# What's the craziest thing you absolutely 100% believe? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 9, 2014, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368 "2014-06-09T00:25:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/81 "2014-06-10T16:59:46Z")
You convinced yourself of that, right? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![NVME702-redux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a183cd/32.png) [@NVME702-redux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NVME702-redux)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/82 "2014-06-10T18:27:24Z")
I believe that couples that have successful long term relationships risk divorcing within 2 years time when for whatever dumb reason they end up getting married to make it “official” So if you’re happily co habitating- dont get married! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/83 "2014-06-10T18:29:30Z")
Well, yes, if they never got married there would be no “risk” of divorcement, right? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/84 "2014-06-10T20:10:09Z")
I believe that, through sheer genius and mathematical brainwork, mankind can break the lightspeed barrier. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/85 "2014-06-10T20:38:30Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > The Houston Oilers were indeed robbed in the 1979 AFC Championship game. If not winning, at least that Renfro TD would’ve kept them in it, taking the likely end to the last few minutes, if not OT. I’m not saying it’s a slam dunk they would’ve won, but the burn is still felt. Never let refs decide a game, man… Nothing crazy about that! (unless you’re from Pittsburgh) ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/86 "2014-06-10T21:05:27Z")
I don’t bleieve in gravity [show me a gravitron - huh huh - can’t]. Our ankles are held down by invisible goblins. [read somewhere here on the SDMB] ---
**Author:** ![PurpleClogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/87 "2014-06-10T21:52:52Z")
I believe UFO’s and alien sightings are really us from the future, in time travel contraptions, looking in on the past. They don’t want to alter history, hence the reason they avoid direct contact. They are regular humans who have changed physically, or evolved, over time, hence the reason they look so different. And as for the people with abduction experiences, they’re being sampled for a possible remedy to some future medical crisis, and being interviewed for information, then memory wiped and let go, only sometimes the memory wiping doesn’t work so well. BTW, I’ve never seen one. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/88 "2014-06-10T22:04:38Z")
1. I believe that I have free will, despite philosophic arguments and neurologic evidence to the contrary. 2. As others above, I also believe in the “many worlds theory”, because it ‘just feels right’ to me. I believe that, despite the crazy enormity of nearly infinite splitting of the universe every microsecond! Even weirder, if every possibility occurs in the multiverse, what does that say about #1 (free will)? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![OleOneEye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f14d63/32.png) [@OleOneEye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OleOneEye)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/89 "2014-06-11T01:40:58Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > I believe not everyone wants to be a heroin addict. How is this a crazy thing to believe? I think almost no one wants to be a heroin addict. Am I missing something? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/90 "2014-06-11T03:30:09Z")
> [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](#): > > 1. I believe that I have free will, despite philosophic arguments and neurologic evidence to the contrary. > > 2. As others above, I also believe in the “many worlds theory”, because it ‘just feels right’ to me. I believe that, despite the crazy enormity of nearly infinite splitting of the universe every microsecond! Even weirder, if every possibility occurs in the multiverse, what does that say about #1 (free will)? :dubious: Grin! With ya! Maybe “free will” addresses the relative probability – the “probability density function” if you want the technical maths term. In a deterministic universe, every choice is equally represented, but in a free will universe, the probabilities are skewed in the direction of our volition and intent. (And, on Judgement Day, God takes into account the entire vast envelope of all of our possible life-lines, frowning upon all the millions of murders we have all committed…and smiling at all the millions of Nobel Prizes we have all won!) (Okay, I don’t actually believe that last bit. But the other two…yep.) ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/91 "2014-06-11T03:42:20Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > I believe that, through sheer genius and mathematical brainwork, mankind can break the lightspeed barrier. Thread win. ---
**Author:** ![Kuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Kuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuru)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/92 "2014-06-11T05:15:34Z")
> [@OleOneEye](#): > > How is this a crazy thing to believe? I think almost no one wants to be a heroin addict. Am I missing something? I took this be mean that if heroin were to be legalised, civilisation would not collapse due to everyone deciding to become heroin addicts. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/93 "2014-06-11T14:30:16Z")
I believe that genetics is far more powerful than people want to admit. Extremely far more powerful, and the source of much unexplainable behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/94 "2014-06-11T14:34:55Z")
I believe we will never travel outside our own solar system. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/95 "2014-06-11T15:45:53Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > I believe that, through sheer genius and mathematical brainwork, mankind can break the lightspeed barrier. > [@Leaffan](#): > > I believe we will never travel outside our own solar system. Ever. Contradictory beliefs? Fight! Fight! Fight! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/96 "2014-06-11T16:14:05Z")
Not necessarily. We could develop FTL, then, when we try to get out of the solar system, run into those crystal spheres Kepler told us were out there. What… too crazy? ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/97 "2014-06-11T17:46:08Z")
Dwight Gooden was the greatest pitcher of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/98 "2014-06-11T17:50:24Z")
> [@Kuru](#): > > I took this be mean that if heroin were to be legalised, civilisation would not collapse due to everyone deciding to become heroin addicts. Yeah. Alcohol is legal, does _anybody_ **want** to become an alcoholic? ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/99 "2014-06-11T18:01:55Z")
I believe that aging evolved as a mechanism to prevent cancer in early life. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/100 "2014-06-11T18:15:08Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Yeah. Alcohol is legal, does _anybody_ **want** to become an alcoholic? But not everybody has a positive reaction to alcohol. I absolutely have no real-life proof of this, but doesn’t heroin really only have one feeling: goooooooood? So maybe people don’t want to become alcoholics because it makes them sad/angry, but they’ll become heroin addicts because it makes them feel so good [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368.md?page=6)