Superstitions

[Cock Throppled]

Why do superstitions still exist.
Most (black cat crosses your path; break a mirror/seven years bad luck; walk under a ladder) are harmless, and considered silly by post people, but what about the ones people seem to take seriously, and actually affect behaviour, and even projects?

It seems many cultures really take superstitions seriously, to the point of buying licence plates with certain numbers, rejecting, or buying homes based on the address numbers doing things only at certain times, or days and travelling on certain days.

Why? It is verifiable that all superstitions are pointless, and have no basis in fact, science, past happenstance and result, so why do so many people take them seriously?

 

[jgg]

I never walk under a ladder, the dumb-ass up there may drop something.

 

[sybian]

I once found four coloured small bags tied to a tree way out in the mountains.
They had been hung and tied with such care I inspected them closely, and touched one too see what was inside.
I never opened one, and thought they must mean something important too someone, so I left well enough alone.
I brought up my find to an Aboriginal Elder I know a few days later, and he asked if I had touched any of them....I said " yes I touched the red bundle"....."WHY?"
He told me I was going to get sick for awhile, while pointing his finger in my face...but because I didn't take them apart, it would pass.....a few days later, I got a lymph node infection that required hospital care, and cancer tests that thankfully turned out to be negative.
The next time I saw him , and he learned about my illness, he told me I had run across a protective offering from a native holy man , placed inside an Indian burial ground....I also told him I saw bones there, but didn't know they where human, and the birds and wildlife weren't there either.

I'm not that superstitious....and it may have been just a coincidence....but I know in my heart that he believed I would get sick....I give that area a wide walk around now....even my horse doesn't like it if we get within a hundred yards of that place.
If there is something I always listen too, it's my horses...superstition or not.

 

[westwoody]

^ Further to native stuff, I have never shared this with anyone because it was so odd.

I have a close friend who is First Nations and really serious about her spirituality. I am not into that so we simply don't talk about it.
About ten years ago we did start talking about "spirit animals". She told me all about hers and how she knew what it was. It seemed almost silly to me but I was polite and listened. She asked me what mine was and I said I had never thought about it, so I probably didn't have one.
She said everyone has one, so she would pray for me and "Tomorrow your guide will show themselves to you". She was very serious, as if she absolutely knew it would happen.
Next morning I drive in from the Perimeter of Winnipeg at the western suburbs to downtown.
Stopped at Portage and Westwood and see a bald eagle circling above my car, low enough to be unmistakable. Carry on down Portage and keep seeing it every time I stop at a light. I kept seeing it until Portage and Broadway.
I have only seen bald eagles two or three times in Winnipeg, to have one tracking me all that way was very strange.

I guess my guide is an eagle eh?

 

[sybian]

^ Further to native stuff, I have never shared this with anyone because it was so odd.

I have a close friend who is First Nations and really serious about her spirituality. I am not into that so we simply don't talk about it.
About ten years ago we did start talking about "spirit animals". She told me all about hers and how she knew what it was. It seemed almost silly to me but I was polite and listened. She asked me what mine was and I said I had never thought about it, so I probably didn't have one.
She said everyone has one, so she would pray for me and "Tomorrow your guide will show themselves to you". She was very serious, as if she absolutely knew it would happen.
Next morning I drive in from the Perimeter of Winnipeg at the western suburbs to downtown.
Stopped at Portage and Westwood and see a bald eagle circling above my car, low enough to be unmistakable. Carry on down Portage and keep seeing it every time I stop at a light. I kept seeing it until Portage and Broadway.
I have only seen bald eagles two or three times in Winnipeg, to have one tracking me all that way was very strange.

I guess my guide is an eagle eh?

Yup...it is, and an honourable one.

They call me Mato-Tohpay, it means the Great Bear.
Not because of my size, more about how quite a few years ago ,I fought four native boys all at once in a bar.
They firmly believe it's my spirit animal, to this day the young First Nations boys will walk way around me, and those guys where just children when that fight happened.

 

[Fullhouse]

Yup...it is, and an honourable one.

They call me Mato-Tohpay, it means the Great Bear.
Not because of my size, more about how quite a few years ago ,I fought four native boys all at once in a bar.
They firmly believe it's my spirit animal, to this day the young First Nations boys will walk way around me, and those guys where just children when that fight happened.

Gee Sybian, - aka Mato-Tohpay - it's hard to believe that you actually beat up 4 native children in a bar.

