EVERYONE: What did you deeply believe when you were 15 years old that you no longer believe at all?

Answer 1

That homosexuality was wrong. Kind of embarassed about that one.

Answer 2

At 15?
I believed that I would die if I didn't have a date for the Homecoming dance.
I believed that 40 was incredibly old.
I believed that my mother didn't want me to be happy.
I believed that if I didn't get married by the time I was 20, I'd be an old maid for life.
I believed I wasn't a good enough person to go to church.

Basically, like nine-tenths of 15-year-olds, I believed the world revolved around me.

Thanks be to God that adolescence happens only once.

Answer 3

at the start, suicide isn't egocentric. It skill you have tried so problematical and you purely are falling aside. I won't pretend to renowned what that is like because of the fact i don't comprehend. yet some months in the past, i found out my little sister had decrease a time or 2. It destroyed me interior, I cried myself to sleep for days and did not communicate or pay interest in college the the remainder of that week. despite the fact that I by no skill enable her see it because of the fact I knew i mandatory to be reliable for her, and that i mandatory to tutor her that specific i comprehend, yet I won't say something because of the fact i comprehend how embarrassed she grew to become into. So before i circulate on speaking approximately my disaster, I purely felt like asserting, if a great sort of those human beings you have by no skill met care approximately you, save pushing. i don't comprehend what it feels prefer to be that down, yet i'm able to promise you that i will constantly be telling you in my head to maintain on pushing, on the grounds which you're properly worth it, and you will combat this. i will end there before I initiate bawling. playstation . have you ever tried basic over the counter drugs at the same time with tums or white ingredients and ginger ale?

Answer 4

That I was going to be a movie star. I even went
to college to study theater so I could take Hollywood by storm. Now I know I can't act my
way out of a wet paper bag with both ends opened while holding a "How To" book in my hands.

Answer 5

I don't know that I believed it when I was 15, but when I was in college I firmly believed that genetics accounted for differences in people's physical characteristics and nothing more. I was dead certain that genes were uninvolved in psychological differences like differences in interests, attitudes, and abilities. I was firmly in the John Watson camp ("Give me a dozen healthy infants...").

Needless to say, I was dead wrong. We now know that there are significant reliable differences among people in those things caused by genetic variations.

Answer 6

I believed in the goodness and sanctity of priests and preachers. I thought they were the highest authority on spiritual matters and that I could ask them anything and receive a meaningful answer. I asked one about a vision when I was 16; he scratched his head and said "I don't know." That brought him down one notch (no, it wasn't an "I'm testing you to see if you can figure it out" thing). The thing that destroyed the credibility of humans in positions of religious authority was much graver and proved that a certain type of person is predisposed to seek authority in a religious framework. And that type of person was to be distrusted. I used to think authority figures did not have ulterior motives. Now I know they do, and those motives can be base or even criminal.

Answer 7

I deeply believed in the Catholic Church and it's purpose in my life. I also deeply believed that I wasn't good enough for Jesus Christ. I have added Jesus as my spiritual ancestor in my life but I do not believe in the Christ part. I also honor Buddha as my spiritual ancestor as well as honoring Krishna, Vishnu etc. etc.
I thought of life as one path and found many! That a good thing!
Namaste!

Answer 8

That I would be swept away by some handsome charmer with money and brains, and live happily ever after. Then I got married. For the first time. There were three more attempts after that, after which I gave up.

Answer 9

That a handsome prince would come along and rescue me. We would run off together, be in love, and build a huge house together. We would have 10 children and have maids and people to do everything for us. We would lay in bed all day just looking at each other and smiling. Yeah then I grew up :) Now I'm lucky if I get to just look at him for 2 seconds in his eyes lmao :)

Answer 10

At the age of 64, I can honestly say I havn't believed in religion and spirituality since adulthood. I went to catholic and lutheran churches as a kid. I've come to understand it is nothing more than wishful thinking, and have become more convinced as the years pass.

Answer 11

That our political leaders were exceptionally bright, honest people who were concerned first, for the welfare of the people and second for themselves. Further that the president was the most honest sincere stand up kind of person there could ever be. Was I wrong or what?