HDC Weekly Debate: Are you superstitious?
 

Well...are you?

Do you avoid walking under ladders?
Believe in horseshoes hanging like an U over your door?
Keep four-leaf clovers and rabbits' feet close?
Do your best to not break a mirror?
Throw salt over your left shoulder after you have spilled some?
Sit at home and do nothing on the 13th, if it is a Friday?
Always open umbrellas outdoors on rainy days?

Let's hear it.

And if you believe in any others, let's hear them also.

not in the fucking least.

Nah....It may cross my mind if I break a mirror or a black cat walks in front of me...but I won't dwell on it.

Not superstitious at all

My dad has one though. He will always wear the same football shirt to a game until we lose a match then he will never wear it again, believing it to be jinxed from that point.

No way Jose!

I make a point of walking under ladders, stepping on cracks, approaching black cats, spilling salt when I'm around someone superstitious. I've broken numerous mirrors. Nuff Said.

Definitely not.

However, I am at times obsessive-compulsive, which I guess in some instances could be confused with superstition: both involve going out of one's way to do or avoid a certain action or something like that.

This isn't much of a debate.

Not at all. I base my decisions on logic.

Same here. I notice when those kind of things happen, and I'll joke about it or mess with whoever it happened to, but there's nothing real to it as far as I'm concerned.

No, but I do respect superstitions.

For example: According to theatrical lore, it's the epitome of bad luck to say "Macbeth" in a theatre. Now, personally I could care less, but I know of quite a few people that really take it seriously. So even though I'm pretty damn sure I'll still survive either way, I'd never refer to it as anything but "The Scottish Play" inside a theatre.

I saw a perfectly sane, grown woman burst into a fit of tears because someone mentioned Macbeth in passing, by accident. Since then I've always tried to respect this shit around performances spaces...

Maybe not, but I would have been very interested to hear from that 1 person who clicked on "Yes" in the poll above.

Ah yes, the superstitions regarding actors. I've been in a few plays and many talent shows as an actor. Never say good luck. Always break a leg. I suppose I respect those traditions because they could tempt fate to a specific thing, one that I care about. However, things like "you have bad luck if you walk under a ladder" are pretty general, so I don't care.