PAST: – When we’re young, we tend to believe the silliest things. Superstitions like “step on a crack,” for instance, wreak havoc with our grasp of cause-and-effect. What childhood superstition kept you hopping, as it were?
PRESENT: – Discarding probability math in favor of superstition, what’s your lucky number and what’s it done for you lately?
FUTURE: – Gazing into your crystal ball for a moment, do you see the world becoming more cold-eyed and skeptical, or more prone to voodoo philosophies and superstitions? In the end, will the likes of James Randi and Michael Shermer win, or will the John “Crossing Over With” Edwards of the world triumph over sense and reason?
Gee, are my prejudices on full display or what? Hey, it’s my meme, so deal with it. Thpppt.
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9 responses to “Past, Present, Future – Round Thirteen”
My neurosises are up for all to see!
Okee, mine are up!
up up and away.
my crystal ball is up 🙂
🙂 Almost late here, but still up.
I’m a day late and a dollar short, but. . .
PAST: I was always afraid of breathing as we passed graveyards. Made it difficult to attend a party at a friend’s house whose backyard WAS a graveyard.
PRESENT: I don’t really have a “lucky” number, but my favorite number is 16. And I think ultimately, it’s made me a more accepting and well-balanced person (basically, when I didn’t live up to what I thought my “age 16” should be, I had a nervous breakdown and learned A) not to take things so seriously and B) not to plan for things to happen that I can’t control).
FUTURE: I’ve said it when I was 8 and I’ll say it now – I see the future as staying exactly the same as the present (I know, boring and unimaginative. . .but it’s 7 AM and my creative juices are totally spent from the week!)
Here goes…
Its dreadfully late but its up.
(dreadfully is such an ignored word. It was my goal to include it somehow in this post. What this means is that I probably need to get out more.)
*~UP~*