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Hey guys, it's Friday the 13th
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We're all gonna die!*
*You probably wont die.
So are you superstitious? Are you one of those people who calls in sick to work, or tries to avoid flying?
From wikipedia:
*You probably wont die.
So are you superstitious? Are you one of those people who calls in sick to work, or tries to avoid flying?
From wikipedia:
No historical date has been verifiably identified as the origin of the superstition. Before the 20th century, although there is evidence that the number 13 was considered unlucky, and Friday was considered unlucky, there was no link between them. The first documented mention of a "Friday the 13th" is generally listed as occurring in the early 1900's.[1][2] [3]
However, many popular stories exist about the origin of the concept:
The Last Supper which is supposed by popular Christian belief to have been on Thursday, with Judas numbered among the thirteen guests (Jesus plus his 12 apostles), and that the Crucifixion of Jesus which is supposed by popular Christian belief to have occurred on a Friday. However, Judas was not actually present for the latter part of the meal.
One theory, offered in the novel Foucault's Pendulum holds that it came about not as the result of a convergence, but a catastrophe, a single historical event that happened nearly 700 years ago. The catastrophe was the decimation of the Knights Templar, the legendary order of "warrior monks" formed during the Christian Crusades to combat Islam. Renowned as a fighting force for 200 years, by the 1300s the order had grown so pervasive and powerful it was perceived as a political threat by kings and popes alike and brought down by a church-state conspiracy, as recounted by Katharine Kurtz in Tales of the Knights Templar (Warner Books: 1995):
"On October 13, 1307, a day so infamous that Friday the 13th would become a synonym for ill fortune, officers of King Philip IV of France carried out mass arrests in a well-coordinated dawn raid that left several thousand Templars — knights, sergeants, priests, and serving brethren — in chains, charged with heresy, blasphemy, various obscenities, and homosexual practices. None of these charges was ever proven, even in France — and the Order was found innocent elsewhere — but in the seven years following the arrests, hundreds of Templars suffered excruciating tortures intended to force 'confessions,' and more than a hundred died under torture or were executed by burning at the stake."
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I don't remember a Friday the 13th ever being a negative thing.
Today's my last day at work, and I basically have nothing to do. Excellent. I think I'm gonna watch Crank and then The Sea Hawk with Errol Flynn.
Are superstitions ever rational?
I almost called in sick today just because I have a skull splitting headache, but I came in anyway.
So far it never works.
Super sillies.
Supercilious.
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Also no, I'm not superstitious at all
It's Tuesday the 22nd you gotta watch out for. No one ever sees it coming.
Should have just killed yourself. That always cures a bad headache.
Was said mirror located underneath a ladder and directly above a crack in the sidewalk?
I'll consider it.
Restin' on a ladder.
before, it was 'oh goodness'
'oh goodness' seems to be on the way out
then it turned into a stomach ache and i pooped and i felt better.
They can be, sure. Take Kosher food handling instructions, many of them make sense from a health perspective.
Tylenol works too.
To kill yourself by overdosing or to stop your headache?
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did you just call religious observations superstition?
ahahahahaha this is gonna be a good time
I can't. I'm getting blood work done this morning (to try and track down the source of my headaches) and I can't take or eat anything beforehand.
nvrmnd
What?
How is Kosher food handling superstitious?
ruuuun
GET TO DA CHOPPAH!
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one day when i was a kid when the class was going to church kids started playing "step on a crack and break the devils back"
the teacher said stop after hearing them.
fucking traitor
But they don't taste as good.
RUN FOR YOUR LIIIIIIIIIIFE!
Knob, besides the "olo deaconblues" factor, isn't it valid to say that anything you do to please some mythical guy up in the clouds is by definition "superstitious"?
I'm calling bullshit.
You're a funny person.
not to a guy who doesn't think the magic pretend man who lives in your heart is make believe
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THROW THE TEA INTO THE SEA, THAT'LL SHOW'M!