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  • How superstitious are you?

    0 means "not at all superstitious," 10 means "extremely superstitious"

    The definition of "superstition" I'm using is from Wikipedia:

    Superstition is a belief in supernatural causality: that one event leads to the cause of another without any process in the physical world linking the two events.

    Examples include: belief in fortune-telling (e.g. astrology or I Ching), belief in fate or karma, fear of certain things or events such as the number thirteen or black cats, throwing spilled salt over your shoulder, belief that certain things or events are lucky (e.g. the number seven or a horseshoe), belief in supernaturally affected probability (e.g. belief that if a fair coin comes up heads ten times in a row, then the odds are not 50/50 that it will come up heads an eleventh time), etc.
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    0 - Not at all superstitious
    25.71%
    9
    1
    28.57%
    10
    2
    14.29%
    5
    3
    5.71%
    2
    4
    2.86%
    1
    5
    2.86%
    1
    6
    2.86%
    1
    7
    2.86%
    1
    8
    2.86%
    1
    9
    2.86%
    1
    10 - Extremely superstitious
    8.57%
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    If a coin comes up heads 10 times in a row then I update my priors about it being a fair coin.
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    • #3
      What if you believe that God acts through physical processes, but just not ones we understand? Would you count that as superstitious or not?

      JM
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      • #4
        Would you count it as superstitious?
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        • #5
          I don't believe in any superstitions, but I like to act on some of them for the fun of it sometimes. Mostly this concerns dice.
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          "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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          • #6
            Originally posted by loinburger View Post
            Would you count it as superstitious?
            No.

            JM
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            • #7
              Well there you go then.

              I don't know enough about the specifics of your beliefs about God to make the judgment call as to whether they're superstitious. In general, religious belief could go either way (e.g., if somebody said that God listened to their prayers when they played craps, then I would say that they were superstitious).
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              • #8
                On an emotional level I am very superstitious. It's more fun that way. On an intellectual level I am not superstitious at all so far as I can tell, but I'd be surprised if at least some of those truths I accept aren't just superstitions themselves.

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                • #9
                  I'll go with 3, as an acceptance of karma.
                  Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
                  "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
                  He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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                  • #10
                    I wanted to say "not at all", but I sometimes notice it when it's friday the 13th, so maybe "1".
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by loinburger View Post
                      Well there you go then.

                      I don't know enough about the specifics of your beliefs about God to make the judgment call as to whether they're superstitious. In general, religious belief could go either way (e.g., if somebody said that God listened to their prayers when they played craps, then I would say that they were superstitious).
                      Well God listens to the prayers of that person, though He just shakes His head and wonders if He should have promised Noah not to wipe out humanity again (I kid, I kid!!).
                      “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                      - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                      • #12
                        Religion pretty clearly fits the definition of superstition to the letter.
                        If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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                        • #13
                          According to wiki:

                          The French word, together with its Romance cognates (Italian superstizione, Spanish supersticion, Portuguese superstição) continues Latin superstitio. From its first use in the Classical Latin of Livy and Ovid (1st century BC), the term is used in the pejorative sense it still holds today, of an excessive fear of the gods or unreasonable religious belief, as opposed to religio, the proper, reasonable awe of the gods.
                          So, not quite if we are going by original intent.
                          “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                          - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                          • #14
                            So basically, it refers to all those unreasonable religions. Not a reasonable one, like, say, witchcraft.
                            If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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                            • #15
                              Not at all, and I plan on staying that way (touch wood).
                              The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland

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