The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #80317   Message #1532910
Posted By: Amos
01-Aug-05 - 06:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: Lucky Charms
Subject: RE: BS: Lucky Charms
It is true that thoughts are things, in a way, but not the things their semantic content represents. That's the definition of superstition. Thoughts are pictures of real or imagined states of existence, unexistence, conditions, and so on -- but imagining the earth with a cloud of sevens floating around it is not going to make the number seven any luckier per se. It is possible that the act of putting up such a picture will focus your own intentions sufficiently to make you more lucky, but that has nothing to do with the inherent qualities of sevens. It has, instead, to do with the abililty of your intentions to operate on the people and things around you. For most folks this ability is a pretty hit-or-miss thing.

Just like sevens.

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