Strange Beliefs

Leg End Reject

Believing that some people can communicate with the dead to tell you your future.

Believing you are so vital to your employer that they will struggle to replace you if you resign or retire, we'll all just a payroll number.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122953817#Comment_122953817

If given the opportunity, my witty response was going to be 2,000 years. But as mentioned above, there are differences to cults like Scientology. See below for some, of course the last point is true. You could say that the Abrahamic religions has something like apostasy in their belief system, mostly in the modern era this is rejected. You could also argue whether rejecting unsavory elements to stay in line with modern thinking make you a follower of that religion. Even people who dish out the ala carte catholic sneer don’t follow their one true faith to the letter.

• Openness: Religions typically publish their beliefs and seek to persuade the public of their truth. Cults often rely on secret knowledge that is only revealed to initiates. 
• Structure: Cults are often structured like an inverted "T", with the leader at the top and all others at the bottom. Cult leaders have all the authority in decision-making. 
• Isolation: Cults often isolate members from friends and family, and punish doubts or questions. 
• Sacrifices: Cults may require inordinate sacrifices and money from followers. 
• Tolerance: Cults may not tolerate questions or critical inquiry. 
• Success: A religion may be considered a cult that has become successful and gone mainstream

barneygumble99

There’s 2 people in my house alone, 50% of the occupants, who believe a man is coming the week after next, gonna fit down the chimney and drop a load of presents. I’ve tried telling them it’s not possible but all I’m met with is hysterical crying and meltdowns.

chicks4free

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122953880#Comment_122953880

The words religion and cult are interchangeable imo

These Are Facts

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122951522#Comment_122951522

Ah yes, the BBC’s disinformation reporter and chief fact-checker ‘lied on her CV’.

Marianna Spring, part of the corporation’s fact-checking unit, accused of displaying ‘the opposite’ of integrity.

According to a report published in The New European, Ms Spring 'embellished' (talked sh1te on) her CV, when applying for a job as a Moscow stringer for a US news site in 2018.

Hangdogroad

"Angel Therapy".

I think this stands out in the makey up New Age codswallop arena.

chicks4free

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122957620#Comment_122957620

+ Reiki + Craniosacral therapy

chicks4free

+ acupuncture

BK5

Those prepper people, it's probably more of an American thing but there seems to be a percentage of the population over there filling their basements or sheds with food, water and guns. And it's going on years and years now so you'd think they'd have a pain in their b*ll*x waiting.

My one question for them is, just what exactly are they expecting to happen?

DayInTheBog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122953920#Comment_122953920

My 50%havent believed in the red man since they were 2 but when I suggested not having a tree they asked where the presents would go if there wasn't one.

They obviously believe the tree is instrumental in bringing their presents.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122957708#Comment_122957708

A lot of them are old testament religious - so the rapture/apocalypse. Also the notion that there's going to be a war - started by the federal government/illuminati, and they need to be prepared to fight back. I'm not making this up.

chicks4free

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122958077#Comment_122958077

Rapture 🤣

Hopper33

If you were to go back in time 2 generations and prophesised todays world, people wouldn’t be able to get their heads around it. We are in less of a position to understand what the world will be like in 20 years within our very lifetime! We’re living in pretty strange times.

The Golden Miller

Although people who talk about aliens are often ostracized, I think it's a very strange belief to think they don't exist somewhere, or life elsewhere in the universe.

People think they are rational rolling their eyes about someone banging on about alien's, and ye there are loons out there, but I mean, how on earth can you say with certainty there's nothing out there?

It's mind boggling really when you consider the vastness of the universe. So vast, the mind literally can't comprehend it, even if aware of it!

The Golden Miller

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122951522#Comment_122951522

Funny listening to Karl Pilkington all the same! Miss monkey news

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122951524#Comment_122951524

There's a car I see parked up regularly with branding for some homeopathic service. I hope to ask the driver some day if he runs the car on petrol diluted with 1000 parts water.

To answer the OP, God. The whole sky fairy thing. The whole meeting granny and spot the dog at the pearly gates thing.

Hard to believe that otherwise sensible people believe it.

Dohnjoe

That all the scientists are wrong, except for this expert on social media who constantly tells me my gut instinct is right.

And astrology.

Dohnjoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122960552#Comment_122960552

Don't think many people are saying there's no possibility of life out in the universe, more that it isn't crossing unfathomable distances and bending physics only to crash in corn fields in Iowa. Repeatedly.

L Grey

I remember reading a report on a research paper that hypothesised that life like ours might be far less common than the size of the universe would indicate i.e we could very well be alone.

I found that more chilling than the possibility of alien life.

Dr Robert

Faith healers, horoscopes and fortune telling. How anyone can believe this stuff is beyond me.

Religion in general is totally ridiculous. And it's still taught in schools, by a lot of teachers that have zero belief in it 🤣

DayInTheBog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122960579#Comment_122960579

How can you be 100% sure God doesn't exist?

Rooks

Pseudo archeology like that Graham Hancock guy.

Archeology is already so interesting I don't see the need to invent magical advanced civilizations.

Hamsterchops

Strange beliefs

That someone can become a man or woman by simply saying they are now a man or a woman.

Rooks

Hmm

randd1

I was thinking more along the lines of..

In order to keep women out of choirs, the Catholic Church in the Vatican used to castrate pre-teen boys to keep womanly voices as they grew older. This didn't stop that practice until the mid 19th century. It was so women couldn't desecrate the holiness of the hymns within the Vatican.

Maori's used to carry pots to battles as eating flesh after it's just being killed gave the consumer greater powers.

In medieval Germany, it used to be believed that in order to increase mans sex drive to get pregnant, two fingers were inserted into another woman who was having her period, and then dipped into a mug of beer which the man then drank, which give him lust to impregnate.

Up until the 60's, some men in Ireland, if the way home passed a fairy fort, would buy a cheap bottle of drink to leave by the fort to gain good fortune from the fairies.

Some desert tribes in the Middle East 2-3000 years ago, rather than execute men as punishment during times of low population, would punish men by ordering them to be buggered, with the number of buggerings depending on the seriousness of the crime. Some could be punished with 1000 buggerings. As a punishment it spared the mens life, but left them with the stigma of "being a woman", and would have them shamed for life for being a woman.

Dohnjoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122949459#Comment_122949459

That putting on my deodorant was somehow destroying the Ozone hole

Oh wait..

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122961162#Comment_122961162

The same way as I'm 100% sure that Santa's Clause and the Easter Bunny don't exist.

These are all myths used to control people.

chicks4free

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122961162#Comment_122961162

Which one?

DayInTheBog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122962107#Comment_122962107

A question with a question. Ha e you got any infallible proof that any of the gods don't exist?

DayInTheBog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122962095#Comment_122962095

So you can't be sure but sure you must be right 😁