My religion (Zoroastrianism) doesn't need to. We are explicitly anti-ritualist, especially the sect that I follow, Mazdakism, a proto- communist sect. (I interpret Zoroastrianism as communist)
@stormthrush37 I was born into a RC family, baptised before I was 4 weeks old and sent to RC schools. At the age of 6 I applied my critical thinking skills and became an atheist but obviously at that age could not "come out" as such. What were my issues with the RC religion? Reason A was I was told non RC people say "example A", reason B was "non RC people do "example B" and reason C was "non RC people believe "example C". You can put nearly anything into A, B and C as examples and it applies to RC as much as any other religion and even though at the age of 6 I did not know the word hypocrisy I certainly recognised it. Thinking about other religions I rapidly came to the conclusion that if the gods of other religions were false why couldn't the RC god be equally false. As far I as I am concerned people with religions are acting childishly by not applying such critical thinking to their own beliefs. I was expecting the end of this quiz to have a line "If you had to do this quiz then you are superstitious" 🤔
This questionaire is actually, 'are your specific superstitions sanctioned by the Catholic Church'. It would have been far more interesting to have a whole bunch of superstitions and then find out some of them are sanctioned by Muslims, some are sanctioned by Druids, etc, etc.
Plus there’s a lot of different origins to superstitions; some are still religious in nature (like 666 from Revelations, or the number 13 AFAIK coming from the Last Supper, originally being about 13 people eating at one table but then evolving from there), but others aren’t, either coming from religious/supernatural beliefs no longer remembered (knocking on wood may come from ancient pagan/Druidic beliefs about invoking protective nature spirits from trees), unfortunate coincidences (white Zippo lighters are seen as unlucky because a couple of dead celebrities had them on their persons, the number 4 is unlucky in Japan because _shi_ means both 4 and death), once-sound advice taken out of context (not lighting three cigarettes from one match came from wartime blackout rules to avoid being seen at night, not whistling during a play comes from backstage workers using whistling to communicate before headsets were a thing and not wanting a mistaken command to cause an accident), or simple habit (lucky trinkets, not stepping on cracks in the sidewalk).
@@KnakuanaRka "There’s a lot of different origins to superstitions; some are still religious in nature (like the number 13 coming from the Last Supper, originally being about 13 people eating at one table but then evolving from there)" That isn't where 13 being unlucky comes from. Prime numbers do not divide evenly. Thus prime numbers tend to be attributed as "Special" 3rd times the charm. Lucky 7. Unlucky 13.
@@RobertStambaugh-l5r An old, translated, and recopied book said that someone, decades after Jesus supposedly died, said that Jesus said he is the truth. That doesn't make it so.
When missionaries come to my door and ask if I am a Christian (follower of Jesus, or whatever) I always answer, "No, I'm not superstitious." Many of them seem shocked by this response and say, of course, they also are not superstitious. Then I ask then to define "superstitious", and the pretzel twisting and knot tying ensues, usually tangling fear, evil or ignorance into their definition. Then I simplify it for them. "Superstition is a belief in the reality of supernatural forces, influences, places or beings. That is what the "super" in superstitious represents." After a pause, they usually excuse themselves and leave. Oh, well.
Yeah, I know, you're trying to be a nice guy and everything and they just don't seem to get you at all and the communications just not there and it's a real bummer man it's like it shouldn't be that way but people are really Frozen in the way they think man and they really need to open up their minds man to a much better way to be you know but but they just don't seem to be interested in seeing the wider view and and reaching a higher state of consciousness you know and so all we can do is do it for them and think of them when we do it and it's too bad they won't join us.
@@danielkeys8974. That is correct. Super means above, on top of, or outside of. Stition means standing or position. In this context it means normal logic and awareness. Similarly supernatural means above or outside nature. But nature encompasses everything that exists. So supernatural means means outside reality.
@@jamesarnette1394 People are taught to be afraid to question and to not believe. Sometimes a gentle in the right direction helps. THe most of the time, it's futile, but I don't have time to listen to their twaddle.
Holy water. I’m reminded of a story that happened to a friend of mine. She was 10 at the time and a devout catholic like the rest of her family ... well, like the rest of the whole village she lived in. (50 years ago in a rural area of province of Quebec ...) Her mom has a bad cough that won’t end. She gives a small bottle to her daughter so she would go to the presbytery asking the priest for holy water. Marie-Claude thought the priest had a special spring or well in the basement and she would witness him draw holy water. She is so excited. A little shy, nervous and impressed she meets the priest and explains what her mom needs. The priest takes the bottle, opens the kitchen tap, fills the bottle, makes a cross sign over it, screw on the cap and hands it back to Marie-Claude. She says that’s the day she started losing faith.
You're friend's mom lucked out. Holy water absolutely has power; the power of pestilence. Those public cups or whatever they call them, think about all the people sticking their hands in them, day after day, and I doubt it even gets bleached. Holy tap water was _by far_ the safer alternative.
@@jdlesslIf the power of pestilence is the specific kind of power holy water uses, does that make Flint, Michigan's tap water the best conduit for it?
u had lack that her church sucked. In poland we need to take it from special place and whole ritual of adding power to it is in church, it's once a year and there is whole hour spent on casting spells on it. I think many more ppl wouldn't treat it as something hole if they would see what your mother saw. Sadly these morons think that this water have power so during pandemic they still putted their hands in bowl of water.. hundreds of ppl during pandemic.. Churches were last thing we closed up and first thing we opened again..
This whole quiz is just a special pleading fallacy for their superstition not counting as superstition. So transparent it hurts that they don’t see it.
wait you mean the "23 + C + M + B + 23" above my grandma's nursing home door was a religious thing and not an obtuse passcode hint for the door keypad? This goes against every puzzle game I've ever played.
@@BradPrichard The US is mostly protestant and not catholic, right? I think that's purely a catholic thing. Here in Europe, or Germany specifically, this was quite a common sight at older folk's homes.
@@Photatum Definitely more protestant than Catholic, but probably like a third of the people in my hometown were Catholic, so I'm surprised I didn't know of this one.
For certain wings the door code is next to the door in the form of a simple word puzzle. Like "A man went for an 8 minute walk. He stopped by the flower store to buy 3 roses. The man paid 5 dollars for them. When he got home he got 2 vases to put them in." The code would then obviously be 8352. This is so people with memory loss don't wander off. As they would be unable to find the code.
@@bestaround3323 A common practice here (Australia) is to use the home's zip code. That way temporary staff and visitors already know the code, but the residents don't.
Actually, these short prayers really work! Here's my favourite: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
This is mine: Peace is a lie. There is only Passion. Through Passion, I gain Strength. Through Strength, I gain Power. Through Power, I gain Victory. Through Victory my chains are Broken. The Force shall free me
@@hannahbrennan2131During Covid three years ago, someone posted the LAF (with associated little pictures) in the bathroom for helping us to wash our hands long enough. You can probably find it by searching for "litany against fear hand washing chart". (One site was called "Joey deVilla's Personal Blog" but there are probably others.)
sooner or later someone will talk about how they went insane... on the other hand, there's a couple fake funny prayers I used to do when I was a kid and people would ask me to pray; the only one I remember though is for "St. Amavapa", in which you very quickly bless the person so (1) they hear the B-word that birthed me (2) and go back inside the B-word that birthed them, (3) that B-word goes into the B-word that birthed them, (4) and she goes into the B-word that birthed us, (5) [same] ...birthed Y'alls' B-word (6) and all goes deep into the B-word that we call god... amen... basically doing a verb conjugation of the verb "to shove something into a whoohaa" and using cursewords quick enough that they get stunned with it all 🤣🤣🤣 and yes, being hit by a catholic mom was like the cherry on top of it all, until they learned not to force me to lead prayers when I was an atheist for years on end, and still forced to follow their BS
It is by superstition alone I halt my mind. It is by the holy water that mouths acquire bacteria, the lips acquire pustules, the pustules become a warning. It is by superstition alone I halt my mind.
