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On a scale of one to ten, how superstitious are you?

Asked by blueiiznh (16698points) July 28th, 2011

On a scale of one to ten (with one being not at all and ten being very much so), how superstitious are you?

Will you share with us what you are superstitious of?

Does it stop you from doing things related to your superstition or do you have a way to get through them?

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20 Answers

Blackberry's avatar

0. I don’t believe in magic.

picante's avatar

I’m a 1.5. Not superstitious per se—but I often feel that saying something out loud jinxes it.

FutureMemory's avatar

Negative 10.

rOs's avatar

1. Excessively credulous belief in and reverence for supernatural beings. – Well, I wouldn’t say excessive
2. A widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences of an action or event, or a practice based on such a belief – Who are you calling unjustified?

poisonedantidote's avatar

Two

I’m an atheistic skeptic who is very hard to convince of things, I work with evidence and proof, and don’t believe any odd things people make up. However, I have been known to make up my own odd things. Most of the time I rid my self of it, but some times I get a strange supertitious idea in my head that I can’t shake.

Whenever I experience deja vu, for about a minute, it always seems to manage to convince me that I am close to death, that soon my life will end and repeat its self, and without star trek’s Data to tell me 3, I am doomed to repeat my life eternally. Then I snap out of it.

Hawaii_Jake's avatar

I’m an actor, and we tend to be very superstitious about the theater. I won’t mention the name of that Scottish play anywhere near a theater, for example, so I guess I’m about a 7 or an 8 on your scale.

DominicX's avatar

I’d have to say 0 as well. I really don’t believe in superstition or the power of it.

tedibear's avatar

One or two. I say “bless you” when someone sneezes and like @picante, I feel like saying something might jinx it. My head knows it doesn’t but there’s some little sticky bit in their that says, “what if?” I do avoid stepping on sidewalks cracks even though my mom has been gone for 17 years.

Jeruba's avatar

Zero point zero.

Joker94's avatar

13. Aren’t I a clever sumbitch?

Nah, I’m probably about a 3.

Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

One – not at all.

Kardamom's avatar

Zero, but I do have a slight tendency toward OCD, much less so now as an adult than I did as a teenager, when it was pretty bad. The OCD sometimes tends to make me re-do things multiple times, like checking if the door is locked, but it has nothing to do with superstition.

I also enjoy watching those Most Haunted Places shows and they scare the living cr*p out of me, but not because I actually believe in ghosts or that kind of thing. The way they set up the scenario, and the lighting and then the thumps and the screams and the scientific sound analyses are what make it all seem scary to me. Fun scary.

tranquilsea's avatar

Zip, zilch, nada. I’m not superstitious at all.

flo's avatar

Zero, zero zero.

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