If I am not mistaken, this year has three Friday the 13ths, which is of course the worst day to walk under a ladder while a black cat crosses your path.Superstition, like religion, is made up. Somewhere down the line, someone thought up the ideas that now so many horribly misled people believe to be true. Salt over the shoulder, not the right, but the left. Don’t step on cracks, and whatever you do don’t say “Nothing can go wrong,” because then it will go wrong. Then there’s Astrology, palm reading, and of course, breaking a mirror.What exactly is the difference between religion and superstition anyway? I have equated religion with mythology all the time (because they are in fact the same), but today I’d like to discuss why one might think Zeus is ridiculous, but crossing your fingers actually does something supernatural.As an aside, when my daughter was younger I used to make up superstitions, convince her using non-logic, and then admit that I made them up. I’d say the most absurd things, like “if you don’t kick a pile of the last snow of the season, you won’t have a good summer”, and she would believe it, and we’d go out and kick the snow, and then I told her I made it up. She felt silly, but then she tried it on her friends, who promptly complied, with fervor. She was amazed at the power of superstition — a lesson which stuck with her.
While continually embarrassing himself with his ongoing pseudointelectual bullshit, What lays yet another egg:
“You know very well that I do not hate Jews yet you persist.”
Okay, What, the spotlight is yours. Say something about the contribution of Israel to the West, economically, finacially, otherwise.
Then, explain to Dave how he is obligated to tell the world about Bernie Madoff, and why.
Then tell us about the Zionist conspiracy and what it hopes to achieve. While you’re at it, explain why the Zionists recruited Muslim extremists and destroyed the two towers.
Lastly, explain to us how the fact that you don’t believe that god exists has elevated you above earthworms.
NeoWolfe