I had a really interesting discussion with a muslim taxi driver that drove me home. I live in the countryside in Sweden, with one kilometre to my nearest neighbour. My house is at least 313 years old and stands on top of ruins of a medieval house, that in itself stands on top of a Viking age longhouse. Next to it you find the remains of a Bronze age village. The grounds are, as many of you probably can figure out, totally littered with graves. When we came to my driveway, he wondered if I wasn't afraid of any wild animals, where I told him that as a former Stockholmare, I was more afraid of the animal homo sapiens. Then he saw some of the graves (they are mounds, so fairly hard to miss) and wondered if I wasn't afraid of ghosts. I replied that I am an atheist, so I don't believe in ghosts (well, I'm fairly certain that there is a goblin living in my house, because I couldn't possibly be responsible for misplacing my stuff all of the time myself....😉). He then said, that believing in ghosts were different than being religious. When I then replied that it wasn't and that I see his religion as just mythological stories just like the Greek gods, the old Norse religion etc I could actually see the wheels start turning in his head, he had a moment when he looked at his religion through my eyes. My country tends to have that effect on people, the second generation of immigrants are less religious and the third are just as atheist as the rest of us (85% atheists, you are the weird one here if you are a believer).
It’s not really surprising that second and later generations are less religious. The PEW organization determined that the religious habits of the society into which one is born is the biggest determinate of a person’s religion.
I am autistic and I thought I had lucky shirts, all I actually meant was comfortable shirts. For instance, I found all longsleeved shirts as unlucky as they made me "feel bad" and by feel bad I literally mean made uncomfortable, a synonym for feeling bad but not the intended meaning.
I hated the feel of paper, so I had to put my wrist in my shirt so it didn't touch the paper when writing. Long sleeves were kind of preferred for school because of that. Hated jeans though.
@@bestaround3323 look into technical pants. They are so much more comfortable than jeans. They are also just incredibly practical, they tend to dry much faster and just allow you to walk around in rain, something you should never do in jeans, just a bad idea.
Mandy: What star sign is he? Wise man: Well, Capricorn. Mandy: Ehh, Capricorn, eh? What are they like? Wise men: He is the son of God, our Messiah. King of the Jews. Mandy: And that's Capricorn, is it? Wise man: No, no, no. That's just him. Mandy: Ohh, I was going to say, 'Otherwise, there'd be a lot of them.'
Too true. I spent about a year in a hospital, visiting someone and helping them after a horrible accident. Other than the one pastor they have on staff to talk to dying Catholics, there is no religious presence in a hospital. No one goes home early because the magic prayers came through, they don't assign nurses to pray for people, and there is a reason for that. I'm always amazed that religious types don't see the hypocrisy of going to the ER when they have chest pains, why not call your pastor? Oh, because he's a fraud and it's just a bigoted social club, right.
From the thumbnail it looks like they do the usual thing and just flip the definition on its head to exclude themselves from it like they do with slavery. "Yes, superstition is bad, but what we're doing is different!"
The blessed medals answer actually conflicts with latter answers such as the one with holy water. As for repeating the same short prayer, that's an effective means of self-hypnosis. It can put you into a state of euphoria that feels like you are in communication with the divine.
@@Madbeef878Altered mental states can be induced in anyone, and certain techniques (e.g. repeating a short phrase/mantra/prayer) are pretty consistent at causing particular states to happen. It's when people think those altered states are actually magic at work that we get into batshit territory...
I remember a story James Randi told about being in a Catholic gift shop at a large church as a child. He saw a priest, who didn't notice him behind a case, come in with a bag of little crosses. He dumped some of them into a basket labeled "blessed here", and then dumped some more, from the same bag, into a basket labeled "blessed in Rome".
Omg the Curse one triggered me. My mother is convinced that there is a generational curse placed on our family that we would all drop out of High School at the 11th grade. You see, My Mother, Uncle, brother and Grandmother all dropped at the 11th grade. Therefore, I would too even though she was a Born Again Evangelical Christian Baptized in the Holy Ghost, I was still cursed. So here I go into the 11th grade and she starts treating me as if I dropped out of school already, I pass the 11th grade and go into the 12th grade. I ended up with a super light schedule in 12th grade as I had meet 90% of the graduation requirements and ended up earning an Honors diploma. However, because this curse existed it had to come to pass so my mother resorted to actively trying to sabotage me. You see since i wasn't going to graduate i didn't need to stay up late to study or work on assignments. So I would get yelled at and cussed out for studying or doing homework. Also when it came time to pay Senior Dues: for Prom, Graduation and Year Book she refused to pay so i covered it out of what i earned from the free lance jobs i was doing.
Firstly, I'm so sorry you had to deal with that abuse from your mother when she should have given you her support. Whatever her excuse is, is shitty. She could have been trying to help you break the "curse" all that time instead, or at least congratulated you for doing so, and she choose not to. And choose to be jealous and threatened instead of happy. Secondly, congrats for graduating high school! I know it can't have been easy doing it without help and there are a lot of people who don't make it, even with help. You can take full credit for the hard work to take you that far. Good for you for never giving up.
As a Christian: my line in the sand is "if you think it gives you some kind of control over God or the universe, it's superstition/witchcraft/whatever term you want to use." The Prosperity Gospel (e.g. Kenneth Copeland) is a fantastic example of modern superstition/witchcraft within a supposedly Christian framework.
I think that if the Christians that I hung out with had stuck to the do unto others and a God is love so of course you will go to heaven when you die, I'd still call myself a Christian. But when the started claiming that you could pray or they could pray for you and God would do this or that for you, heal you of disease, fill your bank account with money, get you over this or that problem, a miracle happened. My eyes were opened and I realized it was all BS.
I guessed the answers to all the questions successfully. The cheat code is "All our superstitions are totally real real superstitions! All other superstitions are false and you're crazy for believing them!" See also every other religious denomination in existence.
@@justseffstuff3308 Technically I only got the second part of the answer (don't bury it upside-down). Part of the "our superstitions are really real" is to venerate those superstitions and don't treat them flippantly.
This is typical for the American branch of Catholicism... Over here, in central Europe, they're much more tame. By the way, the CBM thing is an old tradition, where children walk around the neighborhood, do a bit of caro... charol... singing on epiphany day, blessing the homes for the coming year. Those types of superstitions can actually be traced back at least to the ancient Greeks, which means that they've been done in unbroken line since the early bronze age! So, even while I see it as pure superstition, I still value these habits as a fascinating tradition worthy of protection.
With the amount of blessed water over the years. It would be difficult to find a glass of water that hasn't, at least partly, been blessed. Unless the blessing is removed somehow by the kidneys.
This made me laugh. I’m a Buddhist not a Christian. (Converted from the later to the former.) And I know that many of my practices are based around n superstition. For me it is more about making myself a better person and treating all humans with respect than afterlife stuff. I always wear my prayer beads, but I’m on the autism spectrum and have an anxiety disorder with a way for me to destress being fiddling with something in my hands. Prayer beads work great for me to calm and recenter myself. Plus people tend not to bother someone praying, so I’m also left alone at a time when human contact would only make things worse. True the odd fundamentalist Christian will scream at me that I am worshiping a demon and going to hell, but I’m also a sex-repulsed asexual who is demi-romantic just barely on the female side of nonbinary. They already think I’m evil incarnate, so who cares what they think lol😂
so u don't belive in religion. U belive in faith itself U're very close. U can just dump all ideas not based on evidences. If u will then persue to be better person u will end up even better then now. U can play with any stress relaxing toy instead of prayer beads, u don't need to add whole 'ideology' to it. It was proven many times that these things are just relaxing for our mind - especially for ppl with anxiety or autism. U can do the same things are before, just name them what they really are, it will be healthier for u
You're no better than a progressive Christian. , All they get from your story is prayer works. I understand that's not what you actually mean. You're telling fundamentalists faith is a rational. I assure you they don't care what kind of believer you are. They don't care if you're observant or not. They see someone praying and evidence everyone believes in a god. You can get the same results without advertising faith based thinking. Yes, that's not your fault. Yes, that's not fair As a Buddhist you understand life's not fair.
I feel like #5 (about the curses) is recognizing the power of the brain...if people believe things stronly enough, it can affect them physically. Simular to the placebo effect. I feel they did a lousy job explaining it because if they did, it would discredit their entire religion.
Yep, many of those things can be summed up that way. Being strongly convinced of your own good luck is actually helpful - in general at least. If you jump from a building because you are convinced you will survive.....not so much. SO yeah, it's a positive even If only as a stress inhibitor. Who woulda thought that being stress free improves your life?
