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vvvexation) wrote2006-01-13 12:07 pm
vvvexation) wrote2006-01-13 12:07 pm
Friday (the 13th) Five
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altfriday5:
1. Do you follow any cultural superstitions (e.g., avoiding the number thirteen, picking up pennies)?
In a half-assed way that's typical of most of my beliefs. That is, I do all the things that are supposed to bring you good luck (or at least the ones that don't take too much effort) and try to believe they'll work, while trying not to believe in the things that are supposed to bring you bad luck. It's all a matter of believing the things that are pleasant to believe and not those that are unpleasant, in my book.
2. Do you have any personal superstitions (e.g. wearing a certain item of clothing to bring you luck)?
Not really. I guess it's too much work making up my own.
3. Did your parents have any superstitions? What were they? Do you believe in them?
Not that I know of. Certainly none that they ever mentioned to me.
4. Make up a new superstition and share it with us (who know, maybe it will catch on!).
Er...how 'bout this: When a bird flies into your window and dies, you must do a dance of propitiation (involving much twittering and arm-flapping) to appease its spirit or it will come back to haunt you.
5. Did you notice the date today? Does it affect you at all (e.g. make you nervous, make you happy)?
Not till I had it pointed out to me. It does make me mildly nervous, but I am valiantly trying to suppress this and I certainly don't plan on behaving differently than usual.
altfriday5:1. Do you follow any cultural superstitions (e.g., avoiding the number thirteen, picking up pennies)?
In a half-assed way that's typical of most of my beliefs. That is, I do all the things that are supposed to bring you good luck (or at least the ones that don't take too much effort) and try to believe they'll work, while trying not to believe in the things that are supposed to bring you bad luck. It's all a matter of believing the things that are pleasant to believe and not those that are unpleasant, in my book.
2. Do you have any personal superstitions (e.g. wearing a certain item of clothing to bring you luck)?
Not really. I guess it's too much work making up my own.
3. Did your parents have any superstitions? What were they? Do you believe in them?
Not that I know of. Certainly none that they ever mentioned to me.
4. Make up a new superstition and share it with us (who know, maybe it will catch on!).
Er...how 'bout this: When a bird flies into your window and dies, you must do a dance of propitiation (involving much twittering and arm-flapping) to appease its spirit or it will come back to haunt you.
5. Did you notice the date today? Does it affect you at all (e.g. make you nervous, make you happy)?
Not till I had it pointed out to me. It does make me mildly nervous, but I am valiantly trying to suppress this and I certainly don't plan on behaving differently than usual.