How old were you when you found out you were not a sheep?

posted 1 year ago by Yinz 1 year ago by Yinz +21 / -0

I was 21 and got chewed out for not doing the wave at a MLB game… I heard about that for weeks… I found it creepy..:

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– CasuallyObservant 2 points 1 year ago +5 / -3

At around age 9.

I remember disagreeing and taking offense to the following:

When during Sunday mass the Priests would say we were guilty of being 'born with original sin' and had to be forever sorry and pray for forgiveness (for something we didn't ourselves do), and;
That we should recite the prayer that included the phrase, '...I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and I shall be healed' (inferring that we well-behaved, praying and obedient children were not worthy of God because of something someone else did thousands of years ago.)

I disagreed so strongly with these two statements that I vowed to never return to a church who claimed these statements as truth when I was old enough to choose for myself.

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– CasuallyObservant 1 point 1 year ago +3 / -2

Then at age 10:

Ever the studious child, I argued with my science teacher that I believed that planet earth was not the only planet with intelligent life and that in the vast sky above, there had to be unlimited planets with life! At that time, the Encyclopedia Britannica was the best source for information on 'everything' and we had one at home, but found to my dismay that there was very little published on this subject.

My teacher stated with all sincerity that 'Scientists have looked and looked with their telescopes and found no other planets in the universe other than the ones in our solar system, and that Earth was the only one with life on it.'

It took 37 years after that conversation for the first extra solar planet (planet outside our solar system) to be found, and now, nearly 60 years later Scientists state the following:

"As of 12 October 2023, there are 5,528 confirmed exoplanets in 4,115 planetary systems, with 934 systems having more than one planet. Most of these were discovered by the Kepler space telescope."

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