What was the one thing you believed in wholeheartedly and you find out one day it is nothing but a big lie?

Question

When I was little, my dad told me ATMs worked by having little monkeys inside them.

I believed that for years. Now I work in a bank, and wish it were true!

Answer 1

I used to believe that the year doesn't change on New Years Day and that it only started over. That's how I thought it worked lol. It was a huge misunderstanding.

Answer 2

Along those lines, that penguins lived in our fridge and turned off the light when you close the door. On a more serious note, that you always have a place to call home so long as you have family. That was a very painful thing to learn was not true.

Answer 3

I used to believe that most people were trustworthy.
I even told my kids (meaning to warn them not to trust everyone) when they were little that probably ninety percent of the people they would meet would be "nice", but that the not-nice ten percent wouldn't be wearing neon signs...
Oh, I believed that...until my husband died. Once I had to get out "into the world" in order to keep my family together, I learned quickly. What I had told my kids was true...except for one small detail.
I got my numbers backward....

Answer 4

The God of the Bible! I foolishly believed in Santa Claus as a child, the tooth-fairty and other imaginary, yet pleasurable characters. But the God of the Old Testament is my last ambition now.

Here's why:

How about you about reading the whole bible( spend 15-30 minutes each day, and you'll be finished within a year) and really, begin from Exodus. I want you to understand the cruel, despotically -overpowering ,blood thirty being Yahweh is. I want you to read about what happened to the freed Israelites once Moses had been commanded by God to tell the Pharoah to liberate them. I want you carefully scrutinize this sonorous line-reiterated after almost every passage in the beginning of Exodus, "but I will harden Pharoah's heart, so that he will NOT let the people go" God ordered the Pharoah to let them go- so then why was he hardening the kings heart so that he will adamantly REFUSE to let them go? I would especially like for you to carefully read the book of Job, to really get a more profound insight upon Yahweh's diabolical nature. Read upon what happens to Job, a noble God- fearing man from OZ who bore 10 children and cared for plenty of animals. Read and meticulously observe how God made a pact with Satan by unsuspectingly slaughtering all his children and animals- only to see if this respectable man would curse him once in return.

To really comprehend the genuinely sadistic, insidious character of God, read Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Judges, and Job. Those books are extremely compelling.

- A girl who doesn't pick and choose which verses to study, evangelize or commit to memory

Answer 5

Roman Catholicism. (And Christianity in general.)

@All of you who answered evolution - Per the question, did you once wholeheartedly believe in evolution?

Answer 6

That humankind was making progress and shedding superstitions.

All these answers saying "evolution" makes me very sad...

LOL.... Monkey in ATMs.. if only :)

Answer 7

Fairytales--because i used to beliee there is happily ever after and true l0ve. Then when I fell inlove, I got hurt and then I realized that there is no such thing as happy endings.

Answer 8

You dad was right. You just have not yet perceived that you have become the little monkey!

Answer 9

I once believed on the innate good of all mankind. Seriously it was a bitter disappointment.

Answer 10

okay so if you are asking me if i die and find out there is not a heaven i think in my opnion you are wrong. example my great grandfather was in the hospital , before he died he said that the angels were here to take him , he told my grandfather that he loved him , seconds after that he died,i have many other examples ,so my whole heartedly belief is a fact that god is real