Mole
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Is superstition a result of mental illness? Or is superstition because any explanation is better than no explanation? Or is superstition a result of alcohol or drug use? Are women more superstitious than men?
Alcohol is commonly called the poor man's religion. And like religion alcohol disables our reason and enables our imagination.
Drugs also disable our inhibitions and enable our desires, after all, it is not called drugs, sex, and rock and roll for nothing.
Superstition makes us feel good in the short term at the cost of the full development of our psyche. Our psyche is truncated by superstition.
But one striking thing about druggies is their gallows humour. Live fast and die young, they say, and they do.
But gallows humour is a psychological defence against an impoverished life and an impoverished psyche.
And at the back of almost any woman's magazine is a section devoted to astrology. And it is not ironic. And it makes no, absolutely no reference to astronomy, for to reference astronomy would be to break the spell of astrology.
Superstition does improve our self esteem, as self esteem is the way others see us. But superstition improves our self esteem, at the cost of our self respect.
Alcohol is commonly called the poor man's religion. And like religion alcohol disables our reason and enables our imagination.
Drugs also disable our inhibitions and enable our desires, after all, it is not called drugs, sex, and rock and roll for nothing.
Superstition makes us feel good in the short term at the cost of the full development of our psyche. Our psyche is truncated by superstition.
But one striking thing about druggies is their gallows humour. Live fast and die young, they say, and they do.
But gallows humour is a psychological defence against an impoverished life and an impoverished psyche.
And at the back of almost any woman's magazine is a section devoted to astrology. And it is not ironic. And it makes no, absolutely no reference to astronomy, for to reference astronomy would be to break the spell of astrology.
Superstition does improve our self esteem, as self esteem is the way others see us. But superstition improves our self esteem, at the cost of our self respect.