I would have been interested in the opinion of their "Exorcist" as to whether demonic possession is a superstition. They obviously believe in witchcraft and curses, still. Is it only superstition if the demon is from a different religion?
So.. if I would abuse mentally my gf or kid im not abuser but a curse caster - funny thing is that i'm living in so catholic country that it could even work in court xD They made much worse things in the name of this shit and nobody is in jail yet
Theres 3 reasons to enjoy horoscopes without believing in them 1) checking out if uranus is up to anything amsuing 2) reading your friends signs and taking the most unreasonable reading of their future possible. Then tell them about the extreme life changes theyre about to go through 3) using the Barnum effect to your advantage. At the end of the day, the advice is generally good, though I did sometimes have to shop around other star signs to get some that was helpful to me.
Writing C+M+B (three holy kings) and a year with chalk on front doors of houses is a habit here in Germany practiced by the "Sternsinger" (star singers) referring to Christ's birth. Religious people see it as a lucky charm.
As an former Catholic i can tell you there is an enormous amount of difference of inside and outside of the church practices. In latin America for example is ussually comes down on how Catholic teaching from Spain became intermixed with the original inhabitants beliefs. A perfect example is the day of the dead from Mexico, a clear mix of former aztec and christian ideas of the afterlife. In the Caribbean is santeria. The slaves brought from Africa were forved to convert. They continued their practices renaming their original nature forces based deities with saints of the Catholic church. It survives very well even today. I see that Catholics in the US are equally superstitious, i would like very much to learn about the origins of those ideas. The are usually based on old or forgotten church teachings combined with geographical isolation and sectarism.
09:06 _"The Plus Sign represents The Cross"_ I went to one of those horrible non-school A.C.E. psuedo homeschool "schools" with no teachers and just workbooks. To give you an idea of their mindset, they told us how + was really a cross, but "the world" had chopped the bottom off, and X was also really a cross rather than a letter, but "the world" had turned it on it's side 'cause Satan. I beat the supervisor's (babysitter) high score on Q-Bert one day and we were all banned from using the computer after that. They stole our pencils and paper claiming we "had too much". I'm proud to have been the straw that shut them down.
Suffered through a year of home school. Your experience sounds similar to mine; just a workbook, no instruction, do it yourself and don't bother mommy! It was so easy to get the answer key from where mom hid it, and get a couple wrong so I wasn't tipping my hand, and walk through my junior year of high school. And then I was old enough to decide on going to a public school finally. I had already given up on the religious nonsense and couldn't wait to get away from that influence.
An ex-Catholic friend told me that when she was a kid she worried about eating Communion wafers because she felt like she was biting Jesus and might hurt him.
Holy water definitely has power - I've seen it work. In Castlevania, on level 5, you can stun lock the Grim Reaper with the Holy Water and Double Shot and absolutely destroy him.
At the bank recently, the cashier said (in a jokey conversation), "bless you." I asked if she was using her wand, because the Potter books make it clear that wandless magic is inferior. When leaving, she said it again. All smiles, so I reminded her about using a wand, "you've got to read the book to understand. yes, all 3,500 pages."
Life is uncertain. You do what you can even if it is only chalking a spell over your door at the beginning of the year. Many of these old rituals move my feelings with empathy for our forebears. I'm also grateful for everyone who goes beyond that to find ways to make life easier for everyone.
european here, the door chalking thing is mostly done over here. They just write some symbols over your front door with chalk once a year. While some people still believe having their house blessed protects them, others just see it as a tradition
Years ago a friend at university got a degree in arts and then got a job with a newspaper and magazine publisher. He came back to our student union bar and told us he had been tasked with writing the horoscopes for a couple of girls' comics. He was not a professional astrologer.
When the Catholic Church demoted St. Christopher to "nice guy, helpful near rivers, but not a saint," my mom nearly had a crisis of faith, but she carried on.
A mate of mine and I got a side gig writing the horoscopes for our local free paper. My favourite, for Taureans, "Avoid people of Albanian abstraction!" It involved beer and a rotating cast of "psychic" advisors, the public bar miscreants in the pub.
Ex-catholic here: Anyone else assign spell levels to the various rote incantations? It was amusing until I started escorting at clinics and saw a bunch of monks casting Bane.
chalking magical incantations over doors is a definite thing here in Germany. It seems to be a bit rarer than even a few years ago, but I do still see it.
Christians will call other religious people witches for practicing any spellwork more involved than a prayer and then write equations in chalk above their door like they're dnd wizards lmao
do u think it's weird? Look up how priests are fighing with real demons! Aka exorcism Really u should look how dude in dress is trying to cast speels on gay to repel gay demon! I recommend smoking a little weed before, u will be closer mentally to these people
Even when I was a Catholic I still would have said it was all superstition (which probably explains why I became an atheist as soon as I started developing critical thinking skills).
Great scene in the Exorcist when one of the priests sprays water on Regan (the "possessed" girl) who winces. But the priest then reveals that it was tap not holy water. It must have meant something, or not.
I was actually on a date with this Catholic girl once. she brought up her birthday and I said something like "ooh, a Sagittarius" and she just blurted out "I don't worship false idols" in the sternest tone, staring daggers straight into my soul. I dropped it and tried to bring up another topic, but she just ate in silence... and then left... 😂
Ironically many Protestants view the tendency of Catholics to decorate churches with statues and images and their veneration of various saints as idol worship. Some of them make the ridiculous claim that Catholics aren't Christians, despite them having been the only Christians for about 1500 years.
I've been an atheist for years, but I was raised and confirmed Catholic. The beliefs I grew up with sound a lot stranger from an outside perspective than they did when I was still a believer. Regarding the quiz itself, I spent two years at the University of Salzburg when I was in grad school. I remember seeing the 19 C+B+M xx all over the city. I never thought to ask anyone what it meant. It wasn't a custom among Catholics that I knew in my area of Wisconsin, when I was growing up...
@@irrelevant_noob the trevi fountain is visited 10.5 million tourists every year, hardly pocket change. Also most people don't seek out orphanages to donate a Euro or two. Its far more efficient the way it is
Hi. For the question number three: They sould cunsult with a few relatives of the soldiers, who died in wars after their tanks or weapons got blessed. Those tanks or weapons must be counts as "blessed metals."
Question: "Praying the same short prayer over and over like a mantra is more superstitious than prayerful." Catholic article answer: "Repeating a short prayer over and over connects you with God. Mantras not connecting with God but believing it has some power is occult." Bible answer Matthew 6:7 : "But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking." And these are the people who condemn others for being non biblical? They have the gall to chastise other Catholics for burying a saint Josef statue because it 'isn't biblical' when their own answers are just as non-biblical. "judge not lest you be judged" is also a thing the bible says, it seems to be the one that most Christians have trouble with.
I did an onion growing competition with some friends, and in order to win I built a small temple to Xipe Totec, but I didn’t win. My brother recommended Chacmool, so I have smited my old temple and will build a bigger one for Chacmool. I’m definitely going to win next year. Strangely my friends think I’m not serious, and some people have been offended by my choices and temple building. I’m still going to win the onion growing competition.
Xochipilli is the one you should build shrine to. Onion for contest is not harvest, it is pretty like flowers. Build shrine to Xochipilli, you will win. This is the way.
@@SorenPenrose we ate all of the onions we grew, so I’m sticking with Chacmool. Anyway, I’ve already built a giant altar and sacrificed a yew branch on it. Chacmool might smite me if I try to change horses at this point.
@@KevNpton okay yes that’s good practice. But if it doesn’t yield, maybe next year? Maybe I’m evangelizing but I had a beautiful kitty who lived in a flower pot named Xochi and he was murdered by a stray Tom cat. I can get a little pushy about Xochipilli idols.
What if I chalk 666? 1 six for Noah, who was 600 years old when the flood started, 1 six for God who created the world in 6 days, and 1 six for Daniel who spent 6 days in the lion's den.
I've always wanted to writer horroscopes for a newspaper.... but a little different then your used to. Things like "Aquarius: You will find money today please take the time to enjoy it because at midnight a rogue asteroid will crash through your roof and kill you instantly... your lucky numbers are 6, 9, 4, 2." YOu know good practical advice that will apply broadly with very realistic preditions.
