[align=center]Hi `Members,[/align][align=center]Do you believe Friday the 13th superstitions ?[/align][align=center]Watch `Out 4 `Jason[/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Are you locking yourself in your house 2day & afraid to go[/align][align=center]out and drive your Monte Carlo ? [/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Wish you a Safe/Happy/Day in your `Space [:-][/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Below is some information about Friday the 13th.[/align][align=center]Doesn`t it just amaze you what you can learn on the MCF [/align][align=center]LOL ~ LOL[/align][align=center]BeWare there`s Dangers `out there on your highways of `life.: ) [X(][:@][/align][align=center]People driving & text`in/drink`in/talk`in/drug`in/X'in/eat`in [/align][align=center]watch`in a DVD while driv`in. I think the kid is driving[/align][align=center]& post`in on the MCF as U read this ? [/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Friday the 13th is a superstition about a day of good or bad luck.[/align][align=center][/align][ul][align=center]1 Phobia
2 History
3 Social impact[/align][ul][align=center]3.1 Rate of accidents[/align][/ul][align=center]
4 Occurrence
5 Planned events on Fridays the 13th
6 Natural events on Friday the 13th
7 References
8 External links[/align][/ul][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][:@]Phobia[/align][align=center][:-][/align][align=center]The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia,[1][2] a word derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Paraskev�* (�*αρασκευή) (meaning Friday), and dekatre�*s (δεκατρείς) (meaning thirteen), attached to phob�*a (φοβία) (meaning fear). This is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a simple phobia (fear) of the number thirteen, and is also known as friggatriskaidekaphobia. The term triskaidekaphobia was derived in 1911 and first appeared in a mainstream source in 1953.[3][/align][align=center][/align][align=center]History[/align][align=center]According to folklorists, there is no written evidence for a "Friday the 13th" superstition before the 19th century.[4][5][6] The earliest known documented reference in English occurs in an 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini:[/align][align=center]
[/align][align=center][Rossini] was surrounded to the last by admiring and affectionate friends; and if it be true that, like so many other Italians, he regarded Friday as an unlucky day, and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that on Friday, the 13th of November, he died.[7] [/align][align=center]However, some folklore is passed on through oral traditions. In addition, "determining the origins of superstitions is an inexact science, at best. In fact, it's mostly guesswork."[8] Consequently, several theories have been proposed about the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition.[/align][align=center]One theory states that it is a modern amalgamation of two older superstitions: that thirteen is an unlucky number and that Friday is an unlucky day.[/align][ul][*][align=center]In numerology, the number twelve is considered the number of completeness, as reflected in the twelve months of the year, twelve signs of the zodiac, twelve hours of the clock, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve Apostles of Jesus, twelve gods of Olympus, etc., whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness. There is also a superstition, thought by some to derive from the Last Supper or a Norse myth, that having thirteen people seated at a table will result in the death of one of the diners.[5] [/align][*][align=center]Friday has been considered an unlucky day at least since the 14th century's The Canterbury Tales,[3] and many other professions have regarded Friday as an unlucky day to undertake journeys or begin new projects. Black Friday has been associated with stock market crashes and other disasters since the 1800s.[6][9] It has also been suggested that Friday was the day that Jesus was crucified. [10] [/align][/ul][align=center]On the other hand, another theory by author Charles Panati, one of the leading authorities on the subject of "Origins" maintains that the superstition can be traced back to ancient myth:[/align][align=center]
[/align][align=center]The actual origin of the superstition, though, appears also to be a tale in Norse mythology. Friday is named for Frigga, the free-spirited goddess of love and fertility. When Norse and Germanic tribes converted to Christianity, Frigga was banished in shame to a mountaintop and labeled a witch. It was believed that every Friday, the spiteful goddess convened a meeting with eleven other witches, plus the devil - a gathering of thirteen - and plotted ill turns of fate for the coming week. For many centuries in Scandinavia, Friday was known as "Witches' Sabbath."[11] [/align][align=center]Another theory about the origin of the superstition traces the event to the arrest of the legendary Knights Templar. According to one expert:[/align][align=center]
[/align][align=center]The Knights Templar were a monastic military order founded in Jerusalem in 1118 C.E., whose mission was to protect Christian pilgrims during the Crusades. Over the next two centuries, the Knights Templar became extraordinarily powerful and wealthy. Threatened by that power and eager to acquire their wealth, King Philip secretly ordered the mass arrest of all the Knights Templar in France on Friday, October 13, 1307 - Friday the 13th.[4] [/align][align=center]The connection between the superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in the 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code, however, some experts think that it is relatively recent and is a modern-day invention.[9][3][8] For example, the superstition is rarely found before the 20th century, when it became extremely common. One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth,[12] in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.[4][/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Social impact[/align][align=center]According to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina, an estimated 17 to 21 million people in the United States are affected by a fear of this day. Some people are so paralyzed by fear that they avoid their normal routines in doing business, taking flights or even getting out of bed. "It's been estimated that [US]$800 or $900 million is lost in business on this day".[5] Despite this, representatives for both Delta and Continental Airlines say that their airlines don't suffer from any noticeable drop in travel on those Fridays.[13][/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Rate of accidents[/align][align=center]There are conflicting studies about the risk of accidents on Friday the 13th. The Dutch Centre for Insurance Statistics (CVS) on June 12, 2008, stated that "fewer accidents and reports of fire and theft occur when the 13th of the month falls on a Friday than on other Fridays, because people are preventatively more careful or just stay home; but statistically speaking, driving is a little bit safer on Friday 13th; in the last two years, Dutch insurers received reports of an average 7,800 traffic accidents each Friday; but the average figure when the 13th fell on a Friday was just 7,500.[14][15] However, a 1993 study in the British Medical Journal that compared the ratio of traffic accidents between Friday the 6th and Friday the 13th, stated that there is a significant increase in traffic-related accidents on Fridays the 13th.[16][3[/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Good infor 2 have `if you ever get on a Game Show [/align]

 

Well i dont really believe in superstitions but the thing is other people do and they start being stupid out in the roads and get careless and cause accidents and blame it on "o0o its friday the 13th" blah blah blah its all in you head haha.... wouldnt u'll agree with me of am i just making this up in my head? lol either way that is what i believe

 

[align=center] [/align][align=center]LOL `Ozzy [/align][align=center]I think you are just making it `up in your HEAD, or are you ? [/align][align=center]There`s alot of crazy kids out there on your highways of `life.[/align][align=center]Wish all members a safe/lucky/happy day,[/align][align=center]but Watch `out for `Jason, or what U R making `up in your Head LOL[/align][align=center][:-]
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Friday the 13th = the one day I have good luck.

Go figure?

 

[align=center] [/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Hi R.J.,[/align][align=center]One good day is better then none at `all 4-Sure[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]There are millions in our World on planet earth that never[/align][align=center]have a good day [X(][/align][align=center]We must be thankful for what we do have, and not what we don`t.[/align][align=center]R.J., you are blessed with many awesome Monte Carlo`s,[/align][align=center]and so much more. [/align][align=center]&[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]to you and members on your highways of `Life.[/align][align=center]EnJoy your `Journeys[/align][align=center]Kid`Space & Bums[/align]

 

I don't think it's superstition, but I deliberately didn't start up my computer yesterday. And I'm glad to see the site is still up and running.

 

 

I don't think it's superstition, but I deliberately didn't start up my computer yesterday. And I'm glad to see the site is still up and running.

[sm=funnypostabove.gif] That's pretty funny. [sm=icon_rofl.gif]

 

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