Crazy and Insane Theories

[marquis12]

Have you ever made up the most not logical, heresy theories. One of my obscene theories was how scientist of the time before meteorology and satellite. Scientist would look in the sky. If there were clouds in the sky, there was no hurricane forming. But if there wasn't any clouds in the sky, and they were moving east, that meant that they were moving eastward to form a hurricane.

If it sounds insane, notice I entitled it crazy and insane theories.

[Filip]

A favourite insane theory I entertain every so often is that the world was just created five minutes ago.

And everything you remember from before that... is just a memory that was created along with it!

-That leg cramp you're feeling isn't from a football accident yesterday. you've never played football in your life! It was an injury callously created by a spiteful creator.
-Those people you think of as friends? You never met them in your existence! You just share a powerful illusion of shared memories.
-That family you think you have are people who have nothing to do with you at all, except for being created five minutes ago just like you.
- all those achievements and failures you carry in your memory? they're not yours. You never worked a day in your life.

And then, the philosophical question is whether it matters at all whether the past is an illusion or real, anyway...

[Owen]

I was at a talk with a history professor at our school, and he started talking about conspiracy theories and how silly they are. He brought up JFK's assassination, and this got everyone there talking in a flurry, saying various conspiracy theories they had heard. One of my friends then shouted over everyone very seriously, "Marylon Monroe did it!"

Of course, she was joking, but the story has stuck with me.

[Chandra]

I have a (completely unscientific and unsubstantiated) pet theory that extreme religious dogmatism is a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

[aidan]

Elvis isn't dead. Elvis isn't dead. Elvis isn't dead because I heard him on the radio.

*guitar*

[malachite]

why make them up when there are already so many around us:
scientology
creationism
government worker

[Lychee]

We are all just Sims.

[steel03]

When I was a kid I used to pretend that adults were actually evil (except the ones they classified as villains) and that vegetables and things were actually horrible for us and that pretty much every nice thing they did was just to convince us that they weren't evil and that they would tell you about it when you turned 18.
Hasn't happened yet.

[Tracy Lord]

The moon landing was faked.

[Z3ni]

Originally Posted by Lychee

We are all just Sims.

This!

We are living with other beings, we can't see them, but they can see us!! and they watch us in the toilet! I feel so violated!

[NickT]

This world isn't real and really resides in a snowglobe shaken by an autistic child.

[Holliepop]

Originally Posted by Z3ni

This!

We are living with other beings, we can't see them, but they can see us!! and they watch us in the toilet! I feel so violated!

At least it's pixelated.

[Pepsi]

Michael Jackson isn't really dead. He's been preparing a ship for the end of the world and needed to devote all his time to it so he faked his death. All those celebrities that die in threes aren't dead either. MJ has always just picked three people at a time to be a part of his ship. All the people he wants to survive. Just a little joke thing me and my friends made up once.

[Lexington]

>>>When I was a kid I used to pretend that adults were actually evil (except the ones they classified as villains) and that vegetables and things were actually horrible for us and that pretty much every nice thing they did was just to convince us that they weren't evil and that they would tell you about it when you turned 18.

I don't want to get into religious bashing here, but at age 12 or 13, I remember looking around in church, and wondering if absolutely everybody in that place was going through the pretense of "believing" and praying and going to church...simply to see if I would fall for it. I remember...well, "fantasize" isn't the right word. Daydreaming about asking the priest after church, "It's all fake, isn't it?" And him calling everybody around to say that I'd seen through their little game, and boy, wasn't I smart.

Please note that my parents are still very religious, and still very cool, even though I've left the church.

Lex

[steel03]

That's actually hilarious. Sounds like you had an awesome priest.

[TheLilyTribe]

When I was little, I was 100% sure that our church was a space ship. And when my parents herded me and my sister up to the priest so they could have Communion, I would always daydream that for a split second I saw him blink a second pair of eyes, like in Men in Black. I had quite an imagination.

[thedreamwatch]

OH this one is my favorite:

What if we all see colors differently? For example, a group of people are standing around a red rose. They all know that the color of the rose is the one that they were always taught was "red" but how can you describe the color without talking about the things that are that color? How do you know that your "red" is perceived as literally the same color and in the same way that someone else's is? How do we know if our eyes and brains are processing the light in the same way that someone else's does? What if you could borrow someone's eyes and brain for a moment and look at the sky only to realize that the color they see is your "green"?

[malachite]

Just met someone who has crazy theories, and she is insane.

She seems to think every guy is hitting on her, left 3 sites because men were sexually harrassing her, and she just said one of my co-workers (whom I've known for 10 years) was hitting on her.

Lady you so crazy!!!!

[Jonathan]

Originally Posted by thedreamwatch

OH this one is my favorite:

What if we all see colors differently? For example, a group of people are standing around a red rose. They all know that the color of the rose is the one that they were always taught was "red" but how can you describe the color without talking about the things that are that color? How do you know that your "red" is perceived as literally the same color and in the same way that someone else's is? How do we know if our eyes and brains are processing the light in the same way that someone else's does? What if you could borrow someone's eyes and brain for a moment and look at the sky only to realize that the color they see is your "green"?

I used to think about this all the time!

[Chandra]

Originally Posted by thedreamwatch

OH this one is my favorite:

What if we all see colors differently? For example, a group of people are standing around a red rose. They all know that the color of the rose is the one that they were always taught was "red" but how can you describe the color without talking about the things that are that color? How do you know that your "red" is perceived as literally the same color and in the same way that someone else's is? How do we know if our eyes and brains are processing the light in the same way that someone else's does? What if you could borrow someone's eyes and brain for a moment and look at the sky only to realize that the color they see is your "green"?

Ha, my project for Grade 10 science was based on exactly this idea.