666

[CTU_Agent24]

How superstitions are you?

Will you go out of your way to avoid somthing you believe is 'Bad Luck',
I'll give you an example... Me and a mate were in Coles (Asutralian Supermarket) buying some chips and stuff. When we got to the ckeck out, the total price was $6.66. My mate was about to pay when i said "Hell No" and bought some chewing gum to change the price to $7.65.
I don't believe in psychics or anything like that, but I'm not going to directly do something that results in evil (Ha) or bad luck.

How about you?

 

[the monopoly guy]

The devil's number is really 616

 

[Death Magnetic]

That isn't the number of the beast any way.

I'm incredibly superstitious which really annoys me because logically it makes little or no difference breaking a mirror or walking under a ladder, however, I still act irrationally around these situations.

 

[puffbro1]

I'm not really superstitous, but I avoid things which are bad luck without thinking about it. Classic example is how it's supposed to be bad luck to walk in between the poles of a sign. I don't beleive it's bad luck, but I don't do it without thinking about it.

 

[flatearth]

I don't have any supersticions, my own cat is black and so on. If you want to reach for it, maybe it was the black cat thing that caused my mirror to fall on me when I was sleeping a year back. Scared the living shit out of me when I woke up to a sharp pain and a lot of noise. Actually, it was the black cat who accidently (hopefully) pushed the mirror and caused it to tip over.

 

[CTU_Agent24]

The devil's number is really 616

Yeah oxford university studied it and concluded the actual number was 616, depends on who ever you believe.
Here's the translation
"Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."
Does anyone know what this means?

 

[T3chn0s1s]

Erm... A score is twenty?

Oh well. I'm not superstitious, I'm just careful. Breaking a mirror IS bad luck, because either your ass has to clean it or you'll be stepping in it.

 

[poleboy]

I don't have any supersticions, my own cat is black and so on. If you want to reach for it, maybe it was the black cat thing that caused my mirror to fall on me when I was sleeping a year back. Scared the living shit out of me when I woke up to a sharp pain and a lot of noise. Actually, it was the black cat who accidently (hopefully) pushed the mirror and caused it to tip over.

Well... I was going to say I'm not supersticious but that's just freaky. Also, cats never do anything by accident. NEVER! They especially never misjudge distance and fall down by accident. They totally meant to do that.

 

[Ixus Illwrath]

I've never known where 666 game from aside from Alaister Crowley's insane rants nearly 100 years ago. If you went to Oxford and studied it and a more archaic explanation exists... I'm not about to argue that either.

My guess to it's origins is that it was demonizing all things 'old' roman in favor for a newer math system based on 10.

D=500
C=100
L=50
X=10
V=5
I=1

===>666

That, of course, is based on absolutely nothing, but I've always found that correlation pretty ironic.

Oh, and 13 has to be unlucky, as Dan Marino never did win a superbowl.

Breaking a mirror... very unlucky. now you need a new mirror and that costs scratch.

 

[ZacOfTheZombies]

Im a little superstitious . If Id gotten 666 anywhere Ild try to change it too.

 

[Brett Alex]

If you count karma (like very basic I do bad things bad things will happen to me interpretation of karma) as superstition then yes I do. It makes no sense what so ever and I constantly question it, but I still almost devoutly believe it. I think that its because I'm not religious at all, and I think deep down in all people, there is a hardwired notion that you have to believe in something, religion or not. This could be part of the reason some people are superstitious, to justify why bad things happen, because if you believe you have a chance of avoiding 'bad luck' then you don't have to face the thought that an accident could happen to you at anytime, no matter how many cats paths you don't cross.

 

[Integra]

I don't believe in superstitions on any level, and once spent a day walking under ladders and the like to prove to a friend that nothing bad would happen as a direct result of that - I then spent the evening beating them at poker :-D

Didn't smash a mirror though, that's just wasteful.

 

[rossatdi]

I use the expression "touch wood" all the time and actually touch something wooden where possible. All that despite being an atheist/agnostic.

 

[Shadowtek]

First, We postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass. If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass. So, at what rate are souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls leaving? I think we can safely assume that once a soul gets to hell, it will not leave.

Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for souls entering hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, then you will go to hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and souls go to hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in hell to increase exponentially.

Now, we look at the rate of change in volume in hell. Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in hell to stay the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay constant. Two options exist:

1. If hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter hell, then the temperature and pressure in hell will increase until all hell breaks loose.
2. If hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until hell freezes over.

So which is it? If we accept the quote given to me by Theresa Manyan during Freshman year, "that it will be a cold night in hell before I sleep with you" and take into account the fact that I still have NOT succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then Option 2 cannot be true...Thus, hell is exothermic.

(This was a study, I thought it would be relevant here. Enjoy.)

 

[EeveeElectro]

I was born on Friday the 13th at 6PM, weighing 6 pound 6, (666 ) so I'm basically just a walking susperstition

I do things like avoiding ladders or tapping walls sub conciously, almost OCD, heh.

But I wouldn't really say I am.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

I believe in absolutely nothing beyond logical explanation. I let my luck run its course, without fear of anything being capable of altering it in any way, shape or form.

On a side-note, I believe in ghosts.

 

[Eagle Est1986]

If you count karma (like very basic I do bad things bad things will happen to me interpretation of karma) as superstition then yes I do. It makes no sense what so ever and I constantly question it, but I still almost devoutly believe it. I think that its because I'm not religious at all, and I think deep down in all people, there is a hardwired notion that you have to believe in something, religion or not. This could be part of the reason some people are superstitious, to justify why bad things happen, because if you believe you have a chance of avoiding 'bad luck' then you don't have to face the thought that an accident could happen to you at anytime, no matter how many cats paths you don't cross.

Wow, I totally agree with everything you just said. I also have karma lodged in my brain, if I do something bad, something bad usually happens to me, probably due to my sub-concious bringing it upon myself.
As for the basic need to beleive in something, I agree with this as well, I don't think anyone could truly live with the notion that life is pointless and at the end of it, we all just die. Even on the most basic level, I'm sure that everyone has to believe in something that gives purpose to their lives. Which is also quite similar to your hypothesis for superstition.