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Harry Guinness wrote:I don't have any superstitions as such but I'm heavilly involved in theatre so I make sure to say McBeth and Good Luck as often as possible.

I am such an ass!

When I was at drama collage one of our tutor's did actually break his leg the night before opening. Before the curtain when up someone said 'break a leg' and the whole group went into a fit of giggles.

Farlsborough wrote:There's a homeless guy who panhandles the park that most students walk through on the way to uni - my friend gives him a fiver on the way to exams so "God will make me pass" The lucky tramp has never failed him yet...

Karma is my superstition. I know it's all a load of tosh that if I buy a cup of tea for a homeless guy I'd be rewarded in some other way, but for some reason it always seems to be the case!

Now, if anyone wants to ask me a favour on a Friday, I'd probably do it... some of you might figure out why...

kolm wrote:Karma is my superstition. I know it's all a load of tosh that if I buy a cup of tea for a homeless guy I'd be rewarded in some other way, but for some reason it always seems to be the case!

Now, if anyone wants to ask me a favour on a Friday, I'd probably do it... some of you might figure out why...

Interestingly there are two original ideas of karma both of which have been misunderstood in western society.

There's the Karma Buddha describes. It's something he realized when he saw a man plowing a field and a bird following the plowman picking up bugs that had been unearthed. showing him that 'all is connected' and it has nothing to do with good or bad but that any action will have thousands of unintended consequences.

Then there's the Karmic wheel, whereby you do bad actions and 'bad energy' will shoot out across the universe eventually returning within between a second and a million years. So the only way to break 'bad Karma' is to not respond negativity when bad things happen to you.
If for example you get mugged and then get angry about it, your continuing the cycle started a thousand years ago when some guy you never met robbed some other guy you never heard of. The only way to respond according to Karma is to absorb the bad energy and replace it with peaceful good energy.

That's why I don't worry when I do bad things, karmic-ley its going to be someone elses problem.

Sometimes I have feelings/thouhgts that bad things are going to happen, and when they do, I almost feel as if its my fault. I feel terribly guilty.

Farlsborough wrote:[I also have started to use Sod's Law to my advantage - I noticed that, despite feeling like I spend my life in traffic jams, if you ever try to just focus for 15 seconds on sending a text message in the car* you can guarantee the traffic will move. So now, if I'm stuck in a jam, I'll try to text someone and ta-da...

Too true When my taxi is late, I know that as soon as I light a smoke it will arrive and I will have wasted a cigarette.

Never fails - even if I have to smoke a boxfull

I have a family member who has a morbid fear of the number 13, whereas I have a fascination with it, which leads to very um eventfull family gatherings. As far as lucky trinketts go, I have a huge inverted cross my ex bought me that seems to bring me horrible luck, but I wear it for shock value anyway. And I used to own a necklace I bought at a Behemoth show that brought me a great deal of good luck, but it has since been stolen.

no such thing as luck I'm afraid - its all random...

its only the attributing of either good or bad to different objects, or notions that give it any power...

george carlin said "pray to god for a week asking for stuff to happen...then do the same for a week praying to the sun...pretty much the same level of success for both..." I'm paraphrasing obviously....

yes I have his whole box set. Such a shame to see him go. His death proves justice is a thing of the past as well. There are many whom I firmly believe should've gone first

IAIN wrote:no such thing as luck I'm afraid - its all random...

its only the attributing of either good or bad to different objects, or notions that give it any power...

george carlin said "pray to god for a week asking for stuff to happen...then do the same for a week praying to the sun...pretty much the same level of success for both..." I'm paraphrasing obviously....

I do agree with you on that, but it's fascinating how a person's upbringing can so strongly shape their thoughts and beliefs in adult life. Just look at religion. Derren Brown touched on this subject in Tricks of the Mind, as does Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion (in more detail).

Even though I know my superstitions are completely irrational, there will always be a small part of me, somewhere in the back of my mind, that will hold back.

flaw07 wrote: I have a huge inverted cross my ex bought me that seems to bring me horrible luck, but I wear it for shock value anyway. And I used to own a necklace I bought at a Behemoth show that brought me a great deal of good luck, but it has since been stolen.

Do you know who else has an inverted cross?


























Not so satanic after all eh?

IAIN wrote:george carlin said "pray to god for a week asking for stuff to happen...then do the same for a week praying to the sun...pretty much the same level of success for both..." I'm paraphrasing obviously....

He actually only worshipped the sun. He prayed to Joe Peschi(sp)

Also, what makes my cross such an issue with most people is that there is a pentagram on the center. Otherwise it wouldnt be as bad I don't think

Dont look for 37 its everywer

Jean Eugene Roberts wrote:
Do you know who else has an inverted cross?



Not so satanic after all eh?

Hi Jean,

That cross on the popes throne is nothing to do with satanic things , it is the cross of Saint Peter the 1st pope - whom was crucified upsidedown at his own request apparently!!! I can see why some would think it could be satanic.


As for superstitions, the number 13 is a very lucky number for me - I always seem to win when im backing the number 13 in a race or roulette table

I think that this is the best superstition around http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0SE

Replicant wrote:it's fascinating how a person's upbringing can so strongly shape their thoughts and beliefs in adult life. Just look at religion. Derren Brown touched on this subject in Tricks of the Mind, as does Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion (in more detail).

It is indeed fascinating - of course, Derren and Dawkins, being such enlightened beings, have in fact transcended their own world views and now comment on these things from an objective, "scientific" and unhindered perspective...

As for the upside-down cross thing, it's funny how many people don't know about St. Peter and the Petrine cross. Nothing satanic about it.

caffa wrote:Hi Jean,

That cross on the popes throne is nothing to do with satanic things , it is the cross of Saint Peter the 1st pope - whom was crucified upsidedown at his own request apparently!!! I can see why some would think it could be satanic.

I didn't feel like going into another long drawn out thing about it after the Karmic wheel, but yeah, I knew about Saint peter's cross, its amazing what you can learn form X files.