Rise of superstition

sufi

sufi

lala
we'll obviously we can be talking about conspiracy theories among other things but by 3023AD they will look back at us in our dark age of pandemic and war and tsk tsk at our juju-ridden behaviour

i suppose the "big lie" approach to politics exploits and exacerbates the trend - when cause and effect are stretched beyond comprehension humans just make funner stuff up

  1. what superstitions do you subscribe to,
  2. or what orthodoxy prevents you from saluting magpies, crossing yrself, throwing salt etc
 
william_kent

william_kent

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when I was a kid I was told to smash the bottom of the shell of a hard boiled egg just in case 'the witches' used it as a coracle

nowadays I leave them intact because why deprive anyone of transport?
 
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version

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I salute magpies for the same reason I don't say "Candyman" five times in the mirror. Just in case.
 
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version

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That Carl Sagan bit from The Demon-Haunted World started circulating online a few years ago.

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
 
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catalog

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Do you have any superstitions?

This might be a fun one. There's a bit in the AOS book where Baker is talking about how much of a 'thing' superstition was in Spare's era: "Superstition of one sort and another was also rife in working class London. People might attend Church, as a one-off event, not because they were...
www.dissensus.com
 
Leo

Leo

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catalog said:
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Do you have any superstitions?

This might be a fun one. There's a bit in the AOS book where Baker is talking about how much of a 'thing' superstition was in Spare's era: "Superstition of one sort and another was also rife in working class London. People might attend Church, as a one-off event, not because they were...
www.dissensus.com
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I was just about to post something here that I had in that previous thread, guess not much has changed.
 
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version

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Wonder whether anyone's developed any tech-based superstitions. There must be people who have certain tics around their iPhone or coding or whatever.
 
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DannyL

Wild Horses
I use the I Ching all the time so that's the most significant one. You could say that's superstition but it isn't because it works. It's more of a highly functional tool that we don't have a mechanistic explanation for.

I use bits of magic in various areas of my life tbh. The only constraint is time.
 
sufi

sufi

lala
catalog said:
Fold this iteration in

Do you have any superstitions?

This might be a fun one. There's a bit in the AOS book where Baker is talking about how much of a 'thing' superstition was in Spare's era: "Superstition of one sort and another was also rife in working class London. People might attend Church, as a one-off event, not because they were...
www.dissensus.com
Click to expand...
Leo said:
I was just about to post something here that I had in that previous thread, guess not much has changed.
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yeah maybe scratch the question if we covered that already :ROFLMAO:

this thread can be about what they will laugh at us for in 3023
 
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