name your superstition now

**hpnfreak** · 08-02-2011 06:20 PM

I go first

Astrology

what`s yours?

**Mancon** · 08-02-2011 06:44 PM

-Walking under ladders
-Friday the 13th

**Puffin** · 08-02-2011 06:47 PM

I don't have a superstition now, although I did have a slight one for Friday the 13th a few years back.

**Zhaylin** · 08-02-2011 10:44 PM

Bragging/Boasting/Feeling that things are going well.
Though I'm not superstitious by nature, I sometimes worry about jinxing myself lol

**Arra** · 08-03-2011 02:08 AM

I don't think I have any. As soon as I realize I have one, I try to think about it until I convince my subconscious I'm being irrational. Superstitions are irrational by nature. I'm surprised anyone would get to the point of realizing a certain belief they have is a superstition, but keep it. As soon as you realize it's irrational, wouldn't it go away?

**Zhaylin** · 08-03-2011 03:34 AM

That's how I am with everything else, Dianeva. But I subconsciously very pessimistic about the future so I live in the present. Life has taught me to always be on guard and "wait for the other shoe to drop". As soon as things become really good, something bad happens. So I subconsciously live only in a state of almost consistent contentment. Depression sucks so I try not to think about things that make me sad but being too happy is just asking for trouble lol.
Is that irrational? Yep

But that is what life has taught me.

This is something that I only started to really think about a couple days ago, which is why I claim it to be/have been a subconscious behavior. Now that I'm away of it to this extent, maybe I can work on it.

**thespiz** · 08-03-2011 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by Dianeva

I don't think I have any. As soon as I realize I have one, I try to think about it until I convince my subconscious I'm being irrational. Superstitions are irrational by nature. I'm surprised anyone would get to the point of realizing a certain belief they have is a superstition, but keep it. As soon as you realize it's irrational, wouldn't it go away?

you would think so, right? or at least hope so, but just look at the success of the church and similar organizations.

**hpnfreak** · 08-03-2011 05:27 PM

guys

we are weirdoes who can summon flying zombies in valhalla

so more superstitions pls

**Ilumirath** · 08-04-2011 01:02 PM

I always sleep with my door closed, incase things "might come in uninvited"
Yeah childish I know. It drives me paranoid and I feel watched if I don't close the door while trying to sleep, and I will constantly be looking at the door way... Like I said paranoid

**Solarflare** · 08-04-2011 02:22 PM

i dont have any

**mooseantlers** · 08-04-2011 05:12 PM

Friday the 13 2001-2009

**DeeryTheDeer** · 08-04-2011 11:59 PM

The law of attraction/the secret (ie, don't think about bad things, or they might happen!!)

**Solarflare** · 08-05-2011 01:30 AM

Originally Posted by DeeryTheDeer

The law of attraction/the secret (ie, don't think about bad things, or they might happen!!)

i just remembered i do this too, except the opposite, when i was playing FFVII, i would think, enemies come NOW, and they wouldn't ^^

**hpnfreak** · 08-05-2011 08:26 AM

and no one is afraid of fortune cookies ???

**Jeff777** · 08-05-2011 08:34 AM

Jehova Witnesses

**hpnfreak** · 08-05-2011 08:37 AM

Originally Posted by Jeff777

Jehova Witnesses

**Zhaylin** · 08-05-2011 08:56 PM

BOOOOO, Jeff, BOO!!
*throws a tomato at him*

[I used to be one of Jehovah's Witnesses and wish I still was]

**Ilumirath** · 08-06-2011 07:14 AM

Originally Posted by DeeryTheDeer

The law of attraction/the secret (ie, don't think about bad things, or they might happen!!)

I have this kinda weird annoying and frustrating thing that's pretty similair. E.g. I work in a bakery and If I go with a bad frame of mind to my work my day will be shitty. If I go with a good frame of mind to work, I will have an even worse day (more misserable conditions (more heat or broken machines, ovens), way more work, much longer day. Wich sucks cos I don't get payed /hour)

Like I'm not allowed to ever do something and feel good about it

**Darkmatters** · 08-06-2011 07:53 AM

I don't consider myself superstitious at all. But at the restaurant I used to work at, if it would get really slow and somebody said "man, I wish we'd get busy"... then next time there was a rush we'd blame it on them - even name it after them. And even though I used to laugh about it and thought it was stupid and silly... in a way I really did believe it.

And I mean we'd get pissed off... like "DUDE!!! Don't fuckin' SAY that!!"

Ok, I guess technically that's a Jinx.

**hpnfreak** · 08-06-2011 09:10 AM

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

I don't consider myself superstitious at all. But at the restaurant I used to work at, if it would get really slow and somebody said "man, I wish we'd get busy"... then next time there was a rush we'd blame it on them - even name it after them. And even though I used to laugh about it and thought it was stupid and silly... in a way I really did believe it.

And I mean we'd get pissed off... like "DUDE!!! Don't fuckin' SAY that!!"

Ok, I guess technically that's a Jinx.

With the powers enstated on me, I officially declare this planet jinx free

**DeeryTheDeer** · 08-06-2011 09:17 AM

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

I don't consider myself superstitious at all. But at the restaurant I used to work at, if it would get really slow and somebody said "man, I wish we'd get busy"... then next time there was a rush we'd blame it on them - even name it after them. And even though I used to laugh about it and thought it was stupid and silly... in a way I really did believe it.

And I mean we'd get pissed off... like "DUDE!!! Don't fuckin' SAY that!!"

Ok, I guess technically that's a Jinx.

Naw, it's yet more proof of The Secret.