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Old May 23, 2005, 10:09 AM
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HI all, what was it Stevie Wonder said?

Something like, "...when you believe in things that you don't understand, and you suffer....superstition ain't the way."

In my own opinion, Superstition and belief are always the same. We call superstition by the name of belief only to elevate its status to our selves when the superstition is our own. But there isn't a difference; both pertain to leaping from the rational to explain the unknown or unknowable. Both are the same fear based response to the mysterious.

Case in point: the flat earth society boasts a membership of thousands who profess a belief that the earth is flat, but does that "belief" in any way alter the actual shape of the earth?

sqrl.
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