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Old 11-18-2003, 02:42 PM   #1
FileNotFound
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Superstitious People - Dealing With them

So here's the situation. I'm engaged to my GF, I've known her since I was 7 year old and we've been living together for about a month now. In the past our relationship has been smooth and perfect. We never argued or anything.

She's always been a bit supersticious, but it never bugged me. I thought of her interest in astrology and palm reading somewhat amusing. Yet there is far more to it and it's starting to drive me insane...

She has a notebook filled with things that one may dream about and what they may mean. She has firm belifs that getting married on a leap year is bad luck, in fact there are specific months on which one must get married. If she gets hick ups or red ears, its' because somebody is thinking about her - she HAS to figure out just who it is...gee who could be thinking of me at this hour. Yes little things, but they annoy me.

What really pissed me off was that last night she complained of some tingling in her back and blamed it on...computer radiation from my laptop (never mind that she told me that I shouldn't put my laptop on my lap...cause I'll get infertile?! Gha!!!). I told her it was all BS and she started telling me that she read it in thousands of magazines etc. I eventualy snapped and we didn't talk anymore last night.

This morning when I left I was still pissed off at her and she showed no sign of giving in. I was at the doctors till about 1pm so when I came into work I had 3 emails from her waiting for me pointing to some page from 1996 ranting about "computer radiation" the whole thing written by a loon, a page about how computer kill eyesight (really? I'm 20/20 and been behind a PC since 14 an avg of 120 hours a week)...and yet another copy of the 1996 article. Ok I'm pissed...but whatever, spam is worse. Then she calls me up...and starts ranting about how computers emit tons of harmful radiation, I tell her that I'm an MCSE and built more computers than I can remember, I know everything there is to know about PCs. She still won't give in, I'm at work trying to stay as calm as possible, I ask if the sole purpose of her call is to argue with me, she said yes, I told her I had no time for that bullshit and hung up...

It's all sounding silly but illogical things drive me insane. I do not believe in god because it can't be scientificaly proven, I like logic and science. I like things that make sense. The quickest way to piss me off is to insist on something totaly illogical...and she mastered it.

Not once before in my life did I ever expect to be pissed at her, yet now I'm furious, I hung up on her and today instead of going home I inted to go out with some friends instead.

I just don't know how to deal with this. She seems to have NO desire to give in and no interest in any compromise. She claims to know for a FACT that computers emit hazardos levels of radiation and laptops are also very dangerous. In fact she looks at me like I'm the biggest idiot in the world when I say that computers do not emit any harmful radiation etc...

I love her and was always sure that she'd be the one I'd spend my life with yet I just can't deal with this shit... I actualy asked my mother for advice...geez I never do that...I'm confused

So what I want to know is this: Can you "cure" superstition?

For the recrod. Yes computers do emit some radiation, yes it is somewhat 'harmful' but I get more radiation from 5 minutes in the sun then from years of PC use.
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