Are you superstitious?
Oxford dictionary defines superstition, the state of being superstitious as excessively credulous belief in and reverence for the supernatural. a widely held but irrational belief in supernatural influences, especially as leading to good or bad luck, or a practice based on such a belief.
Human beings must believe in something. No human being is totally unreligious, even pagans believe in something; they believe there is no God and also believe on nature.
The level of superstition is usually associated with certain personalities though not considered as strong factors in developing superstition, some studies have shown that if you are more anxious than the average person then you’re slightly more likely to be superstitious. But majority of people believes in powers beyond their human capacity. So almost every society in the world have some religious practices that they use to invoke supernatural powers. This shows that human beings always feel inadequate by themselves and they always have a need for something beyond their natural disposition.
I believe about supernatural, but i may not be considered superstitious as i always believe that man has choices and those choices determines his fate or destiny. We usually suffer consequences of our choices. There is a famous quotes that says, choices have consquences.
The Law of Cause and Effect also known as the law of causality is a fundamental principle of life that states that every action has a corresponding consequence. This law is law is based on the idea that everything in the universe is interconnected and that nothing happens by chance.
Our small actions and atomic habits determines our characters and as a result determining the associations we have and then our associations determines our daily daily which in returns determines course of lives.
If i have a relationship or marriage that break, most often it is my small habits of selfishness, words i speak, arrogance, love of material things, and some other small habits that affects people around me that causes rejection i may then end up attributing to gods, yet they were never involved in my habits.
Where it is true there are things beyond our control, what happens in our lives depends on choices men make. The choices of men has determined what our lives become. How our country is today is determined by choices made by our fathers, our choices yesterday determines how our life is today. Our choice of career and spouse determines how our children will live and so have our parents affected us through the choices they made The country is made by choices of leaders and also citizens that choice them. If citizens are too weak to make informed choices, a group of well connected people influences the outcomes of an election. But rarely that supernatural world interferes with the lives of men before they allow men to make decisions. And if the gods are to alter the course of men, they only do so because someone invited them to do it. If we don’t worship our gods, they won’t bother with our lives.
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