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[karlo]

Do you think that Friday the 13th is really bad luck? I mean, does bad luck really comes near you?

[BuffaloHelp]

karlo, on May 13 2005, 02:31 AM, said:

Do you think that Friday the 13th is really bad luck? I mean, does bad luck really comes near you?

Good question. I think the fact that at some point Americans developed a fear for the number 13. Now, I'm not sure if it is older than that (perhaps from England) but the fear of 13 (tridecaphobia) goes long way. Plus, it's rare to see Fridays with the number 13. So started rumors how it's odd and unwise to do anything on the day that comes so rarely.
Some other cultures that I am aware of developed the fear of the number 4. The pronunciation of number 4 resembles the word "death." Another culture is afraid of the number 1. I'm thinking that's why most elevator's first floor button is labeled with "L" instead of "1". LOL. Who knows...

[shigajet]

As for me, Friday the 13th bringing bad luck is merely a superstition, just as 7 is considered to be a "lucky" number. It's true that in many in countries in Asia fear the number 4. I know that in Japan, this is certainly the case. BuffaloHELP was spot on with hi post: 4 (four) has two pronunciations in Japanese - one is yon, the other is shi (This is the one that means "death").

[icemarle]

Shinde! (just kidding shigajet) I don't know why, but after seeing your post, I had a sudden urge to say something Japanese.
Translation: (Die!)

Anyway, I've been through Friday the 13th a few times, and it's an ordinary day. I know so many people who haven't had anything happen to them on that day considered as bad luck. In fact, it's merely a coincidence if people have bad luck on that day.

[Invisible]

I don't think Friday the 13th brings bad luck, some people do but they also fear a black cat and stuff and I had a black cat and I was not unlucky at al .
It is somthing people made up and started to accapt as a fact, and it is for others the number 4. I think you can come up with many other things that bring bad luck.

[sonyguy]

Well, unfortunately last year on Friday 13th August, I lost a friend, he died in a bicycle accident
So yeh, I am a bit sceptical about it...
I'm not that much of a superstitious person, but after last year, I have started believe that Friday 13th is an unlucky day, although nothing has happened to me today, so far...

[electriic ink]

Friday the 13th does not bring bad luck. Doesn't it depend who you are?

[scenario]

You hate your neighbour and someone vandalises her property. To your neighbour this is bad luck but to you it is good because you have a grudge against her.

[/scenario]

Bad luck depends on who you are.

[Neutrality]

No, I don't believe that "Friday the 13th" is bad luck. That's bogus. I've never had bad luck on a "Friday the 13th" that couldn't be uncoincidental, nor has anyone I know. Actually, the "Friday the 13th" superstition comes from several events that could have occurred on this particular day. The first one I believe has to do with Jesus Christ dying on a "Friday the 13th". I doubt this one is true, but it's possible.

The other one has to do with the Crusades [ or the Knights of the Templar if you will ]. I think it was in 1200s, but it is said that on a "Friday the 13th" that the Knights of the Templar, and their last Grandmaster Jacques De Molay, were either captured on this day, or executed on this day. I've heard other stories that may also have a superstitious attachment to this day, but these are the ones I remember.

[rvovk]

Friday 13th actually happened in the past. There was some battle and army was devastated badly with no live ones. There are lot of rumours about friday 13th.
The number 13 also has been associated with death in other cultures. The ancient Egyptians, for example, believed life unfolded in 12 stages, and the 13th stage was death. The Egyptians considered death a part of their ultimate journey and looked forward to the spiritual transformation, thus 13 was not an unlucky number in their culture, but like so many others, the tradition warped through time and cultures, eventually associating the number 13 with a more negative and fearful interpretation of death, Emery writes.
When Friday 13th comes I am just more careful, cause I am not a triskaidekaphobe (a person with an irrational fear of Friday the 13th, also called a paraskevidekatriaphobe or just mildly suspicious)

[snlildude87]

BuffaloHELP, on May 13 2005, 04:17 AM, said:

the fear of 13  (tridecaphobia)

*cough* "triskaidekaphobia" *cough*

I don't think it Friday the 13th brings bad luck because it's sort of like the placebo. If you give someone a useless pill, they'll think that they're feeling better. It's all in the subconscience. I don't know...I guess that if you don't know about Friday the 13th, then you won't do anything really stupid that will result in "bad luck."

[Nani Cheri]

Don't think Friday the 13th brings any unluck....I do believe, that if you believe in something and you repeat it over and over again....it actually will happen to you in reality! Im sure, that if you wake up that morning....telling yourself everythings just fine...nothing will happen that'll cause you bad luck.

[Liquid-Fusion]

karlo, on May 13 2005, 02:31 AM, said:

Do you think that Friday the 13th is really bad luck? I mean, does bad luck really comes near you?

Yes. I think it has been speculated that Jesus Christ died on Friday the 13th. People think that maybe where this myth came from.

