Sentences with phrase «n't superstitious»

Or maybe they just weren't superstitious when it comes to tempting the fates, who really knows?

In Hawthorne we find in effect a comprehensive interpretation of early New England history in which the founding generation is criticized but also admired — it was «stern, severe, intolerant, but not superstitious, not even fanatical,» and possessed «a farseeing worldly sagacity.»

kermi: A link was posted to livescience.com yesterday that would have educated you on what are actual vestigial, however I'm guessing that given that it is actually based on solid evidence and not superstitious mumbo (aka the bible) you didn't read it.

I'm not superstitious, maybe a little, but I'm glad ozil hasn't tweeted winning fa cup ya gooners ya (it's usually 3 pts ya...) because we usually end up losing.

Van Gaal, who was quoted by the Daily Star, said: «It's strange because I'm not superstitious, so we have to change that feeling also with Wayne.

Like I said earlier I am not a superstitious person, but I do believe in energy (+ ve or - ve).

I am not a superstitious person: I do not try to avoid black cats, I step on cracks in the pavement, and I avoid breaking mirrors because it's just plain impractical.

If you are not superstitious, you can buy a playpen, a stroller and other things for your children.

I am not superstitious but I came to the party with my own style... and I had a way of relating to the people.»

I'm not superstitious about Friday the 13th, but being a nurse I am superstitious about a full moon.

And no, I am not superstitious or believe it's bad luck!

I am not superstitious, but I deeply respect the flow and forces of life's events, and I clearly understand the importance of following my basic instincts and responding with alacrity to natural and spontaneous personal and spiritual connections.

If you still believe in the myth that all Realtors are the same, then continue on with your cheaper - is - just - as - good search for the cheapest Realtor out there to reprersent your fiduciary interests, and cross your fingers, even if you are not superstitious.

Not exact matches

I don't know how superstitious the average person is, but I for one supremely enjoy putting undue meaning and power into an indifferent, inanimate object.

It may seem superstitious to superimpose meaning on the timing, but maybe the only way it wouldn't was if he had passed right on August 9 of that year.

It's all goofy medieval superstitious bullshit created by middle eastern goat herders 2000 + years ago to try to describe what they didn't understand.

I, and a lot of others, don't need superstitious nonsense to help others, volunteer and donate.

The rules of emotion, superstitious woo and wishful thinking don't apply here.

«Practitioners of Falun Gong, as well as other Buddhist, folk religionist, and Protestant groups deemed «superstitious» or «evil cults» face long jail terms, forced denunciations of faith and torture in detention, and the government has not sufficiently answered accusations of psychiatric experimentation and organ harvesting.»

Teachers should not be placating to superstitious delusions.

Where the Eternal does not come to heal such a sufferer, what happens, with the aid of cleverness, is about as follows: first, the sufferer lives for some years by an earthly hope; but when this is exhausted and the suffering still continues, then he becomes superstitious, his state of health alternates between drowsiness and burning excitement.

I believe in the power of the blood of Jesus but now this leaves me afraid to admit it, for I'm already pegged as superstitious and into magic — seems no different than the boogyman stories my once conservative church tried to lay on me, that my protection is in their oversight, that if I leave them my life would be destroyed, and more — we must be careful in our ernest seeking after truth that we don't become what we have despised and that we don't put on others our perspectives and understandings.

This will be my last response to you pogue... most of us do not require your belief in superstitious nonsense to be good people.

There is only one way it could not be, and that is if you decide that it teaches that nihilism is the truth, revealed here by the pointless failure of Davis's career, so that his having to obtain abortions for women he impregnated is just another absurd, annoying, and energy - sapping aspect of that, his irrational guilt instincts causing him to have to scrounge for money, and so that his learning that one of these abortions didn't occur is just another sort of misfortune, saddling him with sentiments that he will have no way to really act upon (it is unlikely the that the mother of the child wants to see him), and probably causing him to draw some kind of superstitious karmic connection between a random coincidence of having hit a cat that looks just like one he abandoned, and his driving by the town his child may be living in.

Not to say we should be superstitious about things pagans have touched.

To the Confucians, Buddhism was not only superstitious and unacceptable intellectually, it was a foreign religion and unacceptable culturally.

He knows, loves, and serves not God but his own species through reading novels and journals, visiting art galleries and museums where altarpieces are admired as artifacts from a superstitious age.

To be sure, not all praying means that; prayer can be ignorant and superstitious.

Anything with Biblical or Quranic quotes — not interested in debates over superstitious orthodoxy.

Muslim children do not wear a necklace or the «one hundred families» locket which is used in the superstitious belief that it protects children from the devil.

(Secularists don't assert an evil God — that would be even more superstitious than a good God.)

I don't think we should get into legalism about this, and I don't think we should be superstitious, but in the New Testament there is more to baptism than you have said.

Just as it surely might have been cleared up in the Logic what «transition» is and means, before going over to write three volumes describing its workings in the categories, astounding the superstitious, and making so difficult the situation of one who would gladly owe much to the superior mind and express his gratitude for what he owes, but nevertheless can not over this forget what Hegel himself must have considered the matter of principal importance.

Not to do so is to remain captured by the superstitious morality associated with the terminology foisted on us by Christianity.

The more superstitious among us attribute ghosts to the things we don't yet understand.

After four months of desperate attempts to save my faith, I came to the sad conclusion that my faith was based on an ancient superstition; a superstition not based on lies, but based on the sincere but false beliefs of uneducated, superstitious, first century peasants.

This may be fine for Protestants who believe that Catholicism simply perpetuates feudal ideas and superstitious belief, but it is not a very helpful point of view when trying to understand the French with sympathy.

Prayer and other Catholic superstitious practices won't do a damn thing.

The Roman Canon Law, still in force, had all sorts of superstitious regulations about the consecrated bread, that it was not to be touched by anyone other than a priest, that if one of the breads was dropped various purificatory rules had to be performed; now instead of simply lifting the rules, on the contrary, they almost compel everyone to touch the Sacrament, with a kind of compulsive hysteria, as far removed from the Gospel as the Roman rules themselves, though in the opposite direction.

Not only has daily life been transformed by science — for example, we no longer look to the realm of the sacred for a framework to organize our lives — even Western religion itself has become more rational, less «superstitious.»

I wouldn't call myself superstitious, but I'll still find myself thinking into the sayings «bad things happen in three's» and «when it rains it pours.»

Something needs to change, even if it's all coincidental which I'm begging to question, players can be superstitious and will start to tell Seattle no thanks if players can't stay healthy.

This Penguin is from Birmingham and I believe it is biased, besides I do not believe in this sort of superstitious dung!

The reason I didn't is because when we go on bad runs I try to change my routine up as I'm a very superstitious person, its probably silly but I do it anyway.

P.K. Subban said he didn't actually drink the beer in the fake Cup with @SethRogen b / c he's that superstitious.

It's all superstition, sure, and won't have an actual influence on the series, but, like with the Red Sox streak of failure from 1919 until 2004, sometimes its easier to be superstitious than it is to admit that your team spent a century running itself like they deserved to lose.

But scoring was not the aim for anyone (except, maybe, Kevin Streelman, who, if superstitious traditions hold, won't win the real event thanks to his W in the exhibition).

WHAT YOU DID N'T KNOW: Brooke is extremely superstitious, especially when it comes to volleyball.

Whilst we are too nervous and superstitious to predict the score we have some ideas of things that may happen not on the pitch, but in the commentary booth.

For anyone who is superstitious with dates I am happy to relate that in the past twenty years we have played five FA Cup ties on January 6, and haven't lost any of them.