RE: Bad/Good Things That Happen Without the Aid of a Deity
June 9, 2015 at 4:20 pm
(This post was last modified: June 9, 2015 at 4:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 9, 2015 at 3:30 am)robvalue Wrote: Even someone like me who wanks over logic can see how easily superstitions form. Sometimes there "appears" to be a correlation between one thing and another thing, based on a sample size of 3 coincidences say. If the thing being "caused" is a positive thing, part of my brain starts jumping around and saying I must continue doing the same thing or else I might lose this advantage. I have to calm myself down and think it through rationally, and experiment to challenge my own hypothesis. When it inevitably turns out to be nothing, I feel stupid for having jumped to such a conclusion. But that's the pattern seeker in me.
I walk around the hitch three times counterclockwise before I put the boat in the water (part of an even more elaborate and gigglesome ritual, I assure you). This, of course, helps me catch fish. It's idiotic, I don't care, lol......imma keep doing it.
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