@@reed6514 yours would be: Your romantic partner will leave you, rats will eat all of your food, and your head will be used as a ping pong ball in a game between Godzilla and King Kong. Remember to eat more salads
Semi-OT - Many people read horoscopes in the same spirit with which they try to figure out their Hogwarts house, or take an online personality quiz that asks about your favorite movies or television characters. It's just an amusing game.
The Pottermore site placed me in Griffindor, and my ideal wand is 14" elder with a phoenix feather core. But as a more traditional wizard I prefer a staff.
OMG my mother in law chalked something over her doors. She also wore at least 20 medals around her neck. You know, if you believe in god so much you need to make sure you are wearing the "right" one. The books she used to give me were freaking crazy. Insane!
The Catholic website should have a quiz you can take so you can determine if your religion is witchcraft. Here are some suggested yes or no questions for the quiz. Answer these questions with either yes or no. 1) do people officiating at the church sometimes wear ceremonial robes? 2) do the church rituals sometimes use candles? 3) do the church rituals sometimes use incense? 4) do the church rituals sometimes have ritual chanting led by the priest/leader? 5) does the church sometimes use "magic potions" ( any liquid believed to have special supernatural qualities)? 6) do the church rituals claim to perform magical transformations ( for example, something that is not human flesh being turned into human flesh? 7) do some of the church rituals involve the priest/leader speaking to or commanding demons? 8( do some church rituals involve the priest/leader using formalized gesturing with their hands? If you answered yes to any of these questions, your church is probably engaged in some form of witchcraft.
@@annahgibbus8 Practitioners of witchcraft would tell you there is no such thing. What people call black witchcraft is actually satanism. Satan is a Bible entity, witches don't believe in Satan or the god of the Bible.
I've never heard the chalking the doorway for epiphany, I grew up Catholic and my mom was a Catechism teacher, every spring break I had as a kid was spent at a convent where my mom went to seminars for Catechism teachers....and still I've never heard of this malarkey
@@jasmirris maybe, I'm in the Pacific Northwest, where Catholics are kind of a minority (in comparison to other branches of Christianity) but if it is a regional thing that just makes it more of a superstition, which contradicts the "answer" in the quiz
Very common practice in counties that are predominantly catholic like Poland. Priest goes to every household and ‘blesses’ it, happens some time after Christmas Day. Thames me back to my childhood - never did understand what it was about but a nice enough ritual
" Please, stop asking me why I make fun of religion, because I already told you why so many times before, BECAUSE IT'S MENTAL, there now you don't have to keep asking me." - Ricky Gervais.
Oh how unfortunate. I used to work for a municipal water supplier. Most days were spent making rounds to the various well pump houses, taking readings, samples, and adjusting chlorine and sodium hydroxide levels. Occasionally, I would catch the Mother Mary or Even Jesus himself blessing the water.
If blessing something by a priest is made blessed by God, then wy they not just bless the whole planet, and everone got blessed at once, therefore all of us get saved?
My twin was out for a walk with his wife and daughter and his wife was talking about horoscopes. He responded with, “Ah, but we Virgos do not believe in horoscopes.” His daughter laughed at this obvious joke but his wife picked it up and replied as if it were a serious observation.
the only 'real' curse is the curse of religious dogmatism upon humanity. took us thousands of years to discover we aren't the center of the universe, because every dogmatic religion said (and is saying) that we are.
So fortunate to have recognized many decades ago there was something uncomfortable about my Catholic upbringing. I quietly walked away and have become increasing angry over the years realizing how intimidation, guilt and fear were used as a control mechanism. It's also increasing difficult to be around family and friends who are believers. A delicate balance of silence and logic gets me through these awkward encounters.
This reminds me of the time 15-20 years ago when I read a Catholic website that claimed to have 10 non-religious reasons why people should not support same-sex marriage. Spoiler alert, almost all of the reasons were religious. The others were about sex, not marriage.
Guaranteed this is a whole "it's only superstition when it's someone else's religion" situation.
My religion (Zoroastrianism) doesn't need to. We are explicitly anti-ritualist, especially the sect that I follow, Mazdakism, a proto- communist sect. (I interpret Zoroastrianism as communist)
@@TheMilitantMazdakite
Zoroastrianism doesn't seem to have very many followers left.
Also "all religions are cults except MY religion".
@stormthrush37 I was born into a RC family, baptised before I was 4 weeks old and sent to RC schools. At the age of 6 I applied my critical thinking skills and became an atheist but obviously at that age could not "come out" as such. What were my issues with the RC religion? Reason A was I was told non RC people say "example A", reason B was "non RC people do "example B" and reason C was "non RC people believe "example C". You can put nearly anything into A, B and C as examples and it applies to RC as much as any other religion and even though at the age of 6 I did not know the word hypocrisy I certainly recognised it. Thinking about other religions I rapidly came to the conclusion that if the gods of other religions were false why couldn't the RC god be equally false. As far I as I am concerned people with religions are acting childishly by not applying such critical thinking to their own beliefs.
I was expecting the end of this quiz to have a line "If you had to do this quiz then you are superstitious" 🤔
@@thomasridley8675You think I don't know that?!
This questionaire is actually, 'are your specific superstitions sanctioned by the Catholic Church'.
It would have been far more interesting to have a whole bunch of superstitions and then find out some of them are sanctioned by Muslims, some are sanctioned by Druids, etc, etc.
Plus there’s a lot of different origins to superstitions; some are still religious in nature (like 666 from Revelations, or the number 13 AFAIK coming from the Last Supper, originally being about 13 people eating at one table but then evolving from there), but others aren’t, either coming from religious/supernatural beliefs no longer remembered (knocking on wood may come from ancient pagan/Druidic beliefs about invoking protective nature spirits from trees), unfortunate coincidences (white Zippo lighters are seen as unlucky because a couple of dead celebrities had them on their persons, the number 4 is unlucky in Japan because _shi_ means both 4 and death), once-sound advice taken out of context (not lighting three cigarettes from one match came from wartime blackout rules to avoid being seen at night, not whistling during a play comes from backstage workers using whistling to communicate before headsets were a thing and not wanting a mistaken command to cause an accident), or simple habit (lucky trinkets, not stepping on cracks in the sidewalk).
@@KnakuanaRka Feel free to argue, I'm not totally sure, but it all looks like pretty religious kind of thought to me.
That's a perfect title and description.
Do whatever steps you want if
You have cleared them with the Pontiff.
@@KnakuanaRka "There’s a lot of different origins to superstitions; some are still religious in nature (like the number 13 coming from the Last Supper, originally being about 13 people eating at one table but then evolving from there)"
That isn't where 13 being unlucky comes from.
Prime numbers do not divide evenly.
Thus prime numbers tend to be attributed as "Special"
3rd times the charm.
Lucky 7.
Unlucky 13.
''My religion is the only true religion, all other religions are false'' - said every theist of every denomination of every religion.
Not necessarily. Pagan religions incorporated pantheons of other faiths.
Nah, just monotheists.
I really like "We are Gods chosen people"
-said every religious nutcase ever.
Jesus said he is the truth .
@@RobertStambaugh-l5r An old, translated, and recopied book said that someone, decades after Jesus supposedly died, said that Jesus said he is the truth. That doesn't make it so.
When missionaries come to my door and ask if I am a Christian (follower of Jesus, or whatever) I always answer, "No, I'm not superstitious." Many of them seem shocked by this response and say, of course, they also are not superstitious. Then I ask then to define "superstitious", and the pretzel twisting and knot tying ensues, usually tangling fear, evil or ignorance into their definition. Then I simplify it for them. "Superstition is a belief in the reality of supernatural forces, influences, places or beings. That is what the "super" in superstitious represents." After a pause, they usually excuse themselves and leave. Oh, well.
Yeah, I know, you're trying to be a nice guy and everything and they just don't seem to get you at all and the communications just not there and it's a real bummer man it's like it shouldn't be that way but people are really Frozen in the way they think man and they really need to open up their minds man to a much better way to be you know but but they just don't seem to be interested in seeing the wider view and and reaching a higher state of consciousness you know and so all we can do is do it for them and think of them when we do it and it's too bad they won't join us.
Oddly, when you look up the etymology, "superstition" turns out to mean, "to over-stand." It's literally the opposite of understanding.
@@danielkeys8974. That is correct. Super means above, on top of, or outside of. Stition means standing or position. In this context it means normal logic and awareness.
