WHAT IS SUPERSTITIONS??

Most of the culture, races, and people in the world do believe in superstitious. Some of them rely on superstitious to go through their daily life. What is superstitious means? From my point of view, superstitious can be defined as folktale story or myth which have been trusted and applied since an ancient time until today. It is not a facts. it is just a fake beliefs. It can be someone's declaration and then being applied because the declaration towards something is really happen at that time.

For instance, in Malay culture girls are forbidden to sing while they are cooking or doing something at the kitchen because soon they will married with an old man. This is one of the superstitions example. In my opinion, this superstitions cannot be trusted at all. Perhaps, during past time there was a girl who like to sing while she cooking and then she really get married with an old man. Maybe it is just a twist of fate, but people believe in it because they might be afraid that the things will happen in their life soon. So that, they make it as a norms in their life.

Definitely,as a Muslim we cannot believe in superstitions because it is clearly against our religion. In addition, we need to trust in God and not anything else. Every single thing that happened in our life is in the God hands. Only him knows why is it something happen. By the way, I do believe there is must be a reason why some of us nowadays still believe in superstitious and still applied it even we are in the present century. But, it is absolutely not because of the fake reason as stated above. Maybe girl are prohibited to sing during cooking because afraid of the food will getting destroy by fire. Who knows??

Examples of Superstitious

APPLE

Think of five or six names of boys or girls you might marry, as you twist the stem of an apple, recite the names until the stem comes off. You will marry the person whose name you were saying when the stem fell off.

AN APPLE A DAY

Keeps the doctor away. If you cut an apple in half and count how many seeds are inside, you will also know how many children you will have.

BABY

To predict the sex of a baby: Suspend a wedding band held by a piece of thread over the palm of the pregnant girl. If the ring swings in an oval or circular motion the baby will be a girl. If the ring swings in a straight line the baby will be a boy.

BASEBALL BAT

Spit on a new bat before using it for the first time to make it lucky.

BED

It's bad luck to put a hat on a bed. If you make a bedspread, or a quilt, be sure to finish it or marriage will never come to you placing a bed facing north and south brings misfortune. You must get out of bed on the same side that you get in or you will have bad luck. When making the bed, don't interrupt your work, or you will spend a restless night in it.

BEE

If a bee enters your home, it's a sign that you will soon have a visitor. If you kill the bee, you will have bad luck, or the visitor will be unpleasant. A swarm of bees settling on a roof is an omen that the house will burn down.

References:

http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/scary.html

Socrates

Have you ever read or heard about Socrates? Do you know who is this man? Socrates is a Classical Greek philosopher or also known as western philosopher. He was a small and ugly man with a big nose. But, he do proud of his nose because he said that having a big nose help him to breathe more than others does. During his time, Socrates was not accepted by his society. He was label as an evil, foolish, and also a dangerous men because he was bringing a new thought to his society. Socrates also teaching the young man of Athens about the spiritual concepts and believe in strange divine being. It is right concept but cannot be accepted at that time, so he was label as crazy old man that might harm the society.

However, the truth is Socrates is actually a very clever person. He has an intelligent and creative brain. He is a critical thinker person. Socrates can reveal something that the society during that time cannot see or thought. In addition, because of him many Athens teenagers or so called his listeners become intelligence man. For example, Plato and Xenophon.

Most of the Socrates concepts such as Socratic irony and the Socratic Method, or elenchus are universally being used in series of discussion in western country. Socrates also contributed into epistemology and logic fields. In addition, Socrates ideas are being used to provide basis in a number of western philosophy. However, Socrates has put to death in a very pathetic way. He was asked to drink a poison as a punishment for him for bringing wrong believe in his society.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates
http://cummingsstudyguides.net/Socrates.html