As for me, I do think it is some eerie phenomenom. (just like people acting crazy on full moons). Heres an example:

I go to the library every day in HS. In the computer lab, it says you cant go on any other sites then research. I went on other stuff every day for months. On friday the 13th, I was checking GMAIL and the principal walked in wrote me up, and got banned for 3 months. Then I got body slammed outside and the end of the day I almost got hit by a bus. Yea, so either im REALLY unlucky or Friday the 13th did it..

You choose..

L.F.

[BuffaloHelp]

snlildude87, on May 24 2005, 12:33 PM, said:

*cough* "triskaidekaphobia" *cough*

*ahem* "tridecaphobia" http://www.useless-k...article177.html *ahem* HA HA HA

[twentyinches631]

Nah, definitely not. For me 13 is actually a pretty lucky number. I moved into my current house on Friday the 13th. Also, my dad is the 13th child in his family. I have a few more references to 13, but I can't think of them all right now. I always try to wear the #13 on sports teams too haha.

[midnightvamp]

Friday the 13th hasn't been a particularly bad day for myself, though I'm not really superstitious, and could care less about ladders and black cats and broken mirrors.

As for the Friday the 13th's not happening all that often, well, they happen just as often as Thursday the 13th's do and the dreaded Monday the 13th. I'd be more inclined to fear Monday the 13th, just because it's a Monday...

The number 13 also doesn't really phase me. My family sort of is a '13' family. My grandparents live at house number 13 on their street and my aunt she lives at apartment 1313 on the 13th floor. So there are lots of 13s to go around.

[C2C]

Nope. I do not believe in any superstition and that includes chain letters. Superstition in my opinion is to scare little kids so that they'll behave but other than that, it's just a hoax to me.

[JaVe]

I'm not superstitious but for those ppl who are, if you really are superstitioyus and you believe in something (unfortunate) hard enough, you'll end up sorta making it happen for yourself.

[dodomi]

no,i feel all days is lucky!!!friday the 13th also happy,I'm not superstitious~~~
so happy!~~~

[Frayed]

I don't really believe in bad luck or good luck. For me it's like if it happens then it happens. I don't believe it happens for a reason at all.

My answer for your question is no. My reason being is that I've never had an unlucky Friday the 13th in the 17 years I've lived. I have yet to hear of any bad luck cases from people that I know happening on Friday the 13th either.

If people set themselves up to think that something may happen on that day then it may very well be that something bad happens only because they were to worried about bad luck then to think of anything else.

[Becca]

to me anything unlucky in the superstition world is lucky to me. I think 13 is lucky and I think friday the 13th is lucky. I know about two pople born on a Friday 13th and both are extremely clever and talented people.

People only notice it more on Friday 13th because it has a reputation. The same things could happen another day but you wouldn't really care because it's not "the bad luck day" so it's all in the brain, I reckon.

[sonyguy]

I believe that in some buildings that have 13 or more floors, skip floor 13 and go to 14 because they think that it would be bad luck.

So it would go:
Floor 1
Floor 2
.........
Floor 12
Floor 14

Stupid really...

[mguanumen]

Becca, on Sep 10 2005, 05:06 AM, said:

to me anything unlucky in the superstition world is lucky to me. I think 13 is lucky and I think friday the 13th is lucky. I know about two pople born on a Friday 13th and both are extremely clever and talented people.

People only notice it more on Friday 13th because it has a reputation. The same things could happen another day but you wouldn't really care because it's not "the bad luck day" so it's all in the brain, I reckon.

You´re alrigth, and I believe the mith started with Jesus Christ and followers in the last supper, 1+12 = 13 ! the polemic number!

[[i]_R_Crazy_Idiot]

I think superstition is as valid as Arnold Schwazasdhkasldjaslk becoming governer.

[FuChelle]

I don't believe that Friday the 13th is bad luck. It's just a normal day like all the others. If anything bad happens to anyone on a Friday the 13th then it's just a co-incidence. Bad/unlucky things can happen on any day of the week, just like good or lucky things can happen at any time.

I think it's silly too, some of the things that have been done to accommodate for those people who do have a superstition about the number 13. Sonyguy mentioned about the missing 13th floor in some buildings. They also do this on planes and trains...they will skip the 13th row of seats and go straight to 14.

I remember once when my family was coming back from a holiday, everyones seat was in row 14...except for me, I had row 12. We all thought there would be a row of seats between us but when we got on there and I was just in the row in front of them. For the whole trip, I kept looking at the aisle numbers and it was annoying me that whoever made the plane couldn't count properly.

Now, if we all develop a fear of the number 12, then 11, then 10, they'll have to skip those numbers too and pretty soon there'll be no rows left. *nods*

[Zentron]

Hmm, I've answered this question before.. somewhere!? Anyhoo, it was, in fact, originally supposed to be 'the' most luckiest day of the year, for many thousands of years, but some muppet religion came along and decided to change it to the unluckiest day, an ideal which is still lasting now.