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Post by Feologild Oakes on Sept 30, 2022 13:07:39 GMT
I used to belive the world was black and white, in the past because old movies and pictures where in black and white.
I used to belive the earth was flat, but than i turned 5 and stopped believing that.
I used to belive that the earth and moon, where bigger than the sun.
I used to belive that the sun revolved around the earth.
All of these things i stopped believing by the time i was 7
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Post by Captain Spencer on Sept 30, 2022 14:45:51 GMT
The existence of Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster.
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Post by James on Sept 30, 2022 16:44:09 GMT
Not stupid, but I stopped believing in mythical people/creatures like Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny.
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Post by stickman38 on Sept 30, 2022 17:09:35 GMT
Other than the usual Santa and Easter bunny etc... I don't know... maybe astrology. I thought it was real to some extent.
I was kind of fascinated by the occult when I was real young.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Sept 30, 2022 17:13:07 GMT
What are some stupid things you believed as a child? That adults would always be there to keep bad guys from hurting you.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Sept 30, 2022 19:33:33 GMT
I think I believed we could tell the Earth rotated because of the clouds moving by.
Come to think of it, maybe that only sounds stupid in my head, & there's legitimacy on some level about that lols.
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Post by Schwarzwald Magnus on Sept 30, 2022 21:49:42 GMT
I believed people with different eye colors saw the world in different colors.
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Post by Admin on Sept 30, 2022 22:10:41 GMT
I believed life was longer.
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Post by novastar6 on Sept 30, 2022 22:51:09 GMT
That since when you go really high on the swings, you see your feet right in front of the view of the power lines, that that's how high up you went.
That police, doctors, etc., had all the answers and there was nothing they couldn't handle or didn't know.
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Post by Sarge on Oct 1, 2022 5:23:26 GMT
Monsters live under the bed, at night.
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Post by theauxphou on Oct 1, 2022 11:15:14 GMT
The usual shit:- God, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, ghosts.
Plus, there was this particular one belief I had – that people, when they got really old, transformed into other things and that the numbers on UPC codes (or barcodes) on products were the ages of those people. Now that I think about it it’s not so far fetched as all atoms are recycled over and over.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Oct 1, 2022 15:30:55 GMT
My quite a bit older than me sister told me, when I was about 5 or 6, that if the moon looked RED it meant the end of the world the next day. I worried a lot about those red moons when they happened ... which was often due to city smog conditions. I recently asked her "why?" and she conveniently had no memory of any of it happening.  |
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Post by persistenceofvision on Oct 1, 2022 15:55:00 GMT
I thought that my parents could see everything that I did when they were out of the room, and sometimes I believed that they knew all my thoughts.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Oct 1, 2022 16:52:09 GMT
Not stupid for a kid, yet a weird one: When I was younger than 9yrs old or so, I know I thought wars were fought with career army ppl, with no idea about tours of duty. WWII was won because allies had more ppl who chose to fight & had more of those ppl from 1939 who outlived/outlasted the Axis by 1945. Finite military numbers.
You could win a war simply by endurance of finite force numbers.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Oct 1, 2022 16:54:43 GMT
One time I actually believed & freaked out that I'd wrecked the neighborhood plumbing/waterworks.
One morning I'd sneakily slipped a pea sized playdough down the bathroom drain. Within hours, there were half a dozen waterworks trucks outside on the street to work on the street's water sewers.
I actually believed I'd caused all that lols.
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Post by persistenceofvision on Oct 1, 2022 17:24:56 GMT
On the subject of World War Two, I actually believed that the Allies had won because they were good and Hitler had lost because he was bad.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 1, 2022 17:39:51 GMT
Other stupid things i belivede as a child
I believed God created the world in six days
I belive that the stories in the bible where real and had actually happened.
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Post by novastar6 on Oct 1, 2022 18:29:10 GMT
Monsters live under the bed, at night.
That one never made sense to me, or in closets, because even I as a child couldn't fit under my bed, so if I couldn't squeeze under there, nothing else could either.
Now outside the window, or in the room across the hall, that was another story.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 1, 2022 19:50:26 GMT
The usual shit:- God, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, ghosts. Plus, there was this particular one belief I had – that people, when they got really old, transformed into other things and that the numbers on UPC codes (or barcodes) on products were the ages of those people. Now that I think about it it’s not so far fetched as all atoms are recycled over and over. Personally i have never belivede in Santa, the tooth fairy or the Easter bunny.
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Post by ellynmacg on Oct 1, 2022 20:35:13 GMT
I don't think this belief was necessarily stupid (though it was pretty strange), but when I was approximately four, I believed that when I grew up, my mommy would "grow down": i.e., she would be my age and size and it would be my turn to be the mommy. No doubt an analyst would find a striking significance in that belief.  Another thing I believed was that all animal mothers--including reptiles and fish (but maybe not insects)--nursed their babies. At that time, I hadn't yet learned the meaning/derivation of the word "mammal."  |
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