# What was the weirdest belief you ever personally held?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 19, 2026, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-weirdest-belief-you-ever-personally-held/1029398 "2026-04-19T15:12:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\
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> [@On another topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1030246/26):
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> When I was a kid I thought that “god” was a job title that someone had and we just collectively decided whoever was “god” just had unlimited power and complete knowledge of the universe. Of course, being as humble as I am, I also decided as a kid that when I grew up that’s the job I wanted to have. I got in trouble a couple of times when grown-ups would patronizingly ask me “what do you want to be when you grow up” and I’d tell them that I wanted to be god.

It’s often funny how children’s minds work, like this thread shows, and this a perfect exhibit for it.

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**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2026, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-weirdest-belief-you-ever-personally-held/1029398/123 "2026-05-11T14:22:50Z")

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> [@On another topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1030246/26):
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> I got in trouble a couple of times when grown-ups would patronizingly ask me “what do you want to be when you grow up” and I’d tell them that I wanted to be god.

You missed your calling! Had you become a Mormon, you could get your own world after you die.

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**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2026, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-weirdest-belief-you-ever-personally-held/1029398/124 "2026-05-11T14:35:00Z")

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I was 2 years old when my younger sister was born.

Obviously the events are somewhat clouded, but I vividly recall my older brother, then 4, explaining to me about belly-buttons, with a lego prop.

It took me a long time for me to realise that my own belly button did not start as the top stage of a yellow and white lego rocket.

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**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2026, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-weirdest-belief-you-ever-personally-held/1029398/125 "2026-05-11T14:37:42Z")

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Just to show what a dumb kid I was (to be fair, I was very young, like 5 or even younger), I had the cause-and effect of traffic lights completely ass-backwards. I thought cars just naturally took turns going though intersections, and the light changed from red to green as a result of the cars starting to go through. Until I asked my mom one day “how does the light know to turn green when the cars start moving?”

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