August 30, 2007

  • Superstitions; every culture has it, from Asian to Mexican to Americans. In many ways, superstitions became part of a culture and even goes as far and defines them in some cases. BTW, I hate superstitions. In fact, I almost hate them with a passion. I admit that back in the past, I followed some superstitions. However, I grew to realize how illogical they are, and how people are really silly to follow them. I'm okay with superstitions that are suppose to reinforce a positive attitude; like in sports, but it's the ones that project a negative outcome that bugs me the most. It's one thing to treat superstitions as a silly thing that you kinda follow, but at the same time don't really take too seriously. It's another thing when the superstition pretty much rules your life and actually changes your way of thinking just to follow it.

    I've come to my own conclusion that the majority of superstitions are based on two things, a scare tactic to make people do certain things, or an excuse to explain an outcome. A superstition doesn't explain a person's physical attributes A superstition doesn't explain winning or losing. A superstition doesn't explain events that happen. It's all just mind manipulation, created by some people a long time ago, that's just passed on to generation after generation, to people gullible enough to believe them still. I can totally imagine some old ruling powerful emperor that for a lark,
    told his people that they are not allowed to own two dogs, or they will
    be put in jail. One is okay, three is okay, but not two dogs.
    Eventually this goes down the generations of people subsconsciously not
    wanting to own just two dogs, because it might bring "bad luck."

    What's annoying is that when a superstition doesn't pan out, they will say that "it wasn't done exactly the way the superstition was suppose to go." What's even worse is that if a superstition happens that foretells bad fortune, people will only follow it as long as it's convenient for them. For example, there's this superstition that if it rains on a wedding, constant sadness will befall the couple. However, what happens if somebody spent months and weeks planning a wedding, and then it rains on the big day? Will they all of a sudden postpone the wedding? Heck no, because they worked too hard for it. On another note, some bad superstition for some culture can actually be a good superstition for others. See, how unbelievable superstitions are?

    I swear, I may hate superstitions, but I think I hate even more the gullible people who wholeheartedly believe in them a little too much. Own up to your actions people, and don't blame things on superstitions!

    ... then there's fortune telling, but I'll save that for some other time.

Comments (2)

  • haha but even if it's a positive attitude towards a superstition--what if that one doesn't pan out? if you're going to do away with one set, you might as well toss the other set out too?

  • I'm sure that most people who follow a superstition for a positive outcome know half-heartedly that it doesn't really matter. Take Las Vegas for an example, with people doing things a certain way because it's suppose to win them money, but in the end knows that it didn't make a difference whatsoever. More or less a harmless superstition, so I don't mind that at all.

    However I've noticed that superstitions that deals with a negative outcome are the ones that people seem overtly passionate about, and that's a problem to me. Going back to my Las Vegas example, somebody could be avoiding doing something because it might make them lose money, and then when that person loses money he is just going to blame it on that superstition anyway. Pathetic.

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