Monkeying around

[digitS']

I thought feng shui predictions only involved how we interact with our built environment.

"... feng shui predictions foresee fire, disease and volatile stocks." link

The Year of the Monkey begins February 8th. All in all, I think I feel better not living where I'd have to deal with monkeys.

I came very close to adopting this as a signature :

I try to not be superstitious. I hear it's bad luck.

As it is, I stare intently at black cats crossing my path hoping to see some white ...And yet, get along well with the neighbor's black cat. He seems so gentle and friendly wearing a bell.

Steve

 

[so lucky]

I heard a headline about an incident in a motel in Florida, I think, that was something like "Dead Woman found in Motel Room with Incoherent Man and Two Monkeys"
Sounds like monkeyshines already.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I had an uncle that if a black cat crossed his path he'd turn around and go home.

I look on superstition much the way I look on magic. It's just technology we don't yet understand.

 

[digitS']

Mom would circle the block.

I would do that ... until I realized that I was becoming so impatient in the process that if the cat decided on a return trip, his life was in danger! That approach reflected too much on my own emotional weaknesses. I decided to "get over it" Not get over a dead cat! Get over my own foibles, and to stop pandering to them.

So, I just lit a cigarette and proceeded on my way ...

Steve

 

[Ridgerunner]

When you live in the country circling the block may be a half day journey unless you are on a dead-end road, especially if you are on foot. Then cutting across country might get exciting, especially in the ridges in the foothills of the Appalachians.

 

[Smart Red]

I had an uncle that if a black cat crossed his path he'd turn around and go home.

I look on superstition much the way I look on magic. It's just technology we don't yet understand.

Magic may be technology we don't yet understand -- although I suspect the magicians do -- but superstition is just that. Logic suggests walking under a ladder is a bad idea. Many other superstitions are just as logical. The black cat as unlucky is more chance and coincidence then "normal".

 

[Larisa]

I do not advocate belief in superstition, who believe in everything. But there is a personal language with "world". (I do not know how to explain it in English, so the "Mir" - code name). This marks. If I have agreed with the "world" that the black cat for me, a harbinger of the arrival of relatives, so be it. This marks always works. But it is personal. Perhaps someone did not have a personal language, he "says a common language". Therefore so many superstitions often do not work. I think so.

 

[Smart Red]

If black cats are such a problem, why are there so many black cats? Perhaps it is only other people's black cats that are dangerous? I've had several over the years with no obvious problems I can blame on them.

 

[digitS']

You know, I have only seen a cougar in a zoo. Dad talked a little about his anxiety finding cougar tracks across his property. The only livestock he had right then was a dog but he had plans for a horse.

I wonder how we would have reacted to seeing it if it had been black ..?

Yes circling in the country is difficult but a black cat is so much more common in a community of homes. This guy in my neighborhood seems kinda shy, although he's been around for a few years. He looks well cared for. Obviously, he is a cat who doesn't feel any need to assert himself and, oddly, I kinda like him.

Steve

 

[Larisa]

I do not think that now someone is afraid of black cats. When my cat brought kittens, among them were black. I thought it was difficult to find a new home for them. But black kittens I gave like hot cakes!