Friday, 13th. Superstition

[Fouro]

Was it Friday the 13th. Fouro ? I could find out if asked but after 16 years a member of the Order , don’t want to appear too ignorant. As in every subject one never stops learning. Cheers JS.

Hi John,
On the morning of Friday the 13th October 1307, Phillip had scores of Templars arrested throughout France one of them being Jacques de Molay. They were imprisoned and brutally tortured. Even although they were lies some Templars confessed to committing them to escape further punishment.
Jacques de Molay and three other high ranking Templars we're slowly burned at the stake to give them a chance to confess to the lies. Their burning at the stake took place on 18th March 1314.
Pope Clement died in April 1314.

Regards from
Fouro.

[j.sabourn]

#21. John its only in the past couple of decades that the pope whoever he was lifted the designation of the knights of the Temple being anti Christ. For hundreds of years it has been in force ,and the information on it one would of thought would have been very newsworthy , but very little said at the time to the general public. There are said to be many secrets. Hidden away in the Vatican, whether true or not don’t think they will ever be revealed , one said to be is the Gospel of Judas Iscariot which is vehemently denied of being in existence or ever was, if it was would I imagine it would wipe out most of Christianity as we know it. The pope today almost still has as much power as he did then , whereas Royalty lost theirs . See you noticed he still wore his ruby slippers . Cheers JS.

[happy daze john in oz]

Never one to let superstition worry me, so I never cut my nails on a Friday or when I had it had my hair cut on a Friday.
Never walk under ladders but unlike Kong have learned how to fall with the ladder not off it.

But Friday 13th can be good some times.

Went with my brother to Bunnings, he has a trade card so allowed in while we are still in lock down so we can go in.

Loaded five barge boards treated pine 2.4 x25x19 in the usual spot at $6 each.
Went to the garden department and picked up three small bushes.

Go to the check out with bushes and some screws on the trolley.
Tell the check out I have 5 barge boards, she enters that, then the screws and the plants, my brother shows his trade care so get some discount.

Get home, look at the bill and find out only charged for one plant, not sure what she did wrong,
Then Saturday measure the boards to be cut and discover they are in fact 3.6 not 2.4.
Some one put the timber in the wrong place.

So Friday 132th can sometimes be not so bad.

There was a time when I was uncertain about Friday 123th but now I am not so sure.

[j.sabourn]

Apart from the nails , hairdo and taking your life in your hands by tempting the hand of fate under the rungs of ladders , wouldn’t matter if you forgot to throw a pinch of salt over your shoulder John. Even the pope wears red slippers to protect his feet as he walks over the cinders of hell to reach heaven. Cheers JS.

[John Pruden]

thank god i am an atheist ? jp

[j.sabourn]

No good thanking him if he doesn’t exist John ! JS

[happy daze john in oz]

John, be careful what you say, very careful some of those people in funny clothes live in Perth.

[John Pruden]

i had a fall a couple of weeks ago went backwards of the couch hanging a mirror could not move still holding the mirror lucky the thing never broke i got a roasting of my boys for doing it shows the dangers in every day jobs around the house we still think we can do things we did years ago? jp

[happy daze john in oz]

John, just think your self lucky, the mirror did not break you have missed out on seven years of bad luck.

[Ivan Cloherty]

it shows the dangers in every day jobs around the house we still think we can do things we did years ago? jp

Ain't that the truth, had a friend fall off a two step ladder (also in his 80's) and broke (fractured) two bones in his spine bedridden for weeks, a far cry from our days at sea, when we had to climb 40 feet to the mast table, then up a jacobs ladder for another 20 feet, with a light bulb in our mouth to replace the broken bulb, with the ship rolling and pitching, you hanging on with one hand whilst trying to unscrew the lid on top of the navigation light, take the old bulb out and toss it leewards into davy jones locker, inserting the new bulb and making everything water tight again, and then getting back to mast table level, before traversing the mast table grips, designed by a sadist to reach the mast ladder, and of course it was also invariably raining. God how we miss it!