What would you think if you found out that EVERYTHING you have every been taught was wrong?

Hmmm.... I guess it would be really hard for conservatives, and much easier for liberals, but then they would simply have to switch sides, if they are both wrong.

I think there are too many opposite beliefs so that neither can be totally wrong.

Then again, If everything is wrong then nothing is right. And if nothing is right then nothing can be wrong either, so your question cannot be rationally answered.

Good question, it makes one think.

Are you Buddhist??

I would think: Wow, finally I did it! I'm out of this trap. I have been manipulated long enough with concepts which feed people and keep them busy. I'm out now and see clear, the blinker are gone! I always had the feeling that there was something wrong with I was taught, but I was too naive and was depending on others. At the moment when I took self responsibility I started to be able to look behind the common games that gives satisfaction to people but doesn't to me anymore. I'm glad that now I can see at least a glimpse of truth, but enough to make me feel good. I can see where I want to go, even so it is an unknown path for me... I can see the horizon now and I feel that I can go beyond...

Bomoon

Sometimes it is all in the perspective. Some do not process information as it was intended, others express information as they see it when the reality is different to the one they tell. If you feel what you have been taught is wrong, now might be a good time for you to become the teacher. They too may have been taught miss guided information. Just humans ...

I would feel like I was wrong, I would go on a mental and spiritual journey to find myself again. I would have to relive every moment, to make sure I wasn't wrong. After all the frustration I felt I would go lay is a tub or go swimming, so I could relax. I would work towards loving myself again and letting all the anger and sadness go. Lots of work, wonder how long I would be busy? Probably a month to be stable enough to go out in the world and a year if not longer to accept and love myself, partially.

I've already been through that. It's, a strange feeling. To know that your entire upbringing was based upon false doctrine and lies.

But, you get over it, and it's an incredible release to be away from it, and start living your life to the fullest.

it's also why a lot of people blindly follow a relegion. They are too scared to admit what they have been taught, and the only thing they have ever known, is wrong. It's a lack of strength.

I would curl into a fetal posistion and suck my thumb for the foreseeable future.

Seriously, I don't think my psyche could handle the shock of discovering -everything- was wrong. Coupled with the fact that reality would have to have radically altered, so that everythign I know about science and math and the things I have learned by my own observation are incorrect. Yup, I'm pretty sure I'd lose my mind.

"Everything" has a pretty wide meaning, and much of what we are taught when young relates to either social skills or survival skills. If everything we were taught in these areas was wrong then we would end up as an unsociable idiots.

Do you mean everything you were taught by someone-else, as opposed to stuff you learned yourself through experience.

Well, there are an awful lot of people in America who believe in creation instead of evolution. As well as a lot of other rubbish. Those who eventually see the truth, often feel cheated, lied to and let down.

I would be really annoyed and after my moment of anger try to find out what the correct answers were. But if its a matter of opinion that you've been taught then its neither wrong nor right and you have to figure out for yourself what is right fo you. :)

take it easy

chrissy

I would look into my heart and do what feels right. Most of us know the basic difference between right and wrong. I would take time to absorb this new information and find out what makes everything I learned wrong and why.