [insert]" 🤦♂️🤨
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Like, if I get really sick emergency medical care can get me.. while I consume raw eggs, raw milk, raw food ( I don't know of anyone who I know is doing the third thing, but I'm seeing weird trends of this type of c**p on Tiktock or Instagram.) And don't give me started on vaccines... there's this weird kind of good faith argument that if someone dies of pneumonia or covid, that's nature taking its course, but if these individuals die of anything after the modern jab, it's all vaccine related and untimely.
I think kind of revolting against modern medicine is something that I feel is awkwardly privileged.
MastermindorHero , Osarodion Amenze Report
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Sahil Islam Sahil Islam Community Member Follow
If medication is a sin then why does it save lives? Why were doctors made if we aren't allowed to take their help? Why in religious texts that the messengers of God/Gods (depending on which religion) healed people if nature was allowed to take its course? Are questions I asked my friend who shared the "anti-med" belief. He couldn't answer any of them and didn't come back to school for a month after that.
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#20
Cryptocurrencies, the Metaverse and other such b******t technologies. Also, in the case of men, the Alpha/Sigma male s**t, and in the case of women, the Witch-Tok and other such girly s**t.
Miserable_Ad_2379 , Ivan Babydov Report
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Working extra hard at work will get you raises or promotions….
Fryboy_Fabricates , Vlada Karpovich Report
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Alexandra Alexandra Community Member Follow
Ha ha! That one should have been consigned to oblivion long ago. If you work hard, you will never be promoted because they won't be able to replace you with someone who works equally hard. Also, if you work hard, it means you earn less than the person who does the same job but doesn't work that hard: your excess effort isn't paid for.
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#22
Like yall, we are singing and dancing and wearing silly costumes. It’s not that serious.
This is niche but community theatre. The DRAMA among grown adults is insane, worse than when I was in high school.
MediocreVideo1893 , Erik Mclean Report
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Helena Helena Community Member Follow
Artistic endeavors have always attracted the more dramatic among us.
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The Disney Adults who get all bent because their favorite movie for little girls got remade and they dint like it none. Like it ain't that serious Mary.
i__hate__stairs , Héctor Vásquez Report
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If you don't like it these will pay you a visit... /s 540f20c3d4...9d2d13.jpg
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#25
Facebook...likes, number of friends.
marlada , Austin Distel Report
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The royal family. What in the actual f**k?
cheeseofthemoon , Roméo A. Report
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It's a bit ridiculous how much coverage is given to the British Royal family in the U.S. This isn't news! We were founded specifically to not have to follow them
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Politicians. Like holy s**t, be interested in your *own* life a little more.
VT_Squire , RDNE Stock project Report
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Stardust she/her Stardust she/her Community Member Follow
And politicians indirectly affect your own life
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Giving kids tablets.
Medium_Ad298 , Emily Wade Report
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Alexandra Alexandra Community Member Follow
Yep, so you don't have to engage with them and they won't, not now and not later on.
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Trump fans.
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Drama. I found out some people purposely overreact and make things into negatives just to create drama because they think life is boring.
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It appears jet contrails are missing from the list. Seems people do not understand how engines operate in a cold environment. Therefore, it must be chemicals.
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Trump fans.
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Drama. I found out some people purposely overreact and make things into negatives just to create drama because they think life is boring.
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It appears jet contrails are missing from the list. Seems people do not understand how engines operate in a cold environment. Therefore, it must be chemicals.
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