Are you superstitious.

If you are religious, please vote yes :)

Not religious, but I must admit that I consider myself somewhat superstitious.

On an occasion like this, I'd like to acquiant you with a recent experience I had.

Yesterday I was sitting on the outskirts of Christania (a freetown in Copenhagen, known for a very liberal attitude towards cannabis) overlooking the lakes and canals, listening to Aksak Maboul with just a little spice in my cigarette. A strange guy approached me. He had long thin red hair in braids, dressed in worn hippie-chlotes, was old and wore sunglasses. He insisted I was some guy from Sweden and that he knew who my mother was. That was untrue. He asked if he could tell my fortune in cards. I agreed.

The first card I drew was the six of clubs. That apparently meant nothing less than death, and from what he told me, I could just as well commit suicide. That was a little disturbing, but then I drew another card.

It was the eigth of culbs. The digit 8 has similarities with the symbol of eternity, which, according to what he told me, overruled the death thing.

The last card I drew was the seven of diamonds. Seven is a mythological mystery number and apparently it was some sort of 'wildcard', it could be anything. And because of that he said that he granted me with an (immaterial) implant in my heart, that would guide me through the rest of my existance in the best possible way.

He then packed his his set of cards and vanished. He didn't want anything, no money no nothing.  

I'm not saying I 'believe' in it, but I'm somewhat grateful for my implant. :) 

I agree. Ultimately, I don't hold any beliefs. But the way my mind works, I'd hate to rule anything out partly because I consider it likely that the human mind is incapable of comprehending 'the world' in all it's complexities. 

Certainly, my attitude towards fortune telling is generally that it is a load of bullsh*t. Was it not for my spiced up cigarette, the setting and the attractive strangeness of the guy, I'd never have agreed.

I like serendipity because it's a nice word, unlike happenstance, which isn't.

 

 

Double oops.

Me.  And Rob.

I believe in God but I wouldn't call myself very religious.

 

Atheists and believers in other religions might see Catholicism as superstition.

 

The Catholic Church considers superstition as sinful.

 

According to the OP, whichever way I vote I'm either an hypocrite or a sinner... another of those no-win dilemmas!

Yeah, that was dangerously close to merging into your other thread. 

 

To (kind of) get back on topic... I like Salma Hayek because she reminds me of Penelope Cruz.

I see the paradox. But I really don't care about how various religions define 'sin'.

The second question is much worse. I'm not because I find dogmas repelling and hate the idea of 'organized' superstition.  Perhaps I'm somewhat religious in the sense that I can't really rule out the possibility of a god. But I don't have the need for one - so no, not religious. 

I'm emotionally attached to some hymns though, they remind me of dead people. And this is my favorite Johnny Cash record.

About religion and superstition. I find a statement like "I believe in god (be it any of them) but I'm not superstitious"  very odd. But again - it all comes down to semantics. 

The reason I invited religious people to vote 'yes', was merely to increase the number of yes-voters, so I wouldn't belong to (as I foresaw) such a large minority.  

 

anyway I'm religious therefor not superstitious.

 

I do believe in tarotcards because God has made those cards, since he created everything. and therefor it's not superstition, but an acceptance of the possibility to foretell the future through signs given to us by God, and those signs can be found in cards, dice, coffee and even in alcoholic delerium. Most superstition is based on actual facts, it can bring bad luck to walk under a ladder (imagine a painter above you having a heart-attack and falling on top of you and ending your life, that's bad luck that wouldn't have happened if you had walked around it).

 

anyway just rambling because I got bored.

Christianity, at least, views superstitions (like throwing salt over your shoulder for "luck") as much different from religion. No Christian would say Islam or Buddhism is a superstition unless they were trying to be offensive. A big difference is that prayer is directly asking God for something, and it may or may not happen. A superstition is doing something that will have an effect because of the arcane unexplained laws of the universe. I understand why an atheist would view all religion as superstition, but I hope you can see the difference between praying to a deity that you believe exists and trying to predict the future with tarot cards.

 

 

 

 

Magpie is officaly my favourite bird together with Crow and Raven, (becouse these birds have aprooven intelegence on the same IQ level as Shimps, Gorillas, Orangutangs, Dolphins and Cats)