Any fact you highly believed to be true but turned out to be very false?

Question

And how should I call a guy who is like that? What is the word that fits that type of attitude. Can this word be researched at sociology?

Answer 1

They once had me convinced that God was a judgmental idiot who would allow a place like hell to exist. Now I just call them confused.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

A fact is true, so it cannot be false. I have had many opinions that turned out to be wrong. A good example is that Mom believes in Astrology, so I studied it at a school and began doing horoscopes for people I did not know. When I did some for people I knew, I saw the charts were mostly quite wrong, but believers saw only parts that were somewhat accurate. Even earlier, I was sent to church every Sunday, but I began to doubt religion at age 7 and soon saw my beliefs that had been thrust upon me were wrong.

Answer 3

Yeh, that I knew about God from the little bit of truth about an infinite being. You can know the truth but not know how to handle it and it's more than dangerous. That's the delusion in reading a holy scripture and thinking you know God. Woa. That's an eternal learning process, hence the injunction in all holy texts to humility. Have you seen much humility in religion past the early founders and a rare few? It's of some value to know that you don't know all, but to think you don't anything takes your power and confidence away an let's someone else think for you or you even hijack your own brain with the programming we all get. Self centered is to be too into yourself, dominant thoughts and emotions, so you can't see yourself honestly. It's symptoms are arrogance, I'm all that is, and shyness, because we can't see ourselves obectively from the inside. We and our feelings and thoughts are all we see and get defensive or offensive, don't understand the world around or in us. The best I've seen for that is emotional intelligence. If you learn that you can deal first in understanding your own emotions and then you can handle his. Without knowledge it's the blind leading the blind. Emotions lock you in protecting them or bolstering them. Understanding emotions and you don't have to be a slave to feelings, having to jack yourself up. Having your emotions is perspective is to have the most unruly part of you in control and out of the way to look at things, including yourself objectively and then you can see your intuition that emotions block and you start using your whole brain more. Then your likely to see right through yourself and the average person. It improves all along, exponentially it almost seems. It sort of flips our perspective, reverses our thinking and we can think our way back out of the corner. A fairly radical personality change happens.

Answer 4

I used to believe in facts. I used to believe in history. I used to believe in "right" and "wrong" in the Geo-political idea (not the religious sense). I used to believe in the truth.

38 years on this planet has taught me that no of those things exist. Cultures believe things because they need a "way point" to steer from. That doesn't mean it was necessarily correct.

Here's an example. During WW2 it was decided that they death camps would not be bombed and destroyed because such missions would result in the loss of too many fighters and bombers. The camps were deep into enemy territory. If all those aircraft were lost, the war would go on longer and more people would be killed. Therefore, concentrate your efforts in ending the war, not the death camps.

Was that right? Was that wrong?

Answer 5

That's easy. When I was very young, probably 4 years old, I believed that I could reach under the hot water heater and grab the pilot light flame with my bare hand.

Boy, was I wrong.

I would call someone like that "in denial", delusional, or just misinformed.

Answer 6

Yea. My momma told me, my momma told me!!! Lot's of people think because they believe something, it's true. Especially in religion and theory or other people. It took me a while to get past this. I'd say something like, were you there?
Some people just don't get it. GL

Answer 7

A person who does this is said to be a bullsh** artist

Answer 8

Integrity perhaps?

Answer 9

...that my wife would honor her wedding vows....

Answer 10

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