Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 63 (9161 total)
0 online now:
Newest Member: popoi
Post Volume: Total: 915,585 Year: 2,842/9,624 Month: 687/1,588 Week: 93/229 Day: 4/61 Hour: 0/0


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   This belief thing
Taq
Member
Posts: 9944
Joined: 03-06-2009
Member Rating: 4.8


Message 116 of 162 (783898)
05-09-2016 5:11 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Tangle
04-26-2016 12:13 AM


Everywhere supertitions and proverbs were rife. Each country seems to have it's own versions of auspicious omens, charms and lucky numbers. In Vietnam it was 3, Hong Kong 8 and so on. The daft things that we have about astrology they take very seriously, as they do with their year of birth - dog, rat, monkey etc.
I used to have a Thai co-worker who was going to buy a house, but decided not to after conferring with her mother. As it turns out, their family astrologer said that it was a bad time to buy. In talking to her, her family isn't the exception. They are the norm.
With a little chuckle, she let me know that Western cultural norms seem just as weird in Asia as house buying astrologers are in Western cultures.
I think you are correct when you say that human cultures just need something to believe in, something to blame. Our human adaptations which gave us the ability to make useful associations also comes with the less common ability to make false associations, or so it would appear.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 1 by Tangle, posted 04-26-2016 12:13 AM Tangle has not replied

  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024