I was convinced a was a Werewolf with psychic powers. Also that the hollow earth is real, because that's where the mole people aliens come from. And I also thought the Big Bang Theory was funny.
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which version of the hollow earth are we talking? if you mean a giant hollow shell, then yeh i'm not sure how well supported that is.
if you mean the honeycomb earth idea, where there could be myriad of huge deep caverns. then i'm kinda open to that possibility.
(not that my geoscience knowledge extends beyond highschool geography and the odd wikipedia article - so would welcome an opportunity to discuss with someone adept.)
I believed there was a big hole in the north pole where the magnetic field comes out
may i ask why you believed that and why you stopped believing?
what piece of knowledge changed things for you?
surely you already knew all the reasons why that sounds pretty fantastical, even back then?
Well, what snapped me out was when I ran an experiment that proved how strong the placebo effect could be, which caused me to reflect on my beliefs and realize that literally all the Werewolf wizard powers I thought I had could be explained by the placebo effect. Naturally, I concluded that I couldnt trust anything my senses told me and spent a few days trying to figure out how to deal with the possibility of being a brain in a jar.
And of course, right after I'd rebuilt my entire conception of reality from first principles, that's when I found out that some of the memories I had of things I was most proud of and defined myself by were provably false. So, as you would expect from me considering my calm and careful reaction to the placebo effect, I then decided that all my memories couldn't be trusted.
So, can't trust my senses, cant trust my memories. That's pretty much all the things I can use to define myself. So, based on the lack of valid evidence I concluded that I do not exist.
And that's how I stopped being a flat-earther wizard werewolf. Thankfully eventually I came around to agreeing with Descartes on the whole "I think, therefore I am" thing. After I climbed out of the psychological hole I dug over the next six months, I recovered with only a severely crippling fear of advertisements.
Maybe stay away from acid π
I went through a pretty big libertarian phase way back in my late teens.
Not the 'deregulate everything' type, but rather more of a 'everyone's place in society is governed by the choices they make' social-darwinist sort of angle.
Once I got out and experienced real life more (and learned about all the little nuances behind everything) I realized just how wrong I was.
Nowadays I'm a big leftist/socialist
seems like i'm mostly telling people in this thread not to feel bad about their prior cringe...
i really didn't follow this closely AT ALL. but i feel like back in the day libertarian ideas were much more left of center than they are now. to my inexpert perception, it feels like libertarianism (and alot of other things) have been co-opted by conservatism over the years.
Marxist Leninist.
My cringe only grew more powerful as I aged. King of cringe my whole life.
Unfortunately I was blind sided by blue conservatives jerking themselves off over what trump will do to people they dislike. I have since lost my crown.
All of my teenage years were cringe but at some point I changed my clothing style to be more like that one dude in class who took drugs, sprayed graffiti and was always in trouble. Because he once said to me I could draw pretty good.
My anime days.
This was back before anime really took off in the US, so most people had no idea what it was. This was before the term "weeaboo" was invented, but I'd have been called one if it had been.
Homestuck phase π¬
I like to think I was in the middle of the cringeometer for that fandom but who knows.
@op looking back, what was the specific cringe aspect of what you described in your story?
that you'd hope for this seemingly impossible outcome, of being a positive force in an established group with a clear bigoted direction?
or that you feel foolish for relapsing into believing religious topics again?
or something else?
It's a bit of both really
I wore over the top outfits. Suit jackets, headbands, waistcoats, bright red skinny jeans, leather biker jackets, fedoras, big glasses with fake lenses, studded belts, etc etc in all sorts of combos.
The fedora and waistcoat over a white dress shirt as casualwear is what I'm most ashamed of. I don't know what in the hell I was thinking. I must have looked like a total dickhead around my normally dressed peers.
This was a phase that probably lasted no more than a year when I was about 18-19. I wish someone had told me that I looked ridiculous lmao
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It becomes a cringe adult phase when you get older.
Been there. I'm still religious, I just hide it now.
I was a big nerd so like to the mainsteam like always. maybe still. I have liked all my phases though.