do you believe in superstitions? the number 13? walking on a crack break your mothers back?
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They say superstition affects people psychologically so that if you think its bad you'll feel everything is going wrong\n\nI heard of an experiment done on superstitious people that performed the same test with and without their superstitions present ( i think it was a rabbit's foot ) and they performed better with it than without\n\nand they ranked their feelings of the test a lot better when they had their placebo, it affect you subconsciously i think
899319
Here are some funny superstitions from Romania,my country:\nit's not good to whistle after the sun goes down because you can call bad spirits\nit's not good to point at the moon cause you'll remain with no fingers\nif a women is buried in black clothes she will return to haunt the house where she lived\ntouching a death body brings good luck\nit brings good luck to be hit by a bat
190624
Yes and yes.  On more than one occasion I have either seen, heard, or felt the spirit of someone who had passed.  A little boy use to visit me at regular intervals.  He would stand next to my bed until I would sense him and open my eyes.  He would smile, then disappear.  I haven't seen him since my second son has been born.  We smell smoke every time my wife's grandfather is near.  In our old house, there were cold spots that moved around the house.  Our cats would move around the spots like they were trying to avoid running into someone.  I watched two surgeries being preformed on myself and was even able to give details and repeat parts of conversations and actions of the doctors and nurses.
785731
i do belive.my 5 yr old neiphew should of got killed on his bike when his breaks went out goin down a big hill, he was screaming and i was praying + crying when he was about to hit our house'he stopped it was like someone grabbed the bike........ he had lost his mom 1 week earlier to cancer,,,,,,i do belive in angels and spirt guides,,,,,,,,,,,
147938
Mine are 1 and 3 which together are 13.  I was born on the 13th and everyone seems to think it's an unlucky number but I love it because everyone seems to stay away from it.  It always pops up, such as right now when I scrolled down for questions and yours was asked 13 hours ago!
607426
mine is simple. i believe in mother nature. i believe that there is a final resting place for souls if you will, but that you won't get there until you learn all of your lessons in each life. as far as the strength to carry on i just look out my window and see the trees and the animals.\n\nand as for the ghosts..yeah i used to see my grandfather in our old house. i'd be in my room watching tv or something and he'd float on by in my other room(i had two rooms connected).\n\nps-runningman i think he wants your personal reasons, not regurgitated words from a website.
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As a child the chandelier used to swing from side to side, and the radio would turn on by itself in the middle of the night.\n\nOne time on a camping trip I was walking back from the bathrooms at that moment right between day and night and I saw someone walk across the front of the site and stop behind a tree. So I figure one of the people is going to jump out and try to surprise me, so I pull out my flashlight, walk up to the tree, turn on the light, and there's no one there.\n\nOne time I was alone in a house, and I felt a presence. I looked at a mobile hanging motionless, and said, "If there is anyone else here, make the mobile spin." The next moment, the mobile began to spin.\n\nOne time I was driving into Ponca State Park to set up a large camping gathering, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. All standing there, clearly visible to everyone, calmly welcoming us back.\n\nOn another camping trip, we felt a spirit near the bon-fire. We had a ring of 40 tiki-torches around the bonfire. It was a still and windless night, but all the tiki flames near the spirit bent in. One of the people in the circle had a fancy camera. After the campout she went to get the film developed, and all the photos from before the visitor turned out, but after that all the film was blank. She took the camera in to be repaired. The repairman asked if she'd been in a nuclear power plant. All the innards were fried from electromagnetism\n\nMy grandmother died while my niece was in utero. After my niece was born, she would look up at areas where no one was standing, and laugh and giggle. We all knew that she was looking at gramma, so we never showed her any pictures. Finally, at about a year old, she could speak, and my sister showed her the family photo album. My niece picked out her photo and said, "That's Old Gramma."\n\nI do spiritual healing with singing bowls. I play the bowl in someone's hand, and feel the vibrations as they extend through the person, and can tell them where the vibrations are and what they're doing.\n\nI used to work with a Reiki master who could tell people many details about their lives while we were doing our energy work. Very specific things\n\nOne time on a camping trip, we created a psychic link which allowed us to keep tabs on each other without needing those family band radios.\n\nOne time, while engaging in on-line activities, a witch and I played a game of "where am I touching you" and we were able to correctly identify where and how the other person was touching from thousands of miles apart over IM\n\nFor a while, a friend and I maintained a karmic connection, and sometimes I would smell something, and call her up, and it was exactly what she was smelling.\n"Did you just make cookies?"\n"Was the dog just breathing in your face?"\n"Did you just disinfect something?"\n\nOften times when I'm driving, I'll see someone walking who doesn't look as several cars go past, and I'll look at the person, and they'll turn to look as I approach. Whereas people with the person (the ones I wasn't looking at) don't turn.
