What did you once believe that you later found out was crap?

[Hermit]

Until today I believed that Dr. "this is a legitimate degree" Robert Klass - also known as LaMont Kransky, or something like that - could one day be coaxed to answer the following question put to him in the Should We Play The God Game? thread: "Can you explain how a person can distinguish between the real God and a make believe god?" The way he keeps worming out of answering with a multitude of evasions (I already told you. Maybe later. I don't have the time right now. Where did I say I was going to answer every question? You won't like it. I only want to talk about the god of this game. You are unwilling to understand. Et cetera ad nauseam) has now lead me to the conclusion that my belief was a load of crap.

[charlou]

'Reason' tangent split to a new thread here: http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=12192

Yeah, we don't need no stinkin' reason in here! And stay out!

[Link]

Some people are asexual and some are not into being self-sexual. (I just made that term up, I know there must be a clinical term for it but I couldn't find it)

The clinical term for both is: Dead

[snip] I also hope that any and all asexual as well as self-sexual people who read my comment [snip]

There you go Mai! It's catching on you trend setter

[normal]

When I was 8-9 I believed I had magical powers to control other people's actions and that I was in contact with a sort of satan-like deity. I remember seeing his robes in a "vision" when I crashed my snow sled into a tree. And after that I could often imagine seeing him hover in the darkness when I was outside. A huge robed man looking sort of evil wizard like. I can still remember the colours of his robes.

It was fun for a while, but at some point around 9 or 10 I realized I was imagining too much, and lying too my friends when I explained my powers. So I lost interest in that fantasy

[Coito ergo sum]

Stop fighting, mummy and daddy!

Who's your daddy!

[Trolldor]

The multiverse.

[Thinking Aloud]

I remember being on a railway station when I was probably nine or ten, and casually blowing through my lips to make that sort of horsey-raspberry sound. As I did this, ALL the TV announcement screens on the station flickered. I thought it was a coincidence, so did it again, and it happened again. And again. I spent the next 20 minutes or so wandering around deliberately blowing raspberries whenever someone tried to look at the monitors.

Sadly my rational brain was suggesting very strongly that I wasn't really making all the monitors flicker, and that the vibration from my lip movements was probably causing my eyes to vibrate a little, leading to some kind of (very effective) optical illusion.

[Animavore]

I once believed that babies came out of women's bums

[devogue]

I once believed that babies came out of women's bums

I used to think their front bottoms were called "vannies".

[charlou]

Some people are asexual and some are not into being self-sexual. (I just made that term up, I know there must be a clinical term for it but I couldn't find it)

The clinical term for both is: Dead

[snip] I also hope that any and all asexual as well as self-sexual people who read my comment [snip]

There you go Mai! It's catching on you trend setter

It's the new PC form of wanker.

[Coito ergo sum]

I once believed that babies came out of women's bums

They don't?

WTF?

[Feck]

I used to believe that finding suicide bombers would be difficult ,I mean how many people could be that dumb ignorant and gullible ? but now ......

[devogue]

I used to believe that Rafa Benitez knew what he was doing.

[A Monkey Shaved]

In my teens, I used to think Erik von Daniken's ideas sounded plausible.

Me too when I was a teenager largely because I found it more plausible than all that biblical rubbish taught at Sunday school at the time. Alien visitors sounded far more plausible than all those so called intervention from supernatural sky fairies espoused in the Bible. Then Von Daniken was later exposed at fabricating his so called "evidence" such as faked artifacts of aliens performing heart transplants on pottery, but before that I had already got very suspicious of him when I read his later books which were kind of like the most dreadful sequels to a blockbuster sci fi flick

[kiki5711]

that my parents were great.