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I believed whoever corrected me.

Originally posted by aliensalmon:

For example, the Bible has many statements that conflict with non-religious school textbooks (The Bible says the Earth is only 6,000 years old, while both secular science and history textbooks state it is much older.) Even among different non-secular sources you were probably told different things (can't think of any good examples at the moment.)

I don't really remember how I reconciled with conflicting statements when I was younger. I guess I just "cherry-picked" whatever made sense.

I'd begrugingly accept it.

got my arse beat a lot, both by my parents and other kids. sometimes you learn through the gauntlet

Choosing between different "truths" is part of life.

I never trusted anything.

Simple! If someone tells me one thing, then someone tells me something else then they must both be true! People would never lie!

So yes this does mean I spent a good part of my childhood believing that God created everything and also let evolution happen

It was a sad day when I learned that this is not how the world works and sometimes people will just not tell the truth. Then I became more of a skeptic and here I am now, not really believing in either.
I don't think this is how finding truth is supposed to work...

nothing replaces direct empirical knowledge + wisdom

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