Who 'de h*ll would ever let 4 children into a bar ? :nono:

 

[Lo-ki]

Superstitions make the world �� go round.....

 

[badbadboy]

One I’ve never been able to figure out is if a bird flying overhead shits on you; how is that lucky?

‘Better buy a lotto ticket’

Thanks I’d like to get this crap off my jacket first.

 

[Cock Throppled]

We've strayed from superstitions, toward beliefs, but it's still all mumbo jumbo talking bushes, loaves into fishes crapa that religions are based on.

Superstitions might be religion-based. I don't know, but it would explain the illogical faith people have in both.

 

[Ray]

I think it's from an older time period when people were observant of things that happened, but couldn't explain why. So they made connections between seemingly unrelated items to try and explain why things occured. This gets passed down over time, through the generations, and you have todays superstitions.

 

[sybian]

Gee Sybian, - aka Mato-Tohpay - it's hard to believe that you actually beat up 4 native children in a bar.

Who 'de h*ll would ever let 4 children into a bar ? :nono:

No .....I fought their Uncles, and Fathers....I didn't beat up little kids.
I'm trying to explain how superstitious they can..

You know what never mind...yeah I beat up four little kids that should have never been in a bar in the first place, they're all terrified of me because of the childhood trauma I inflicted on them ,and they call be the great bear because I have bad breath, and I take a shit in the woods once in awhile.
Superstitious little fuc#%ers.

 

[Mrmotorscooter]

they call me the great bear because I have bad breath, and I take a shit in the woods once in awhile.
Superstitious little fuc#%ers.

Where’s a Rabbit when you need one eh!

 

[Fullhouse]

Yup......quite a few years ago ,I fought four native boys all at once in a bar.
and those guys where just children when that fight happened.

No .....I fought their Uncles, and Fathers....I didn't beat up little kids.
I'm trying to explain how superstitious they can..

never mind...yeah I beat up four little kids that should have never been in a bar in the first place, they're all terrified of me because of the childhood trauma I inflicted on them

Sorry for being so ignorant, Sybian, for misinterpreting your comments as copied above.

Obviously, I lost my head again - and talked through my ass - by assuming that you beat up 4 boys/children.
I'm lowering my head in shame, and I will be soooo embarrassed if we ever meet in person - marshmellows included or not.:sorrow:

 

[sybian]

Sorry for being so ignorant, Sybian, for misinterpreting your comments as copied above.

Obviously, I lost my head again - and talked through my ass - by assuming that you beat up 4 boys/children.
I'm lowering my head in shame, and I will be soooo embarrassed if we ever meet in person - marshmellows included or not.:sorrow:

UncleG and I will just give you the marshmallow roasting stick with the blunt....or the unsharpened end ,so nobody looses an eye.
Ive never heard of anyone wearing safety goggles around a campfire, but I'm seriously considering it.

 

[Lo-ki]

UncleG and I will just give you the marshmallow roasting stick with the blunt....or the unsharpened end ,so nobody looses an eye.
Ive never heard of anyone wearing safety goggles around a campfire, but I'm seriously considering it.

It’s all fun and games until someone looses an eye......then it’s a sport....

 

[storm rider]

My own personal superstition is this.....dont fuckin tell me to "drive safe" because the road conditions are nasty.I am not concerned about my driving skills.I am concerned about all of the other idiots that dont know how to drive.

SR

 

[Lady Companion]

While I don't fall into the category of having my own superstitions, I respect people with other beliefs.

We haven't even begun to scratch the surface of how our brain works, much less the Universe. I feel it is somewhat arrogant to believe that we have even the faintest clue of how things really work. Even if Science were to continue expanding exponentially, we would still no nothing, as a finite mind can never comprehend the infinite.

'Truth' is subjective, because it is dependent upon the comparatively miniscule sliver of energy we able to observe or perceive.

 

[Miss Hunter]

While I don't fall into the category of having my own superstitions, I respect people with other beliefs.

We haven't even begun to scratch the surface of how our brain works, much less the Universe. I feel it is somewhat arrogant to believe that we have even the faintest clue of how things really work. Even if Science were to continue expanding exponentially, we would still no nothing, as a finite mind can never comprehend the infinite.

'Truth' is subjective, because it is dependent upon the comparatively miniscule sliver of energy we able to observe or perceive.

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

-Santiago Ramón y Cajal

 

[Miss Hunter]

Something one of my instructors recently said was “whenever neuroscience answers one question, it opens the door to 10 more questions”

 

[grusse]

I've always thought it was bad luck to be superstitious.