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Funny as balls: Christians vs. superstitions

Started by Martinus, July 13, 2012, 02:53:27 AM

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garbon

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July 13, 2012, 02:55:47 PM
s.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/friday-13th-searches-reveal-folks-not-worried-day-160509963.html

QuoteSupposedly America's most common superstition, fear of Friday the 13th has been good movie material (12 times), but this summer we're kind of—indifferent.

Maybe it's because we have better things to worry about. Searches on Yahoo! and Google for this day have been mild. Nonetheless, today's as good a day as any to check in on our fear factors.

These terms rank in the latter part of the top buzzing searches on Yahoo!

Friday the 13th superstitions
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th status updates—#fridaythe13th mildly moving as a hashtag on Twitter as folks post about not walking under ladders, having computer problems or stubbing their toe.

Passing on paranoia to the next generation: In the past 30 days, 38 percent of searches for "Friday the 13th" came from kids under 13. In general, youth 17 and under made up 43 percent of look-ups of that fateful day, although curiosity about that starts to taper off in your 50s—when you appreciate any Friday, even one wrought with doom.

Also, here's something intriguing about a gender divide: 71 percent of "Friday the 13th" searches come from males. Females have other things to worry about—maybe males who plot things on Friday the 13th.

For those who suffer from triskaidekaphobia, the fear of the number 13, next year will be tough. But the year ending in 13 will have only have two months with a Friday that falls on the dreaded number, September and December.
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Malthus

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July 13, 2012, 05:07:10 PM
I remember reading a museum catelogue (I have to assume writen by a religious believer of some sort) that made me raise an eyebrow.

The catelogue was describing some religious artifacts belonging to a precolumbian Mayan city, and it said something to the effect that they were covered in symbols describing the Mayans' "imaginary gods". I was thinking that was a very odd qualifier - aren't they all? I mean, it isn't as if other people's gods are *not* "imaginary", right?
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

derspiess

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July 13, 2012, 05:30:15 PM
Quote from: Malthus on July 13, 2012, 05:07:10 PM
I remember reading a museum catelogue (I have to assume writen by a religious believer of some sort) that made me raise an eyebrow.

The catelogue was describing some religious artifacts belonging to a precolumbian Mayan city, and it said something to the effect that they were covered in symbols describing the Mayans' "imaginary gods". I was thinking that was a very odd qualifier - aren't they all? I mean, it isn't as if other people's gods are *not* "imaginary", right?

So are you saying those who believe in God should pretend they think their own God is imaginary?
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

garbon

#18
July 13, 2012, 05:37:01 PM
Catalog sounds pretty condescending.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Razgovory

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July 13, 2012, 10:55:04 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on July 13, 2012, 02:32:39 PM
Christians vs. superstitions may be funny, but Martinus vs. strawmen is an old chestnut.

I remember when we kept having to explain to him that the Koran, Torah, and Bible were not written in the Bronze or Stone ages.  I think that finally broke through, since he hasn't said it in a while.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Josquius

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July 13, 2012, 11:32:57 PM Last Edit: July 13, 2012, 11:34:36 PM by Tyr
QuoteI remember reading a museum catelogue (I have to assume writen by a religious believer of some sort) that made me raise an eyebrow.

The catelogue was describing some religious artifacts belonging to a precolumbian Mayan city, and it said something to the effect that they were covered in symbols describing the Mayans' "imaginary gods". I was thinking that was a very odd qualifier - aren't they all? I mean, it isn't as if other people's gods are *not* "imaginary", right?
Ouch. Particularly painful considering the whole you shall have no other gods before me thing. No need to call them imaginary.

Quote from: Razgovory on July 13, 2012, 10:55:04 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on July 13, 2012, 02:32:39 PM
Christians vs. superstitions may be funny, but Martinus vs. strawmen is an old chestnut.

I remember when we kept having to explain to him that the Koran, Torah, and Bible were not written in the Bronze or Stone ages.  I think that finally broke through, since he hasn't said it in a while.
I was unsure upon reading that so checked up. It seems borderline. Just going off wikipedia here of course so completely unauthorative but it says Moses and the torah was 1300BCish and the near eastern bronze age ended 1200BCish.
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Razgovory

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July 14, 2012, 03:27:57 AM
Wait, you actually believe that Moses personally wrote the Torah?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017
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