Similarly supernatural means above or outside nature. But nature encompasses everything that exists. So supernatural means means outside reality.
@@jamesarnette1394 People are taught to be afraid to question and to not believe. Sometimes a gentle in the right direction helps. THe most of the time, it's futile, but I don't have time to listen to their twaddle.
You could also say "no, magic is make believe".
Holy water. I’m reminded of a story that happened to a friend of mine. She was 10 at the time and a devout catholic like the rest of her family ... well, like the rest of the whole village she lived in. (50 years ago in a rural area of province of Quebec ...) Her mom has a bad cough that won’t end. She gives a small bottle to her daughter so she would go to the presbytery asking the priest for holy water. Marie-Claude thought the priest had a special spring or well in the basement and she would witness him draw holy water. She is so excited. A little shy, nervous and impressed she meets the priest and explains what her mom needs. The priest takes the bottle, opens the kitchen tap, fills the bottle, makes a cross sign over it, screw on the cap and hands it back to Marie-Claude. She says that’s the day she started losing faith.
You're friend's mom lucked out. Holy water absolutely has power; the power of pestilence. Those public cups or whatever they call them, think about all the people sticking their hands in them, day after day, and I doubt it even gets bleached. Holy tap water was _by far_ the safer alternative.
@@jdlesslIf the power of pestilence is the specific kind of power holy water uses, does that make Flint, Michigan's tap water the best conduit for it?
@@noc9901Ah, a fellow master of the occult, I see 😉
@@jdlesslonce I read that the real miracle of Lourdes was that people didn’t get sick all the time. 😂
u had lack that her church sucked. In poland we need to take it from special place and whole ritual of adding power to it is in church, it's once a year and there is whole hour spent on casting spells on it.
I think many more ppl wouldn't treat it as something hole if they would see what your mother saw. Sadly these morons think that this water have power so during pandemic they still putted their hands in bowl of water.. hundreds of ppl during pandemic.. Churches were last thing we closed up and first thing we opened again..
"Nooooo.... only OUR nonsense is real! Don't you dare start believing that OTHER nonsense!"
What utter nonsense. Our nonsense is far more satisfying. Guaranteed 14.1% more wish-fulfillment with only 5.9% more guilt.
100% Guaranteed. First thing I thought when I saw the headline.
"Our superstitions are better zhan zheir superstitions."
This whole quiz is just a special pleading fallacy for their superstition not counting as superstition. So transparent it hurts that they don’t see it.
Also a pretty comprehensive Appeal to Authority fallacy.
As a catholic I could not agree more
wait you mean the "23 + C + M + B + 23" above my grandma's nursing home door was a religious thing and not an obtuse passcode hint for the door keypad? This goes against every puzzle game I've ever played.
I had never heard that one before today. Absolutely wild.
@@BradPrichard The US is mostly protestant and not catholic, right? I think that's purely a catholic thing. Here in Europe, or Germany specifically, this was quite a common sight at older folk's homes.
@@Photatum Definitely more protestant than Catholic, but probably like a third of the people in my hometown were Catholic, so I'm surprised I didn't know of this one.
For certain wings the door code is next to the door in the form of a simple word puzzle.
Like
"A man went for an 8 minute walk.
He stopped by the flower store to buy 3 roses.
The man paid 5 dollars for them.
When he got home he got 2 vases to put them in."
The code would then obviously be 8352. This is so people with memory loss don't wander off. As they would be unable to find the code.
@@bestaround3323 A common practice here (Australia) is to use the home's zip code. That way temporary staff and visitors already know the code, but the residents don't.
Actually, these short prayers really work! Here's my favourite:
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
I've got that on my bathroom mirror, it helps with my anxiety.
This is mine:
Peace is a lie. There is only Passion.
Through Passion, I gain Strength.
Through Strength, I gain Power.
Through Power, I gain Victory.
Through Victory my chains are Broken.
The Force shall free me
@@hannahbrennan2131During Covid three years ago, someone posted the LAF (with associated little pictures) in the bathroom for helping us to wash our hands long enough. You can probably find it by searching for "litany against fear hand washing chart". (One site was called "Joey deVilla's Personal Blog" but there are probably others.)
sooner or later someone will talk about how they went insane...
on the other hand, there's a couple fake funny prayers I used to do when I was a kid and people would ask me to pray; the only one I remember though is for "St. Amavapa", in which you very quickly bless the person so (1) they hear the B-word that birthed me (2) and go back inside the B-word that birthed them, (3) that B-word goes into the B-word that birthed them, (4) and she goes into the B-word that birthed us, (5) [same] ...birthed Y'alls' B-word (6) and all goes deep into the B-word that we call god... amen... basically doing a verb conjugation of the verb "to shove something into a whoohaa" and using cursewords quick enough that they get stunned with it all 🤣🤣🤣
and yes, being hit by a catholic mom was like the cherry on top of it all, until they learned not to force me to lead prayers when I was an atheist for years on end, and still forced to follow their BS
It is by superstition alone I halt my mind. It is by the holy water that mouths acquire bacteria, the lips acquire pustules, the pustules become a warning. It is by superstition alone I halt my mind.
I had a really interesting discussion with a muslim taxi driver that drove me home. I live in the countryside in Sweden, with one kilometre to my nearest neighbour. My house is at least 313 years old and stands on top of ruins of a medieval house, that in itself stands on top of a Viking age longhouse. Next to it you find the remains of a Bronze age village. The grounds are, as many of you probably can figure out, totally littered with graves.
When we came to my driveway, he wondered if I wasn't afraid of any wild animals, where I told him that as a former Stockholmare, I was more afraid of the animal homo sapiens. Then he saw some of the graves (they are mounds, so fairly hard to miss) and wondered if I wasn't afraid of ghosts. I replied that I am an atheist, so I don't believe in ghosts (well, I'm fairly certain that there is a goblin living in my house, because I couldn't possibly be responsible for misplacing my stuff all of the time myself....😉). He then said, that believing in ghosts were different than being religious. When I then replied that it wasn't and that I see his religion as just mythological stories just like the Greek gods, the old Norse religion etc I could actually see the wheels start turning in his head, he had a moment when he looked at his religion through my eyes.
My country tends to have that effect on people, the second generation of immigrants are less religious and the third are just as atheist as the rest of us (85% atheists, you are the weird one here if you are a believer).
Well, damn. My friend is Swedish and a pagan (Kemetic specifically.)
isn't polytheism growing in the Scandinavian countries, too? (Also, no, a more equal share of the imperialist plunder is not a utopia)
It’s not really surprising that second and later generations are less religious.
The PEW organization determined that the religious habits of the society into which one is born is the biggest determinate of a person’s religion.
@@TheMilitantMazdakite No, atheism are growing though.
@@HotBaraDad666 Kemetic is quite unusual here. If you are pagan, you are more likely to believe in the old faith of the land.
I am autistic and I thought I had lucky shirts, all I actually meant was comfortable shirts. For instance, I found all longsleeved shirts as unlucky as they made me "feel bad" and by feel bad I literally mean made uncomfortable, a synonym for feeling bad but not the intended meaning.
I can’t wear long sleeve shirts.
@@zorakj yeah I don’t own any. It’s part of my lore in TTRPGs and even in real life to a degree I suppose.
I hated the feel of paper, so I had to put my wrist in my shirt so it didn't touch the paper when writing. Long sleeves were kind of preferred for school because of that. Hated jeans though.
@@bestaround3323 look into technical pants. They are so much more comfortable than jeans. They are also just incredibly practical, they tend to dry much faster and just allow you to walk around in rain, something you should never do in jeans, just a bad idea.
@@bestaround3323 I’m glad my sensitivity to paper is only occasional. I can’t imagine how much more awful school could’ve been.
Religion and superstition are pretty much the same thing.
There is one difference, superstition isn't an organization made to con people.
@@PabloSanchez-qu6ib Con artists do use superstition to prey on vulnerable people. Spirit mediums, ghost hunters, etc.
@@hannahbrennan2131 yes, but the preponderantly use existing superstition, churches tend to create the superstitions.
@@PabloSanchez-qu6ib Good point.
@@PabloSanchez-qu6ib Do you have any evidence that it was made to con people.
I have to admit that horoscopes are a lot of fun to read - solely because they are consistently wrong about everything!
