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[anima]

I don't like Friday 13th because every friday 13th on TV there showes that ugly movie with the same name... and i hate that movie

[broflovski]

Actually no.
I don't think that friday the 13th is bad luck for me.
It might be for others... but not me. The odd thing is, friday the 13th's are my lucky days!

Yeah. I know, weird right? But I kind of do believe in bad luck, but not the kind where you walk under a ladder thing. More like karma. What goes around comes around? That kind of thing.

Maybe you can do an experiment and just walk under a ladder or say Macbeth in a theatre? What's the harm in that?

[iwuvcookies]

Friday the 13th to me is not a big deal. i've worn black on that day and nothing happened to me. I guess its if you believe in it or not. Like if you believe in it enough it does happen and if you don't than you just don't. It so happens tomorrow is Friday the Thirteenth. I hope nothing goes wrong. Well just the ocassional school to burn down but nothing else. lol.

[brandice]

So it is going to be Friday the 13th tomorrow. I think if you go into the day thinking that unlucky things are going to happen, anything unlucky that does happen will be blamed on the day. But it's usually stuff that happens everyday , Like I remember once when I was little I was sewing and I kept dropping my pens on the carpet and having to pick them up. I blamed Friday the 13th until someone reminded me that i was clumsy and I would have dropped them anyway.

My sister was married (her second marriage) on a Friday the 13th- It was in February and the church was booked up for Valentine's Day the next day. While we were about to go out she asked me, worried, "Do you think it's a bad sign getting married on Friday the 13th?" and I told her that there was no way it could be as bad as her first marriage. I think this year will be their 8th anniversary and things are still fine.

[Janissary]

13th Friday, black cat, passing under a ladder, breaking a mirror etc...

These are all... stupid :)

Probably some of them made up to scare kids, then people started to take them serius. People in past didnt have much for entartainment so they came up with many weird things ;)

By the way, you know... Friday is holy day for Muslims :)

[aDDie]

Hello,
I do not think that Friday the 13th is bad luck . This is just a superstition developed by many young people, who have nothing else to do with their time, but come up with rumors. These people may also do this because they feel that they need something to justify for their bad luck on a certain day. People are also superstitios about black cats, but that stop does not some people from keeping them as pets. Also, they may also do this because they believe in a thing called destiny. I, personally do not believe in destiny, and I think that if a person has enough will, they can get anything accomplished, just with the help of hard work.
In conclusion, I am not a believer on such superstitions a Friday the 13th and believe that believing in these superstitions is pointless and will not get you anywhere in life.

Thankss
aDDie ( =

[inyourarms]

I don't really think that Friday 13th is unlucky... I mean nothing uber-bad has ever happened to me (that I remember) on that day. It's just superstitions like it's unlucky to walk under a ladder or something.

[sm00nie]

My house number is 13, and you'd probably expect something crazy to happen every friday... but nope . I agree with the majority here, it's simply a superstition that provokes spooky thoughts.

Halloween is great thow.. Nothing like pulling out all the stops to freak out the kids visiting the evil #13 house.. mwahahahaha!

[dark_drgn]

Well, here are some well known things about the 13th for all of you.
On April 13, 1970,after two days into its misson, Apollo 13, 213,000 miles from Earth had an terrible explosion that blew off a panel that was 13 feet by 13 feet. Thirteen minutes later the astronauts realized that the spacecraft was leaking oxygen. The misson was launched at 13:13 hours, from pad 39 (a third multiple of 13)

A religious one:
When Jesus ate with his 12 disciples on his last supper. There were 13 at the table. And of course, after dinner, a bad thing happened.

Here’s a mythology lesson: The fear of 13 allegedly came from Norse mythology and a dinner party at Valhalla, home of the god Odin. Odin had a party with 11 of his god friends which makes 12. Then Loki came uninvited which made the fateful party 13. Balder, one of the gods there tried to kick Loki out of the house. It is said that he was killed by Loki by a spear/arrow with a mistletoe tip.

[Earths Daughter]

I read somewhere that one of the reasons that thirteen is considered an unlucky number by Christians has to do with witches. A circle for a coven of witches measured nine feet in diameter, comfortably seating/standing thirteen people. So thirteen became considered the 'traditional' number for a witches coven. Of course, if you're a witch, or not Christian, thirteen should not be considered unlucky, unless the superstition spread to other cultures.

