Your Superstitions and Strange Beliefs - or how to ward off bad luck, wicked juju, and the evil eye

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Shidoen dijo:
Whenever I drive pass a graveyard since I live near one I turn down or off the radio. Don’t disturb the dead lest they disturb you.
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On a similar note, if you ever hear the "theme song" of a dead person, or their favorite band playing in public, you should pay attention.
Even with no supernatural elements at play, it's good to get in the habit of occasionally, consciously evaluating your situation and surroundings.
 
NoReturn dijo:
On a similar note, if you ever hear the "theme song" of a dead person, or their favorite band playing in public, you should pay attention.
Even with no supernatural elements at play, it's good to get in the habit of occasionally, consciously evaluating your situation and surroundings.
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I hope my theme song is Mr. Krinkle
 
NoReturn dijo:
On a similar note, if you ever hear the "theme song" of a dead person, or their favorite band playing in public, you should pay attention.
Even with no supernatural elements at play, it's good to get in the habit of occasionally, consciously evaluating your situation and surroundings.
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My father worked with wood and ever since he passed I sometimes randomly smell sawdust; I always say "hello dad" whenever I do.
 
Most of my weird beliefs stem from looking for positive omens rather than negative, I've got OCD or some bullshit so my brain is hardwired to look for doom everywhere. A lot of my spiritual practices have been about rewiring myself to see positive things and and give thanks for them rather than give in to Doomer tendencies.

For me coming across deer is always a good sign, since they're associated with Cernunnos. Incidentally, Cernunnos likes peanut butter. I don't know how to explain why. I've placed those seasonal pumpkin shaped Reese's on my alter to him and a week later I was randomly gifted a massive amount of more Reese's pumpkins. As a rule I always give Cernunnos the first Reese's from the pack.

When I come across tree branches growing overhead on a path I tap the wood as I'm running by, like high-fiving the tree spirit.

I do actually keep a cross necklace in my backpack and a pewter angel coin in my wallet, even if that's not my faith there still that superstition that they might provide some degree of protection.


Tetragrammaton dijo:
i used to have terrible nightmares growing up and nothing would make them go away. then one day i got a dreamcatcher during a school field trip i hung it up on my wall and after that the nightmare stopped. it was hard to believe at first so i took it down and hid it in another room and the nightmares came back. so ever since then i have kept it hung up and have not had a nightmare since.
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I still have a dreamcatcher on my wall that either my mom or grandma got me as a kid, I used to have terrible vivid nightmares and I think that in some way having it hanging there makes me feel a bit safer.
 
Nurse here, have always worked in the ends of healthcare where people are… Well, more likely to die. Genetic disorders, ER, psychiatry, lung problems, stuff like that.

It happens a lot that people are begging for help to leave this world. I have overheard a lot of my coworkers over the decades brushing it off with jokes, but I could never do that.

Someone is desperately begging you for help to get out of their pain and misery and you just make a gag about it like you expect a laugh track? Fuck you. I would haunt your ass if it was me.

So I always listen seriously and acknowledge peoples feelings, then answer something along the lines of “I understand and I would feel the same way if I were you. But I want to live, and if I helped you out of this world, I would be throwing my own life away”.

People accept and respect that.

I don’t want some weird anger-energy from a person dying in pain and misery attached to me.
 
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Swagstika dijo:
Nurse here, have always worked in the ends of healthcare where people are… Well, more likely to die. Genetic disorders, ER, psychiatry, lung problems, stuff like that.

It happens a lot that people are begging for help to leave this world. I have overheard a lot of my coworkers over the decades brushing it off with jokes, but I could never do that.

Someone is desperately begging you for help to get out of their pain and misery and you just make a gag about it like you expect a laugh track? Fuck you. I would haunt your ass if it was me.

So I always listen seriously and acknowledge peoples feelings, then answer something along the lines of “I understand and I would feel the same way if I were you. But I want to live, and if I helped you out of this world, I would be throwing my own life away”.

People accept and respect that.

