belief

If you're new on the planet, it's extremely easy to mishear something once and have an extremely skewed idea of the world for a few years. Kids are dumb and weird, but usually the grow up into less dumb adults. Sometimes they don't, and people end of hearing the dumbest things ever.

We're intellectually obligated to believe things with some amount of evidence, but damn if hunches aren't compelling. Everyone has their personal conspiracy theories and stupid beliefs that they will believe to their dying day, no matter how little actual proof they have.

There's a lot of people walking around with their heads still full of garbage they heard on the bus in 6th grade, and they're more than willing to tell you with full confidence that bears lay eggs. From absurd falsehoods to nonexistent laws that people insist are real, people are willing to say some absurd things in complete seriousness.

People have their favorite small preferences and beliefs. We will nitpick over everything from how to conduct yourself in a store to their least favorite multiples of seven. The smaller things get, the more passionate people get about them. People can get amazingly petty, like this Costco parking lot standoff that ended in petty revenge. There are some things people are just tempted to believe, even if they're completely ridiculous, like people's favorite conspiracy theories.

It's a big world out there, which means there's a whole lot of opportunity to hear some pure, unadulterated stupid. You wouldn't believe how many people out there are totally in the dark about how the technology, biology, and even tarps work. What a great time to be alive. If this isn't enough, then here's more of the dumbest things people have heard.

Just goes to show that people will react to a ridiculous headline before reading the source. One of these even came from a site called "Not Really News." It's almost as if there is nothing The Onion can put out that SOMEONE won't think is real.

Sometimes parents lie to their kids to keep them safe. Sometimes they lie to keep things fun. Sometimes they just wanna be absolute douches.