...It probably is. [WE:137]

"I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls."

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.

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It has always baffled me the amount of superstitions humans tend to believe in. Of course, I'm human, but the only thing believe in after science is in chance. And chance is pure statistics. So, I'm even off by an inch of my core beliefs.

However, as I turned my head around and have glimpse at social media feeds, I see this trend of believing in all sorts of weird stuff. I don't even need to look further than home to see this is action. My mom loves all these things. The living room is filled with trinkets and all sorts of stuff. Often times, she'll come an tell me about some stupid ritual for whatever. I used to bicker with her about those things, but I never did it again. I let her live her superstitions and believe in them. I don't share anything of that, but it's a measure of peace of mind. Not her beliefs. I see her suffering the same things over and over again.

I guess someone should tell her beliefs don't chance anything if your don't work on yourself. But it isn't going to be me.

Anyways, I remember the time when she went to this big store in Caracas to buy some astrology crap. The place was Paradise for anyone who believes in all this stuff. Specially if you believe in everything. And it was a busy place. People were coming and going buying trinkets, books, amulets, incense and else. I remember mom bought some tarot cards too.

This was to time I used to watch a lot of History Channel and the symbolism of the tarot cards was something cool. I already new how you're supposed to make the readings of the things based on what I had see in shows. Also, by virtue of the shows, I had understood how everything is that looks the part is actually a sham. The name of the game is finding a sucker and ripping them off.

I took the deck and opened it. Along the cards, there was a pamphlet with some references for the cards and a very important note at the end of it. It said something about having great imagination to make a convincing read.

Convincing, huh?

I laughed really hard and put the cards back in the box.

It wasn't until I got to study Semiotics in college that I went back ti the deck to study the symbolism of the cards more closely. Tarot cards are full of things embedded in the collective unconscious of humanity. It works the same as numerology. If you look for a pattern, you're likely to find it.

Out professor told us that if you had a very deep knowledge of psychoanalysis, you could use a reading to see something in your unconscious. She also reminded us we were Teachers in training and not students of Psychology.

And of course, people tense advantage of these things. It's an unspoken tradition. Oracles and seers are still regarded as very important people. Some of them make a lot of money for the crap they sell. No different from a Con-person.

In the same way a person who reads the Tarot needs a lot of imagination, I bet they do the research needed for making themselves sound convincing. And so on do psychics, mediums and else. Their targets are usually these "open-minded" people seeking some truth that's written on their faces and which these individuals take pride in reading, for a price.

I think that if you wanted to throw your money away, you could put it in your Hive account as HP and do something that's more tangible than a riddle about your future. Investing gives you something for taking the risk. Going to any of the things I already mentioned also costs you money.

This isn't financial advice.

But don't let my words get you away from your superstitions. You're free to believe planets mess your days, cards can tell you the future and people can comune with the dead. I mean why you wouldn't. Religion is sorta the same thing. But that's a topic for another post.


Do you believe in any of these things? What are your experiences? Feel free to share them in the comments below of try to convince me of believing in these shams.

Have a great weekend! But don't let people rip your off.

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While I’m not a fan of scams, I will admit that I’ve changed my beliefs on some of these things.

For example your last section about communicating with the dead. When my son was about 2 years old and had enough of a vocabulary, we had only given him breast milk and special reverse osmosis water which removes the impurities that you and I drink on a daily basis. There’s a lot of research into the pineal gland and children as well as people who have one that functions well enough. To the story though, he started communicating with someone in one specific corner of our house and would stare at the corner, talk to this person and play with his toys and show him what he was playing with. We didn’t want to say anything and let it play out. He did this consistently for several months about once or twice a week and he would look up at the spot, talk, keep playing and pointing at things as if it was a legit adult standing there but it was no one we could visually see ourselves. We asked him one day about it after a period of time and he said it was the nice man with the big hat. We left him alone and didn’t speak negatively of it because we were fascinated by it and eventually we stopped giving him that type of water since he was getting older and it was still important but not as crucial to give him the healthiest stuff we could. That meant more water out of the faucet which has impurities and things that aren’t the best which unfortunately includes fluoride and chlorine and those calcify the pineal gland. He stopped about 6 months or so later and it’s sad to see it fade away but it was the wildest and most surreal experience I’ve had as an adult when it comes to there being something we cannot perceive with the senses we currently have. I’ve not wanted to call it a ghost but that’s the most understandable term for it I can think of.

There’s so many things we don’t know for one reason or another and sadly I’ve learned often over the past several years that a lot of information that is scientific but not desirable because of the challenges it makes to mainstream “science” is completely buried in one way or another and it makes me positive that there’s so much we don’t know that could completely change so many of the things we understand to be true today.

One of them is the importance and relevance of vibrational frequencies and how it impacts our bodies and minds. There’s different frequencies that are associated with positive effects as well as with negative effects depending on the wavelength. So many things we could be learning of in a true scientific process!

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That sound interesting. A similar thing to the kind of experiences described through the consumption of DMT.

That a whole different spectrum of the idea. I'm taking about shams from people who profit on that kind of things. There's a lot of them claiming to be able to do any kind of stuff.

I used to have the weirdest nightmares when I was a child. I would feel like I was in different worlds and places. It's still a very real thing o feel on the back of my head. A sense of danger coming from too many different places. It's weird to explain.

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Yeah the scam psychics are comical especially these days. Many are savvy for looking up information on someone from the web lol. I laugh at the people who are super into horoscopes and shit, that to me is a load of crap.

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That was the point behind the Weekend-engagement this week. Well, it was one of the topics.

People getting money this way has always been a thing.

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Ah I should have read the prompt for topics lol I haven’t had the shot to do that in a while.

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It's crazy that it's been going in for 137 weeks in a row!

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Swindle and deceit are at every step in our lives, not only in what you mention, but also in governments, well in everything. A spider's web of lies and apparent realities.

I don't believe in superstitions, amulets or anything like that. I believe in cause and effect, we are responsible for our life, everything that happens is a revote of life.
There is an author that I like very much who says that to know what you give, look at what you receive.

I have learnt a lot and I believe a lot in myself and my intuition, however it manifests itself.

Thank you Andres.🤗

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Sure, but the topic was about these things I mentioned. The political topic goes onto another realm of ideas. There's are lot of deceit and scams around the world. People claim to be able to do things they do not and some people are too driven by superstitions that they are easy targets for that.

But I guess we all try to understand the world in our own means.

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That's right, people want to believe in something as if the answers to their questions are there. I totally agree.

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Answers are always in the things one does. There's no need to look further than that!

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People will believe in any stupidity that frees them from responsibility for their actions or helps them to have an "advantage" over others.

They are capable of following any ridiculous belief, but working on themselves to get what they want is completely off the table. 🙃

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And that's the way the world goes round round round.

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This is quite an interesting and controversial topic.
I think all this will be defined by the beliefs of each of us, just as there are the skeptics, there are the transformers (Just kidding 🤣).

No doubt for some this is a living reality and they have total faith and conviction in what they say, you could say, is their religion.

And, no matter what you say, you can't take them out of their comfort zone, because that's their reality.

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Yeah, that's how it works with almost anything. I heard once that atheism is not feasible in a worldwide stage since people always get into some other religion. Seems like a lot of us are wired towards that kind of thinking.

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