Beboots
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Post by Beboots on Jan 25, 2006 17:09:32 GMT -5
I got to thinking a little while ago about stuff I once believed, as a child (you know, when everything you didn't understand seemed like magic and you really did believe that when your mum and dad were kids the world was in black and white, and that your grandparents lived alongside dinosaurs, etc.). This was probably brought on by a picture of Pitbulllady's on DA (the photo with the light tower, which she was told was a giant one-eyed monster as a kid?). Anyway, I thought that it'd be interesting to hear some of what people thought when they were kiddies. For example, one of my dad's friends in Ontario (oh, man, this must've been way back when we lived in Ottawa), could do coin tricks, to the vast astonishment of us children. When we asked how he had gotten the coin to dissapear, he claimed that everybody had a flap of skin on their arms (like a small pocket, you know?), that you could hide stuff in, if you knew where to look. He then proceeded to pull a quarter from my very own "arm pocket". He was an older gentleman, and I distinctly remember looking at his hairy (grey-haired) arms looking for that mythical skin pocket. I believed it for years, and every so often would look all over my arms for mine, because I thought it'd be useful. ^_^
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Veg
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Post by Veg on Jan 25, 2006 17:16:00 GMT -5
Well, when I was a little kid, I thought that dinosaurs were still alive so I kept on looking out the window, trying to see one. I was 3, okay?
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jan 25, 2006 18:04:32 GMT -5
Personally...I still believe all things I use to believe.... Even though I can't remember some of them.... I just...don't like dismissing something so quickly....
Heh...of course...we all probably know something like that heh.
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Post by pitbulllady on Jan 25, 2006 21:02:11 GMT -5
My father could "pull his thumb off". It was an illusion he created by tucking one thumb inside his fist, then putting the other thumb tightly in between his middle and index finger of the other fisted hand, placing that hand on top of the one with the carefully-concealed thumb, and rapidly lifting the hand that still had the thumb showing, making it look like he'd removed(briefly)the thumb from the other hand. Used to amaze me when I was a little kid.
I also thought that spiders ate cheese. There was a BIG spider, probably a Tegenaria giganteus(which is also found in England, by the way) living behind our 'fridge, and I'd tear up bits of cheese and throw back there, until my mother caught me doing that!
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Post by Watcher on Jan 26, 2006 2:37:50 GMT -5
Spiders? Cheese? ^_^ That sounds right! Haha! That's cool...
I used to believe my dad could tell when I was lying; when he was asking me if I'd done something wrong he'd say "Poke out your tongue", I'd nervously obey, he'd look and exclaim "It has spots! Your lying!"... I must have lied a lot cause he was right most of the time ^_^
I also thought if I peeled enough paint off the walls we'd move away... Sadly that didn't work... Still stuck in the middle of the nowhere...
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jan 26, 2006 15:39:47 GMT -5
Heh heh heh.
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Post by lizardgirl on Jan 27, 2006 13:20:07 GMT -5
Hmm...Well, I used to think of inanimate objects as having feelings and actually being alive when we aren't looking- things like the head of a lampost being the face and the rest being the body, and that sort of thing.
And I used to believe that the massive tree opposite our house was kind of magical, because there always seemed to be birds on it, like constantly. I thought that the tree was sort of like a market place or meeting point for them all.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jan 27, 2006 15:02:17 GMT -5
And you still don't think those why exactly? ^_^
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Beboots
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Post by Beboots on Jan 28, 2006 0:45:35 GMT -5
Hmm...Well, I used to think of inanimate objects as having feelings and actually being alive when we aren't looking- things like the head of a lampost being the face and the rest being the body, and that sort of thing. Oh! Same here! I always looked the headlights of cars as eyes and the grates as mouths... I did the same for houses, only with windows for eyes, and the garage doors for mouths (only most of the time, they always looked like they were screaming, and I always wondered what they were upset about). Also, I remember when I first heard about housefires, from a babysitter. When I came home, I put all of my stuffed toys in two pillowcases, just in case there was a fire (so that I could carry them easily out of the house in a hurry). Okay, I was five, so the safety of my teddies was more important than, say, getting my sister out.
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yoruhoshi
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Post by yoruhoshi on Jan 28, 2006 11:24:19 GMT -5
I still believe most of the things that I believed as a kid. I still believe in magic, faeries, dragons, unicorns, demons (yes most especially these). I also believe that people can have unnatural powers (ie X-men). But I no longer believe I can fly like the people in Dragon Ball Z. I attempted that at the age of eight. And man, does the ground hurt.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jan 28, 2006 12:56:59 GMT -5
That's because they do exists duh..there's.... ...Anyway yeah they exist...as well as "powers".
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Beboots
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Post by Beboots on Jan 28, 2006 13:37:14 GMT -5
I personally believe that one can't have dozens upon dozens of similar archetypes in hundreds of different cultures without them having at least a little grain of truth in them. I mean, what cultural group doesn't have their own stories of magic? That one, I definitely believe in. ;D
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jan 28, 2006 13:41:16 GMT -5
Exactly... Dragons and magic have been endowed in nearly every culture. WHY can people believe they do not exist when stories and legends of their past are all over the world...
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Post by Watcher on Jan 29, 2006 1:35:56 GMT -5
(*Nods*) I agree... in some ways and not in others... Like cultures believed in different gods to explain things they didn't understand... like why the season changed...
I hate to say this (cause I love dragons SOOO much) but dragons could be the description of the bones of dinosaurs... the cultures didn't understand it so they imagined up stories involving 'beasts' of reptilian appearance etc... I don't like that idea... and I want to keep believing dragons are just hiding somewhere...
Facts kill the imagination...
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jan 29, 2006 14:40:37 GMT -5
Not exactly VJ. Dragons do exist. The likely hood that a Teradactale and a land dinosaur, with four legs, crossing over each other's bones in some way seems kinda out-there.
But the fact that real dragon bones haven't been found means that they hide themselves very well.
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