daniil's Journal: Things I used to believe

I discovered an interesting (and funny) site today, called I Used To Believe. It's a collection of ideas that people thought were true when they were children. Reading the things other people used to believe reminded me of some of my beliefs. For instance, I used to believe:

- That back when my parents were kids, everything was black and white just like in the films.

- That nuclear bombs were huge, black and round -- just like the bombs in cartoons, except huge. To throw such a bomb, I reasoned, one would need a huge slingshot, or maybe a catapult.

- That after a fire, all you had to do was sweep the floor and get a new carpet

- That there was a treasure chest buried somewhere in my back yard. I spent hours digging for it. I didn't really dig deep, though.

What about you?

I used to think...

[Short Circuit]

I used to think

- that I could get by without friends.
- that getting medical insurance was hard.
- that MechWarrior 2 had the best sound track of any video game. (Well, I'm still hard-pressed to find better.)
- that I could do anything on the first try, and well.

Babies

[Shadow Wrought]

I was adopted as an infant and I cannot hojnestly remember when my parents told me because I have just always known. So, as a youngster, I used to think that you could pick up babies on the freezer aisle of the grocery store. Why the freezer? It was always too cold for me to go down so I never really saw what was there. Since there weren't any babies anywhere else in the store... ahh youngster logic!

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[nizo]

Hehe

So if you don't mind me asking, when did your parents tell you were adopted, and what do you know about your birth parents? If that question is too personal I understand.

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[Shadow Wrought]

Not too personal all. I don't know when my parents told me because I don't remember it. I've just always known. In fact I was a bit surprised to realize in school that most kids weren't adopted. I just thought that that was how the universe ticked. As for what I know, well just about everything I know I worte in a JE [slashdot.org] not too long ago. ;-)

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[nizo]

Damn, I miss all the good journal entries these days...

Ahh bagpipes, the missing link between music and noise :-)

Damn You

[eno2001]

I was going to post a very similar JE a couple of weeks ago and forgot. But kudos to you for actually posting it to get an interesting discussion started! ;P

A friend of mine has confirmed that I was certifiably weird as a kid based on just these two thoughts of mine:

-When I was about three or four, I'd worked out that the way people move is that the skin and muscle tissue are kind of like a very well fitted belt drive the contracts and expands around the skeletal system. So, in order to move forward, the

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[nizo]

For some reason this reminded me of how I thought computers worked: I figured the pictures were stored in the magic chips as little tiny pictures that I could see with my eyes if I could only look at them close enough. Even after learning how to make graphics on my TI994a in hex I still assumed this was how they were stored :-D
(FF818181..... was how the hex codes started to program in a square) As for how everything else worked, I usually just took it apart to see how it worked. Luckily I never wondered how

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[TechnoLust]

I'd seen film projectors so I assumed that TV worked the same way. I had MANY theories as to HOW the film got into the TV and how it was changed when you changed channels, but I kept disproving them. The best one I came up with was that the cable was something like a fiber optic line and they were being projected from somewhere outside the house, which was why I couldn't rewind it and no one ever came to switch them out.

cereal

[SolemnDragon]

i used to believe that every box of cereal was cooked and packaged individually, by hand, and there were long lines of people with little ovens (like EZ bake ovens?) who would cook it, while they folded the box, and if you didn't get a good toy in your box it was because that person had run out of good toys that day.

I used to believe

[leoPetr]

- That the Catholic concept of "Original Sin [wikipedia.org]" referred to pain children cause their mothers during childbirth. In my defense, that is a lot more sensible than the actual doctrine.

I am sure there are other erroneous notions I held as a kid, but I cannot recall them at the moment.:P

Sinistra

[bettiwettiwoo]

I used to believe that my left hand was evil.

Sinistar

[Anarcho-Goth]

I used to believe that my left hand was Sinistar.

Beware I Live! [onastick.net]

Well, maybe not. I just had an urge to write that.

So, did you used to believe that your left hand needed to be punished?

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[bettiwettiwoo]

I just had an urge to write that.

Yes, I can see that that would have been quite irresistible. (Despite the current hiatus. [sinistar.com])

So, did you used to believe that your left hand needed to be punished?

No. Just that its nature was evil. (Hard to punish/call for punishment merely because of nature, wouldn't you agree?!?)