A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: Do you believe our destinies are determined by the stars?
HOBBES: Nah.
CALVIN: Oh, I do.
HOBBES: Really? How come?
CALVIN: Life’s a lot more fun when you’re not responsible for your actions.
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1988-04-09)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/4081/
Carl Sagan was right.
NY Times: Couples Are Hiring Shamans to Keep Their Destination Weddings Rain-Free
Where #Ideology and #Opinion rule instead of #data and #evidence, societies move backwards into #superstition. Read up on Lysenkoism... #mRNA #MRNAVaccines #Vaccine #vaccineswork #Vaccination #VaccineSideEffects #vaccines
The #Christian #Fear of #Cursed Objects | Belief It Or Not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1iFSfoqR30
Some #Christians fear bringing #demons into their house on an object. Is that really living in #freedom?
A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
The Church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. Tyranny likes courtiers, flatterers, followers, fawners, and superstition wants believers, disciples, zealots, hypocrites, and subscribers.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious Society
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
Now give attention and your gowns refold,
Who thirst for fame, grow yellow after gold,
Victims to luxury, superstition blind,
Or other ailment natural to the mind:
Come close to me and listen, while I teach
That you’re a pack of madmen, all and each.
[Audire atque togam iubeo conponere, quisquis
Ambitione mala aut argenti pallet amore,
Quisquis luxuria tristive superstitione
Aut alio mentis morbo calet ; hue propius me,
Dum doceo insanire omnes, vos ordine adite.]
Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 3, “Si raro scribes,” l. 77ff (2.3.77-81) (30 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]
Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/77623/
#superstition : extreme and unnecessary scruples in the observance of religious rites not commanded, or of points of minor importance
- French: superstition, croyance
- German: der Aberglaube
- Italian: superstizione
- Portuguese: superstição
- Spanish: superstición
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In 1995, Carl Sagan introduced the concept of a "Baloney Detection Kit." This consisted of 8 tools and techniques for critical thinking and evaluating claims. Full quote at the link below.
Even back then, he saw our culture sliding back into pseudoscience and superstition.
AO THROWBACK - Some spirits are thought to be dangerous even by people who don't necessarily believe in them. https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/she-brings-bad-news-scary-slavic-household-spirit-called-kikimora-006776
AO THROWBACK - A particular genre of mythology has formed around mirrors, made up of traditions and superstitions within cultures throughout the world. Researchers have tried to get to the bottom of these legends. https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/mirrors-0016245
Happy anniversary to Siouxsie & The Banshees single, “Shadowtime”. Released this week in 1991. #siouxsieandthebanshees #superstition #shadowtime #siouxsiesioux #thebanshees
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" is a 1973 single released by #StevieWonder. The song became Wonder's third number-one single on the #BillboardHot100 chart and his first number-one on the #EasyListening chart. It won Wonder a #GrammyAwardForBestMalePopVocalPerformance, and was nominated for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year. This song was the second single (following "#Superstition") released from the 1972 album entitled #TalkingBook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp6hzycBsTI
In some stories the thunder demon Raijū (雷獣) nestles in belly buttons. To wake his companion, Raijin creates thunder.
The temperature often drops when storms approach, and such superstitions were a useful way to remind children to cover up to avoid catching colds.
savings tip
For Friday the 13th. The number 13 has its good and its bad. A lesson in Math, History and Superstition. #blog #writing #writingcommunity #sifaswriting #poetry #math #superstition
https://e8thespresso.blogspot.com/2025/06/poem-thirteen-good-and-bad.html
https://sifasevenwriting.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/poem-thirteen-good-and-bad/
Friday the Thirteenth
Fits into haiku so well
Superstitious thoughts
#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Spring #Summer #Friday #FridayThe13th #Superstition #Superstitious #Mind #Occult #Wicca #Witch #Ghost #Goblin #Warlock #Pagan
June 13, 2025
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #379: Flight 666 direct to HEL.
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#thingsstupidpeoplearescaredof #finland #finair #666 #friday13 #fridaythe13th #markofthebeast #superstition #metal #flight666 #strangebuttrue #aviation #denmark #webcomic #comics #wtf #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
-- Adam Smith
"Mathematical knowledge adds a manly vigour to the mind, frees it from prejudice, credulity, and superstition." – John Arbuthnot (1667-1735)
#quote #mathematics #maths #math #superstition
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