Bullshit you used to believe until you wisened up?

[arg]

I have a learning disability in mathematics.

social security bought that bullshit? there are tons of jobs that don't need math

 

[no country for old wainds]

great that's exactly what this forum needed, another if mort ruled the world thread

 

[Zephyrus]

I'm tempted to move the abortion/eugenics post to it.

Edit: DONE

 

[UltimateApathy]

I'm tempted to move the abortion/eugenics post to it.

Edit: DONE

You stole from my topic

 

[UltimateApathy]

I used to believe that Metalheads were smart before I started using this forum...

 

[Omni]

I used to believe that Metalheads were smart before I started using this forum...

Let me guess; you read your own posts and came to that realization?

 

[UltimateApathy]

Let me guess; you read your own posts and came to that realization?

Actually I mostly read the posts that a bunch of people vomited out in the gun control thread which we had going a few months ago, and they basically amounted to: "IF EVERYONE HADZ A GUN, THENZ WE WOULD ALL BE SUPER SAFEZZZZZ!!!"

It made me seriously reconsider whether passing IQ tests should be a mandatory requirement for voting in national elections...

 

[Zephyrus]

*standing by to move all gun posts out of thread*

 

[Dak]

@UA:I suppose you are one of those geniuses who holds that drug prohibition doesnt stop illicit drug use but gun prohibition will stop illicit gun use.

 

[The Ozzman]

I used to believe drinking and driving meant drinking everything while driving

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I used to believe drinking and driving meant drinking everything while driving

wat

You mean drinking anything? Like, getting a DUI for sipping on some seltzer?

 

[The Ozzman]

Yes. I was like 6.

 

[Einherjar86]

Haha, I thought that too when I was a little tyke.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I used to think Marijuana wasn't a drug when i was a wee little lad.

 

[Dak]

I remember thinking you could get whatever you wanted just by writing a check.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Childhood misconceptions seem kinda outside the purview of this thread but OK: when I was a kid, I used to think parents could read the minds of their children. This was reinforced when I learned about how babies are made; if adults could keep that a secret, surely they could hide a mind-reading conspiracy. I figured that this is why adopted children and bastards were often represented in the media as having a poor relationship with their guardians, because they didn't have anyone that could truly understand their feelings and thoughts. I believed that until I was about 14 or so, and used to always brainwash myself when near my parents so that they wouldn't get suspicious.

 

[UltimateApathy]

@UA:I suppose you are one of those geniuses who holds that drug prohibition doesnt stop illicit drug use but gun prohibition will stop illicit gun use.

Ever heard of a little place called the "UK", lad? Also, comparing drugs to guns is like comparing Donald Trump's intelligence to Einstein's - alternate universes really do exist!!!

 

[Dak]

Kind of like comparing the "little place" UK to the US. But ok. The UK has higher crime rates even with reduced reporting compared to the US.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

+1 on once believing intellectual debates were important and I could change people's beliefs.

Used to believe that knowledge was the most important thing in life, until I realized that I now see patterns in everything that happens around me, and life feels like the endless repetition of a tired script.

That things like the two-party system and government secrecy were evil, until I realized most voters are painfully ignorant and probably don't need more of a say than they already have.

That I was unfairly socially disadvantaged/undeprivileged, until I remembered that I'm white and have a computer science degree.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

You just ran into somebody on the street and they were like "Yo bro, you're white, here's a free computer science degree, enjoy the privilege"?