23 and 43 if you're still doing the random asks :D
Probably the kewpie sriracha mayonnaise. I have tabasco as well, and I need to get some local market peach chutney again. Maple syrup also goes on a lot of things it probably shouldn't. I don't enjoy many foods so it's mostly trying to trick myself into eating.
43. Are you superstitious?
Not about ghosts and such. Well, one of the buildings I work in is supposed to be haunted but they've never bothered me. However, also at work, whenever someone says 'it should be easy,' I've taken to knocking on wood because I do firmly believe the equipment is listening and doesn't like to be thought of as easy.
It's not easy. I just make it look that way.
And I just knocked on wood for having the audacity to say that.
But that is more hubris. As for the supernatural, I was raised in the church and that really pushed a supernatural narrative and I never really bought it. I do think, and there have been places I've been inundated in what feels like evil, that the scent of death lingers even through decades. Blood in the soil, in the walls, whatever. A chill in a patch of sunshine. But I think that is probably a chemical response to scent rather than a sense of cruelty or evil.
We can't see radio or video waves without specialist equipment to translate into the visible waves. We can't see cell service or wifi. For the most part we can't even sense them. So of course there's probably more stuff we can't see or sense out there, but I don't think it's malevolent or benevolent. I think it's just other stuff existing. Humans aren't that interesting to microbes other than biologically. Spooking humans deliberately would imply a sense of humour and interest in humans.
I think some of the phenomena can be related to things like the way animals react to sound of icebergs calving, or the way the hair on the back of your neck stands up in a temperature change, or the way humans react to very minor earthquakes. There's a story by Colin Thiele (beloved Australian author) called Pinquo where the penguins of a coastal town went inland and the people followed them and a tsunami came and wiped out the deserted town. It's reacting to something that is felt or sensed rather than seen and heard because the sound or sensation is so deeply ingrained into survival. So I do believe in the unseen and unknown.
As for ghosts or reincarnation, I don't really buy the heaven myth but I'm a little annoyed that in the end I won't get any of the big answers to questions I've always asked. I've never encountered a ghost, and I think it's more to do with our brains than any true observation of the supernatural. That said, there is so much we are still learning about the world around us, and science is always expanding our knowledge and understanding therin.
