Silly things you believed as a kid

[Calhoun07]

I got to thinking about this topic when I saw the thread "A long time ago." When I was a kid and I got to read Star Wars comics, I thought that Star Wars really did take place, because it did claim that these events DID take place in a long time ago in a galaxy far away, so I thought I was reading historical accounts of a galaxy long gone. Those aliens from Galaxy Quest had nothing on me for gullibility!

I also remember believing the muppets on Sesame Street were living, breathing creatures. I remember exclaiming to my mom one day that they were real because they had that thing sticking down in the back of their mouth. Whatever that flabby thing hanging down in front of your throat is called. When you're a kid, that's all the evidence that you need.

And I remember a power plant in my home town that had these huge smoke stacks that billowed smoke all the time, and I thought that is where they made the clouds.

[Patrick Bateman]

Let's see:

When I went to a cave in Colorado when I was 3, I kept looking for Fraggles

I beleived in Santa Claus until third grade

I used to think Ru Paul was just a really ugly woman (honestly)

I thought that the Ghosbusters really existed in New York back when I was 4 or so

[Storm]

Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny

The Boogieman

Micheal Jackson was actually white (I'm serious)

[DarthNuriko]

I can't think of anything off the top of my head that I believed as a kid that's silly... I was a pretty cynical kid. :p

My sister used to believe that cats were the girls and dogs were the boys and they got married. lol

Oh, I remember something, she also believed the wound wouldn't heal unless you peeled off the scab so I stupidly let her peel off any scabs I had.

[sKorpia]

I used to believe that street names correlated with what was on the street. There's a Toy Lane by my house and I used to think that every family on that street had a house filled with toys.

[G. Wen]

I believed God had a mom and a dad.

[ZorBrak]

I climbed down into a sewer looking for the Ninja Turtles when I was about 4 :rolleyes: ....man, I was a dumb kid.

[Mek]

Santa Claus, The Tooth Fairy and whatever stupid 'holiday' icons you can come up with.

Call me a mizer, but they have no place whatsoever in my life, thanks. :)

I also belived Jesus had a sister or a brother... I still do belive that. It isn't entierly impossible... ;)

[finbarlafume]

I was also convinced that the Muppets and Seasame Street characters were real... a belief made concrete when I 'met' Gonzo and Animal at a St. Patrick's Day parade when I was about 5. Looking back on that day, all I can think of is: Did the organisers of that parade pay Jim Henson for the usage of the characters??? The puppets were just as good as the ones on tv... or maybe that's simply a case of the memory cheating. :rolleyes:

[Watagashi]

I can't recall anything much, but I do remember I used to think my dad was Jean Simmons. :o :p Seriously.

[Watermelon]

The classic, "Monster in the closet" thing.

[EightOh]

I believed the Scarecrow and the Flying Monkeys from the Wizard of Oz were out to get me. Once, when I was five, I even had a dream that my grandma and I were at the zoo and the Flying Monkeys suddenly swooped in and killed me. I floated toward the sky, looking at my body below me. I don't think I got much sleep that night...

I couldn't watch that damn movie in its entirety until six or seven years later.

[Allen's Nickname.]

Originally posted by Mekairinek
I also belived Jesus had a sister or a brother... I still do belive that. It isn't entierly impossible... ;) . Jude, the guy who wrote the the book of, uh, Jude, was the J-Man's half brother, unless I'm mistaken.

[batboy2001]

Originally posted by Spaz13_88
. Jude, the guy who wrote the the book of, uh, Jude, was the J-Man's half brother, unless I'm mistaken. James also, and actualy a couple of others, but they escape me.

[Evil Dr. Reef]

Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny
You mean they're not?

[BLACKHEART]

I believed in me

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by Mekairinek
I also belived Jesus had a sister or a brother... I still do belive that. It isn't entierly impossible... ;)

Going off topic alert:

The dude had a family, yes. Mary and Joseph did have other kids. They just weren't concieved divinely, obviously. There is mention of them in the Bible, I just forget where, but it's also referenced in Dogma. Much of what Kevin Smith put in Dogma is based on actual scripture, which makes it all the more boggling why people get mad about it.

When I was in school, I made a mock news paper that looked like the World Weekly News that I called "Weakly News" and I took actual scriptures and made tabloid type headlines from them. One of my headlines, that actually made several people mad at me when I showed them this, was "Jesus Christ born in the Family Line of a Hooker!" Why did people get mad at me? It is true, in the Bible. Story in Matthew 1:5!

[Mek]

Originally posted by Calhoun07
Going off topic alert:

The dude had a family, yes. Mary and Joseph did have other kids. They just weren't concieved divinely, obviously. There is mention of them in the Bible, I just forget where, but it's also referenced in Dogma. Much of what Kevin Smith put in Dogma is based on actual scripture, which makes it all the more boggling why people get mad about it.

When I was in school, I made a mock news paper that looked like the World Weekly News that I called "Weakly News" and I took actual scriptures and made tabloid type headlines from them. One of my headlines, that actually made several people mad at me when I showed them this, was "Jesus Christ born in the Family Line of a Hooker!" Why did people get mad at me? It is true, in the Bible. Story in Matthew 1:5!

Hey, thanks for the information! =) (I'm thinking of being a theologian at some point soon, fyi) I didn't know that! *shame on me* Though it makes me feel good to know that something I strongly belived as a kid is true. =)

Back on topic...

I used to belive for a week that there was a shark in my water bed. *laughs* Ohhh, boy did my back hurt from sleeping on the couch! :D

[RogueMartian]

I think my whole life's belief systems were stupid over time:

I believed that all inanimate objects were alive and were trying to talk, that you could get sucked down the drain of a bathtub, that people could fly, magic was real, Santa Clause, his elves and reindeer worked year round for my benefit, satan was going to come up from under my bed and drag me to hell, god was going to let it happen, my parents were wonderful, I was really smart, people were nice, teachers cared, the future was going to be better, i was going to make a difference in the world, I was different and special...

Yeah, I used to believe a lot of things, they all seem kinda stupid now.

[Parallax]

That Supes' was real.

That the moon is made of Cheese.

[Pilmedium]

A while ago, I believed that killing bugs was "harmless."
I used to believe that a few cartoon characters really existed in person, so when I saw men in costumes...

Originally posted by Mekairinek
Santa Claus, The Tooth Fairy

My mother's handwriting was way too recognizable for me to believe that kind of stuff. :o

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by Pilmedium
My mother's handwriting was way too recognizable for me to believe that kind of stuff. :o

Same here. I never got into believing in Santa for that reason alone, and I knew my mom hid the easter eggs. But it was cool because we always got to open presents from my mom and dad on Christmas Eve then we got presents from "Santa" Christmas morning! So I let them keep on thinking I never caught on to the handwriting as long as I could to milk two days worth of present opening!