24950
No. "Believing" in a religion because you were raised to isn't really believing, it is more of just following tradition- and SOOOO many people do that just because of what it is. There is usually no belief involved, just walking a walk because that's what's always been done.  That is a lot easier than actually having to know/study/learn what something is and believing.   :-)
163641
Yes; healing, telepathy, telekinesis, prophecy, spirits, God manifesting, sequences of events that defy all odds.  My mother, one of the sanest and most loving people I have ever known, college educated, worked at the U.N. and with various embassies in New York (and I think Washington D.C., but I'd have to ask my stepfather) experienced even odder things.  She only lied to me once in my life (I never even suspected she lied, but I had asked a HIGHLY personal question that was NONE of my business, even as a son, and she corrected the lie 30 seconds later.  I didn't even suspect despite her agitation.  She could easily have not told me despite the embarressment it cost her.  She did so anyway.  She was an amazingly ethical person.  Yet, she claimed that she had frequently seen faeries as a child and teenager, as well as a number of other experiences through adulthood.  And yes, the family is a strong supporter of psychology and none of us take drugs or drink, or seek such experiences.  They just happen.\n\nJust one example, one of the minor ones: On a trip to Hawaii my family and my best friend's family were at the Mauna Kea Hotel.  While outside walking with his son, my friend, his father had a major heart attack.  The hotel is somewhat isolated.  We called emergency services.  Here is a list of the coincidences:\n1) A busy popular hotel (nearly empty during that hour, for no reason the staff could figure out and remarked on it)\n2) Elevator was there exactly on time for the paramedics (they remarked on the coincidence)\n3) A new hospital had JUST opened very close, vs. the clinic that was much farther away (we were told how incredibly fortunate that was, as he would have died.  They were blunt)\n4) No traffic on the busy section (ambulance people again commented on how everyone seemed to be gone)\n5) We were told he would not make it.\n6) Next day we were told he would never walk leave his bed.\n7) Next day we were told that he would probably recover in a several years, but only partially.\n8) Next day after that we were told he might recover in a few months, and they remarked that they were just stunned with his recovery.\n9) Within six days, he was out of the hospital, walking on his own, and within another week it was as if it had never happened.\n10) If it had happened at home, at the isolated location the family had chosen to live, he would have died.\n11) It even happened on the very tail end of our vacation!  We had a great time until then!\n12) He's still alive decades later.\n13) Here's the big one: We barely talk about it.  It's not that uncommon in my family.  \n\nThis is not proof, just one person's experience. At the same time, be very careful.  I encourage you to read "Flim Flam" by James Randi.  There is so much nonsense and fakery going on, and so few people know scientific method or formal logic.  But keep an open mind.  That's part of being truly skeptical.  I'm skeptical, because there are ALWAYS other explanations.  I've met too many people who claim such things, and ten minutes down the discussion I've realized that they just this side of an insane assylum.  Keep questioning, even as you explore the wonders we have all around us.  Don't be gullible, but never shut your mind to the wonders and magic we, as just people, can experience.
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Being superstitious is the only thing that will give you bad luck.  You'll do it to yourself!  I break all kinds of mirriors for fun and sometimes I line up rows of ladders and walk underneath all of them one after another in a room full of black cats running around.  I should be dead.. :)
820300
I also believe that if you ask for a miracle it will happen. \nI broke my back when i was 18 im now 38  twenty years ago. \nIn 2 years time.. i will be 40.. this is a big mile stone for me. \n\nI was told at 18 that by the time i was 40 i will be in a wheel chair. \nI was also told i wouldnt walk again. \nif it was .. Mind over matter. or a miracle.  or both. \nI know something higher than me helped me..  \nGot me back on my feet.. step by step.. year by year.\nI pray still today.. that i will make my 40th birthday.. walking.\nHappy.. and Alive with every moment that is around me. \n\nBlessings. ALD
867680
I don't believe in curses. I also don't believe in coincidence. I think that someone has it in for that family. I have no idea why.
