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.
Teammarty
Yes I can!
You had just called ga4ry a bigot, and I was just wondering what your honest opinion of Muslims was. Remember, you can lie to all of us, but you cannot lie to yourself.
Yet again, What insists on making a total asshole of himself:
” I was talking about schizoid personality trait”
And yes, that was what I was talking about too, and you can bounce around like a superball, but the fact still remains that you haven’t a clue what the fuck you are talking about. As always. Schizoid behavior has to do with loss of interest in one’s life and a trend toward alienation of the the world at large. You on the other hand show trend toward pretending to be someone you are not. A total fraud. A jew hating low life skin head waste of flesh. Correct me where I’m wrong.
NeoWolfe
$800,000,000,000 / 3,000,000 = $266,666.66
What you owe your government if you happen to live in the USA. Damn, that is a beast! Do you know any saviors that will magically save you from that much money? Oh yeah, happy late Friday the 13th.
NeoWolfe
This is what you wrote previously about what you are NOW claiming describes schizotypal personality:
You do realize that anybody here can google Schizoid Personality Trait (aka Schizotypal Personality) and verify that, as I claimed, the personality trait is associated with “magical thinking”.
Relevance denied. No soup for you!
Quantum
That’s what you get when you make a bunch of ill-advised tax cuts, start a war under false pretenses, over react to terrorism, and encouraged Americans to take part in a housing ponzi scheme. But most importantly – and I can not emphasize this enough – that is what you get when you forget that there are eight zeros in 300,000,000.
NeoWolfe
Since your magical … I mean free thinking brain is often unconstrained by reality please allow me to make one thing perfectly clear. I do not hate jews. I hate the Israeli government and those Israelis that support the apartheid and genocide of Palestinians. Plenty of jews fell the same way as I.
Can I take that to mean that you are willing to undergo a lobotomy?
Hahahahah, What, exactly.
I just saw Madagascar 2 with my kids. They had a good example of superstitious ritual coinciding with an expected outcome (I won’t elaborate so I don’t spoil the movie).
“What do I know” is living up to his name…
The TARP and recently rushed to pass spending bill will be more money then the USA has spent on ALL OF ITS WARS…
And that doesn’t include the next 2 Trillion that NObama’s tax cheat will present on Wednesday…
Any clear thinking, intelligent individual understands that the housing problems started under the Carter administration….
phreedm,
I noticed you ignored my question
What’s wrong? Nut not fall far from the tree? Can’t bring yourself to say anything nice about Muslims? I guess we’re all bigots in our own way, eh? Let he who is without sin…
Phreedm, what if that clear thinking individual wasn’t around during the Carter administration though….am I just to take your word for it? Also, you are very imprecise in the use of the term “Housing Problem” as if we’re all informed on what that means. So, I’ll assume that you mean that the ‘housing problem’ is defined as “banks giving people loans for purchasing or renting homes regardless of their credit history”….is that how you define the term ‘housing problem’?
You see. It is just not possible for a real person to be that ignorant.
Dave. Fess up. Who is the sock puppet?
Whoever is playing the role of Phreeky I implore you to please put a bit more effort into it. The following excerpt is just shoddy and unacceptable sock puppetry.
To play the role you have to build upon some, however small, connection with reality. Look, if your heart just isn’t into any longer I’ll understand but you might want to consider one last effort. Maybe the Phreeky character to go out with something dramatic – like a death bed conversion or he comes out of some sort of closet.
“What” dodges his psuedointelectual bullshit about schizoid behavior as follows:
“Since your magical … I mean free thinking brain is often unconstrained by reality”
Oh you must mean the brain that proved you were full of shit about the function of the frontal lobe of the brain. Or maybe you were referring to the part of my brain that exposed the smoke blowing out of your ass about schizoid behavior. Maybe you were referring to when I called you out when you accused Dave of being part of the Zionist conspiracy because he didn’t post about Bernie Madoff. Or maybe it was when your baby killing Hamas buddies failed to make my Valentine’s list.
But, as if to embarrass yourself to the max, you stated:
“Can I take that to mean that you are willing to undergo a lobotomy?”
If you weren’t an idiot, you would know that a lobotomy is short for “frontal lobotomy” (you remember frontal lobe) which is an archaeic treatment for rage. It has no affect on IQ. Therefore, after treatment, I would still be aware of the fact that you are a fraud, a jew hating, skin head, waste of flesh. Another “What” solution. Impotent.
NeoWolfe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_personality_disorder
For anyone who is curious about how full of shit What is and what a total sack of shit his psuedointelectual rants are refer above.
Here is what he had to say:
“You do realize that anybody here can google Schizoid Personality Trait (aka Schizotypal Personality) and verify that, as I claimed, the personality trait is associated with “magical thinking”.
You guys be the judge.
NeoWolfe
Neowolfe
You provided a link to Schizoid personality disorder not schizoid personality trait (aka schizotypal personality). You did this despite saying that you know the difference. You even made this post:
So you quoted me talking about the TRAIT and claimed your were talking about the same yet you provided a link to the disorder.
One question.
Are you retarded?
Well, What, I guess your inference is that “schizoid personality trait” is different from “schoid personality disorder” which they are not. Then you accuse me of being retarded. But, in your last post, you made this parinthesisized comment ((aka schizotypal personality). No, it’s not also known as, it’s a seperate disorder, and while you landed closer this time, the “schizo” part of the diagnoses is still the social separation. And belief in the supernatural is only part of a list of symptoms and behaviors that have very little to do with your average joe who has some culturally induced fears about friday the 13th or the 13th floor of a hotel, or actually reads the fortune in the cookie in a Chinese restaurant.
But, instead of doing what Dave did, in the thread about government mandated atheism, where he thanked those who corrected him on his mistaken use of a single word, you proved that a Jew is ten times the man you are by turning into an asshole, defending your stupidity, and offering lobotomies. Are you done embarrassing the Arien race, yet?
NeoWolfe
NeoWolfe
That’s some backpedaling your doing there. LOL
I asked What:
” Are you done embarrassing the Arien race, yet?”
to which he answered:
“That’s some backpedaling your doing there. LOL”
I guess I can take that as a “NO”. What’s the right word? Sad? Pathetic? Ridiculous? Wait, I have it, “Fraud, Jew hating, skin head, waste of flesh.”
NeoWolfe
NeoWolfe
You know very well that I do not hate Jews yet you persist. No matter how loudly you scream it wont make it true. Such is the case with the rest of your magical combination of grandiosity and ignorance.
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