I generally don't really notice when it's Friday the thirteenth. It's just another day for me. Although one year, I had extremely good luck with several things on a Friday the thirteenth. Since I never had really bad luck on one, I tend to consider Friday the thirteenth lucky for me because of that one day when it was.

I read somewhere that airlines drop their rates on Friday the 13th, because a lot of people are superstitious and don't want to fly on a Friday the 13th. Silly people.

[William91]

I think Friday the 13th is a busted myth. I have no bad luck that day and besides the the devil is the god of luck. I don't think theres anything to fear of Friday the 13th. Its just a day that the Americans decided to say that that would be another stupid holiday that is comepltly pointless. This day should be erased form the calanders, if you are experiancing bad things happening to you that day, it could just be that your just having a down day. Lets say you leave your keys in the car and you have to call the Locksmith on Friday the 13th. This doesn't neccassarly mean bad luch, havn't you been locked out of your car several times?

Edited by William91, 13 March 2006 - 11:50 PM.

[wariorpk]

There is no way that Friday the 13th is bad luck. I have heard pretty much all of the myths that are supposed to occure on this day. Many of these myths I have tried to see if they work. None of the ones I tried have had the intended effect.

[faund]

I don't believe it at all.

As the Chinese saying goes " It will be real if you believe it and it will not be real if you don't believe it".

May I translate is not good, but the mean is that if you believe friday 13th will brings you bad luck, you will get some impression of it and will do something wrong.

Edited by faund, 11 September 2007 - 02:09 AM.

[Carson]

I don't believe it either.

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As the Chinese saying goes " It will be real if you believe it and it will not be real if you don't believe it".

That actually makes a lot of sense. If you think its bad luck, you will think about it too much, and be cations, and you may think that every little thing that happens is bad luck.

[Watermonkey]

My birthday falls on the 13th and when I turned 18, in 1987, it fell on Friday the 13th and there was a full moon that night as well. I really played that night low key and it was kinda spooky, but nothing remarkable happened to me that night and I took no chances. I always consider my birthday number, 13, to be good luck. Since it's a choice, that's what it is. Good luck. As a matter of useless trivia, a full moon won't happen on my birthday in conjunction with a Friday again until the year 2082. How's that for good luck?

[DeM0nFiRe]

As snlildude said, it's only due to a nice little thing called he placebo effect that Friday the 13th brings bad luck to people. If you truly believe you'll have bad luck, then you will because your subconcious will force you to drop that milk in your lap or whatever. However, friday the 13th is nomore special than, say, hamsters. If you felt that hamsteres would bring you bad luck, the placebo effect would do the same thing.

[street]

I dont think friday 13th is bad luck it is just all in everyone head. Cause everything happens for a reason it will never happen just because it is a certain day. Most people think that when July 7,2007 came everyone will have a lot of luck but nothing really happen it was just a regular day. Some may have said that a lot of good stuff might have been happening to them but that stuff happen cause they wanted that stuff to happen. I have stepped on a lot of cracks on friday the 13 and when i came home my mom was alright.LOL It is all in our head.

[cangor]

haha yeah.

I think that if you think it is unlucky you will have bad luck, maybe, but if you don't care then your luck will be fine. Luck, I guess, is all a matter of perception. I mean, whether you're a lucky or unlucky person is really a matter of whether or not you think you are.

[Unknown_99]

Hmm well, I heard from someone the reason friday the 13th was labeled a day of bad luck was because some person was killed on that day, then again I'm not really sure if what he say is true as just as it is, its superstitious thinking.

[kimheng]

I don't believe in this! I am in asian! Although there many belief in my region but I don't believe in most of them!

[iGuest]

I don't believe in Friday th 13th I think people only believe it because of freddy cuger.so now they beleive in bad luck

-Rochelle

[anwiii]

Friday the thirteenth is considered the unluckiest of days, unless you were born on Friday the thirteenth. If you were born on this day then Friday the thirteenth is your lucky day.
The origins of Friday superstitions are many. One of the best known is that Eve tempted Adam with the apple on a Friday. Tradition also has it that the Flood in the Bible, the confusion at the Tower of Babel, and the death of Jesus Christ all took place on Friday.
Long before the Bible was written, Friday was considered an important day. Primitive people set aside Fridays as a special time to worship their deities and ask them for good crops, health and happiness. Those who worked on this day were told not to expect "good luck" from the gods.
The day Friday was named after Frigg (or Frigga), the Norse goddess of marriage.
Later she was confused with the goddess of love, Freya, who in turn became identified with Friday. When the Norsemen and Germanic tribes became Christians, Freya was supposed to have been banished to the mountains as a witch.
Friday came to be called "witches' Sabbath." For it was believed that on this day, each week, twelve witches and the Devil met - thirteen evil spirits up to no good!
This is just one of the explanations for our superstition about Friday the 13th.

