I just looked at my calender and realized it. Today's Friday the 13th! And I've got a black cat. Gotta stay away from him today. Are any of you guys supersticious. How do you spell supersticious?

Checked it. Its superstitious. Which still looks wrong. Oh, and I'm not superstitious. I've got 5 lifetimes of bad luck racked up.

 

I'm not superstitious either. My elbows knock over everything, salt shaker included, regularly. I open umbrellas in the house. Momo is a very nice black cat, even if his teeth are sharp when he's bored. I've never held my breath in a graveyard. I drop mirrors - often. I don't think I've ever sent a chain letter in my life.
Today is actually a lucky day for me - my baby sister was born on a Friday the 13th; no complications.

 

There are things beyond our understanding. They ask for a few simple requests. To not abide by those request would be cosmically foolish and would bring mortal peril upon oneself unnecessarily.


HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND!!! :wink: :wink: :wink:

 

Superstitious? What do i care about being superstitious...now my parents on the other hand are superstitious...Me I'm going to hell so i do as i please.. :twisted: but no i'm not superstitious

 

I am not superstitious in that sense... Though according to quite a few of my friends I am ultra OCD about somethings.

And I have a whole set of "lucky" mannerisms.

When I played soccer I had my own unique warmup routine that I kept because the first time I used it before a game I scored 4 goals and had 2 assists (Basically I was involved in all 6 of our goals.)

Then the second time I used it we were playing the 9th ranked team in the state and we tied them.

I have kept it since then.

 

I got a phone call a 1:30am this morning telling me that one of my friends has just given birth. Fear all for the devil spawn is upon us once more, the fury of the child born on Friday the thirteenth shall soon be unleashed... well as soon as the little bugger can walk anyway.

 

I'm not, great poll options btw!

I think if you THINK somethind bad is going to happen to you, something will. You'll be too preoccupied with it, and you'll cause it to happen yourself b/c you're not paying attention, etc.

 

Well nothing has happened to me today so I guess it's all good.

 

I’m not superstitious either. Since I do my fare share of construction supervising, I walk under plenty o’ ladders. No salt, I’ve broken mirrors, I don’t even take another look at chain letter before deleting them and quite few more things that should have gotten me killed already, if I were to believe in it.

I don’t believe in any luck but that, which we make for ourselves.

 

there is nothing to be supertisious about. Unless you are afraid the pope would send the swiss guard after you.

friday the 13th started when a renaissance pope (forget which) ordered that a letter containing insructions to be opened on Friday,October 13. the letters claimed the knights of templars heretics (homosexuals, sodomy, etc.) and had most of them killed. Burned alive or crucified.

so unless you are a knight of templar,you have nothing to worry about.

i am not one. so i dont consider myself supertisious.

 

True...the knights Templar were slaughtered...poor poor knights. Why does the pope control any army?

 

Back then the word of the church was law. They didn't have an army, they didn't need one, they controlled everything.

The goddamned church is part of the reason the dark ages lasted as long as they did. Reading and writing were considered sacred and taught only by the church, leaving the populace ignorant, and locked in situations where they couldn't better themselves for some time.

 

Most nobles in the middle ages considered learning to effemante. The only reason any ancient texts surivied past the middle ages is because of the church. The Church ran on the idea "know thy enemy"

Most supersitions emerged from paranoia.

Alot of people say there was some hidden agenda behind the destrucion of the knights. The french king needed money and made some shit up about the knights. Pope belived him.

 

I heard about that. I don't think the French King got anything out of it, though I could be wrong.

I am not superstitcious of most things. The only things I can remember myself being superstitcious about is to never give a clock to someone. The reason is that my friend CzarCmir's (his nickname that he gave to himself, arrogant bastard) mom died of a disease that hardened her skin and her bones a month after see was given one. That creeped me out and gave me the thought that the chinese superstuction was correct. : shivers :

 

That's... freaky, to say the least.

That said, no, I'm not superstitious, although my grandmother is, and I am made to follow them. Which is bull, I will admit, but as long as she's content...

 

From this mixture of donations and shrewd business dealing, during the 12th and 13th centuries the Order acquired large tracts of land both in Europe and the Middle East, built churches and castles, bought farms and vineyards, was involved in manufacturing and import/export, had its own fleet of ships, and for a time even owned the entire island of Cyprus.

After Jerusualem was lost to Saladin in the late 1100s, the Crusades gradually wound down, and European support for the Order began to falter. In the early 1300s, a financial dispute with King Philip IV of France brought the Order to an end. On October 13, 1307, Philip had hundreds of French Templars simultaneously arrested, charged with over 100 crimes, and tortured by Inquisitors until they "confessed". In 1312, under pressure from King Philip, Pope Clement V officially disbanded the Order at the Council of Vienne, and in 1314 the remaining Templar leaders in France were executed, some by being burned at the stake.

(from wikipedia)

So there you have it. Personally I'm not superstitious but I don't go out of my way to walk under ladders or smash mirrors (simply common sense, surely, since don't want to myself or have things drop on my head)... and my cat isn't black. ^^