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Topic: Childhood beliefs
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Lunargirl
Knowflake Posts: 1513
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Registered: Mar 2003
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posted August 14, 2003 01:50 PM
 
Here's a great site about the kinds of strange things we all believed as kids, or, feel free to post your own! 
http://iusedtobelieve.com/about.php Here's one of mine: when I was little, maybe 5, one neighbour in our suburb had a huge tv antenna on their roof. In the summer when the cicadas started to buzz, I was convinced that it happened when the dad in the house used his electric razor, and the sound was broadcast out from the antenna! Lunargirl (who has sinced learned some communication theory  ) IP: Logged |
proxieme
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posted August 14, 2003 02:40 PM
When I was very small, I believed that when we were awake we were really dreaming from heaven, and that when we went to sleep we were half-awake.IP: Logged |
lioneye68
Knowflake Posts: 6062
From: Canada
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted August 14, 2003 02:49 PM
Prox, that's beautiful, and brilliant, and not altogether untrue. That wasn't the nonsense of a niave mind, it was more likely a still semi-open portal to universal truth. Then there's me, that, when asked by my kindergarden teacher what I wanted to be when I grew up, I replied "A firetruck!!", then I began to make siren noises.  Well, she DID say if I could be anything I wanted to be, not anyone...so to me that meant, even inanimate objects were fair game.  (But, you gotta admit being a firetruck would be perdy darn kewl, no?) IP: Logged |
Drea
Knowflake Posts: 154
From: With the Rainbow Goblins
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted August 14, 2003 03:57 PM
I used to think that the reflectors in the road were there so blind people could know they were going straight.IP: Logged |
proxieme
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posted August 14, 2003 04:40 PM
Well, I also thought that the ball-looking things that are sometimes in high-power lines were basketballs that got stuck up there b/c people were throwing them too high.   IP: Logged |
WychOfAvalon
Knowflake Posts: 633
From: Los Angeles
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted August 14, 2003 04:56 PM
i used to believe when I flushed the toilet it opened a portal for the devil to come up out of hell and get me...so I'd flush the toilet and run out of the bathroom REALLY REALLY FAST!
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take my hand like i once took yours.. look me in the eye like i once looked in yours ..here we go again, speaking in strange codes ..reading all the stars ..like an open book ..on the beach
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Twin Lady
Knowflake Posts: 624
From: USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted August 14, 2003 06:41 PM
WOA...that gave me a good laugh!I was an enterprising kid. Lemonade stands several times each summer, babysitting at age 10, running to the corner store for neighbors for a quarter... So one day I had this "brilliant" idea. I was at that stage of losing a baby tooth seemingly every week or so...placing the tooth beneath my pillow and waking to find the Tooth Fairy had replaced it with money (usually $1.00). Well, I figured if I got a dollar for one tiny tooth, imagine what I'd get for something bigger! One night I placed a RECORD ALBUM (the Snow White story) under my pillow, fully expecting to wake and find at least 5 or more dollars in exchange...surprise! THEN...I actually told my Mom about it, asking her WHY this happened. She replied (hiding a smile, I'm sure) that the TOOTH Fairy only gave money for TEETH...duh... ..................  IP: Logged |
super_bull
Knowflake Posts: 256
From: nowhereland
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted August 15, 2003 02:16 AM
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silverbells
Knowflake Posts: 1506
From: The second star to the right (which shines in the night for'eer)
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted August 25, 2003 03:41 PM
I posted on that site and I just wanted to share here.
When I was about six or seven I had learned about slavery and I thought that around 1995, slavery might make a comeback; and that me and my mother would be enslaved and then the master might beat her in front of me (and at this young age I was already thinking about the psychological and emotional implications of such an event; hurt pride, self-imposed emotional isolation etc.)and maybe even kill her and then I would be by myself. I was really very, very upset about this until I learned about the Constitution.------------------
Love is the greatest weapon and Love is the greatest shield-Me IP: Logged |
purplezen
Knowflake Posts: 888
From: outer space
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted August 25, 2003 04:12 PM
I used to think that all cats were female and all dogs were male, lol.IP: Logged |
endaphia
Knowflake Posts: 295
From: orillia ON CA
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted August 25, 2003 04:49 PM
I used to believe I was an alien and I'd wait in the schoolyard to get picked up by 'my kind'.. of course, that was my means of escapism from a cruel childhood.I also used to believe that when people went to sleep, their hearts stopped beating. IP: Logged |
Lunargirl
Knowflake Posts: 1513
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Registered: Mar 2003
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posted August 25, 2003 10:53 PM
Just a note to silverbells -- yesterday I saw a film about an interracial adoption -- and there was a description of the effects of racism that chilled me -- "...like death by a thousand paper cuts." Even though slavery is gone in North America, it hasn't been gone long enough.  I salute the brave, concerned little girl that you were! 
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RubyRedRam
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posted August 26, 2003 02:29 AM
I used to think the telephone operator was in the moon. (from the figure of the lady on the moon).
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