What were some ridiculous things you were told or believed?

[anon67074017]

I though that God the Father was a man that lived on Earth during the dinosaur era when I was a kid. I also thought that Jesus was separate from God. I thought that Santa Claus was real and that God granted him immortality. I basically viewed Santa as if he were a god. I thought that heaven was literally in the sky and that hell was literally under the earth.

 

[EasterJoy]

I used to drive by a cemetery every day with my children. They were taught that the dead would rise in the resurrection on the last day.

They got it in their heads that this “resurrection on the last day” was a periodic event that happened in the past and would happen again, that every once in awhile all the cemeteries were just emptied out and God got the dead people back on their feet and going again.

 

[Used2beSherryG]

When I rescued a feral cat last year this became a reality; she hid under my bd and attacked my ankles with sharp claws at every opportunity. Finally I blocked the base of the bed off; try it!

Same experience. Different cat. The cat died awhile back, but I still can’t let my foot drift over to the edge of the bed for the same reason. Conditioning.

 

[saellis]

As a small child I believed that windy days were caused by the trees swaying back and forth thus stirring up the wind. It seemed to make sense because when the trees were still, there was no wind and vice versa. If only those trees would quit moving, the wind would calm down…

 

[saellis]

I’m not sure why, but I picked up a LOT of superstitions from various books I read.

Too much superstition causes bad luck

 

[LisaB]

As a small child I believed that windy days were caused by the trees swaying back and forth thus stirring up the wind. It seemed to make sense because when the trees were still, there was no wind and vice versa. If only those trees would quit moving, the wind would calm down…

I thought the same thing!

 

[signit]

Here’s one I came up with on my own. I grew up in northern Indiana, and I became aware at an early age that there was a 500-mile automobile race in our state capital on Memorial Day. From that I concluded that every state capital had a 500-mile automobile race on Memorial Day, which made me wonder why I never heard about any of the other races

I thought that our high school sports team, known buy the name of our high school which is the same name as our town, was the pro team for our town, like the New York Yankees.

And there was a church in our town, the “First Baptist Church.” I thought that the Baptist churches in the U.S. were all sequentially numbered and our town just happened to have the first one.

Going outside with wet hair will give you a cold. (It won’t)

My mother’s version was “going to bed with a wet head.”

Santa brings coal to naughty children. (My brother never got any. That’s proof enough for me.)

Ah, yes, “coal in your stocking”; that one came from my father.

Also if you put money outside on your windowsill on New year’s Eve, money will come to you all year long.

Another one from my mother; in order for it to work you had to take money out of the house and put it outside before midnight and bring it back in after midnight.

I thought that Santa Claus was real and that God granted him immortality. I basically viewed Santa as if he were a god.

I knew both the Jesus Christ story and the Santa Claus story.

Since Santa Claus comes at Christmas time, I thought he must be about two thousand years old.

 

[Terra_Rosarum]

I used to think the words to “Silent Night” were “…sleep in heavenly peas.” (I was very young at the time.

 

[ToeInTheWater]

I read an article once in an encyclopedia series marketed toward children, about the proper ways to address letters to people. The article had examples such as “the Honorable Mr. Green” as the way to address a Senator.

Well, for a while I assumed that, much like there was only one President, there must be only one Senator, and his name was Mr. Green.

ETA: I wouldn’t be surprised if the Capitol post office got a lot of letters of kids addressed to the “the Honorable Mr. Green” for at least several months after that encyclopedia was published.

 

[Listener]

When I was about 3 or 4 years old, I learned that “Jesus built the Church.” I suspect I learned that because the adults thought that “founded” was too big a word for a child to understand.

I believed that Jesus Himself came to our town and said, “Abricadabra! Let there be a Church!”

I thought this was amazing, since I knew that houses and other buildings were built by men.

 

[anon67074017]

I believed that Jesus returned to Earth every year to walk on water.

 

[Rosebud77]

We were told that having your hand out the open window where it could catch the wind when you were riding in a car would result in your arm being ripped off. (Anyone ever heard of that actually happening? Ever?)

Cracking your knuckles would give you big ugly knuckles or arthritis. (It won’t).

Going outside with wet hair will give you a cold. (It won’t)

Santa brings coal to naughty children. (My brother never got any. That’s proof enough for me.)

No but a recent news item here was someone who had their head stuck out of a car or train window, and lost it… I cringe when I see a dog with its head hanging out of a moving car window,

 

[Rosebud77]

Same experience. Different cat. The cat died awhile back, but I still can’t let my foot drift over to the edge of the bed for the same reason. Conditioning.

roflol! The funny thing is that while I cured THAT one, the second rescue I took in that month plays his own version of “bedmice” ie burrows under the covers to find and ATTACK … My bed is not safe any more!

 

[signit]

When I was about 3 or 4 years old, I learned that “Jesus built the Church.” I suspect I learned that because the adults thought that “founded” was too big a word for a child to understand.

I believed that Jesus Himself came to our town and said, “Abricadabra! Let there be a Church!”

I thought this was amazing, since I knew that houses and other buildings were built by men.

Something similar to that.

My mother told me to behave in church because it was “God’s house.”

I thought that the priest’s room in the back led to God’s living quarters (kitchen, dining room, etc.).

 

[Rosebud77]

Something similar to that.

My mother told me to behave in church because it was “God’s house.”

I thought that the priest’s room in the back led to God’s living quarters (kitchen, dining room, etc.).

Aww that is seriously cute!.