I like to read mine sometimes too, even though I don't take it seriously.
Actually, they're so VAGUE about everything they have to get it right - and wrong - for every person on the planet.
Mandy: What star sign is he?
Wise man: Well, Capricorn.
Mandy: Ehh, Capricorn, eh? What are they like?
Wise men: He is the son of God, our Messiah. King of the Jews.
Mandy: And that's Capricorn, is it?
Wise man: No, no, no. That's just him.
Mandy: Ohh, I was going to say, 'Otherwise, there'd be a lot of them.'
@@christasimon9716 Love that movie.
You must be a Taurus.
If prayers worked, ambulances would take people to churches!
Too true. I spent about a year in a hospital, visiting someone and helping them after a horrible accident. Other than the one pastor they have on staff to talk to dying Catholics, there is no religious presence in a hospital. No one goes home early because the magic prayers came through, they don't assign nurses to pray for people, and there is a reason for that. I'm always amazed that religious types don't see the hypocrisy of going to the ER when they have chest pains, why not call your pastor? Oh, because he's a fraud and it's just a bigoted social club, right.
If prayer worked, there wouldn't be any illnesses or injuries to treat.
If prayer worked we all would believe in god.
From the thumbnail it looks like they do the usual thing and just flip the definition on its head to exclude themselves from it like they do with slavery.
"Yes, superstition is bad, but what we're doing is different!"
funnily enough, this was also NFT's. every one of them lambasted the others saying that they were scams, "but what we're doing is different" 🤡
I think failing this test is actually a sign of intelligence.
What I got from this was "Everything you do is superstitious, unless you have paid a priest or exorcist to really make it work."
The blessed medals answer actually conflicts with latter answers such as the one with holy water. As for repeating the same short prayer, that's an effective means of self-hypnosis. It can put you into a state of euphoria that feels like you are in communication with the divine.
I can only see that working if you're already a little 'bat-shit crazy', to begin with...
@@Madbeef878Altered mental states can be induced in anyone, and certain techniques (e.g. repeating a short phrase/mantra/prayer) are pretty consistent at causing particular states to happen.
It's when people think those altered states are actually magic at work that we get into batshit territory...
It's a fiorm of meditation like a mantra.
I remember a story James Randi told about being in a Catholic gift shop at a large church as a child. He saw a priest, who didn't notice him behind a case, come in with a bag of little crosses. He dumped some of them into a basket labeled "blessed here", and then dumped some more, from the same bag, into a basket labeled "blessed in Rome".
Omg the Curse one triggered me. My mother is convinced that there is a generational curse placed on our family that we would all drop out of High School at the 11th grade. You see, My Mother, Uncle, brother and Grandmother all dropped at the 11th grade. Therefore, I would too even though she was a Born Again Evangelical Christian Baptized in the Holy Ghost, I was still cursed. So here I go into the 11th grade and she starts treating me as if I dropped out of school already, I pass the 11th grade and go into the 12th grade. I ended up with a super light schedule in 12th grade as I had meet 90% of the graduation requirements and ended up earning an Honors diploma. However, because this curse existed it had to come to pass so my mother resorted to actively trying to sabotage me. You see since i wasn't going to graduate i didn't need to stay up late to study or work on assignments. So I would get yelled at and cussed out for studying or doing homework. Also when it came time to pay Senior Dues: for Prom, Graduation and Year Book she refused to pay so i covered it out of what i earned from the free lance jobs i was doing.
Firstly, I'm so sorry you had to deal with that abuse from your mother when she should have given you her support. Whatever her excuse is, is shitty. She could have been trying to help you break the "curse" all that time instead, or at least congratulated you for doing so, and she choose not to. And choose to be jealous and threatened instead of happy.
Secondly, congrats for graduating high school! I know it can't have been easy doing it without help and there are a lot of people who don't make it, even with help. You can take full credit for the hard work to take you that far. Good for you for never giving up.
As a Christian: my line in the sand is "if you think it gives you some kind of control over God or the universe, it's superstition/witchcraft/whatever term you want to use."
The Prosperity Gospel (e.g. Kenneth Copeland) is a fantastic example of modern superstition/witchcraft within a supposedly Christian framework.
I think that if the Christians that I hung out with had stuck to the do unto others and a God is love so of course you will go to heaven when you die, I'd still call myself a Christian. But when the started claiming that you could pray or they could pray for you and God would do this or that for you, heal you of disease, fill your bank account with money, get you over this or that problem, a miracle happened. My eyes were opened and I realized it was all BS.
The Prosperity Gospel was devised by preachers to increase their own prosperity by taking advantage of others' desire for prosperity.
I guessed the answers to all the questions successfully. The cheat code is "All our superstitions are totally real real superstitions! All other superstitions are false and you're crazy for believing them!" See also every other religious denomination in existence.
Wait, how'd you get the one about the statue?
@@justseffstuff3308 Technically I only got the second part of the answer (don't bury it upside-down). Part of the "our superstitions are really real" is to venerate those superstitions and don't treat them flippantly.
You actually did all 10 questions. You deserve some sort of (holy) medal for your efforts.
Preferably made out of blessed metal…
We should buy him a plaque with that 23 + 23 Catholic protective amulet inscribed on it.
You know, for protection.
And with a straight face! He didn't even bust out laughing! I wonder how many "takes" that took? 😀
How do you make holy water?
Boil the hell out of it!
😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂🙂🙃
This is typical for the American branch of Catholicism...
Over here, in central Europe, they're much more tame.
By the way, the CBM thing is an old tradition, where children walk around the neighborhood, do a bit of caro... charol... singing on epiphany day, blessing the homes for the coming year.
Those types of superstitions can actually be traced back at least to the ancient Greeks, which means that they've been done in unbroken line since the early bronze age!
So, even while I see it as pure superstition, I still value these habits as a fascinating tradition worthy of protection.
With the amount of blessed water over the years. It would be difficult to find a glass of water that hasn't, at least partly, been blessed. Unless the blessing is removed somehow by the kidneys.
Anyone who has ever played Castlevania knows holy water has actual power.
This made me laugh. I’m a Buddhist not a Christian. (Converted from the later to the former.) And I know that many of my practices are based around n superstition. For me it is more about making myself a better person and treating all humans with respect than afterlife stuff. I always wear my prayer beads, but I’m on the autism spectrum and have an anxiety disorder with a way for me to destress being fiddling with something in my hands. Prayer beads work great for me to calm and recenter myself. Plus people tend not to bother someone praying, so I’m also left alone at a time when human contact would only make things worse. True the odd fundamentalist Christian will scream at me that I am worshiping a demon and going to hell, but I’m also a sex-repulsed asexual who is demi-romantic just barely on the female side of nonbinary. They already think I’m evil incarnate, so who cares what they think lol😂
so u don't belive in religion. U belive in faith itself
U're very close. U can just dump all ideas not based on evidences. If u will then persue to be better person u will end up even better then now. U can play with any stress relaxing toy instead of prayer beads, u don't need to add whole 'ideology' to it. It was proven many times that these things are just relaxing for our mind - especially for ppl with anxiety or autism.
U can do the same things are before, just name them what they really are, it will be healthier for u
You're no better than a progressive Christian. , All they get from your story is prayer works. I understand that's not what you actually mean. You're telling fundamentalists faith is a rational. I assure you they don't care what kind of believer you are. They don't care if you're observant or not. They see someone praying and evidence everyone believes in a god. You can get the same results without advertising faith based thinking. Yes, that's not your fault. Yes, that's not fair As a Buddhist you understand life's not fair.
I love prayer beads. And if you get to Hell first, be sure to save me a seat.
I feel like #5 (about the curses) is recognizing the power of the brain...if people believe things stronly enough, it can affect them physically. Simular to the placebo effect.
I feel they did a lousy job explaining it because if they did, it would discredit their entire religion.
Yep, many of those things can be summed up that way. Being strongly convinced of your own good luck is actually helpful - in general at least. If you jump from a building because you are convinced you will survive.....not so much. SO yeah, it's a positive even If only as a stress inhibitor.
Who woulda thought that being stress free improves your life?
An effective curse would be a nocebo. Placebos can be things like faith healing, holy water, communion wine, etc.
