Tag: Superstition

  • Let’s just skip this month in the future

    Let’s just skip this month in the future

    I am not one given over to superstition.  I do not believe in karma – there is no mechanism beyond mere wishful thinking to mete out the rewards and punishments based on the rights and wrongs; moreover, whether something is “right” and deserving of a reward or “wrong” and deserving of a punishment is a…

  • Triskaidekaphobia

    Triskaidekaphobia

    While I stopped “practicing” the Catholic faith of my youth decades before, I “de-converted” to use Seth Andrews’ phrase (whose book I devoured, and to whom I wrote) in March of 2019.  But de-converting is not as simple as just owning up to the fact that you don’t believe in god. I think most people…