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About the only influence that circumstance would have on me is I might say, "Can you believe some people get uppity about stuff like that? Like, they aren't kidding. They would honest-to-gawd change their behavior based on it."

And it might be good for an attempted one-liner or two on the goofiness of the human condition in the year 2013.

Then it would be forgotten.
 
When I was a kid playing sports I always wore the number 13 - just to fly in the face of superstitions. Some people were genuinely concerned. They were not kidding. They did not think I should wear that number.

That's why I wore it. And I kicked ass.

Now me being a kid was not a recent thing. I was 10 years old 40 years ago. By my general observation, sensitivity to that kind of thing has definitely decreased since then. Back then people would fearlessly say things out loud relating to their superstitions that today they would hold back, knowing they would be laughed at or eyerolled.

It's the kind of thing where you don't see the change from one day to the next but big picture, it's happening.
 
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i hope youre right muddy. that sort of thing has no place in an intelligent society. kind of like religious faith.
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Much like fear of the number 13 or whatever, religion, which really is just very detailed superstition, has decreased in influence in my lifetime. There is much more open rolling of eyes at it than when I was a kid. Much more concession on the part of religious people that there is an element of goofiness to what they are doing. The state of modern information technology compels it. Pockets of superstition deteriorate from the fringes inward.

Of course religion is one big honkin' matzo ball in this world. Long way to go. You and I will not see the day where Islam/Christianity/Sikhism etc etc are finally, inevitably, unanimously classified as mythology - but the trends are unmistakable.
 
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