I don’t want some weird anger-energy from a person dying in pain and misery attached to me.
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Is it gallows humour to cope with being surrounded by death and misery day in day out or is it just mean spirited jabs at the suffering? The former is an understandable response, the latter would make my blood boil so hot you could fry an egg on my shiny bald head.
 
PandaChai dijo:
Is it gallows humour to cope with being surrounded by death and misery day in day out or is it just mean spirited jabs at the suffering? The former is an understandable response, the latter would make my blood boil so hot you could fry an egg on my shiny bald head.
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I have never asked directly, and I don’t think I could get an honest, unfiltered answer anyways, so here are my observations…

First of, assisted suicide is legal where I work, but it’s a highly controlled and complicated legal process. It’s not like you can just haul a couple of needles out of your back pocket and go “If you wanna die, do you wanna die high?” (Bad Metalocalypse reference btw)

Second… I mean, someone is asking you to kill them. To become a murderer. “Mercy kill” or not, this is what you are the second you kill another person. This is not cool to ask a more or less stranger to do. Just think about it for a while.

No wonder some people get super awkward about it and reply something that isn’t very “correct”. Sometimes it feels like a defense mechanism where people respond like they purposely assume patients are joking, so they can brush it off instead of being forced to take it seriously.

Third, my observations are that the jokey-type response shows up more with the older coworkers.

I think there are two factors to it: First is simple burnout. If you get asked this on the regular, you just get burned out from having to answer it. It’s uncomfortable and overstepping so, so, so many boundaries. Second is that my younger coworkers are trained more to respect their own personal boundaries, and that’s a good thing. They react a lot more like, well, people, than some of the older coworkers.

That was probably an unnecessarily long reply for this, but, yea…
 
Swagstika dijo:
Third, my observations are that the jokey-type response shows up more with the older coworkers.
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Are they boomers? Because I have a strange belief that all boomers have lead poisoning until proven otherwise on an individual basis.
Once I adopted this mindset my life got a lot nicer because I stopped being upset or disappointed when boomers acted like boomers.
 
NoReturn dijo:
Are they boomers? Because I have a strange belief that all boomers have lead poisoning until proven otherwise on an individual basis.
Once I adopted this mindset my life got a lot nicer because I stopped being upset or disappointed when boomers acted like boomers.
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Not to get too :politisperg:, but this is a legitimate leftist theory as to why inner-city blacks are poorer, less intelligent and/or more violent; That they are still living in homes with lead paint that they are too poor to remove. Again though, this is one of those things I've read or heard somewhere many moons ago that may well have been scrambled a bit.
 
PandaChai dijo:
Not to get too :politisperg:, but this is a legitimate leftist theory as to why inner-city blacks are poorer, less intelligent and/or more violent; That they are still living in homes with lead paint that they are too poor to remove. Again though, this is one of those things I've read or heard somewhere many moons ago that may well have been scrambled a bit.
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Man, Africa must be choke full of lead...
 
I have friends that hunt and gather.
Apparently, at least for deer, it is good luck to casturate the deer and throw their penis AND balls on the nearest tree?
Is this normal in other countries?
 
I'm believing more and more than tempting fate is a thing. I've noticed that if I make an assertion like "X never happens to me" it often seems to happen almost straight away.

Yesterday I wrote in a thread about insects that I never kill them and today I unwittingly drowned a big spider in the shower.
 
Aiōn dijo:
I'm believing more and more than tempting fate is a thing. I've noticed that if I make an assertion like "X never happens to me" it often seems to happen almost straight away.
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I NEVER get one million dollars with no strings attached or negative consequences whatsoever!
 
I don't say "I wish" out loud, I guess on the off-chance that today is the day that something listens.

I also don't use the phrase "I assume/d," but that's because I don't want to give anyone an opening for "make ASS out of U and ME." This is a much more reasonable precaution in certain populations.
 
I'm pretty sure I have a guardian angel who hates me. I'm lucky and get bailed out a lot but everytime I make headway and do something morally fucked or overly egocentric in any way I get screwed over way more than I've seen from other people. Which sucks because in my personal life, I do have a massive ego. Why do other terrible people get to get away with things? Life isn't fair, so I should get to cheat too.
 
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