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Do you scoff?

  
 
bitchiekittie
23:00 / 31.07.02
magic, mysteries, superstition, religion, secrets, conspiracy - what (if anything) do you laugh off as ridiculous? where do you draw the line? is absolutely anything possible? or do you take everything with a huge helping of salt? or is there truly nothing youd write off, out of respect if nothing else?
 
 
Rollo Kim, on location
23:08 / 31.07.02
I've always wanted to believe that anything is possible - but I think it really depends on who you are talking to. It's very rare that I'll find myself talking about these kind of subjects with anyone who I feel is genuine o genuinely informed? The things that I've personally found that really 'ring true' for me - I find that they are incredibly, incredibly I say, difficult to talk about (I've been warned that this would be the case).
 
 
Trijhaos
23:12 / 31.07.02
I scoff at the people who don't believe me when I tell them that the earth was taken over by super-intelligent intergalactic pirate squirrels 20 years ago.

Actually, it's superstition, reincarnation, and conspiracies that I laugh off as ridiculous. Walking under ladders, black cats crossing your path, picking up a penny when it's not heads up. All that's silly nonsense. I've done all that and nothing bad's happened to me. When people go on about reincarnation, I have to stifle laughter because they sound so serious, "My therapist tells me that in a past life I was Charlemagne/Robin Hood/Lord Byron". People who believe in conspiracies drive me nuts. Look, for the last time, that isn't the world trade center on the $20 bill when you fold it a certain way. Those leaves don't look anything like smoke.
 
 
Rollo Kim, on location
23:14 / 31.07.02
Superstition - yeah - I think that's definitely a really unhealthy thing for anyone to get into. It's just a restriction. Someone recently told me it's unlucky to open a packet of crisps the wrong way up?!?!?! Come on!
 
 
Spatula Clarke
00:04 / 01.08.02
Maybe not unlucky, but it'd make a mess of your carpet.
 
 
Mazarine
02:38 / 01.08.02
There aren't any particular topics- but there are some topics, if being discussed by a particular person, which I find absurd. I guess I'm more scoffing at the people. That certain kind of person who's just read a couple of Llewelyn new age books and has decided that they see dead people, or that they can totally, like, read my mind, see into my soul and who think they completely know just what I need to do to lead a happy fulfilling life, with that wide eyed, vacant and shallow look... that just cracks me up and makes me want to slap them silly.
 
 
Turk
03:11 / 01.08.02
Shoe sizes.
 
 
Tezcatlipoca
05:14 / 01.08.02
Walking under ladders

Erm....given the entomology of this, I think you'll find it's not so much a superstition as just plain common sense. You walk under a ladder and the likelihood is that the person working at the top of the ladder will drop/spill something on you.
 
 
SMS
05:38 / 01.08.02
...nothing bad's happened to me.

hmmmm.


I tend to scoff at the sceptical inquirer segments on the Discovery Science Channel. Here's an argument against spontaneous human combustion: human beings are flammable, and the fat in the body can act as fuel for a fire. Well, there's a little bit more to it than that, but not much. The problem is probably that they don't have enough time to discuss the problem in enough detail.
 
 
grant
13:08 / 01.08.02
Multi
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No star here laces
14:55 / 01.08.02
"I don't see it as a gallery, more as a... space. I feel that this work was something I had no choice about saying, I really needed to express just how hard it is living off a trust fund in 21st century london."
 
  
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