Things you used to believe in..
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Same here. I used to be Christian, but at some point I just realized I was being spoon-fed bullshit. I guess that makes me an agnostic now.Enigmers said:
I'm Jewish, so I never went through life believing in the Easter Bunny and Santa and all of that jazz, but there are still two main things I used to believe in that I don't anymore. God, and ghosts.
that women were objects [kidding of course you pricks], that 9/11 was an actual sucker punch from the country that coincidentally had the oil we want.
I used to think that I could not go on. And life was nothing but an awful song. But now I know the meaning of true love. I'm leaning on the everlasting arms.
OT: I dunno...Santa?
OT: I dunno...Santa?
Two things that were a bit inane that I belived in as a kid. One was that my basement was an opening in to outser space, and if I went inside I'd start drifing away.
The second was that there was invisible string between me and my family (My Mom to be specific) that if someone or something bot between us it would sever and I'd no longer be in that specific timeline of event and I would have split off in to an alternate dimension with different outcomes or events.
I'm not sure how that works ether, but when ever someone or something came between me and my Mom I'd have to backtrack and loop around so it wouldn't sever the line.
I was nutty.
The second was that there was invisible string between me and my family (My Mom to be specific) that if someone or something bot between us it would sever and I'd no longer be in that specific timeline of event and I would have split off in to an alternate dimension with different outcomes or events.
I'm not sure how that works ether, but when ever someone or something came between me and my Mom I'd have to backtrack and loop around so it wouldn't sever the line.
I was nutty.
I used to believe in a christian god, but I changed my idea on god. He/she/it is more of an idea rather than a belief now.
Does God exist? Yes I do. How can you look at two hot twins and not say god exists? Do I believe what the religions tell me? No. All religion is wrong. They have the right idea, but they lose it about half way in.
Does God exist? Yes I do. How can you look at two hot twins and not say god exists? Do I believe what the religions tell me? No. All religion is wrong. They have the right idea, but they lose it about half way in.
Alien contact.
I wouldn't doubt that there is the possibility that there could be other 'living organisms' in the universe, but it's hard to say that they 1) became technologically advanced and didn't just remain cold blooded dinosaurs 2) if they were intelligent, had the capabilities, resources, and will power, to travel from a very, very distant location.
Radio communication might be a possibility, but actual travel? What would they be planning on doing once they got here, the trip would be a real bore, and something could have happened in the (however many) thousands of years it would take to travel that might compromise the 'contact with another intelligent being' on both their and our ends.
Tl;Dr: face to face alien contact
I wouldn't doubt that there is the possibility that there could be other 'living organisms' in the universe, but it's hard to say that they 1) became technologically advanced and didn't just remain cold blooded dinosaurs 2) if they were intelligent, had the capabilities, resources, and will power, to travel from a very, very distant location.
Radio communication might be a possibility, but actual travel? What would they be planning on doing once they got here, the trip would be a real bore, and something could have happened in the (however many) thousands of years it would take to travel that might compromise the 'contact with another intelligent being' on both their and our ends.
Tl;Dr: face to face alien contact
I believed in Santa Klaus, but my Father told me it was a lie. I stopped believing.
I believed in the Tooth Fairy, but my Father told me it was a lie. I stopped believing.
I believed in my Religion, but my Father told me it was a lie. And this once, I ignored him.
I believed in the Tooth Fairy, but my Father told me it was a lie. I stopped believing.
I believed in my Religion, but my Father told me it was a lie. And this once, I ignored him.
Bureaucracy (see Standard Form 152, the government form to cancel other government forms. Thank you, fucking Paperwork Reduction Act), the evils of Communism/Socialism, the inherent superiority of capitalism (not that I am a capitalist, socialist, or communist. I consider myself a "get-shit-done"ist). That religion is the form rather than the feeling (that is, that religion = Christianity or Islam as a set of beliefs/practices, rather than the emotional feelings that come with being a Christian/Muslim or whatever. I see religion, now, as a deep, ineffable emotion, something you have to feel to understand).
And lately, that people are no good. Because the more you just chat with people you've never met the more you find that as a general rule, people are alright in person. It's just when you make it not in person that most humans go foul. Or at least the ones who run anything.
And lately, that people are no good. Because the more you just chat with people you've never met the more you find that as a general rule, people are alright in person. It's just when you make it not in person that most humans go foul. Or at least the ones who run anything.
I love how 80% of the people posting in this thread would be considered possible psychopaths/suicide victims in any general psych study.
i used to believe in the tooth fairy, sants easter bunny and the power rangers. i was a gullable child.