(December 2, 2008 at 10:57 am)Daystar Wrote:There are perfectly logical explanations for all of those events. Simply put, people believed them for so long that they become ingrained into our minds as bad things. You do eventually grow out of them though.(December 2, 2008 at 4:59 am)Tiberius Wrote:(December 1, 2008 at 11:40 pm)Daystar Wrote: To me superstitious is fear based upon ignorance. That I don't have and was surprised to learn that many atheists do.Could you explain what "fear" atheists have that is based on ignorance?
I'm not talking about a fear in atheists in general, I'm just saying that all of the atheists I know seem to have superstitions like not opening an umberella indoors or good luck shirts things of that nature. Friday the 13th etc.
Another example is of dice rolling. For a seemingly "bizarre" reason, people always think the number 6 on a dice is the least likely throw, even though it has an equal chance of appearing. The reason for this is based in our dice games where 6 is the best number to throw, and therefore we think it to be "very lucky" to throw a 6 (because we gain the most). The "least likely" thing stems from rolling two dice where the highest value (12) is gained by rolling 2 sixes, and the chance of that happening is indeed very small (1/36).