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When my mom pass away...i saw her spirit at my job. No lie!!! I freaked out...she was telling me she miss me and to enjoy my life. she visits me every now and then so I am not scared. She passed away 12 1/2 yrs ago.
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No, I don't believe that bad things happen in threes. I do, however, believe that the human mind likes to look for patterns, and because of this saying, we tend to attribute things to this mystical saying when they really aren't so. \n\nAs an example, I was recently in the ER with a relative. There were two people being seen in the ER with serious, sports-related injuries to their heads. Both had to have CT scans and X-rays, and as I sat reading, I noticed that all the ER staff were talking about how there must be a third one coming in, because everyone knows bad things happen in threes. Well, sure enough, a parent brought in a child with a sports-related head injury. All the staff nodded, and they kept telling each other "I told you this would happen." What no one seemed to notice was that just before my relative and I left, a fourth person came in with a sports-related head injury. No one seemed to take any notice. I think that they were looking for a pattern of a threesome, and once they got it, they stopped looking for the pattern. The fourth patient clearly fit the bill for the bad-things-in-threes pattern, with one exception: he was the fourth. Being the fourth, he was overlooked. I have seen many instances of the same thing in different settings, I just relate this one because it is the most recent and freshest in my mind.\n\nI think our brains are wired to look for patterns in the world around us, and I think that discerning patterns is a main way in which we make sense of our environment. Because of the prevalence of this saying, and others, such as "Three on a match is bad luck", we tend to put special emphasis on the number 3.
514012
That is nothing but superstition. I have changed the name of my boat, departed on a Friday after eating split pea soup and successfully circumnavigated the globe single-handed. There are a lot of superstitions and if you believe in one shouldn't you believe in them all.
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I wondered if it was true that........\n\n1. If I stepped on a crack it would break my Mother's back?\nMyth Buster....Nope, I accidentally stepped on a crack and Mom's back didn't break! Okay, Okay, I actually got mad at Mom and stepped on the crack one time on purpose too, it still didn't break her back.\n\n2. If I didn't wear clean underwear if I would get hit by a car?\nMyth Buster.....I haven't checked this one out yet! That would just be too gross!\n\n3. If I made an ugly face if it would freeze like that?\nMyth Buster........Nope, I have made plenty of ugly faces and my face didn't freeze that way.\n\n4. If I didn't brush my hair if bugs would get in there and lay their eggs?\nMyth Buster.......I haven't checked this one out either. I hate bugs that much that I am too afraid to try and find out!\n\n5. If I told a lie would my nose grow?\nMyth Buster..........Nope, I have told my share of little white lies and my nose is still the same.\n\n6. If I swallow a watermelon seed a watermelon plant would grow inside my tummy?\nMyth Buster........No, and I was really disappointed in this one! I love watermelon and I thought it would be cool to have watermelon growing inside my tummy. As an adult I realize now that it wouldn't be too cool when it had to come out!\n\n7. If I wished on a star would my wish come true?\nMyth Buster.........No! Again, this one has been a HUGE disappointment to me. I can't tell you how many times I have tried this one and not once has it come true!\n\n8. If my parents really did have eyes in the back of their heads?\nMyth Buster.........I don't know the answer to this one yet. I know that they always seemed to know when I was doing something that I shouldn't be doing. My Mom could be cooking dinner and I would be standing behind her trying to sneak a piece of candy and she would always says "Put that candy back! It's almost dinner time." I am inclined to believe that this one might be true!\n\n9. If I crossed my eyes if they would stay that way?\nMyth Buster...........No, they don't stay that way, and it is a really cool way to gross other kids out and make them laugh!\n\n10. If I pressed my belly button if my butt would fall off?\nMyth Buster..........It took me a long time to try this one, but the answer is "NO"! I got up the courage to finally try it and my butt didn't fall off, it felt a little shaky, but it didn't actually fall off!\n\n=-)
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nope thats just superstitious stuff