What were some ridiculous things you were told or believed?

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LaughingBoy1503 said:
And my Grandmother is Pentecostal. I am sure you are not surprised to here that. I grew up with Pentecostal leanings because of it although I was non-denominational for the longest time as a protestant.

My poor Grandma was told by her mother (also Pentecostal) as a little girl that if Jesus came back and caught her in a movie theater he would leave her behind. Poor Grandma 😃

Just “irresponsible”? He gave the pastor a lot of slack then.
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I forget exactly what my dad said–he was really concerned that young people would hear that and not see the point of doing anything about their futures while they waited for Jesus to come back.

The movie theater story is funny! And sad!

Speaking of “worldly things,” my mom and my sister and I all got pierced ears when I was in my teens. We were SO worried what grandma would think about it, because pierced ears were “fast.”
 
I recall my mother used to tell me to stop crying because “if you keep crying the police will arrest me for abusing you and you’ll never see me again”.

Though maybe that’s not quite “ridiculous” because while I think my mother was just using the cops as a threat, many adults actually DO sincerely think CPS is essentially an evil statist conspiracy to take kids away from God-fearing parents and turn them into wards of the state.

I also recall, when I was very young, knowing that “babies grow in the mommy’s tummy” but not knowing how they get out, much less how they get in. For a while I assumed, based on my reading of Little Red Riding Hood, that the doctor had to cut the baby out the way the woodsman cut Red and her grandma out of the Wolf.

Since this was before I knew what anesthesia was, that was REALLY scary for me. :eek:
 
You have to burn the hair that ends up in the brush or comb instead of throw it away because otherwise birds will make nests with it and give you headaches.
 
ThePCWife said:
You have to burn the hair that ends up in the brush or comb instead of throw it away because otherwise birds will make nests with it and give you headaches.
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Once as a child I met an old woman who thought it was healthier to burn your hair instead of cutting it because that supposedly seals all the nutrients inside, but if you cut your hair the nutrients would “leak out”, as if hair was hollow and filled with some kind of sap inside.

Even at my young age all I could think of was “that’s not true my father cuts my hair and I’ve never seen or felt anything leak out when he does it”!
 
I thought that sex was just rolling around the bed naked. and the sperm will somehow find its way to the woman

I thought my country didn’t have snow because we were closer to hell

I thought that women who let their husbands see them naked were “gross”

I thought that all cats were “girls” and all dogs were “boys”

I thought that chickens give birth to nuggets.

I was told that Santa didn’t come because I wasn’t really sleeping (my mom forgot to get me a present and the poor woman tried to find an excuse LOL I was really angry at santa after that)

And then when I got really fat, I was told that non fat milk will make my skin pretty

:rolleyes:
 
Xantippe said:
I have an uncle who (when he was driving his kids and me on a trip to Canada) claimed that there is a Canadian language.

Dr. Dobson (in a book for teenagers that my mom gave me when I was 11ish or 12ish) says that intercourse produces a “mild tingling” sensation.
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Lol.

My dad thought it was hilarious when I was little to tell me that my father was really a man with a black moustache who delivered the milk.
Really:eek:
Considering I was the most gullible,impressionable and sensitive child this didn’t go down too well…

Oh,and my sister told me “Labor day” was to celebrate womens pregnancies…
 
Xantippe said:
I grew up in a Pentecostal church and the pastor said exactly the same thing well over 20 years ago.

My dad thought it was so irresponsible of the pastor.
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My family are all pentecostal. I heard something similiar just a few weeks ago.

Just as I did last year and the year before and 15 years ago. Certainly by 2020 though.
 
I was told by the people in the Pentecostal church of God that I grew up in when I converted to Catholicism that when the rapture happened I would be left behind because according to them the Catholic Church was evil. I however no longer believe in a rapture . I believe in a second come just like scripture and the church teaches.
 
When my brother’s son asked why old movies and photographs were in black and white, he told him it was because color hadn’t been invented yet.

My Dad told us that some cars were boys and some were girls, and the way you could tell was by the shadow.
 
