Are you obsessed with the # 13?

Question

My favorite and lucky number has always been 13. I think it's because I was boorn on Oct.13 and backwards it's Oct.31 which is a holiday I have always felt close to because of the dark power behind it and the dark power behind every Friday the 13th. So please tell me If and why you are or aren't connected to 13.

I love spooky things because I am a very dark person so I LOVE the number 13.!!

I asked if YOU were obsesed with the #. NOT SOMEONE ELSE!!!!!! BTW I don't care if a family member of yours was born on a friday the 13th. Also, I didn't ask if you thout it was lucky or not dumb a**es!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

I thought you may enjoy this, it is an extension of one of my previous answers.

Origins
The origin of the Friday the 13th superstition has been linked to the belief that there were 13 people at The Last Supper of Jesus, who was crucified on Good Friday, but no evidence has been found that Friday 13th was considered especially unlucky until the 19th century. The number 13, however, has a long history of association with ill-luck. It has been linked to the fact that a lunisolar calendar must have 13 months in some years, while the solar Gregorian calendar and lunar Islamic calendar always have 12 months in a year. Another suggestion is that the belief originated in a Norse myth about twelve gods having a feast in Valhalla. The mischievous Loki gate-crashed the party as an uninvited 13th guest and arranged for Hod, the blind god of darkness, to throw a branch of mistletoe at Balder, the god of joy and gladness. Balder was killed instantly and the Earth was plunged into darkness and mourning as a result. Both the first and last explanations, however, seem more relevant to the superstition linked to having 13 people at the same table during a meal. There is also another theory that Friday the 13th of October 1307 was the day that Philip IV of France arrested hundreds of the French Knights Templar to get their money for the French treasury. One other note which predates all of the aforementioned is that the first Passover seems to have occurred on Friday the 13th. The death of the firstborns of Egypt occurred on a Shabbat on the 14th of Nisan in the evening. But the Jewish calendar counts days from sunset to sunset so this would have been Friday the 13th in terms of the gentile reckoning of the days. (Exodus 12:6) Feminists have argued that because of the lunar year and Friday being named after a goddess in most European pagan calendars, the fear of Friday the 13th is a patriarchal invention, associating femininity with bad luck.
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So what is some of the facts behind these superstitions? Well, first of all, let’s distinguish between two fears:

1) Tridecaphobia – fear of the number 13

2) Paraskevidekatriaphobia – fear of Friday the Thirteenth

The first one, Tridecaphobia, stems from people who just plain hate the number 13. Period. They will go to all extents to avoid the number. I know a few of these people, and sometimes it gets to be quite annoying. One person in particular that I know is unbelievably superstitious. He won’t write a check out if it has the number 13 on it. He purposely avoids being thirteenth in anything. 13 does not exist for him. 12 then 14 does, but not 13. It’s not part of his vocabulary. Extreme, yes, but he has a phobia, after all.

Paraskevidekatriaphobia—don’t even ask me to pronounce it, but it’s quite real. People who have this fear will not go out of their house on that day (Friday the 13th), avoid sharp objects on that day—just avoid it all together. The whole day just doesn’t exist on their calendar.

Answer 2

Yes, my husband hates the 13th.On Friday the 13th,2004, he was robbed of $400.The police never did get the man who robbed him.Friday the 13th,2005, my husband was almost killed underneath a car while he was working on it.He came out from under the car and a woman in another car hit the car that he was working on.This past Oct,13,2006, he was in a bad car wreck and went to the hospital in an ambulance.It was a head on collision and thank God he wasn't hurt too bad.Both cars were totaled.

Answer 3

No, I'm not obsessed with the Number 13, but, the Number 13 is a paradoxical number which means death and birth, end and beginning, and change and transition. It is symbolic of obstacles that are standing on your way and must overcome. You must work hard and persevere in order to succeed and reach your goals.

Compare the above explanation to that below:

Jesus and His 12 Apostles = 13
A Judge and Jury = 13
A Baker's Dozen=13
You're an official Teenager at the Age of = 13

Answer 4

personaly I couldn't care about numbers, and 13 doesn't do much for me, nor does 31, but for you it seems to have sent you around the bend.
I think a nice trip to a nice shrink would be a good bet, or at least a little anger control. People are going to answer as they please,it's an open forum, too bad if you don't get just exactly what you want. We don't always get what we want.

Answer 5

No! not at all. 13 is just a number, a prime number and it falls between 12 &14.

Answer 6

No the only time that no is any good to me is at Bingo ha ha , and ofcourse I have a daughter that was born on Fri the 13th , she hates it , but I love her and to me she was a blessing , but other than those 2 reasons , no I dont care for the no

Answer 7

I have always said that the no. 13 was definitely not "bad" or unlucky....On many Friday the 13th's....I actually had good things happen.....so no, I have never been obsessed with any no...especially the no. 13....lol

Answer 8

I have a friend who was born on Friday, October the 13th and he had some really sketchy powers.

Answer 9

Do you actually know about Friday the 13ths? Where they came from?

Answer 10

My son was born July 13Th.And it was the luckiest day of my life.
Where I work, [hospital] there are NO 13th room numbers.
I don't believe in the 13th being unlucky at all..