Do Superstitions Influence Your Daily Choices?

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In summary, The person has no superstitious beliefs or habits, but does have a lucky shirt and a piggy bank. The person's luck has been going well today, but they fear their luck may run out later in the day.
  • #36
Agorophobia means, literally, "fear of the market place".

The definition included fear of open places, but maybe that means crowded open places?

I like this one: Phagophobia- Fear of swallowing or of eating or of being eaten.

Unless swimming in the ocean or visiting the Zoo, how can one fear being eaten?
 
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  • #37
Two words:

"Hello Clarice."
 
  • #38
zoobyshoe said:
Two words:

"Hello Clarice."


Yikes!

Okay, I can see that.
 
  • #39
stoned said:
i have been riding my bicycle today and black cat crossed my path...i'm ok :smile:

One of my neighbors has a black cat that they allow to roam freely, thus my path is crossed by a black cat on a fairly regular basis. Might explain a lot. :rolleyes:
 
  • #40
OK, we're both somewhat off the mark about agoraphobia but you may be closer than me:

"Anxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult (or embarrasing) or in which help may not be available in the event of having an unexpected or situationally predisposed Panic Attack or panic-like symptoms. Agoraphobic fears typically involve characteristic clusters of situations that include being outside the home alone; being in a crowd or standing in a line; being on a bridge; and traveling in a bus, train, or automobile."

That's from the DSM-IV.
 
  • #41
Well, whatever the name, as ShawnD said, it is a very uncomfortable feeling. And it was so strange since nothing like this ever happened before or since.

What do you call a fear of people who play banjos; esp Dualing Banjos?
 
  • #42
Ivan Seeking said:
What do you call a fear of people who play banjos; esp Dualing Banjos?
Normal? :rolleyes: :biggrin:
 
  • #43
Ivan Seeking said:
What do you call a fear of people who play banjos; esp Dualing Banjos?
Jimbobbubaphobia
 
  • #44
Moonbear said:
Normal? :rolleyes: :biggrin:
If they've seen "Deliverance"
 
  • #45
Huckleberry said:
The left hand has a bad reputation in history. This stigma developed long ago, before the invention of toilet paper.

Btw, in case anyone missed this, left turns in the U.S. are more dangerous than right turns, and the opposite is true for the U.K. - this since you have to cross traffic to make the turn. So this is not a matter of superstition.
 
  • #46
It is when you can only make left turns
 
  • #47
Huckleberry said:
It is when you can only make left turns

Well, that may be an extreme reaction, but it may not seem so if you've been in a bad accident. And as I said, this was considered a reasonable response to the statistics [the opposite situation of course] by at least one large U.S. auto company.
 
  • #48
haha talk about a bad day.
Well I have no superstitions about friday the 13th, but it was one of those days on Friday.
There was a burst water-main on the freeway to the city which turned a 20 minute drive into almost a 3 hour drive.
As well as this the water ran through the underground parking lots and my brother's car was severely damaged.
 
  • #49
Well, the bad luck is over guys....it's saturday the 14th!
 
  • #50
infinitetime said:
Well, the bad luck is over guys....it's saturday the 14th!
I loved that movie! Saturday the 14th staring Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentis. The only show on tv was the Twilight Zone, all channels, all the time. It was a funny spoof of horror films. :biggrin:
 
  • #51
Here's a http://www.scienceforums.com/showthread.php?t=2632 on Friday the 13th on April 13, 2029 when asteroid MN4 will has close to the Earth.
 
  • #52
Good luck or bad?

Niels Bohr said:
(Speaking of his lucky horseshoe) Of course I don't believe in it but I'm told it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.

I had surgery on Friday to remove a kidney stone (1 inch in diameter). All did not go well, but the stone is out and I am still kicking. Was it good luck or bad?
 
  • #53
Bad. good would've been if you never goth the kidney stone in the first place :rolleyes:
 
  • #54
yomamma said:
Bad. good would've been if you never goth the kidney stone in the first place :rolleyes:
But I didn't get the stone on Friday the 13th. I had it removed on Friday. The operation did not go smoothly so it was bad luck. But the operation did work so it was good luck. I think superstition requires a selective memory.
 
  • #55
Pre bad luck.
 
  • #56
zoobyshoe said:
Geniophobia? Fear of chins? I don't see the threat at all.
Then why have you never been on Leno's show? :-p

Ivan Seeking said:
Huckleberry said:
This stigma developed long ago, before the invention of toilet paper.
Btw, in case anyone missed this, left turns in the U.S. are more dangerous than right turns
What the hell are you doing driving around on a toilet anyhow?
 
  • #57
Danger said:
What the hell are you doing driving around on a toilet anyhow?
Because I can't make the turn to get out of the damn bathroom. :cry:
 
  • #58
which number Chinese people fear the most ? maybe 4 ?
 
  • #59
Huckleberry said:
Because I can't make the turn to get out of the damn bathroom. :cry:
You can always flush a couple of kilos of sodium and exit via the roof. :biggrin:
 
  • #60
Danger said:
You can always flush a couple of kilos of sodium and exit via the roof.
Where can I get sodium? Does it grow under the rim of the toilet, or maybe around the shower drain?

stoned said:
which number Chinese people fear the most ? maybe 4 ?
Four sounds like the word death in Chinese. And another unlucky number in China is 9413 which sounds like a chinese proverb which means 'slim chance of survival' or 'nine die one lives'. That's what google tells me.
 
  • #61
Danger said:
Then why have you never been on Leno's show? :-p
"Attention-grabbing" and "threatening" are very different things.

Interesting side note: I went to private high school with one of the remnants of the Spanish Hapsburgs. The famous Hapsburg chin was still in evidence. (Course the guy was half crazy fom all the inbreeding.)
 
  • #62
..."This event registered a 9 on the K-Index, which measures the maximum deviation of the Earth's magnetic field in a given three-hour period," said Gayle Nelson, lead operations specialist at NOAA Space Environment Center. "The scale ranges from 0 to 9, with 9 being the highest. This was a significant event."

...This event was forecast by NOAA as the result of a solar flare that occurred on Friday, May 13...
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2437.htm

:smile:
 
  • #63
stoned said:
which number Chinese people fear the most ? maybe 4 ?
Definitely if they're in front of me on a golf course. :biggrin:

Huckleberry said:
Where can I get sodium?
If your bath salts have real salt in them, just separate it form the chlorine.

Ivan Seeking said:
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2437.htm
Are you sure that was a solar flare? Maybe somebody lit a match too close to those New Zealand sheep.
 

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