Do you believe in superstitions?
By soulburn
@soulburn (414)
Romania
March 30, 2010 3:52pm CST
I hate superstitions because they make people do stupid things and sometimes restricting some persons from different actions. Salt,ladders,black cats,shadows, simple objects turned into psychological weapons made to ruin your day. Unlike religions,most of superstitions do not support the well being of the human spirit [ meaning morale ,motivation, and emotional intelligence].So a few questions came in my mind when today I was philosophizing about the topic :
Do you think superstitions are any good?
Name one situation in which the superstitions had a good or bad effect over you.
Do you think these things have a purpose?
10 responses
@frontvisions101 (16043)
• Philippines
30 Mar 10
I believe these things were created a long long time ago. It's when people are a little less knowledgeable about stuff and they form this equation 'if x happens then we should do y'. it's like taking a grasp about what they couldn't explain.
@frontvisions101 (16043)
• Philippines
30 Mar 10
i guess so. You can say A LOT of people never change..
@singuri (571)
• India
31 Mar 10
I don't believe in superstitions. I make fun of people who do so? But I don't hurt their feelings who have belief in superstitions. I make polite comments on their belief.Human spirits and other stuff looks like funny things to me because all of them depends on our psychological behavior. If we fear then they own us and if we don't we own the situations .The logic is simple.
@soulburn (414)
• Romania
1 Apr 10
I'm not always harsh but there are people ready to believe in anything. Sometimes when I was walking a colleague home, she stopped to watch a dog "parking his breakfast" because she thought it "brings luck".
It's pretty odd to see young people in 2010 believing in such things.
Cheers!
@ersmommy1 (12588)
• United States
31 Mar 10
No I don't. Some of them are just silly. Like the Don't walk under a ladder. Why would you do that in the first place? Common sense says that isn't safe.
@cream97 (29087)
• United States
31 Mar 10
Hi, soulburn. I have heard of many superstitions. One of them was about letting up an umbrella inside of a building. And the other one was about, walking around a tree. I used to get so scared when I had a superstition about me breaking a mirror or glass. I thought that I was going to have seven years of bad luck. I try to avoid these possible superstitions. I don't want to believe in them but sometimes I have no choice but to.
@soulburn (414)
• Romania
31 Mar 10
I am starting to think that some of these superstitions have a educational purpose too in some way. Especially the ladder ones. A lot of people die daily only because of ladders. I repeat : SOME OF THEM , because most or them are just plain stupid.Not so long ago I was thinking just like you ,-why taking a chance?- , but probably now I just don't care.
Cheers!
@homeshoppers (6166)
• Philippines
31 Mar 10
in today's generation i guess superstitions is actually a thing in the past where my grandmother and grandfather used to tell us. though theres no basis for this at all as all things that will happened to us will really happened to us and not because we failed to follow things from superstitions. i dont let that affect my daily life and if things happened to me then it will as its in accordance with god and not because of whatever.
@monkeylong (3139)
• Guangzhou, China
31 Mar 10
As far as I am concerned, I think I do not believe in the superstitons at all, which just can be a method to cheat people who do not have the science techology. I think if they know little anout the science techology, they will not cheated by the superstitions.
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
30 Mar 10
My grandmother is very superstitious, and I spent a lot of time with her when I grew up, so I often listened to her stories about superstition. She believes that it bring bad luck to walk under a ladder or open an umbrella inside the house. She is also very scared of the number 13, and she believes that a person from our family will die if we look at people's hands.
When I got my first apartment, the number of the apartment was 13, and my grandmother tried to talk me about of living there, because she thought that it was too dangerous. But I am not superstitious and I didn't care about the number, I was just happy to have found an apartment, so I moved in any way, and nothing bad happened.
