Happy Chinese New Year

did you know its now the year 4710! Many different cultures keep a different calendars than we do. 


We tend to think of everything in terms of BC and AD but our AD  only goes back 2,000 years....


Makes you think

Friday the 13th - a glimpse back in time

I saw a post on the internet this morn, that says:

"Friday the 13th ppl. By the way this day is so because on this date (Friday October the 13th, 1307), the Pope of the church in Rome in Conjunction with the King of France, carried out a secret death warrant Against "the Knights Templar". Many Hundreds and thousands of the Templars were murdered and tortured in the worst possible ways, accused of being heretics and gay. Their Grand Master, Jacques DeMolay, was arrested and before he was killed, was tortured and crucified (the cloth of turin probrably marks pictorial evidence of this). Turns out the truth of the matter was they only wanted to steal there vast fortunes as both the church and The King of France were broke."

So who knows more about Friday the 13th and other tales passed through the veil of thyme....?


Here are a few reasons from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th

Various theories have been proposed about the origin of the Friday 13th "superstition"...

1.  It is a modern amalgamation of two older superstitions: that thirteen is an unlucky number and that Friday is an unlucky day.

2.  In numerology, the number 12 is considered the number of completeness, as reflected in the 12 months of the year, 12 hours of the clock, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 Apostles of Jesus, the 12 Descendants of Muhammad Imams, etc., whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness.

3.  There is also a superstition, thought by some to derive from the Last Supper or a Norse myth, that having thirteen people seated at a table will result in the death of one of the diners.

4.  Some say that Friday has been considered an unlucky day at least since the 14th century's The Canterbury Tales.

5.  Other professions have regarded Friday as an unlucky day to undertake journeys or begin new projects.

6.  Black Friday has been associated with stock market crashes and other disasters since the 1800s.

7.  It has also been suggested that Friday has been considered an unlucky day because, according to Christian scripture and tradition, Jesus was crucified on a Friday.

8.  Records of the superstition are rarely found before the 20th century, when it became extremely common.  One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth, in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.

9.  The connection between the Friday the 13th superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in the 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code. However, some experts agree that this is a relatively recent correlation, and most likely a modern-day invention. Although according to many Freemasons, this date corresponds with the slaughtering of the Knights Templar by the Church. Many Knights Templar also escaped their persecution by fleeing to Scotland.


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Heres a selection of sources for more info from Google:

Dont feel shy to post your own...


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1. Friday the 13th - Origins, History, and Folklore

   urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/friday_the_13th.htm

   According to some sources it's the most widespread superstition in the United States today. Some people refuse to go to work on Friday the 13th; some won't eat ...

2. Friday the 13th - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th

   Friday the 13th occurs when the thirteenth day of a month falls on a Friday, ... latter word was derived in 1911 and first appeared in a mainstream source in 1953. ...
   

   Friday the 13th (2009 film) - Friday the 13th (franchise)

3. Knights Templar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar

   On Friday, October 13, 1307 (a date sometimes spuriously linked with the origin of theFriday the 13th superstition) Philip ordered de Molay and scores of other ..... has been a tempting source for many other groups which have used alleged ...

4. snopes.com: Friday the 13th

   www.snopes.com/luck/friday13.asp

   8 Aug 2007 – Why is Friday the 13th considered an unlucky day? ... role in Western culture is now a much diminished one, more a source of amusement than ...

5. The JavaScript Source: Time and Date: Find Friday the 13th's!

   javascriptsource.com/time-date/find-friday-the-13th's!.html

   This will display all the Friday the 13th's for a range of years. You may also select a certain month to review! Awesome show of how to interpret and change the ...

6. Friday the 13th, Part II: Oracle Officially Ends OpenSolaris | ITworld

   www.itworld.com/...source/.../friday-13th-part-ii-oracle-officially-en...

   13 Aug 2010 – An internal memo reveals the unfortunate fate of OpenSolaris.

7. Friggatriskaidekaphobiarelatusphobia, Or "Not Another Friday the 13th

   blogcritics.org/.../friggatriskaidekaphobiarelatusphobia-or-not-anothe...

   13 Aug 2010 – friggatriskaidekaphobiarelatusphobia n. a strong aversion to endless news reporting about friggatriskaidekaphobia on Friday the 13th. [source] ...