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J/k…LOL
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I have no problem with unusual beliefs per say…myself I used to be brimming with them and as I was recovering from my illness I spent the majority of my time with a friend and neighbor who was himself full of unusual beliefs…it was good as I could talk to him about my delusions and imagined past and even traumatic experiences in my life…who was he to judge? He believed the universe existed inside a light bulb and was ruled by a sadistic deity known as Void.
There can be a fine line between simply holding some uncommon beliefs and being symptomatic…I no longer experience symptoms for instance but that certainly doesn’t mean I’ve tailored my personal beliefs to fit in with the mainstream…I’m mostly skeptical of everything anyway so I don’t even really have too many beliefs.
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I’ve been pondering Unusual beliefs… reincarnation. That could be considered an unusual belief that has stuck in me deep. No one care argue it out of me… I believe in reincarnation. I just do. I have for ages. For some… it makes perfect sense… for others… it’s an unusual belief.
Galileo faced the inquisition and was thrown in jail for his unusual belief that the earth rotated around the sun. But eventually everyone absorbed it as fact.
The stuff in Scientology could be considered an unusual belief… only lots of movie starts that people admire believe it and so people who worship the movie stars… begin to believe it too. When more people believe… it’s no longer unusual.
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I love it when former unusual beliefs are proven fact, same with when people thought if you sailed across the Atlantic west you would fall off the earth because it was flat, or else get destroyed by sea monsters…The sea monsters and Bermuda triangle may still be there on the fringe of unusual beliefs, but land was found to be west and the world was round…
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I’ve often thought this section should be renamed “debilitating beliefs and behaviours”. I find most religious beliefs to be unusual, yet most manage to live productive lives despite their beliefs. It’s not the belief that is the problem, but how it affects a person’s day to day functioning.
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Well just to put a twist on this argument, there are still people who think the world is flat. So believing in something hard enough does not always make it true.
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The Flat Earth Society (also known as the International Flat Earth Society or the International Flat Earth Research Society) is an organization which aims to further the idea that the Earth is flat instead of an oblate spheroid. The modern organization was founded by Englishman Samuel Shenton in 1956[1] and was later led by Charles K. Johnson, who based the organization in his home in Lancaster, California. The formal society was inactive after Johnson’s death in 2001 but was resurrected in 2004 by its new president Daniel Shenton.[2]
The ideas of the society are widely seen by accomplished scientists as pseudoscientific.[3]
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The problem with the unusual beliefs category is that people don’t seem to understand that even if a topic is placed here, that discussions concerning it should revolve around reality based recovery and support. This is not a section to encourage unusual beliefs.
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