The Side Effects of Endorphins

There is no discrete yes or no answer on this. We have rituals and routines, which sometimes can be confused with superstition. But generally, I’m not superstitious.

In his book Demon Haunted World Carl Sagan addresses things such as ghosts, goblins and superstitions. This quote summarizes it pretty well.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

Carl Sagen

So many revert back to their superstitious ways.

Certainly, I wear my lucky shirt or maybe I just referred to it that way. Rather than being a lucky shirt it is the one that’s the most comfortable or practical for the situation.

I have sat in too many math classes, and especially statistics. That doesn’t make me any smarter than anybody. It just allows me to understand math and the law of large numbers. Science doesn’t care if you believe it, it marches on as the basic truth.

 I add these words from the song I heard over and over again from the backseat of my parents car.

It’s certainly sounded great, but the words ring so true.

When you believe in things that you don’t understand
Then you suffer
Superstition ain’t the way, no, no, no

I’m in a bit in a hurry this morning, but I believe I’ve seen this prompt before and I believe I answered it and I bet you it was very very similar.

Which is superstitious in a way.

A very. small way