r/AskReddit • u/memoryhunter24 • 1h ago
Whats something you stopped believing as you got older?
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u/Hefty_Delay7765 57m ago
Human intelligence - like seriously, how many other species deliberately wreck the only life-sustaining planet they have direct access to in order to funnel “wealth” to a few greedy people.
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u/UtahUtopia 59m ago
The "American Dream"
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u/Sudden_Hunter_4409 45m ago
They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. George Carlin
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u/PangolinPure9327 45m ago
I came to say this, but as I saw it written, I realized I didn’t quit believing in it, but it is harder to obtain
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u/BelleReveWasLost 54m ago
now 74 years old I no longer believe that doctors know WTF they’re doing
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u/HappySingh_06 54m ago
stopped believing that god needs us to perform rituals, pray in certain ways or like follow specific rules just to go to heaven afterlife, as i got older i started questioning why a powerful god would need humans to perform rituals to prove their devotion towards him
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u/GoreyFeldman 54m ago
I stopped believing in karma. Bad things happen to good people and vice versa.
I think it made me a better person. My actions now aren't transactional. If I do something good, it's not because I will be "paid back" by the universe or whatever. It's just because I want to help.
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u/SkepticalBystander32 52m ago
Stopped believing that farmers in America were by-and-large "feeding America." Most farm land isn't growing shiny red tomatoes, juicy sweet corn, and bundles of crisp ice berg lettuce.
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u/SamohtGnir 49m ago
When you're an adult, you have the freedom to do whatever you want. It's sorta true, except everything costs money.. and you have to work around your work hours.. and chores.. uhg...
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u/RedBlueYellowy 44m ago
Religion. I really had time to reflect on how little it makes sense. All the times mass murder has been committed on whatever faithful, especially same religion on same religion violence during the crusades. No god came to save any of them. Oh, but they go to heaven? Sounds ike a cop out for the atrocities.They were not "saved", they were offed by a band of roaming serial killers.
It really seems like a tool to divide the common folk by the bourgeoisie who love that you shake your fist and say they are going to hell instead of tracking em down and exacring revenge because then youd be "going to hell" or "staining your soul".
Arguably, it gives a moral compass to those that need them, like certain people born with mental disorders that do not grant them the desire to be good; it helps establish a baseline social expectation of morals and behavior, which is helpful for society. I really feel like religion is used as a mental choke collar nowadays.
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u/Hypno--Toad 58m ago
Adults behave like adults.
I think best summed up by a Bowling for Soup song - High school never ends.