Weird or funny thoughts/ideas you used to have as a child:)

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cerebellum3

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Hi everyone:) I hope your day has been nice. When I was a child, I used to think that after the rapture, and the end of the world, God would make a new planet earth and the whole Bible story would start over. Like there would be a new Adam and Eve and new prophets, and a new Bible would be made. So everything would happen again like a cycle, and the rapture would come again and the earth would be destroyed and everything would happen all over again, like a cycle with different people each time! When I was about 8 or 9, I didn't know the rapture existed. I was watching a Simpson episode and it was the one with the rapture ( I thought all TV animation shows were appropriate for kids back then) and I laughed and told my dad that this show was funny because they made up the rapture and it wasn't real, and then my dad told me that it was real and it was going to happen. Let's just say.. Since then Ive had nightmares and tears and sleepless nights when I was a kid... What kind of ideas and thoughts did you have as a child?
 
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cerebellum3 said:
Hi everyone:) I hope your day has been nice. When I was a child, I used to think that after the rapture, and the end of the world, God would make a new planet earth and the whole Bible story would start over. Like there would be a new Adam and Eve and new prophets, and a new Bible would be made. So everything would happen again like a cycle, and the rapture would come again and the earth would be destroyed and everything would happen all over again, like a cycle with different people each time! When I was about 8 or 9, I didn't know the rapture existed. I was watching a Simpson episode and it was the one with the rapture ( I thought all TV animation shows were appropriate for kids back then) and I laughed and told my dad that this show was funny because they made up the rapture and it wasn't real, and then my dad told me that it was real and it was going to happen. Let's just say.. Since then Ive had nightmares and tears and sleepless nights when I was a kid... What kind of ideas and thoughts did you have as a child?
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I was afraid of hell. I pictured the devil there. Lots of flames. Lots of screaming, yelling, crying. Horrifying.
 
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cerebellum3

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Galahad said:
I was afraid of hell. I pictured the devil there. Lots of flames. Lots of screaming, yelling, crying. Horrifying.
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Yes yes! I have had a lot of nightmares and sleepless nights!
 
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That a real relationship with Jesus would only come after I died and went to heaven. One where I could talk and he would talk back to me.

The day I discovered that relationship - both back and forth - was in the here and now because His Spirit was in your spirit, and could give you thoughts and feelings was an epiphany.
 
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I used to actually believe in the Rapture. Looking back, I can hardly fathom that thinking.

I used to also believe God wanted to kill us (like it was His passion and obsession), and Jesus saved us from Him.
 
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Oh, I also thought dogs were boys, and cats were girls. (male and female)
 
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as a kid i used to think people hung "cray paper" never saw it spelled crepe paper until older
 
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I had an imaginary friend called "Sandwich". For tea parties, etc.
 
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I could never figure out what was wrong with "seldom," as a word, since the song says it is....

"Home, home on the range... where the deer and the antelope play... where seldom is heard, a discouraging word... and the skies are not cloudy all day!"

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I use to think my Mom's living room floor was made of hot lava.
I am super thankful that we had pillows laid out on the floor to walk on though....

.....it kept us from getting burned.
 
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Where I was brought up there was an old Parish Church with a graveyard. Some of the Grave stones were worn away. One just had RIP on it in big letters. For several years I was convinced that a Dog called RIP was buried there!
 
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In the summertime, I lived in South America. In the wintertime, I lived in North America. I didn't have to move to come to this conclusion. It had to do with what the weather was like when you asked me what continent I lived on and I knew I lived "in America."

I went to Catholic school for the first 5.5 grades. (Mom pulled us out halfway through fifth grade.) I was taught the sixth commandment was "You should not be impure." That meant I had to brush my teeth twice a day, comb my hair, and take a bath every other night, making sure Saturday night was one of those nights, so we were clean on Sundays.

To this day, I have trouble remembering the real Ten Commandments in proper order. :eek:
 
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Willie-T said:
Oh, I also thought dogs were boys, and cats were girls. (male and female)
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Um? :confused: That's true, right?

(If my old cat were alive, he would have scratched me for that and reminded me I was the reason he was neutered. lol)
 
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cerebellum3 said:
Hi everyone:) I hope your day has been nice. When I was a child, I used to think that after the rapture, and the end of the world, God would make a new planet earth and the whole Bible story would start over. Like there would be a new Adam and Eve and new prophets, and a new Bible would be made. So everything would happen again like a cycle, and the rapture would come again and the earth would be destroyed and everything would happen all over again, like a cycle with different people each time! When I was about 8 or 9, I didn't know the rapture existed. I was watching a Simpson episode and it was the one with the rapture ( I thought all TV animation shows were appropriate for kids back then) and I laughed and told my dad that this show was funny because they made up the rapture and it wasn't real, and then my dad told me that it was real and it was going to happen. Let's just say.. Since then Ive had nightmares and tears and sleepless nights when I was a kid... What kind of ideas and thoughts did you have as a child?
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The Simpsons was never a kids show. Back then, many people thought it was simply because it was animated. Same problem some have with other nighttime animated shows.
 
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In the summertime, I lived in South America. In the wintertime, I lived in North America. I didn't have to move to come to this conclusion. It had to do with what the weather was like when you asked me what continent I lived on and I knew I lived "in America."

I went to Catholic school for the first 5.5 grades. (Mom pulled us out halfway through fifth grade.) I was taught the sixth commandment was "You should not be impure." That meant I had to brush my teeth twice a day, comb my hair, and take a bath every other night, making sure Saturday night was one of those nights, so we were clean on Sundays.

To this day, I have trouble remembering the real Ten Commandments in proper order. :eek:
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Shamefully, I used to teach classes that incorporated an easy way to remember The Ministry of Death, (in the Protestant order) so they will always be ingrained in my mind, I'm sad to say. No problem with being aware of them, and knowing what they were, and were for... but to remember them as I now do, ain't so good.
 
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cerebellum3

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Ahahaha wow! I also used to think that if I stood in the rain, I would grow, like a plant :p that never worked... I'm still short haha
 
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cerebellum3 said:
Yes yes! I have had a lot of nightmares and sleepless nights!
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My imagination intensified whenever I heard Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire song. Didn’t know at the time he was singing a song his wife wrote about her relationship to him. She loved him much, but Johnny boy was a mess. He brought upon himself so much trouble and poignantly upon his dear wife, so much so that she wrote the song: Ring of Fire.
And it burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire, the ring of fire.
 
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Galahad said:
My imagination intensified whenever I heard Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire song. Didn’t know at the time he was singing a song his wife wrote about her relationship to him. She loved him much, but Johnny boy was a mess. He brought upon himself so much trouble and poignantly upon his dear wife, so much so that she wrote the song: Ring of Fire.
And it burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire, the ring of fire.
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I actually love that song...:cool:
 
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