when did you think independently?

[Mechsoap]

when did you begin to question your actions or the the things people told you? we all know as kids we believed in everything and dident question that.
so at what age your realised that what is said is maybe not the truth?

and what was it that made you think for yourself, if you can remember

 

[Dango]

Pretty recently, I'm 15 and it's really just because my parents are cheap, selfish assholes, and my friends are just assholes.

 

[Stoic raptor]

I would say 12. I really got into it at 14. (im 15)

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

I still follow my orders unquestioningly.
I'm a good little robot. Windows 98 is my OS. If I try to rebel, I crash.

 

[HT_Black]

I just sorta...did, from as early as I can remember. Mom and dad were big into independent thought and logic, so it just appeared there in my head.

 

[child of lileth]

I started to question what I was told around the end of pre-school. It took me until that point to realize when people lied to me.

 

[Queen Michael]

When I realized that the Bible has a lot of contradictions and plot holes.

 

[Serenegoose]

Before I was 10. Not fully, but I understood the concept of lying, and how other people could and would lie to me - once I realised that, I started the path of not just taking peoples words for things.

 

[Aggressor and Usurper]

Eight. I remember realizing that, because I was getting bullied a lot, I didn't have to keep coming back to those people, even though my friends did.

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

I haven't ever fully trusted what people say. However, I'm lucky to have a mother who didn't lie to me beyond pointing out Santa's existence. And even that I can't fault her for. Whenever I'd need to get shots, she'd tell me right away and I'd comply.
I've thought independently pretty much my whole life, but I really started to form my own beliefs just last year.

 

[Garrsus]

for as long as I can remember I used to try and lie my way out of preschool if i remember right.

 

[Jack_Uzi]

As far as I can recall, I was about 15 or 16 when I got a bit of political awareness and started to really think about influences and the behavior of people. I was very gullible before that time.

 

[Jedamethis]

I have no idea. But I definitely know it happened in the past.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Maybe around 9 or 10?

I was thinking about religion, and I just kept thinking, not everyone even gets a chance to hear this shit, do they get to go to heaven? If a new born baby dies, what happens to it? And does it age? Is it stuck as a baby forever in the afterlife?

What if I died when I was really old, would I be stuck as a senile old crazy person for eternity? And what if my mind was cleansed of all problems, what kind of problems? Because my faults make me, well, me, and I don't want some deity fucking with them. I eventually came to the conclusion that I should wait till I think I'm at my mental peak, and off myself. But, everybody says not to do that, and what if all this afterlife stuff isn't real anyway? I'd have ended myself for no good reason, wouldn't I?

That said, what if future me is a dick, and dies, I'd be stuck like that forever! I ended up deciding that there wasn't an afterlife, because there's no way it would work. That still depresses me.

 

[Banana Phone Man]

I think around the time I was 13. I don't know why but I think it was because that was when I started secondary school and I became more of my own person instead of having some of the personality traits of others.

 

[Jonluw]

I have no idea. I suppose it was a smooth transition.

On a slightly more philosophical note: Do we ever think independently?

 

[Theninja'skatana]

I was never restrained so I guess most of my life actually

 

[Mariakitten]

I have always thought independently, I have always questioned orders. I wouldn't last two days in the army.

 

[tomtom94]

At some point when my age hit double figures I realised I didn't actually believe in the prayers we said every day.

 

[Elric Randall]

Other people's actions? Erm, elementary school or earlier. If I know the material, why do the worksheets? If I can read the textbooks for the same information, why do I need to listen to the lecture? Why is "because I say so" an acceptable reason to do something for you?

MY actions? Ehh, probably around 15 or so. Am I a prick? Why am I a prick? What can I do to stop being a prick? Are other people justified in calling me one?

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