Kay_Cee said:
When my brother’s son asked why old movies and photographs were in black and white, he told him it was because color hadn’t been invented yet.

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That’s one of Calvin’s dad’s jokes on Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes.
 
When I was a little girl in the seventies, we had a TV set that was enclosed in a large ornate wooden cabinet. The back panel was removable to gain access to the actual tv set. It also had little holes to I guess vent the TV set to keep it from overheating.

If I stood behind the set and peered though the holes I could make out some of the tv program that was on.

Around that time, one of my local TV stations would rerun a TV show called “Petticoat Junction” The opening credits featured a little dog running along a road.

So, I was certain that the little dog was in the set, and if I stood behind the set at just the right time I could see the dog AND maybe get him out of the tv.😊

I guess I was about 3 or 4.
 
Mary_Gail_36 said:
When I was a little girl in the seventies, we had a TV set that was enclosed in a large ornate wooden cabinet. The back panel was removable to gain access to the actual tv set. It also had little holes to I guess vent the TV set to keep it from overheating.

If I stood behind the set and peered though the holes I could make out some of the tv program that was on.

Around that time, one of my local TV stations would rerun a TV show called “Petticoat Junction” The opening credits featured a little dog running along a road.

So, I was certain that the little dog was in the set, and if I stood behind the set at just the right time I could see the dog AND maybe get him out of the tv.😊

I guess I was about 3 or 4.
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This reminded me: so on my grandparents’ very old computer growing up, they had a version of Memory that somehow involved winning various consumer goods (maybe that’s what the cards were?) I distinctly remember wishing out loud that the things would print out of their printer and oh, how my parents and grandparents laughed at me! :o

And of course, now 3D printing is a thing. 😛
 
If you don’t wear shoes (or at least socks) all the time, even indoors, you will get sick.

Wearing a copper bracelet can decrease pain anywhere in your body.

Catholics worship Satan ( I was brought up Southern Baptist) only they don’t know it.
 
Mrs_V said:
If you don’t wear shoes (or at least socks) all the time, even indoors, you will get sick.

Wearing a copper bracelet can decrease pain anywhere in your body.

Catholics worship Satan ( I was brought up Southern Baptist) only they don’t know it.
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My Calvinist grandmother basically considers Catholicism to be Satanic.
My friend’s parents are Southern Baptist, they believe that Catholics are being “misled,” and are practicing paganism more than Christianity.
 
Maybe not too interesting, but as a child I was absolutely convinced that cocoanut causes polio.

When I was really little, I ate a cocoanut candy bar, which was unusual because we didn’t see a lot of candy in those days. A day or two later I became deathly ill. Incredible fever, seizures, really bad. The doctor truly didn’t think I was going to live. He later concluded that I either had meningitis or polio. Polio was a major scare in those days, and I fixed on that.

Trying to work out cause and effect as kids do, I concluded that cocoanut causes polio. I wouldn’t touch it for years and years, and though I no longer believe that, I still don’t like cocoanut, and won’t eat it.

Similarly, my college roommate’s father was a doctor who worked in a hospital. Now and then he would go to the hospital with his doctor when he was little. Again, polio scare days. He knew there were people with polio in the hospital. He associated the smell of rubbing alcohol which was pervasive in hospitals at the time, with the disease and as a child, firmly believed that alcohol smell was the smell of polio. So, outside the hospital, if he ever smelled anything like rubbing alcohol, he would run away from it because he thought surely that polio was nearby. He doesn’t believe that now, of course, but even as an adult, if he smells rubbing alcohol, he immediately thinks of polio.
 
My father would put an egg up his sleeve and then squat down and cluck like a chicken, and then reach around to his rear end and produce an egg. We though he could lay eggs!

Similarly, my grandfather, who had lost part of his forefinger in a farming accident, would bend his elbow like he was making a muscle, blow into his finger, and with his other hand push up his biceps so that it looked like when he blew into his finger his biceps were growing. I bought into that one too.

That side of the family were German and did have a sense of humor!
 
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