2006-10-13 07:50:25 · 11 answers · asked by stranger 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
no i am not superstisus in fact friday the 13 is my lucky day!!!
I am scared of Not Breathing,Poisonous Animals, and I believe that is all
2006-10-13 08:36:44 · answer #1 · answered by ~CS~ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Superstition has a way of creeping up on people when they're in a particularly vulnerable state. The sixth day of the week and the number 13 both have foreboding reputations said to date from ancient times, and their inevitable conjunction from one to three times a year portends more misfortune than some credulous minds can bear. Some sources say it may be the most widespread superstition in the United States. Some people won't go to work on Friday the 13th; some won't eat in restaurants; many wouldn't think of setting a wedding on the date. In the Western world a significant chunk of the population suspects bad things will happen whenever the 13th day of a month occurs on the day of the week called Friday. Like many human beliefs the fear of Friday the 13th (known as paraskevidekatriaphobia) isn't exactly grounded in scientific logic. But the really strange thing is that most of the people who believe the day is unlucky offer no explanation at all, logical or illogical. As with most superstitions, people fear Friday the 13th for its own sake without any need for background information. The superstition does have deep compelling roots however and the origins help explain why the belief is so widespread today.
It is said: If 13 people sit down to dinner together, all will die within the year. The Turks so disliked the number 13 that it was practically expunged from their vocabulary (Brewer, 1894). Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue. Many buildings don't have a 13th floor. If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck (Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13 letters in their names). There are 13 witches in a coven.
Though no one can say for sure when and why human beings first associated the number 13 with misfortune, the belief is assumed to be quite old, and there exist any number of theories all of which have been called into question at one time or another, purporting to trace its origins to antiquity and beyond. It has been proposed, for example, that fears surrounding the number 13 are as ancient as the act of counting. Primitive man had only his 10 fingers and two feet to represent units, this explanation goes, so he could count no higher than 12. What lay beyond that — 13 — was an impenetrable mystery to our prehistoric forebears, hence an object of superstition. Which has an edifying ring to it, but one is left wondering did primitive man not have toes.
Despite whatever terrors the numerical unknown held for their hunter-gatherer ancestors, ancient civilizations weren't unanimous in their dread of 13. The Chinese regarded the number as lucky, some commentators note, as did the Egyptians in the time of the pharaohs. To the ancient Egyptians, these sources tell us, life was a quest for spiritual ascension which unfolded in stages — 12 in this life and a 13th beyond, thought to be the eternal afterlife. The number 13 therefore symbolized death not in terms of dust and decay but as a glorious and desirable transformation. Though Egyptian civilization perished, the symbolism conferred on the number 13 by its priesthood survived only to be corrupted by subsequent cultures who came to associate 13 with a fear of death instead of a reverence for the afterlife.
People's fears today have much more to do with personal experience. People learn at a young age that Friday the 13th is supposed to be unlucky, for whatever reason, and then they look for evidence that the legend is true. The evidence isn't hard to come by, of course. If you get in a car wreck on one Friday the 13th, lose your wallet, or even spill your coffee, that day will probably stay with you. But if you think about it, bad things, big and small, happen all the time. If you're looking for bad luck on Friday the 13th, you'll probably find it.
2006-10-13 08:54:10 · answer #2 · answered by JFAD 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have no phobias, but there are plenty of things of which I am mildly or appropriately fearful (riding motorcycles, heights, death, public speaking). While I am not superstitious, I do find it an interesting coincidence that, in all my 44 years of life, I have only ever broken a bone once, and it happened on a Friday the 13th.
2006-10-13 08:01:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well while in a training class -the 13th such session,with 13 people in the class on friday the 13th we got in a car accident not serious thankfully but creepy all the same-true story honest!
2006-10-13 07:58:11 · answer #4 · answered by Duane Allman 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None...sorry, but I do live in Blairstown NJ, where Jason Voorhees lived...or lives, & Camp No Be Bosco (camp blood) is right down the road & where they filmed Friday the 13th. So, tonite, the town should be a hopping & the state police will be out by the camp...Fun, huh??
2006-10-13 08:00:08 · answer #5 · answered by fairly smart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm not superstitious of Friday the thirteenth. I even have some superstitions of particular issues, nevertheless. however the thirteenth on a Friday, isn't considered one of them. The humorous ingredient is, even nevertheless i'm superstitious of particular issues, i know whilst i'm being that way, i'm understanding at that ingredient, that i'm being a sprint ridiculous. yet i can not look to stop that feeling. form of stupid, i know. i assume that's what being superstitious is being approximately. (???) i wish that made sense to you because it did not to me. lol
2016-11-28 03:56:09 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am scared of cars driving like idiots and running over me on my bike.
2006-10-13 07:57:47 · answer #7 · answered by THIS.B.ROSE 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe in superstitions and false gods. I have firm belief in Allah (meaning the God, One and Only) and hence I do not have any phobias whatsoever.
2006-10-13 07:59:29 · answer #8 · answered by pathowiz 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I hate bees. They have the unfair advantage of flight.
2006-10-13 07:58:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oddly enough JUNE BUGS!! They are huge and fly in your mouth when you are screaming at someone!
2006-10-13 07:58:19 · answer #10 · answered by Karrien Sim Peters 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