HOW SUPERSTITIOUS ARE YOU.............?

[indie]

I hate Friday 13th....here are a list of bad things happened to me on a few black friday: last one my brother tripped off the panel box i lost half of an assignment! on another one i was washing my new t shirt went from blue tuh white in water alone! then ketchup fell on my white top...and the last one i could recall i fell from the step at home So today I am staying home allyuh doh laff at meh too much eh

[taiyed]

Didn't all that stuff happen to you at your house?

[indie]

^ Yea it did Tai...

[letric]

Even though we know they are ridiculous, we all have games we play with fate.

[kemist]

indie - seems like you should not stay home on fri 13th

[Aurea]

I hate Friday 13th....here are a list of bad things happened to me on a few black friday: last one my brother tripped off the panel box i lost half of an assignment! on another one i was washing my new t shirt went from blue tuh white in water alone! then ketchup fell on my white top...and the last one i could recall i fell from the step at home So today I am staying home allyuh doh laff at meh too much eh

Oh,oh indie. I not laffin at yuh eh, I hope yuh day goin good so far and nothing bad eh happen at all.

Aurea

[indie]

indie - seems like you should not stay home on fri 13th

I told my brother lets go river he said...nah bad idea idea nexx ting u drown but so far my day is going ok!!!

[Aurea]

I told my brother lets go river he said...nah bad idea idea nexx ting u drown but so far my day is going ok!!!

Glad to hear that. Hope ur day finished off with out any incidents indie.

Aurea

[Chicabonita]

Eh eh...surprise to read that Indie is superstitious.

[indie]

Glad to hear that. Hope ur day finished off with out any incidents indie.

Aurea

Surprisingly no incidents.... Is it because I decided not to do anything yesterday?

[letric]

As we grow up, we realise avoiding cracks in the pavement would not prevent us from losing our job, or our parents getting ill. The more a person sees they can act on reality, the more they will build self-confidence and the less they will fall back on superstition. Does it do any harm to believe in in these little magical rituals? At the end of the scale, people can develop obsessive compulsive disorder, believing they cannot leave the house without washing their hands 50 times or something bad will happen. If we allow superstitious beliefs to dictate how we live our lives, they can do us more harm than good. Perhaps, most of us are inclined from the start to think there are unseen patterns, forces and essences inhabiting the world.

[letric]

Definitely not ....

[letric]

Sportspeople, for example, are very superstitious. In modern day professional sporting competitions there is a
lot at stake, so it is no wonder that footballers wear lucky pants for every match as way of ensuring victory.
Of course it is an irrational practice - they should have confidence in their own ability, not in a pair of pants -
but the power of suggestion is very strong and if the believe something will b ring them luck, it probably wil.

[letric]

The unlucky number thirteen, historians have put forward two theories as to why number 13 is
regarded as being unlucky. The first is a reference to the Last Supper where thirteen represents
the number of men present before Christ was put to death. The second explanation ref rs to an
old Norse tale about 12 gods who were having a party when the 13th person joined them, the evil
spirit Loki, who killed one if the gods.

[letric]

Paragraph 2111of the Catechism of the Catholic Church states that:

Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes.
It can even affect the worship we offer God, when one attributes an importance in some
way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary. To attribute the efficacy
of prayers or sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior
dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.

It took me several tries reading this through to understand the meaning, but what I think
is that if your religious rituals and actions are not matched by true inner faith and trust in Him,
then you are in danger of falling into superstition.

[letric]

Thomas Aquinas, who wrote that 'superstition is a vice opposed to the virtue of religion excess'
that is , beliefs are considered superstitious if the arguments and evidence upon which they
are based are not valid or verifiable according to scientific criteria.

[letric]

Thomas Aquinas, who wrote that 'superstition is a vice opposed to the virtue of religion excess'
that is , beliefs are considered superstitious if the arguments and evidence upon which they
are based are not valid or verifiable according to scientific criteria.

It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still
it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person
appearing after death. All argument is against it, but all belief is for it.

[letric]

As we grow up, we realise avoiding cracks in the pavement would not prevent us from losing our job, or our parents getting ill. The more a person sees they can act on reality, the more they will build self-confidence and the less they will fall back on superstition. Does it do any harm to believe in in these little magical rituals? At the end of the scale, people can develop obsessive compulsive disorder, believing they cannot leave the house without washing their hands 50 times or something bad will happen. If we allow superstitious beliefs to dictate how we live our lives, they can do us more harm than good. Perhaps, most of us are inclined from the start to think there are unseen patterns, forces and essences inhabiting the world.

This superstition is so pitted and hedged around absurdities that one would be tempted
to apply it to the Duke of Wellington's famous remark about believing anything, if it
were not so widely held.

[J lindsay]

I think superstition is really just the same as religious belief. But naturally for some the latter has far more importance than the former.

[Solachica]

So indie, how did tht fri 13th pass you?

[indie]

^ surprisingly it was jus like any odda day... no incidents on dat one. ah hope de nexx will be ok too