The Bible is often considered a book of numbers. In the Bible the numbers 7, 12 and 40 appear throughout the Old and New Testaments.
The number 12 is considered a lucky number.
As a result, the number which follows 12 was thought to be evil.
Known scientifically as "Tridecaphobia," fear of the number 13 is probably the most common of all superstitions.
Buildings avoid numbering the 13th floor. Airplanes avoid the 13th aisle. And most common of all, Friday the 13th is considered a bad luck day.
Psychologists believe that Friday the 13th will become a day of bad luck if people focus on the day because people will create their own bad luck by paying attention to the superstition.
Feeding energy into anything - especially a superstition - can cause manifestation of the event - as the consciousness grids are reacting.
Remember the grids and the universe are mathematical. They respond to geometry - numbers - the primary language of the Universe.
When many people believe that an event is negative - dark - evil - based on a date - or number or sequence of numbers - this can cause disruptions in the grid harmonics - and cause the event to happen.
It is not unlike believing that a curse has been put on you - or your family - or someone you know.
The more you believe that it is real - the more you will create that reality in the grids.
You maybe simply looking for the drama of events linked to a specific superstition.
If you do not play within the parimeters of that energy - you won't even give it a second thought.
You can tune into the frequency of the superstition - fear - and experience the strength of it.
If you believe that everytime there is a Friday the 13th - something bad will befall you - then you will manifest an event of that type.
As far as digits go - they do have meaning as they are creational. It would follow that some digits are triggers - some are lucky - and some will signify the polarity - negative energies!
Number 13 has had its share of troubles. It is 1+3=4= completion for many things. But haven't bad things happened on other dates?
In ancient civilizations - Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Hebrew, Christian - people believed in Magik - the power of the Magician to caste a spell - the power of the Gods to create, etc. Much of it was all based on control by fear! We are giving up fear, right?

We have seen the tricks - the illusions - the magic - the clown - in all of the cultures we have looked at in recent months. It is in the program. Number 4 - the final trick! The main event for the trickster - or he just part of the illusion. Trickery makes us believe creation is external to us when it is quite the opposite.
The trickster challenges you. to think to question things ,to get past negative emotions until you finally see the truth in what is occurring.
Superstitions are linked to myths and prophecies.

A superstition is a belief, half-belief, or practice for which there appears to be no rational substance.
Those who use the term imply that they have certain knowledge or superior evidence for their own scientific, philosophical, or religious convictions.
An ambiguous word, it probably cannot be used except subjectively.
With this qualification in mind, superstitions may be classified roughly as religious, cultural, and personal.
Every religious system tends to accumulate superstitions as peripheral beliefs,
Often one person's religion is another one's superstition
If Believe in superstition like as Friday 13 ,you will fall for anything in Life .There’s many myths of Life cycles ,different cultures that gets handed down and Taught to each of us ,some myths just stay as Truth but again is it really Truth or how one may believe in ones own mind. The Money makers of Television has brought many Great shows concerning Friday 13 ,that as growing up ,We all learned to relate Friday 13 in some form or myth in our minds to bring out Fear or associate this day as unlucky, as many other days ,Fear is one the Greatest Tools that creates myth's as Friday 13,as real as it can become in How a person relates to it ,as part of How they Believe in one's own mind.

[Aaron2k7]

Hmm, My sisters birthday is on friday 13th March - So yeah. Bad luck cos she was born and I aint only child anymore

[Damen]

I believe no, at least to me. I do see why most would though.

If everyone says that running would kill you and someone ran and just by coincidence died, people would most likely develop a fear of running.

It is a bad analogy but I think you get my point.

[Liam_CF]

Personally, no, I dont.

I dont remember anything bad that's happened on one, so no.