I would have been interested in the opinion of their "Exorcist" as to whether demonic possession is a superstition. They obviously believe in witchcraft and curses, still. Is it only superstition if the demon is from a different religion?
@@pattheplanter Well it's only these religious people that believe in demons...
So.. if I would abuse mentally my gf or kid im not abuser but a curse caster - funny thing is that i'm living in so catholic country that it could even work in court xD They made much worse things in the name of this shit and nobody is in jail yet
That was very humorous, Hemant. Well, it was until it occurred to me that some people would take the quiz seriously.
23 + C + M + B + 23 = 0
46 + C + M + B = 0 //-46
C + M + B = -46
we now need 2 more equations to solve this.
Theres 3 reasons to enjoy horoscopes without believing in them
1) checking out if uranus is up to anything amsuing
2) reading your friends signs and taking the most unreasonable reading of their future possible. Then tell them about the extreme life changes theyre about to go through
3) using the Barnum effect to your advantage. At the end of the day, the advice is generally good, though I did sometimes have to shop around other star signs to get some that was helpful to me.
Writing C+M+B (three holy kings) and a year with chalk on front doors of houses is a habit here in Germany practiced by the "Sternsinger" (star singers) referring to Christ's birth. Religious people see it as a lucky charm.
As an former Catholic i can tell you there is an enormous amount of difference of inside and outside of the church practices. In latin America for example is ussually comes down on how Catholic teaching from Spain became intermixed with the original inhabitants beliefs. A perfect example is the day of the dead from Mexico, a clear mix of former aztec and christian ideas of the afterlife. In the Caribbean is santeria. The slaves brought from Africa were forved to convert. They continued their practices renaming their original nature forces based deities with saints of the Catholic church. It survives very well even today. I see that Catholics in the US are equally superstitious, i would like very much to learn about the origins of those ideas. The are usually based on old or forgotten church teachings combined with geographical isolation and sectarism.
09:06 _"The Plus Sign represents The Cross"_
I went to one of those horrible non-school A.C.E. psuedo homeschool "schools" with no teachers and just workbooks. To give you an idea of their mindset, they told us how + was really a cross, but "the world" had chopped the bottom off, and X was also really a cross rather than a letter, but "the world" had turned it on it's side 'cause Satan. I beat the supervisor's (babysitter) high score on Q-Bert one day and we were all banned from using the computer after that. They stole our pencils and paper claiming we "had too much". I'm proud to have been the straw that shut them down.
Suffered through a year of home school. Your experience sounds similar to mine; just a workbook, no instruction, do it yourself and don't bother mommy! It was so easy to get the answer key from where mom hid it, and get a couple wrong so I wasn't tipping my hand, and walk through my junior year of high school. And then I was old enough to decide on going to a public school finally. I had already given up on the religious nonsense and couldn't wait to get away from that influence.
In secular substance abuse recovery groups a very common comment is, "I am an addict/alcoholic and a recovering Catholic."
I was reading a comic on women vampires while I was a tween. One panel had a hobo with a hubcap that was blessed. So it sent the vampires flying.
I was six years old when "my catholic teachings" started NOT adding up. This was well before I new the word superstitious.
If you’d have worn your lucky socks, you’d have scored an extra point
Lucky socks bad. Holey socks good.
@@chinkasuyaro8983 Bless my cotton socks, oh Lord.
An ex-Catholic friend told me that when she was a kid she worried about eating Communion wafers because she felt like she was biting Jesus and might hurt him.
Holy water definitely has power - I've seen it work.
In Castlevania, on level 5, you can stun lock the Grim Reaper with the Holy Water and Double Shot and absolutely destroy him.
The best example of superstition I've seen was a card in someone's wallet which said "In case of accident, call a priest".
At the bank recently, the cashier said (in a jokey conversation), "bless you." I asked if she was using her wand, because the Potter books make it clear that wandless magic is inferior.
When leaving, she said it again. All smiles, so I reminded her about using a wand, "you've got to read the book to understand. yes, all 3,500 pages."
Life is uncertain. You do what you can even if it is only chalking a spell over your door at the beginning of the year. Many of these old rituals move my feelings with empathy for our forebears. I'm also grateful for everyone who goes beyond that to find ways to make life easier for everyone.
This is a sane and compassionate response.
02:28 _"Can we deduct points from _*_her_*_ ?"_
That's worthy of a clip
european here, the door chalking thing is mostly done over here. They just write some symbols over your front door with chalk once a year. While some people still believe having their house blessed protects them, others just see it as a tradition
I see the problem you had with this test. You should have stood on your left foot while closing your right eye. Then you'd have scored 100.
And this isn't even as silly as some of the things evangelical protestants believe.
#7 - Repeating a short prayer, over and over, is the Rosary.
Years ago a friend at university got a degree in arts and then got a job with a newspaper and magazine publisher. He came back to our student union bar and told us he had been tasked with writing the horoscopes for a couple of girls' comics. He was not a professional astrologer.
Feeling that you have to talk to invisible beings every day is superstition.
When the Catholic Church demoted St. Christopher to "nice guy, helpful near rivers, but not a saint," my mom nearly had a crisis of faith, but she carried on.
I'm not Catholic, but his demotion ruined M.A.S.H. for me, & Father Mulcahy. (sp??)
It's bad luck to be superstitious.
Don't throw pennies into a wishing well. Give them to the church along with the money you get from taking out a second mortgage on your house.
A mate of mine and I got a side gig writing the horoscopes for our local free paper. My favourite, for Taureans, "Avoid people of Albanian abstraction!"
It involved beer and a rotating cast of "psychic" advisors, the public bar miscreants in the pub.
Ex-catholic here: Anyone else assign spell levels to the various rote incantations? It was amusing until I started escorting at clinics and saw a bunch of monks casting Bane.
chalking magical incantations over doors is a definite thing here in Germany. It seems to be a bit rarer than even a few years ago, but I do still see it.
Christians will call other religious people witches for practicing any spellwork more involved than a prayer and then write equations in chalk above their door like they're dnd wizards lmao
do u think it's weird? Look up how priests are fighing with real demons! Aka exorcism
Really u should look how dude in dress is trying to cast speels on gay to repel gay demon! I recommend smoking a little weed before, u will be closer mentally to these people
Just took that Quiz. The lack of self-awareness is hilarious 😂😂
I've been rejected multiple times for being a Pisces. Just straight out the gate, "ew, I don't date Pisces." Fine then, I don't date idiots.
My mother-in-law was a Catholic who regularly attended mass and catholic funerals. She was one of the most superstitious people I have met.
All catholics are, it's their way.
Yeah, they try to throw you off with that Holy Water question, but everybody knows it's an important weapon for fighting vampires.
Also helps deal with the zombie apocalypse. Let me fill my water gun and several grenades (balloons)
In a few hundred thousand years people will be studying the Christian Mythology with Greek and Roman Mythology.
Even when I was a Catholic I still would have said it was all superstition (which probably explains why I became an atheist as soon as I started developing critical thinking skills).
Great scene in the Exorcist when one of the priests sprays water on Regan (the "possessed" girl) who winces. But the priest then reveals that it was tap not holy water. It must have meant something, or not.
Captain Howdy was just messing with them. "She flinched from tap water! She's not really possessed!"
but holy water is tap water... but some wizard casted spells on it
@@jovialcupid9687 If you want holy water, you need a cleric, not a wizard. : )
I was actually on a date with this Catholic girl once. she brought up her birthday and I said something like "ooh, a Sagittarius" and she just blurted out "I don't worship false idols" in the sternest tone, staring daggers straight into my soul. I dropped it and tried to bring up another topic, but she just ate in silence... and then left... 😂
That kinda sucks... she could have been polite at least. But it seems you dodged a bullet.
Ironically many Protestants view the tendency of Catholics to decorate churches with statues and images and their veneration of various saints as idol worship. Some of them make the ridiculous claim that Catholics aren't Christians, despite them having been the only Christians for about 1500 years.
I've been an atheist for years, but I was raised and confirmed Catholic. The beliefs I grew up with sound a lot stranger from an outside perspective than they did when I was still a believer.
Regarding the quiz itself, I spent two years at the University of Salzburg when I was in grad school. I remember seeing the 19 C+B+M xx all over the city. I never thought to ask anyone what it meant. It wasn't a custom among Catholics that I knew in my area of Wisconsin, when I was growing up...
