I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.
I thought adults actually knew what the hell they were doing.
I always had a suspicion but when I became an adult it was so much worse than I thought
We all did…
I used to believe in God, that was super stupid looking back.
That you could catch pneumonia from breathing in steam from the shower as I heard that a symptom is water in the lungs. A friend’s dad died of pneumonia and I had to shower with my head stuck out of the curtain.
I was in a hospital for 12 days that had legionnaires disease causing bacteria all through the water pipes so you had to only use cold water. The steam from hot water, inhaled, is how you get it. So, you know, you were onto something there.
If you cut your own hair, it won’t grow back. That was a lie my mum told me (after I experimented with the scissors). I believed her for years because there was a gap in my hairline. Eventually I realised “how would the hair know who cut it?” The gap in my hairline was just my parting.
I believed LCD screens in digital watches were made of mercury (they were silver after all), which I knew was toxic. I thought that if you touched the display directly, you’d die. One day, I’d disassembled a cheap watch to see how it worked - I took everything apart back then, eventually I got good at putting them back together again. Drove my parents mad, but these days they always have something for me to fix whenever I go round.
Anyway, I had this watch in pieces, handling the innards like an IED, but disaster! I brushed the back of the screen with a fingertip.I was dead. It was just a matter of time. I didn’t cry or run for help, nothing could be done, I was resigned to my fate.
After about an hour of continued existence I began to doubt my assumptions. It dawned on me that something so frighteningly lethal wouldn’t be simply handed to children with nothing but a cheap, press fit case! That said this was in the 80s, and back the I also believed it was both safe and fun to help demolish an asbestos cement outbuilding by jumping on the sheets to smash them into little pieces. That one might still get me, we’ll see.god
I thought that everywhere was ocean except our town, my grandparents’ town, and the interstate we used to get there.
Dude lived in that town from the Truman Show.
Shh, don’t tell him the truth.
I thought the abbreviation for pounds (lbs) stood for “lullables.”
I have no idea why.
I thought that during commercial breaks the characters in the show I was watching were still doing things and I was missing it because the commercials were not pausing the show in the background but playing over top of it.
I think there’s some truth to that - I think sometimes films (movies) were cut a bit too fit the ads in. Or maybe that’s just my yet-to-be-busted childhood myth!
On network television movies were often edited for content and length. So in a way you were right.
My mother used to tell me that the jehovas witnesses had like a blacklist of households that they are forbiden from knocking on their doors since their inhabitants are unsalvable (and are going to hell according to the list but mom didnt say that) and that the peerequisits of being added to the list was not opening the door when they came to pester our house hold.
We laughed a lot about this until one day i bring it up back again and shes like “what are you talking about m8?, Theres no such thing, i made that up, i cant believe you belived that was a thing.” And then she started laughing at me and made fun of that the whole day but like in a good way.
If anything, They would send their people out to blacklisted houses more readily than anywhere else.
Cause the whole reason they go door to door is to expose the young members to the “hostility” of the world outside their religion, its also why they tend to have them go out so early on weekends to do it… to try and farm maximum annoyance, so that they are less likely to leave it and turn ever inward towards their religion, instead of outward to the regular world since the outer world is so hostile and hateful towards them, as manufactured… Its all psyops and manipulation.
Finding the rare gullible fool to exploit/manipulate into joining by doing the door to door thing is just an added bonus, not the root reason for it.
That actually makes a lot of sense.
This seems plausible and interesting, but a source is needed
Any time JWs come up in Reddit there’s a bunch of people saying tell them you’ve been disfellowshipped, and then they’re not allowed to have any contact with you and won’t come again. So maybe this one is in fact true.
I don’t think that’s a way, but I always thought there was a list of houses to skip.
I thought when my mom said she would drop things off at Goodwill, she meant a giant, hollow wooden wheel full of tumbling clothing called Good Wheel. I imagined it looked a lot like a water wheel at a mill.
How do you get wheel from will? Your mom have a weird accent or something?
Maybe. My mom does have a mild mid-western drawl, but I think at that age I just wasn’t familiar with what will or goodwill was.
The southern USA is full of people who talk like that.
Step dad convinced me that those chocolate oranges were natural from a chocolate orange tree…
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Cows that are completely brown give chocolate milk.
My mother said it as a joke, but at the time it made complete sense to me. By logical extension, there must’ve been a farm with pink cows for the strawberry milk.I remember asking my dad if the Earth ever got heavier besides when meteors landed and babies were born.
I couldn’t comprehend that babies were made out of food. I thought they just came from nothing.
“babies were made of food” gave me a chuckle! a bit of a shower thought moment :)
Apart from the babies thing, that’s still a very interesting question. I bet someone knows the answer, but I wonder if the weight of the earth increases or decreases on average. I’d have to guess it’s a net increase from picking up stuff as we move through space, which probably dwarfs the mass of stuff we’ve sent out (especially if you don’t count satellites since they’re more or less still tied to earth). I don’t think there’s anything like natural ejections of matter from earth either.
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Yes, the mass has been increasing: meteors bombarding the earth daily
It can’t really be said there is a net-gain in mass (in fact most websites seem to estimate a net loss).
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/297622/is-the-earth-gaining-or-losing-mass-over-time
also plants make their food out of pretty much the definition of nothing, massless particles that makes its way up the food chain
I don’t know what you mean by «massless particles», but plants do not make food out of “the definition of nothing”. Photosynthesis is a chemical process and like any other chemical process due to the law of conservation of mass (disregarding mass-energy equivalence), the mass of the reagents is the same as the mass of the products. The sugars produced during photosynthesis weren’t just produced with light as input. Light is the energy source that fuels the reaction in the light dependent of phase of photosynthesis, which has water as input, whose products (besides oxygen molecules which are a “useless” byproduct of the reaction) are used to produce the sugars in the non-light dependent phase which also takes carbon dioxide as input (there are obviously more substances involved in the reaction but they are “reused” between the two phases).
So, the mass of the “food” of the plant is in reality obtained from water and carbon dioxide, not out of “nothingness”.
Plants make their food from matter that’s already here on Earth. They take CO2 and water and use the sun’s energy to turn them into sugar. They don’t just get it from nothing.
I believed until I was 8 or so that beans were a type of meat. When I learned the truth, I had an argument with my older brother with me saying something along the line, “You’re gonna feel real dumb when Mom says I’m right.”
I’ll admit to thinking this too
and beingwhen I was a little bit older than 8, so you can feel better now.
That sheep and goats were same species. I thought sheep were the girl versions and goats were the boys, like hens and roosters.
Wasn’t until well into my 20s that I finally ran into something that put the spotlight on it… IIRC it was some Farmville type of videogame, which included males and females of both sheep and goats. To me, that stood out the same way a “female bull” or “male cow” would have, so I had a little chuckle at the obvious ‘oversight’. Realized shortly after that I was, in fact, a fucking idiot.
Similar to this: I thought that deer was the male and roe was the female of the same species.
exactly what I used to think!
Depends on your definition of species. Sheep and goats are closely related enough to mate and produce offspring
Can’t wait to get some geep milk
Did not know that. I feel slightly vindicated!
