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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2733663" data-attributes="member: 14159">Priceless.Now, my parents were pretty good about not filling my head with nonsense.  My grandparents however, told plenty of tall tales.  My grandmother filled me full of historical inaccuracies, my grandfather did his best to discourage me from any scientific thoughts.My grandmother told me that when she was little, she had to hide from the Indian attacks on her house so she wouldn't get scalped, and tell me fanciful tales of indian raids and frontiersmen from when she was a little girl.  (Her childhood being in the 1930's instead of 1830's, not very likely).  She also told me filled me full of a lot of very bad things to say about the Japanese, since her world view was stuck firmly in the 1940's and 1950's her universal villains were "japs" and "commies" when they weren't "injuns", my parents flipped when I started casually using racial epithets for them, not knowing anything else to say.  If I took all my grandmothers stories of childhood as fact, she never owned a pair of shoes until she was in her 20's, and walked dozens of miles in the middle of blizzards to get anywhere, everyday having to avoid Indian raids and mobster shoothouts while communists tried to burn down churches and close down the schools.  All in a tiny town of a few hundred people in rural Kentucky.My grandfather was adamant, vehement that there was no such thing as "the speed of light", and told me my teachers were wrong, and to trust him or I'd "git a whoopin".  He told me that light didn't take 8 minutes to come from the sun, it took no time at all.  There was just the "speed of eyesight", "see, it don't take light no eight minutes to come from the sun, your eyesight will go to the sun and come back in no time at all!".  He taught me that my teachers were either intentionally lying or possessed by the devil, and trying to lead me astray when they said there was a big bang and evolution, and that I was beng "ignernt" when I talked about dinosaurs because there was no such thing and all those bones were a hoax being played by the devil.  He also taught me that disease came from the devil, not germs, and doctors were lying or "jes ignernt" when they talk about germs.  That and tobacco is healthy for you, gives you strength, and that "commies" want to ban or regulate it to weaken America.Then I had the worst time mispronouncing so many words because I tried to pronounce words I read literally, I read Chaos as "chah-ohs" among others.</blockquote>

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