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Superstition
« on: April 22, 2009, 07:55:27 AM »

When I quit WoW this morning, I stepped upstairs to fetch myself some left-over pizza. I saw.. It, sitting proudly and upright in my sink, atop a collection of lesser plates and cups.

The King Cup. My favorite cup, I had lost it over a year ago when my brother-in-law borrowed it. He left it in his car right before he went off to join the Navy. I let them know, as they accomplished their training and received stations and such that I'd love to have it back. We get along and all that, they're just forgetful.

But today! Today, I was finally reunited with a cup twice the size of any other! I eagerly cleaned, soaped, rinsed and hand-dried it.

Today was a day of destiny, and the path I had chosen.. I had chosen well.

So.. what little madnesses do you regularly observe?

While we're talking about cups, I know that everytime I serve drinks to others while getting one for myself that I have to carefully consider the color of the cup I get. Do I want a red color, for fierce stubbornocity, a yellow for subtle courage, or do I take the clear one, to indicate a peaceful passiveness and a desire to listen to others converse?

The King Cup is clear, but it reflects this as a cleanliness that all the souls of men should strive to attain.
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Re: Superstition
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2009, 08:09:47 AM »

Too many to count.  They're more like "compulsions," actually.

I should note that I'm also a baseball fan.
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Re: Superstition
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2009, 08:26:07 AM »

If you all think i am crazy after my posts on politics, talking about supernaturalia will make you actually start calling metal health facilities in the sacramento downtown area trying to get me put away.
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Re: Superstition
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2009, 08:28:17 AM »

I refuse to talk about any of my side projects in any detail as I am now convinced that discussing them will cause them to immediately fizzle out.
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Re: Superstition
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2009, 08:28:58 AM »

I honestly can't think of any superstitions I observe.

I hate the damn things.
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Re: Superstition
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2009, 09:08:47 AM »

I've personally seen a Shadow Person while walking down a road late at night with an old friend.

After seeing it, I asked my friend what he saw before saying anything at all about it. He described what I saw exactly.

Swamp Gas? Maybe. Electrical wires causing the sensation of dread/being followed? Maybe.

Then again, I know what I saw. I'm not looking to convince anyone about ghosts or whatever, but yeah.

I'm not superstitious. I believe in Karma, though. Mostly because I can observe it.
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Re: Superstition
« Reply #6 on: April 22, 2009, 09:22:05 AM »

I've personally seen a Shadow Person while walking down a road late at night with an old friend.

Oh, they're fuckheads. Totally harmless, but they seem to like fear in some abstract way. maybe it's aesthetically appealing or maybe they are psychic vampires, but either way they are fuckheads.

The human shape is largely incidental, as well. I used to see them as little reapers with scythes but they changed to yeti things and monster things after i stopped even reacting to seeing them. they don't show up so often now that i have told them i will fuck their lives if they waste my time anymore.
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Re: Superstition
« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2009, 10:21:46 AM »

The number 57 repeats numerous times in my life.  Not counting the ones I intentionally use, like my xbox account.  I have a prize coin numbered 1057 (okay that one might not count), two pairs of pants who had an 'inspected by #57' tag, a receipt where I was order 57, I have fond feelings for 57 Chevy cars.  There's more, spanning many years back, but that's all I can recall off the top of my head.

Of course, perhaps it simply occurs more often because of the fact I actively look for it.
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Re: Superstition
« Reply #8 on: April 22, 2009, 10:23:22 AM »

I have the same thing, only with the number 47. Started off as a kid when one of my brothers had it as his soccer uniform number, and he told me it was his lucky number and ever since then I was unable to not notice it or forget it.
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Re: Superstition
« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2009, 10:46:57 AM »

On an occasion or three during my childhood, I had faintly seen phantom clowns. A large red shoe walking around the corner here, a white face in the darkness there. Yet, unlike many others, clowns have never frightened me to the least. Leading me to believe that I am descended from an ancient dynasty of clown hunters, naturally.

When I view something such as this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ3D4CqHbJM

... I can only help think this:



:;-(: Who's laughing now, funny man.
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Re: Superstition
« Reply #10 on: April 22, 2009, 11:00:16 AM »

When I save a game, I save twice (that goes for saving documents on the computer as well).  That way I know that it totally saved.  I do this when watering flowers in animal crossing too--water the same thing twice in a row to make doubly sure I got it.  But I suppose those are compulsions more than superstitions.

The only truly superstitious thing I do is wear my special favorite ween shirt to exams that I'm worried about.  I always get A's anyway, so I know it can't possibly really be the shirt....but just in case...
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Re: Superstition
« Reply #11 on: April 22, 2009, 12:19:54 PM »

I always wear my left sock inside out for good luck.
Because one day I decided it would be lucky.
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Re: Superstition
« Reply #12 on: April 22, 2009, 12:25:13 PM »

Actually, my brother has a superstition that Friday the 13ths are good luck just for him, because good things always seem to happen to him on those days.

Your mileage may vary.
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Re: Superstition
« Reply #13 on: April 22, 2009, 12:35:05 PM »

Yet, unlike many others, clowns have never frightened me to the least.

Clowns don't frighten me, but I have the same reaction to them as I do to spiders, e.g. I'd murder them on sight if I could.  Stupid fuckers just piss me off.  Probably because they're just not that damn funny, or on the flipside, they're just not that damn scary.  Whatever the hell they're supposed to be at any given moment, they're not.
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Re: Superstition
« Reply #14 on: April 22, 2009, 02:02:39 PM »

Once you've spent a week in a military hospital from a brown recluse bite on your inner thigh that grew from a quarter sized purple mark, to a dinner plate size the next day, and the doctors tell you about the lancing procedure where they use a hot needle to remove the decaying flesh, you are justified to commit genocide on spiders.  I would go as far as to say I was justified in capturing them alive and dumping them into an old coffee can, never to escape.
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Re: Superstition
« Reply #15 on: April 22, 2009, 02:17:54 PM »

I've personally seen a Shadow Person while walking down a road late at night with an old friend.

I saw one when I was a kid. A big hooded one, tall and broad-shouldered, standing silently at the foot of my bed. Only its glowing red eyes were visible at first, but I distinctly remember a car driving by and lighting up my room with its headlights for an instant, revealing its silhouette, massive and almost bestial. That's about when I started to be afraid of the dark I think.

It's one of those things you want to attribute to a quirk of the brain or whatever, but sightings seem weirdly, relatively common, and I keep hearing about them in unlikely places. They're more common than the rest of the stuff I "see", in any case.
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Re: Superstition
« Reply #16 on: April 22, 2009, 02:36:49 PM »

I had no idea they existed in public knowledge at all until I, on a whim, after seeing mine, typed in "shadow person" and found that page and moreso an exact description of what I saw, down to the way it moved.
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Re: Superstition
« Reply #17 on: April 22, 2009, 02:58:47 PM »

ITT CONFIRMATION BIAS

I believe in Karma, though. Mostly because I can observe it.

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Re: Superstition
« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2009, 03:02:44 PM »

ITT CONFIRMATION BIAS

For a change I decided not to troll right out of the starting gate, but yeah, that's pretty much what I read this thread as.
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Re: Superstition
« Reply #19 on: April 22, 2009, 03:16:21 PM »

Hey, I'm not saying it's any sort of evidence. It's more of a "I may be crazy but at least I got company" thing.
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