You may think you’ve seen bad takes, but unless you’ve spent time browsing niche internet occult communities you have no idea. It’s not even a contest. I once saw someone argue against socialized health care because they were trying to “give themselves schizophrenia to make their magic more powerful.”
Aside from the obvious, they were trying to induce schizophrenia by eating aged raw beef.
Now, I’m an Occultist not a doctor, but I don’t think it works that way.
my friend’s mom believes drinking soda will make your “chakras explode” and that Luciferians from Mars destroyed Atlantis
I once knew somebody who thought anger/hate/bad vibes would give you cancer. They were also pretty agnostic about the idea of a flat earth.
Also a person who believed they had astral projected themselves into a den of werewolves? Or some kind of wolf spirits? Yet was somehow apparently still lucid enough to type all the details of her sex with them into the group chat in real time.