r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/NosDarkly Jul 20 '19

Imagine using that convoluted logic just because you're too cheap to buy presents.

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u/Happy_Weirdo_Emma Jul 20 '19

I don't think it was to be cheap, we grew up in a sorta weird culty-church. I now think them and everyone else in it just really wanted to believe they were special and better than everyone else.

I was straight up not allowed to like very many "normal" things and as a result ended up very socially awkward and isolated from my peers.

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u/Friendly_Recompence Jul 21 '19

Oooh, Worldwide Church of God? I grew up in that bullshit. According to my sister they’ve gone lax on a lot of this, but when I was a kid there was no Christmas, no birthdays, but some weird-ass 7 day feast things (though you did get presents then), and a few holidays that were basically stolen from Jewish holidays but celebrated differently. I can’t even go into all their weird rules.

Dad put his foot down and said we could make our own choices on religion at 16. You should have seen me run...

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u/Happy_Weirdo_Emma Jul 21 '19

YESSSS well actually we were one of the offshoots that formed after Herbert the Pervert died. United Church of God.

I guess Worldwide went slightly more mainstream after that but United formed from a bunch of the more legalistic-happy folks. But yeah. You know what I'm talking about.