Friday Five Five Five

[ornoth]

Are you superstitious?

Very little, if at all.
 

What extremes have you heard of someone going to in the name of superstition?

I dunno. Not something I particularly pay any attention to, but I do believe that professional athletes tend to have the most thoroughly wacked-out superstitions.
 

Believer or not, what's your favorite superstition?

Dunno. Like I say, that kinda stuff doesn’t really sink in.
 

Do you believe in luck? If yes, do you have a lucky number/article of clothing/ritual?

I do not believe in luck, nor do I have any “lucky” tokens.
 

Do you believe in astrology? Why or why not?

Astrology, like most alledged fortune-telling methods, is very poorly-disguised hooey.

Basically, my feelings about these things are similar to my feelings about organized religion. If there is a creator or powers beyond current human ken, the likelihood is very low that they will conform to what mankind has imagined: Kabbala, the leprechaun, Linda Goodman, sheep entrails, Ouija boards, and MASH (hopefully we have some former grammar school girls in the audience who'll get that reference). We have invented that whole mystical mythology in our collective racial vanity; you can be sure that the reality, if and when we find it, will be quite different.