What superstitions are we creating?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I just blessed someone for sneezing. Now, I don’t think I saved this person from having demons crawl up their nose, or having their soul leak out of their nostrils, but I know from experience that if you mess with this silly superstition, people get upset. Just follow up a sneeze with “God dammit!” or even “Godzilla!” and you get no smiles whatsoever. What you get is the cold shoulder.

How does anybody expect MY blessing to work? I’m not Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist or even atheist. I think you could call me agnostic. I’m humble enough to admit I don’t know what happens after we die (and amused by the notion that anyone thinks THEY know.)

So how come some morons five hundred years ago can make up some silly-ass reason all the people around them are dropping dead, and we’re still stuck with it? Well, we are. So be it.

What silly superstitions do you think modern people are inventing that will stick around some?

Example: If you forward this e-mail to a grillion people, good things will happen. (Like they won’t hate you? No, not that good, apparently.)

Will this practice flourish when everyone is eternally online with implanted devices that connect directly to their brains? (If you think spam sucks now…)

Another example: There’s this shadow organization of people doing these bad things… (The reason I don’t fear shadow organizations is that they would be filled with the same incompetent boobs and torn by the same internal bickering that every other organization is.)

Actually, that’s a bad example. We didn’t invent that particular paranoid fantasy. It must be as old as people.

Hit me with your best guess.

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It is very difficult to predict those things, but this is MPSIMS so:

That robots will be a treat to humanity. Even just the simple ones of today, have produced fear, as I noticed in a recent thread, and if you realize we are less superstitious than any other message board, it does not look good for the future.

IMO the “fact” that Iraq was involved in 911 could count, as it is looking that virtually no one in the leadership or mainstream media is bothering to tell the public

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I wonder if future kids will assume that we dial 911 in an emergency because of 9-11.

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Oooo, that’s a good one, DeVena.
I think we’re perpetuating more obvious myths than creating new ones, such as the ‘paperless office’ one. Who here doesn’t have a printer?

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That’s a good one, DeVena! You’ve started a future myth.

Look at the last 30 years (and probably the next 50) from the perspective of a world that has cracked the genetic code. If you want your body to be different, you just alter your DNA at the health club, and you GROW towards what you want. Look back at the 20th/21st centuries: Doctors would cut and mangle and scar and numb parts of perfectly healthy bodies in order to make them look better! Why, the barbarians even inserted inanimate objects INSIDE bodies to make parts look bigger or better! Ouch.