<p>If so, what about? Stepping on cracks in sidewalks, breaking mirrors, black cats, taking the ACT on 9/11, etc? Just want to see if people on CC tend to be more logical. :)</p>
<p>I am superstitious solely because of my time playing football.</p>
<p>You know what’s really weird? I always seem to have extremely good luck on 9/11. </p>
<p>I’m only superstitious about opening an umbrella inside a room, breaking mirros, and black cats.</p>
<p>I wish I could be. I work for a photography company, so I have to open umbrellas inside on pretty much a weekly basis <em>sigh</em> lol. </p>
<p>I am only superstitious in that I believe I have to do good acts so that I don’t have karma bite me in the butt. I would suppose that’s a form of superstition.</p>
<p>^^Same, I’ve had one really bad Friday the 13th in my life but the others have been actually pretty good days. Though it could’ve been due to that fact that they were Fridays.
I’m not superstitious at all, except when I’m OCD (such as if if I step on the lines on the pavement with one foot I feel like I ‘have’ to step on it again with another foot, even if I don’t think it’ll bring me luck or anything). Like, there’s that same ‘I must do this’ feeling, but I don’t really believe that luck can be changed with our actions.
On a side note, I’ve always felt like I’ve been a lucky person. Especially when it’s something really small and random, and I approach it with an apathetic attitude and then it’s like, “Oh, well, sweet”.</p>
<p>Taking the ACTs on 9/11? That’s a first. Didn’t think a date connected with a tragedy meant bad luck. I guess that means every day is a bad day, since there’s probably a significant tragedy in history for every day. No ACTs on October 29!!</p>
<p>Personally, I’m not one to be superstitious. In my view, they’re rather stupid. You wouldn’t know about a superstition until you’ve heard about it, and then at that point you develop a fear of whatever that is, even if you’ve went against that superstition your entire life up till that point.</p>
<p>I believe in the paranormal, not superstition :x.</p>
<p>i try not to… but i kinda fall into the idea of butterfly effect… so if something crappy happens in the morning-it’s going to be a sucky day. If the day starts unbelievably great… something is prob going to come along to counteract that. Hmm maybe thats an attitude more than a superstition. ok i’ll stop blabbering now.</p>
<p>Not really. Many common superstitions can be explained as safety precautions (opening an umbrella indoors is bad luck because you’ll take someone’s eye out, broken glass isn’t fun to handle, walking under ladders isn’t exactly the safest way to go, large cracks can trip you) or as a response to association (black cats, full moons, #13). Other times, superstitious acts and items (particularly relating to sports, academics, money, or anything important) are carried out or worn because the person wants to feel as if he has done everything in his power to prevent failure and ensure success (an inability to differentiate between correlation and causation).</p>
<p>Many people have a poor understanding of pure chance. For example, some people stay away from internet pokier because they believe the shuffling algorithm is rigged when in actuality they are just used to the less-than-random decks produced by live dealers who will not always do a perfectly efficient job of shuffling the cards.</p>
<p>The majority of people also see patterns in places where they don’t exist, a tendency which leads to the inability to misunderstand correlation mentioned before. </p>
<p>Many of the rest of the superstitions can probably be described as a failure to possess all relevant information. Someone might knock their slice of bread to the floor and it lands butter-side down, causing them to think that they’re pretty unlucky when in actuality, bread has a higher chance of landing butter side down because it doesn’t have enough room to complete a full revolution as it falls from the standard height of many kitchen tables.</p>
<p>In terms of karma, it may be explained as a result of the psychological effects of your actions. If you do something good and it makes you feel good, you’re mentally more likely to downplay bad events and remember good ones. Likewise, doing something bad that makes you feel guilty will make future bad events more likely to stick in your memory.</p>
<p>In terms of actual luck, some people are simply more able to set themselves up for success than others. Games involving pure chance also do not involve lucky and unlucky participants, only statistically foreseeable results.</p>
<p>I find being superstitious to be bad luck, so I try to avoid it.</p>
<p>Usually i’m not superstitious: don’t care about opening umbrellas inside, or walking under ladders or broken glass or this type of thing.</p>
<p>But sometimes I catch myself on some stupid acts, like sitting in the same place on the room where I was sitting when my team won a championship to watch a game, or more recently, wearing a Spain’s shirt to do an important test.</p>
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Oh, so this is why people say you’re god.</p>
<p>^^Haha, good one.</p>
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Wow, calm down there. I was just giving a possible example. Jeez…</p>
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This is probably the most logically-minded post I’ve ever seen.</p>
<p>Absolutely not. Superstition is delusion.</p>