I was around 10 when it hit me, too.
Mind you, before that, pretty much only my grandmother would try to get me to believe in the thing... everyone else just defaulted to silence about it.
I remember being in the car, and my dad had the radio on the news, as always... This was around 1990...
There was a news piece about something weird happening in some remote chinese place and they had cameras there filming it... and I thought "damn, they have cameras everywhere, nowadays".... then the click came, "you know what they say is everywhere, too? oh.... how come those two never met?".
Then I stayed quiet for 2 years... I thought everyone in the world was a believer in that non-sense and I was the sole person who knew something was up. Eventually, I found that there was such a thing as "atheist" and that some 20% of the world is atheist... so I relaxed a bit... life went on... and here I am...
Mind you, before that, pretty much only my grandmother would try to get me to believe in the thing... everyone else just defaulted to silence about it.
I remember being in the car, and my dad had the radio on the news, as always... This was around 1990...
There was a news piece about something weird happening in some remote chinese place and they had cameras there filming it... and I thought "damn, they have cameras everywhere, nowadays".... then the click came, "you know what they say is everywhere, too? oh.... how come those two never met?".
Then I stayed quiet for 2 years... I thought everyone in the world was a believer in that non-sense and I was the sole person who knew something was up. Eventually, I found that there was such a thing as "atheist" and that some 20% of the world is atheist... so I relaxed a bit... life went on... and here I am...
