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Post by A Monkey Shaved » Sat May 29, 2010 8:01 am

God and the belief a religious conversion and belief may alter the outcome of what happens to the soul after death.
Just because more people believe Jesus is the son of God and not the son of Satan does not make it any truer.
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Post by FBM » Sat May 29, 2010 8:03 am

Altruism. :hehe:
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Re: What did you once believe that you later found out was c

Post by AnInconvenientScotsman » Sat May 29, 2010 11:08 am

I used to believe Ricky Gervais was a brilliant stand-up; then I started watching Frankie Boyle, Lee Evans, Dara O'Briain and the like and as a result, learned to be much funnier and therefore become more awesome - true story.
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Re: What did you once believe that you later found out was c

Post by Mr P » Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:19 am

Collective subconscious... it united all of humanity in a warm fuzzy duvet, which I later discovered was filled with the raw pelts of orphaned blind kittens.
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Re: What did you once believe that you later found out was c

Post by Ex~ » Sat Jul 03, 2010 3:06 am

Hmm... interesting question.

My immediate response was that I have never really "believed" anything at all very strongly, and my belief in something has always been proportional to the nuance, skepticism, qualification, and evidence behind it. So anything I have ever really "believed" to any real degree has some grain of truth behind it, or at least nuanced perspective that is at least genuine enough to not be called bullshit entirely. I don't "believe" things so much as I recognize certain ideas have some sort of apparent contingent value.

Unless, of course, you mean trivial things, like being mistaken about which way to turn to get to some city, or believing I had left my comb in my jacket pocket when I had left it in my pant pocket or something of that sort. I wouldn't say I had any real conviction about these things, so I wouldn't include them.

But then I thought, perhaps there was a time when I thought I could ever be happy. I think there was probably such a time. And if there was, that was most ddefinitely bullshit.

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Re: What did you once believe that you later found out was c

Post by Svartalf » Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:19 am

I'll fess up... took me years to understand that genetic mutation in the real world did not work at all like in superhero comics... good thing I did not take biology as a high school graduation subject.
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Re: What did you once believe that you later found out was c

Post by Pappa » Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:38 pm

Animavore wrote:Astrology, reincarnation, Santa, tooth-fairy, telepathy, UFOs, telekenesis, pyrokenesis, ghosts, spontaneous combustion, tangible good and evil, poltergeists, chi, Kennedy conspiracy theory, the Muppets were real, vampires, werewolves, boogeymen, "The Truth is Out There", body loses 21 grams on death, you need 8 glasses of water a day.. that's all I can think of for now.
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Re: What did you once believe that you later found out was c

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:40 pm

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Re: What did you once believe that you later found out was c

Post by Svartalf » Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:58 pm

and apple pie?
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Re: What did you once believe that you later found out was c

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:01 pm

Svartalf wrote:and apple pie?
Let's no blaspheme. :mod:
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Re: What did you once believe that you later found out was c

Post by Svartalf » Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:06 pm

OK, for a moment you really sounded like one of those beet eating commies.
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Re: What did you once believe that you later found out was c

Post by klr » Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:39 pm

Obviously, anything claimed by religion. The tooth fairy and Santa as well. :lay:
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Re: What did you once believe that you later found out was c

Post by amused » Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:13 pm

I was always somewhat skeptical of the widespread belief that it is illegal to pick the state flower, Bluebonnets, in Texas but I never confirmed it.....until now.

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/director_s ... 032602.htm
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Re: What did you once believe that you later found out was c

Post by Jesus_of_Nazareth » Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:18 pm

That chocolate came out of my bumhole.......
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Re: What did you once believe that you later found out was c

Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Mar 28, 2012 6:51 am

I used to find alien abductions plausible but I got better.
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