星期二, 7月 27, 2010

Sharing the Book Report Ex-19

27/7/2010
Sharing the Book Report
Ex-19 Superstition, the Root of Fear and Tool of Crime

(Kar) Some parents insisted in choosing the “lucky” date for their children’s marriages and all the rigmarole since they believed superstitions. They hoped that their children would get successful marriages. The young couples complied because they loved them and they had no ideas. However, their marriages might not be successful after having superstition ceremonies, some of them even resulted in divorce. It’s no guarantee of superstition ceremonies.

I occasionally read some cases in newspaper about some housewives or elderly people in Hong Kong who had been cheated money by crooks since they believed superstitions. They thought the crooks who would help their families to become lucky after performing some magic. Actually, it shows they were not wise enough to manage.

Another case about the self- styled Taoist mater, who was a truck driver, was jailed for six years and nine months on Jan 21, 2010 since he had duped the female victim, who was a teen model, into sex with him. He had assured the victim that he would not make her pregnant because those sex sessions were part of a ritual and he would improve her luck and career prospects after the ritual. She agreed with him. Unfortunately, she was pregnant and decided to abort the fetus. It’s so stupid, less mature of her to believe him. Eventually, she left the modeling industry. If the teen model had not believed superstitions, she would not have had a terrible experience.