superstition

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Okay, here's a strange one ... my informant claims that it is unlucky to give someone a knife without some sort of recompense, even if it's just a token fee such as a penny. He can't explain what form the bad luck takes, nor even whether it befalls the giver or recipient of the knife. He thinks...

I saw the atheists excellent thread on the "paranormalists" winning, and the lamentable decline in to superstition which I'm sure we all oppose. I have a rather heretical thought, and while perhaps it should live in religion it's actually about "paranormal" beliefs, and their relationship to...

Hi everyone, I'm the guy who sent Randi the e-mail about the Korean pseudo-science superstition that an electric fan can kill you if you sleep with the window closed. First, it is a very widespread belief echoed by doctors, homicide detectives, the media, and even fan manufacturers themselves...

A colleague of mine is going to teach a class this winter. Theme: knowledge/superstition. Level: (Danish) highschool (approximately 16 to 19-year-olds). What would you recommend? Preferably articles, not long books. And preferably texts that can be accessed on the www.

I'd like to think I'm a rational thinker and not prone to faulty superstitious reasoning, but I caught myself ruminating in a decidedly superstitious way, recently, and it got me thinking about the inherent ability of us all to fall into irrational thought processes. There's been a few...

I watched something on Homo Erectus last night on the Science Channel which brought back the thinking I'd been having for a long time: why do superstitions exist? The show claimed Homo Erectus was the first proto-human to have faith in and fear things beyond what they had sensed to be real. This...

Man pays $215,000 for "lucky" phone number. Eek.

I'm so glad I don't care about the Red Sox. But these folks sure do. *yawn*

So I was talking w/ my wife last night and said something to the effect of: "Look at all that science has provided us. . . the food we eat, the imunizations we receive, the transportation, the weather predicting, etc. . . all these things are the result of science. What has supersticious...

OK, here´s the situation. I have a Spanish teacher here in Spain who is a lovely women, in her early thirties and we get on well. Overall intelligent nice person. However, yesterday she made some comment about how she was Capricornio and is stubborn and strongwilled (because of it?). At first I...