### belief:

Supernaturalism
* is essential to Western religion.
* pervades our species, consuming billions of person-hours and trillions of dollars
  - whole species, in one form or another
* redeems liberalism from banality and crude historicism.
* still has a great hold on today's philosophies.

### belief | supernaturalism:

Exorcism
* always are, whether performed by priests or witchdoctors or anyone in between.
* are always full of the unexpected
  - long, arduous, and often violent
  - supernaturalism
  - violent and creepy
* eliminates all conditions of possession, and all environmental hauntings.
* establishes the natural states of stability and security.
* is done in different parts of the world by unsaved men
* is the rite of driving out demons
  - treatment for severe cases
* leaves seven dead.
* subject that many people are still uncertain about.

### belief | supernaturalism:

Occultism
* are discipline
* can never be an end in itself.
* is supernaturalism
* is the metaphysic of dunces
  - study of occult
* often involves drugs, idolatry and sexual perversion.
* reflex-action to the subjectification of all meaning, the complement of reification.
+ Occult, Occultism
  * Occultism is the study of occult. There is often a strong religious element to these studies and beliefs, and many occultists profess adherence to religions such as Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Satanism, Thelema, and Neopaganism. While Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam are generally not considered as occult, some of their modern interpretations can be, such as the interpretation of Hinduism within Theosophy or the various occult interpretations of the Jewish Kabbalah.

### belief:

Superstition
* Many superstitions revolve around ants.
* Some superstitions are cultural or personal instead of religious
  - believe the owl to be a foreshadowing of death or misfortune
  - find their origin in practical sense when considering safety and reducing risk
* also extend into the religious realm
  - plays a part with black being considered lucky in some parts of the world
* are also anxiety producing
  - bad things
  - belief systems
  - habits rather than beliefs
  - lies
  - unreal alot of people believe in superstitions
* encourage people to believe that a certain action can cause an unrelated event.
* global, with different belief in different cultures.
* has a long pedigree in Madagascar.
* have their root in the folk customs and beliefs of various cultures.
* impedes education and fosters ignorance.
* interferes with the happiness of mankind.
* is everywhere prevalent in the world
  - expectation based on desire
  - for subhumans
  - like a magnet
* is part of life
  - the Egyptian way of life
  - pervasive in our everyday lives and even more so in athletics
* is rife in Bali, although beliefs vary widely even within families
  - hi-fi circles
* is the abuse of religion
  - bedrock of all sport
  - exact opposite of religion because it interferes with that understanding
  - religion of feeble minds
* means ascribing to a creature powers it possesses neither by nature nor by grace
  - the attribution of supernatural power to purely natural things
* now surrounds years in which the lunar calendar counts the eighth month twice.
* play a role in all professional sports, but it seems none as big as in hockey.
* plays a role in some pockets of Chinese population.
* say that sighting the creature can bring ill fortune, illness, or death.
* seems to play a role in the basic daily life of most Roman citizens.

Superstitious belief
* are easy to define within the scientific framework.
* can effect one s thoughts, behavior and decisions.
* tend to emerge when life becomes unpredictable and uncon-trollable.