That a state can’t print money
Why did you hear that as a child? Of course the state prints money, how else would money exist in the first place if no one made the money?
Might be talking about the United States specifically. IIRC the constitution denies individual states the right to mint coin or issue bills of credit, that is a prerogative of the federal government.
Babies get delivered by storks
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Europe is a country? Like Australia?
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Aside from the; obvious bullahit of relegion that you can figure out for yourself quite early … not to be a bully to get what you want. It’s near ubiquitous, from police to government, to wealthy people, business owners etc anyone with an asymmetric relationship gets what they want that way. As a boss, do what I want or I fire you and you starve etc etc.
I still see them pedaling the same lies to children today, bullying and cowexison are linked to inextricably liked to what we call success we are fine with it, the weird part is the denial and lieing to kids about not being a bully .
In Catholic school in the nineties and early 2000’s, we were all told that the sex abuse scandal was serious but that it was also “a small number of incidents.” That we needed to pray for the victims and the souls of the perpetrators.
Then I went to college. Come to find out not only was the child rape widespread, not only did the church actively hide monsters from legal scrutiny, not only was this all directly effecting the local arch diocese (not my school specifically, but church leaders were forced to quickly rename another high school when allegations against a dead bishop proved too numerous to ignore)… not only all that but that it’s still going on, just not in first world countries with robust networks of journalists and legal systems. That an alleged pedophile was (while I was in college) living in the Vatican, being directly sheltered from extradition by South American authorities.
I guess the lie was that it was all over. That it was a small problem. That the church was a safe place people could turn to. I left the church at 18 over it, became an atheist by 19, and that’s where I’m at now at 35.
That animals are happy when you’re about to eat them! (Just look at the marketing in your local grocery stores.)
People defend that indoctrination as if they have no choice.
You’re right, they’re not happy, they’re dead. And delicious.
When I was being taken into surgery they told me we were going into space and gave me gas that they said was to breathe in space. I didn’t realize I hadn’t actually been to space until I was like eight years old or something like that. Probably older.
I was never, at any point, as much of a child as I was told I was.
That pulling levers in the basement furnace room wouldn’t blow the house up. It wasn’t until my 20s when it randomly popped into my head and I thought about it with my adult brain and was like “wait… Why would someone install something that would blow the house up?”
Not as such. But it also doesn’t mean that it can’t have catastrophic results.
Your water heater has an overpressure valve, but just one. A failure in that valve and a temperature regulator and you can have your hot water heater shooting up through your roof.
Your furnace has a control board. It turns the gas on, hits the igniter, watches for flame. An older, shittier designs, it was entirely possible for just one or two sensors to go bad and run the furnace to the point of melting down and have the house burned down. Source: happened to me on vacation many decades ago.
Men are logical. Women are emotional.
Such an enormous generalization and oversimplification. Very false.
Grandma adopted a puppy when I was probably 8 or 9. It got parvo. I remember going to her house and asking where the puppy was. She told me that he was sick, so he had to stay outside and I couldn’t go outside for the same reason. When I would ask where the puppy is, she would tell me that he’s on the side of the house where I couldn’t see him. This went on for a long time, I never saw the puppy again and eventually forgot about it entirely.
A decade or two later I found out that my grandma had spent thousands of dollars trying to keep that puppy alive, but parvo took it anyways. She was very upset about it’s passing and instead of having me go through it too, she lied to me about it until I completely forgot about it.
There’s no little tooth bugs crawling back my neck. Toothpaste just isn’t healthy to ingest.
Bahaha, don’t swallow tooth paste because of tooth bugs!??!!?! This is the best thing I’ve ever heard
I was raised christian so basically everything I was ever told was an absolute lie.
Same here friend. But they were lies Their parents told them and so on and so on so it’s understandable how they thought they were doing the right thing.
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Spoiler alert: it probably wasn’t
spoiler alert: it factually was. Go thump your bible elsewhere, Ive been deprogrammed already
What did they tell you that is factually false?
That gay and trans people are all disgusting perverts who hate me and want to destroy everything good. My queer friends provide more emotional support in a day than I ever got from my family, the church, or anyone else inside the Evangelical bubble I was raised in.
That people in “The World” (those outside the church) are all evil or unknowingly controlled by Satan and will always try to hurt me. Textbook cult programming from the people who were emotionally abusing me.
That God is speaking directly to me through a voice in my head, except when that voice says I’m a girl, then it’s actually a demon or something. (It was likely undiagnosed DID as a result of childhood emotional neglect and repressed gender dysphoria.)
That scientists are all part of a massive satanic conspiracy to trick people into leaving the church.
Dungeons & Dragons being a satanic conspiracy. Satanic Panic stuff in general.
Lots of anti-evolution propaganda that turned out to be misrepresentations of science or complete fabrications.
That they actually believed in all that stuff Jesus said about loving thy neighbor, helping the poor and the sick, and being kind to immigrants, instead of spending their whole lives voting to hurt all of those people as much as possible.
That the world is 6000 years old.
Evolution
A talking snake
Cancer didn’t exist until the very modern age. Evolution is fake, a conspiracy. Jews are basically Christians who don’t know if Jesus is the savior or not. I could keep going.
A christian asking for facts. Lol.
Engine breaking destroys the engine.
Today: <Bing!> DO NOT ENGAGE CLUTCH ABOVE 1300 RPM.
Engine breaking destroys the engine.
Unfortunate typo.
Almost everything I was taught about nutrition later turned out to be BS
Yeah this is a great point!
Fat is bad! Sugar is fine (but brush your teeth)! Yes, this thing that’s been vacuum packed for 24 months is still edible food.
Yes, this thing that’s been vacuum packed for 24 months is still edible food.
it isn’t?
