Chopping Block, Ep. 5 ---- Superstition, and it's many products.

Tonight on the Chopping Block!
A black cat hisses at you while you walk under a ladder with your umbrella open in the house.

Superstition, where does it start and where does it end? Sometimes they are house rules, and some of them can't help but be broken.
Did you know, I purposely smashed a mirror, just to smash one? Yeah, I did. I know, seven whole years of bad luck. Guess what? I was asked out twice the next day.

Will someone explain to me why my mother's perfectly fine, even though I have stepped on many cracks in school and elsewhere? She had a hernia, but our family's always had back problems.

Frankly, this kind of superstition follows the same lines of religion, just not on such a massive scale. Ladders were crap when the walking under the ladder superstition was invented. Perhaps a kid's mother said it to protect her kid, and gave the kid a really good reason not to do it.

Love Thy Neighbor.
Because they could be a psychopath.
Black Cats are bad luck.
Because the color black is associated with evil and darkness, insofar, nothing but the color of their fur is dark. Evil, well, all cats are evil lazyasses.

Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery.
Because....well...cheating is just wrong anyways.
Smashing a mirror brings 7 years of bad luck.
Anybody who was a child knows that glass is sharp as a mofo and it cuts people.
Again, it was probably some mother trying to give her kid a good reason not to pick up broken glass as well as trying to keep her kid from breaking mirrors to begin with.

Do you see how superstition mirrors religion in many aspects?

But superstition can also spawn the worst thing since the Trojan virus.

Chain Mail, Chain E-Mail, Chain this, Chain that.
so you read this pretty poem about friendship. When you finish the poem you read further that if you send it to 10 people in the next 10 minutes your true love will magically emerge from the darkness and sweep you off your feet.
hmmm. sound familiar?
If you accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior, you should form disciples (bible recruiting anyone?) and you will go to heaven.
But if you don't, straight to hell with you.
Oh, and that chain letter, if you don't send it to those 10 people in 10 minutes, a girl with no eyes, nose, or ears will appear by your bedside and kill you.

Okay. Hear me out people. I tried sending one of those wonderful chain e-mails, I was not contacted by my true love, nothing special happened at 11:11, nothing, nyet, nicht.
So I tried another one, this one said a swarm of pestilence will surround me if I didn't send it to 45 people in 45 minutes, as well as the freaky girl that will kill me. But I didn't have 45 contacts anyways and I wanted to try. So I grabbed a cup of coffee and waited to die. Nothing then either. No freaky girl by my bedside. I concluded one thing.

Obviously these stupid chain letters have no bearing on our lives at all other than filling up space in our inbox. Another wonderful failed prospect that doing one little thing will change our lives. It's baffling, and at the same time, so clearly simple.
Same thing with religion. It's been taken too far. Listen, if god was trying to reach us, and the only way he could was through ancient writings, he didn't try hard enough. Where is god right now? Things are so much shittier for the world now than they were 2000 years ago. Where is the almighty god with his son, the savior? Oh, he's waiting for us to clear thing up by ourselves. This proves god is quite the slacker. It's like when there's a fire in your apartment, everyone puts it out and then the fire department shows up. Obviously we don't need a god if he's expecting us to do everything ourselves. Just like that chain letter says your true love will contact you the next day. We don't know if that letter will do anything, but you never know.
I know.
They don't work.
God doesn't work. He started this mess in Afghanistan. Believe it or not.
To Christians, Muslims are scum, and they will rot in hell for not being Christian.
To Muslims, Christians are scum, and they will rot in hell for not being Muslim.

To every religion, there can be only one true religion. And that's their religion. Talk about Elitism.
And look where it got us. I'm obviously going to hell, because I seek the truth in the world around me instead of shutting my mind off and accepting their notion that god is the reason we are here.
This makes me a dangerous person, the very streets of the Vatican would steam as I walked on them.
Why?
Because I have figured out that religion has no bearing on our lives whatsoever. We are all here for a reason, yes. That reason is that a carbon-bearing comet struck earth and it is the only planet known in the universe able to harbor life. We are carbon-based life forms. Everyone's like, well, without god how are we so complicated? How are we so un-basic? It's amazing how many times I hear this. I don't honestly know. It's so damn easy to just say "god" and close the book on it, isn't it? I'm not falling for it. Molecules are mysterious, actually, how our sun is in operation after billions of years is evidence about how we formed from molecules into human beings. Read a little about it. All elements in our universe have some type of magnetic polarity. It's easy to click magnets together, no?

But enough hypothesis.
Frankly, we have no use for religion or superstition. Everything has and can be explained in a logical manner. There is no need to say god when we want to explain the formation of the stars.

So drop the act and listen to reason.
We can't use god as our excuse for being ignorant.
We can't use superstition as our excuse for bad luck.
Time to stop looking for a leadr for your life and time to think of yourself as one. We as humans have an unmatched willpower in the cosmos. Stop being meek and feeble and stand up for yourself, by yourself.