I guess it makes most logical sense to believe that superstition is just a comfort, since most things that we just can't explain we tend to try to provide paranormal explanations for. In my opinion, this is evidenced by religion, when they conjured god, and such.
As science slowly progresses we are slowly discovering more and more explanations for things that were previously believed to be that of God's doings. Now some of these appear rather ridiculous when we look back in retrospect.
Now sometimes people may seem to attribute superstition to strange events that cannot be explained. Most of these are easily disproved with a little knowledge of abnormal psychology and such. And others that right now may appear to unexplainable may be better explained as more neuroscience research comes up. Currently, the question "How does the brain work?" is one of the hottest topics in research right now. But because the brain works in such an intricate manner it is nearly impossible to answer that question, but enough is known that nearly all abnormal phenomena a can be explained in conclusive scientific way. So, it would be interesting to hear your stories Stu, and see if they can be explained by recent advances. Because I honestly can't possibly believe in all this superstitious crap.
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