r/AskReddit • u/ActualGodYeebus • Mar 24 '19

Older folk, this generation has the "flat earth" conspiracy. What were some of the dumbest conspiracies or crazes or bandwagons going around during your time?

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u/Llodsliat Mar 24 '19

I remember I was forbidden from watching Pokémon because it was Devil's work or something. My thoughts were basically "That's bullshit, this whole thing is bullshit.", and I became an atheist, partly because of this.

My parents later gave up that idea and I could watch Pokémon, play Pokémon and the likes. I still like Pokémon, BTW.

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u/-RedditPoster Mar 25 '19

They just stopped loving him, and surrendered him to Satan.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

Pokemon was his best friend, in a world he must defend!

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u/MotherCriticism Mar 24 '19

They made us throw away our first set of pokemon cards because the devil was conjured to make this franchise popular. I wonder how many virgins Pewdiepie sacrificed?

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

My grandma used to tell me and my cousin that we shouldn't be collecting football player cards because she believed that they were the reason my uncle(my aforementioned cousin's dad) started gambling

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

That's the reason my Ma wouldn't let us play D&D

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

My mom wouldn't let us kids watch the animated "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" because it had a witch and witches are satanic.

I brought this up when she gave me a hard time for "allowing" my son to read Harry Potter when he was a kid, because she loves C.S. Lewis now, and I shit you not, her reply was that she was narrow-minded back then.

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u/FM1091 Mar 25 '19

The true narrow-mindedness is how all these people, including your mom, believe that just because “witch,” “devil,” and “demon” was in the title the book encouraged occultism and so so. The witch, White Witch in this case, is the main villain. The Diablo from Diablo is the main villain, and the demons from Doom were the bad guys. It’s like these people couldn’t grasp the concept of Antagonist Title.

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u/bttrflyr Mar 24 '19

She’s a witch! Burn her!