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why do people believe in chain messages
According to chain messages, I should've died millions of times, gotten injured, heard laughing in my bathroom, an old lady throw her 10 cats at me in my backyard, turkey shoved up my butt, world war 3 released on my chest, my kids killed (I don't have kids soooo), have a ghost girl screwing with me every night, have seen a little dead girl in my room twice, been thrown down a sewer, my mom dead (she's cooking dinner in the kitchen right now I'm 11), and a clown who turned into the devil because he had sex "eat your penus and your vagina 2! (Oh I knew I had a vagina but I didn't know I also have a penus! And if sex turns you into the devil we should have a lot of devils), and my computer should be on fire and other really weird and disturbing stuff. The chain letters I recieved were hilarious and not true. Seriously, some vortex enters my computer whenever I recieve some story made by a random troll that finds out my location at every second, knows about my emails and if I forward them in said time and if I don't that force will create said punishment to happen to me? Bull shit.
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I can't give you a factual answer to your question. In fact I don't think there is a factual answer to it.
What I believe is that we all like to believe that there is some mystical force at work. The chain letters provide a way to manipulate that mystical force. As young person you receive the less sophisticated scary chain letters. Adults receive the more whimsical and the ones promising great fortunes if you don't break the chain.
I would say the great majority of us understand their is no mystical force out there but continue the chain just incase we missed something. There are other who are quite superstitious and these chain letters play into those superstitions.
At one time I received a great many chain letters. I forwarded maybe one in ten. I guess that wasn't enough for those that sent them to me as for the most part they have stopped sending them. I would suggest if you don't want to receive them you can either block the sender, send them back asking them not to send them or just delete them when received.
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People are dumb and easily manipulated. That's ok; sometimes I can make more money off of dumb people. Unethical? I prefer to think of it as a slower, less harsh version of natural selection.
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If you are genuinely curious why these sorts of ideas are so catching, and make otherwise smart people believe stupid things, I'd definitely recommend the book Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer.
There are reasons that human beings are so prone to magical thinking like this. Personally, I think it's quite cool to look into why our brains behave a certain way. It can also help you spot the others ways in which your mind plays tricks on you - sometimes even for your own good!
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ummm i am probably no help but maybe you should see a therapist.
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