This week: Superstition.
1. Are you superstitious?
Superstitious: A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc.
--Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Although I disagree with the use of "pretended" in the above definition, by the rest of it I would definitely fall under the heading of supertstitious.
2. What extremes have you heard of someone going to in the name of superstition?
Killing another human being in the name of religion. See Catholicism, Judaism, Islam... Oh hell. Just look up Religion.
3. Believer or not, what's your favorite superstition?
What you send returns three times. It's true. The more shit you create, the bigger a pile you'll be sitting in. It's empirical truth.
4. Do you believe in luck? If yes, do you have a lucky number/article of clothing/ritual?
Sure! As an actor, I have a lot of little rituals I do before every performance to put me in the right frame of mind. And the number 317 seems to haunt me; I'm more likely to feel "right" about something if that number is involved somehow.
5. Do you believe in astrology? Why or why not?
Yes, although I view it as more art than science. It's good for a general looksee at the choices presented to one; it isn't meant as a rulebook to live one's life by. Astrology, like any divination, should teach one to listen and look for the common signs in our lives that are trying to show us something about ourselves; we take from them whatever we are prepared to see.
Posted by Agent M at February 15, 2004 12:25 AM