Comments on: Why is Friday the 13th unlucky? http://notaboutreligion.com/2009/03/13/why-is-friday-the-13th-unlucky/ An intelligent, open-minded discussion of belief and non-belief...for entertainment purposes only. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:24:08 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: tl scott http://notaboutreligion.com/2009/03/13/why-is-friday-the-13th-unlucky/comment-page-1/#comment-505 tl scott Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:09:28 +0000 http://notaboutreligion.com/?p=691#comment-505 Friday the 13th is unlucky because some people perceive it to be. It isn't that bad luck doesn't happen on any other date or day , it does but society does not make a connection between negative occurrences and Monday the 23 or Tuesday the 8th Therefore on those days we aren't looking for bad luck to happen. Unfortunately that doesn't stop it from happening - would be nice if it did. So if some ting like a wreck or a house fire happens on Sunday the 16th we are more lily to attribute the fire to faulty wiring than the day of the week, However it the same house burns for the same reason on Friday the 13th many will associate the cause of the fire to the date despite any evidence that points to the cause as the faulty wiring. Bad luck happens all the time, the laws of probability are more of a factor than the date but we simply fail to associate the luck with the date unless the event occurs on Friday 13th. Friday the 13th is unlucky because some people perceive it to be. It isn’t that bad luck doesn’t happen on any other date or day , it does but society does not make a connection between negative occurrences and Monday the 23 or Tuesday the 8th Therefore on those days we aren’t looking for bad luck to happen. Unfortunately that doesn’t stop it from happening – would be nice if it did.

So if some ting like a wreck or a house fire happens on Sunday the 16th we are more lily to attribute the fire to faulty wiring than the day of the week, However it the same house burns for the same reason on Friday the 13th many will associate the cause of the fire to the date despite any evidence that points to the cause as the faulty wiring.

Bad luck happens all the time, the laws of probability are more of a factor than the date but we simply fail to associate the luck with the date unless the event occurs on Friday 13th.

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