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Question of the Day! | by kickstart | 2006-11-19 12:23:33 |
| It's bad mojo to particpate in the upholding of |
by pecosdave |
2002-08-26 04:38:51 |
superstitions. I'll break mirrors and walk under ladders all day. If you look up the origins of most superstitions you'll see why it's so stupid to keep up with them anyways. The mirror one was because mirrors were so expensive, slave owners/servant masters made up the bad luck superstition to keep the servants extra carefull around the mirrors. Walking under ladders is just common sense, someone could get hurt. I'm carefull when walking under a ladder but I'll still do it.
When I was a kid my parents would force feed black eyed peas to me on newyear. I hate black eyed peas, I nearly puke from eating them, I wish I would have. They always told me black eyed peas on new years was good luck. One year I unplugged the crock pot with a lot of family over and they never could figure out why they weren't getting done. When I latter admited to it I gave the previous years force feeding as the reason. They of course conviently forgot about that, deny it, and still don't remember it to this day, but that was the first year I didn't eat black eyed peas on new year. In later years when they gave me a hard time about it I accused them of being superstitious. Of course the reply was "It's not superstition, it's tradition." then I asked "Then why do we eat them?" to which they replied "good luck" sounds like a superstition to me. If it was a simple little tradition I don't see what shoving them down my throat accomplished, I think the fact we were down on our luck motivated that, they wanted all their bases covered.
One minor note, the less attention I pay to superstitions or outright do the opposite of what I should do the better luck I seem to have. Hmm, maybe blatantly challenging superstions for good luck is my only superstition?
One of my friends dad reached a dillema. He ran over a black cat that was about to cross his path. It never actually accomplished the path crossing but he DID run over the cat. He didn't know if that was bad luck or not. |
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So superstitions are unlucky? :) (n/t) | by bugarup | 2002-08-26 05:10:11 |
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yep, that about covers it, | by pecosdave | 2002-08-26 05:13:54 |
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Well I should say it IS very bad luck!! | by cural | 2002-08-26 10:35:34 |
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