C+B+M stands for the three kings that came to Jesus' birth.
9:11 Ha, ha, ha! I felt the exact same way you reacted! I have never in all my 56 years of life ever heard of anything like chalking your door.
Fact: the Shroud Of Turin was made by one of my Italian ancestors in Comogli, Italy, 800 years ago.
This was gold, super well presented 🤣😆🔥
you should throw coins into fountains (when in Italy at least) the coins from those fountains are donated to orphanages
Meh, that's literally pocket change... Would be way more useful to just donate directly.
@@irrelevant_noob the trevi fountain is visited 10.5 million tourists every year, hardly pocket change.
Also most people don't seek out orphanages to donate a Euro or two. Its far more efficient the way it is
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For the question number three: They sould cunsult with a few relatives of the soldiers, who died in wars after their tanks or weapons got blessed. Those tanks or weapons must be counts as "blessed metals."
Question: "Praying the same short prayer over and over like a mantra is more superstitious than prayerful."
Catholic article answer: "Repeating a short prayer over and over connects you with God. Mantras not connecting with God but believing it has some power is occult."
Bible answer Matthew 6:7 : "But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking."
And these are the people who condemn others for being non biblical? They have the gall to chastise other Catholics for burying a saint Josef statue because it 'isn't biblical' when their own answers are just as non-biblical. "judge not lest you be judged" is also a thing the bible says, it seems to be the one that most Christians have trouble with.
Okay, I'll be taking this quiz before the premiere as prep. 😆
"Which witch was the witch that wished a wish?"
I did an onion growing competition with some friends, and in order to win I built a small temple to Xipe Totec, but I didn’t win. My brother recommended Chacmool, so I have smited my old temple and will build a bigger one for Chacmool. I’m definitely going to win next year. Strangely my friends think I’m not serious, and some people have been offended by my choices and temple building. I’m still going to win the onion growing competition.
Xochipilli is the one you should build shrine to. Onion for contest is not harvest, it is pretty like flowers. Build shrine to Xochipilli, you will win. This is the way.
@@SorenPenrose we ate all of the onions we grew, so I’m sticking with Chacmool. Anyway, I’ve already built a giant altar and sacrificed a yew branch on it. Chacmool might smite me if I try to change horses at this point.
@@KevNpton okay yes that’s good practice. But if it doesn’t yield, maybe next year?
Maybe I’m evangelizing but I had a beautiful kitty who lived in a flower pot named Xochi and he was murdered by a stray Tom cat. I can get a little pushy about Xochipilli idols.
What if I chalk 666?
1 six for Noah, who was 600 years old when the flood started,
1 six for God who created the world in 6 days, and
1 six for Daniel who spent 6 days in the lion's den.
I've always wanted to writer horroscopes for a newspaper.... but a little different then your used to. Things like "Aquarius: You will find money today please take the time to enjoy it because at midnight a rogue asteroid will crash through your roof and kill you instantly... your lucky numbers are 6, 9, 4, 2." YOu know good practical advice that will apply broadly with very realistic preditions.
Whew. I'm not an aquarius
@@reed6514 yours would be: Your romantic partner will leave you, rats will eat all of your food, and your head will be used as a ping pong ball in a game between Godzilla and King Kong. Remember to eat more salads
Semi-OT - Many people read horoscopes in the same spirit with which they try to figure out their Hogwarts house, or take an online personality quiz that asks about your favorite movies or television characters. It's just an amusing game.
The Pottermore site placed me in Griffindor, and my ideal wand is 14" elder with a phoenix feather core. But as a more traditional wizard I prefer a staff.
OMG my mother in law chalked something over her doors. She also wore at least 20 medals around her neck. You know, if you believe in god so much you need to make sure you are wearing the "right" one. The books she used to give me were freaking crazy. Insane!
The Catholic website should have a quiz you can take so you can determine if your religion is witchcraft. Here are some suggested yes or no questions for the quiz.
Answer these questions with either yes or no.
1) do people officiating at the church sometimes wear ceremonial robes?
2) do the church rituals sometimes use candles?
3) do the church rituals sometimes use incense?
4) do the church rituals sometimes have ritual chanting led by the priest/leader?
5) does the church sometimes use "magic potions" ( any liquid believed to have special supernatural qualities)?
6) do the church rituals claim to perform magical transformations ( for example, something that is not human flesh being turned into human flesh?
7) do some of the church rituals involve the priest/leader speaking to or commanding demons?
8( do some church rituals involve the priest/leader using formalized gesturing with their hands?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, your church is probably engaged in some form of witchcraft.
I agree & what's worse it's black witchcraft/magic.
@@annahgibbus8 Practitioners of witchcraft would tell you there is no such thing.
What people call black witchcraft is actually satanism. Satan is a Bible entity, witches don't believe in Satan or the god of the Bible.
I've never heard the chalking the doorway for epiphany, I grew up Catholic and my mom was a Catechism teacher, every spring break I had as a kid was spent at a convent where my mom went to seminars for Catechism teachers....and still I've never heard of this malarkey
Same here. It must be something that's regional.
@@jasmirris maybe, I'm in the Pacific Northwest, where Catholics are kind of a minority (in comparison to other branches of Christianity)
but if it is a regional thing that just makes it more of a superstition, which contradicts the "answer" in the quiz
Very common practice in counties that are predominantly catholic like Poland. Priest goes to every household and ‘blesses’ it, happens some time after Christmas Day. Thames me back to my childhood - never did understand what it was about but a nice enough ritual
" Please, stop asking me why I make fun of religion, because I already told you why so many times before, BECAUSE IT'S MENTAL, there now you don't have to keep asking me." - Ricky Gervais.
Who is this Ricky Garvas of whom you speak? I know Ricky Gervais, but not this Garvas character.
@@ShikataGaNai100 someone got the letters wrong on the billing...I'll talk to my Staff-Cat about that!
Oh how unfortunate.
I used to work for a municipal water supplier. Most days were spent making rounds to the various well pump houses, taking readings, samples, and adjusting chlorine and sodium hydroxide levels.
Occasionally, I would catch the Mother Mary or Even Jesus himself blessing the water.
If blessing something by a priest is made blessed by God, then wy they not just bless the whole planet, and everone got blessed at once, therefore all of us get saved?
Because then priests wouldn't have as many occasions to wear those cool robes and hats.
@@brygenon Understandable, have a nice day.
A “lucky shirt” becomes a problem if the owner refuses to wash it, which may also diminish their teams performance.
Don't forget saying the rosary means you've recited 50+ Hail Marys
No different from people saying affirmations or witchcraft 😂 😂 😂
@@t.l.c7481 Except that witchcraft works.
My twin was out for a walk with his wife and daughter and his wife was talking about horoscopes. He responded with, “Ah, but we Virgos do not believe in horoscopes.” His daughter laughed at this obvious joke but his wife picked it up and replied as if it were a serious observation.
Hey, we Pisces don't believe in horoscopes either 👍
Think of the average person and now realise 50% of the population is stupider than that. -George Carlin.
The responses are like horoscopes. They can mean whatever you want them to mean. 😂
Wait...this quiz isn't how to identify superstition, it's what ones are good and bad. How weird.
To quote Stevie Wonder:
When you believe in things you don't understand,
You suffer.
Superstition ain't the way.
It's all superstition.
My goodness , the writer of that survey must have a phd in naivety and gullibility
The irony is painful
Blessed metals and holy water have no effect in real life, but in the movies - The Unholy don't stand a chance!! LOL!
the only 'real' curse is the curse of religious dogmatism upon humanity.
took us thousands of years to discover we aren't the center of the universe, because every dogmatic religion said (and is saying) that we are.
It’s unlucky to be superstitious.
This quiz in a nutshell. (Spoiler) Everything that doesn't fit in our book is fake.
So fortunate to have recognized many decades ago there was something uncomfortable about my Catholic upbringing. I quietly walked away and have become increasing angry over the years realizing how intimidation, guilt and fear were used as a control mechanism. It's also increasing difficult to be around family and friends who are believers. A delicate balance of silence and logic gets me through these awkward encounters.
This reminds me of the time 15-20 years ago when I read a Catholic website that claimed to have 10 non-religious reasons why people should not support same-sex marriage. Spoiler alert, almost all of the reasons were religious. The others were about sex, not marriage.