Do you believe that cat has 9 lives and why people are so superstitious about it?
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My cat recently slide off the car and landed on her side(not her feet) and made an awful thud. then walked away. Since she is so light, I think she didn't hit as hard as I would have and it seemed she got another life.\nThere is a high rise syndrome also. Cats that jump/fall out of apartments survive better if they fall higher than 3 stories, than 2-3 stories. They get tired relax some and spread out. Their terminal velocity is lower and then they put their legs down for landing. There is a record cat with just a cracked tooth.\nI might believe in multiple lives if I saw a cat fall 5 stories and walk away.
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One theory on the origin of this expression is that in ancient times nine was a lucky number because it is the Trinity of Trinities. As cats seem able to escape injury time and time again, this lucky number seemed suited to the cat. While in most countries the cat is said to have nine lives, in Arab and Turkish proverbs poor puss has a mere seven lucky lives and in Russia, is said to-survive nine deaths.
37070
definitely not. the reason why some of these superstions seems to be true is because people believe on it. when people start to believe on something, they actually based their actions and act according to what they believe unconciously. and when something happened according to the superstition, they usually explain things the way they believe on it.
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not seriously? they kill kittens and dance around fires in grass dresses.\n\nseriously? they have multiple wives and have some REALLY REALLY wacked out views on how people should live.\n\nYou should take a peek at their teachings and origins, its good for a couple giggles.
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Cats have long been held sacred and linked to images of power. In ancient Egypt the Goddess Bast was not only the divine mother of cats, She was also protectress of the Pharoah and of women, Goddess of joy, dance, fertility & motherhood. The Egyptian term for cat was Mau, an imitation of a cats cry and a mother-syllable\n\nFeline reverence is not peculiar to Ancient Egyptian civilisation. Muslim theology maintains that the prophet Muhammad once found a cat sleeping on his robe; instead of waking it, he cut a hole through his robe so as not to disturb the animal. This reverence can be found in ancient Indian texts, where records of cats involved with human society can be found in two ancient Indian great epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata, circa 500 BCE. As the Hindu and Parsee religions respected all forms of life and were especially sympathetic towards cats, all good Hindus were expected to take care of at least one cat during their lives. By contrast, the Islamic culture generally regards dogs as somewhat unhygienic animals.\n\nThe exaltation of cats in Ancient Egypt most likely began with their contribution to agriculture. Feral cats, or "reed cats", naturally preyed upon the rats and other vermin that would otherwise eat from the royal granaries. They earned their place in towns and cities by killing mice, poisonous snakes and other pests.\n\nThe Egyptians viewed their gods not as simple spirits but as intelligences that could be personified in a body. The earliest evidence of cats as deities comes from a 3100 BCE crystal cup decorated with an image of the lion-headed goddess Mafdet. The goddess Bast was originally depicted as a fiercely protective and warlike lion, but as her image "softened" over time she became more strongly associated with domestic cats.\n\nAs cats were sacred to Bast, the practice of mummification was extended to them, and the respect that cats received after death mirrored the respect they were treated with in everyday life. The Greek historian Herodotus wrote that in the event of a fire men would guard the fire to make certain that no cats ran into the flame. Herodotus also wrote that when a cat died, the household would go into mourning as if for a human relative, and would often shave their eyebrows to signify their loss.\n\nSuch was the strength of feeling towards cats that killing one, even accidentally, incurred the death penalty. Another Greek historian, Diodorus Siculus, describes an interesting example of swift justice imposed upon the killer of a cat: about 60 BCE, he witnessed the chariot of a Roman soldier accidentally run over an Egyptian cat. An outraged mob gathered and, despite pleas from pharaoh Ptolemy XII, killed the soldier.\n\nThe belief that a black cat brings bad luck started in the Middle Ages, with the Germanic peoples and the Normans. To some, they were an omen of impending death. On roads, a black cat crossing one's path was considered a signal of danger ahead.\n\nSince the 1880s, the color black has been associated with anarchism. The black cat, in an alert, fighting stance was later adopted as an anarchist symbol. More specifically, the black cat is associated with anarcho-syndicalism, a branch of anarchism that focuses on workers' rights. Anarchists, Situationists and Revolutionary Industrial Unionists (such as the IWW) believe that wildcat strikes could be the spark for revolution.\n\nIn the 1930s, the Wiccan religious tradition emerged. Since much of Wicca is reconstructed from supposed witchcraft practices, the black cat was adopted as a Wiccan symbol.\n\nThe archaic associations of black cats with bad luck or evil once appeared frequently in North American popular culture, but are no longer widely held. In the early years of television, several stations located on "unlucky" channel 13 made sport of the association by using black cats as mascots. \n\nContrarily, in the UK, black cats are the most well-known sign of good luck and
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nope because i read some where that the number 666 appeared in a dream as the mark of the beast and as it turns out the number was seen upside down to be 999. besides the greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he does not exist. so there for it would be to obvious for something horrible to happen on the day 666.
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Of course, they happen every day. \n\nJust read this story:(found at the link below)\n\nMilwaukee-Emily the cat has racked up some major frequent flyer miles, and perhaps no longer has nine lives. But the stowaway cat is finally home in Wisconsin after being mistakenly shipped to France. \nEmily's odyssey began more than two months ago, when she snuck out and didn't return to her Appleton home.\n"At one point we had given up,"said Donny McElhiney, Emily's owner, "and just prayed that she was okay and being loved." But Emily was actually on her own, after she crawled into a nearby cargo container full of paper bales, which was trucked to New York and then shipped overseas. She survived without food and water for three weeks until that container was opened in France. When the company called the phone number on her tag, Emily's family was flabbergasted.\nHer family waited as the one-year-old tabby spent a month quarantined in France. Then Continental Airlines offered to fly Emily home free. Emily's owners say the ordeal has transformed their mischievous, skinny cat into a heavier, calmer pet.
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Schrodinger Said:\n"One can even set up quite ridiculous cases. A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following diabolical device (which must be secured against direct interference by the cat): in a Geiger counter there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small that perhaps in the course of one hour one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it happens, the counter tube discharges and through a relay releases a hammer which shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid. \n\nIf one has left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed. The first atomic decay would have poisoned it. The Psi function for the entire system would express this by having in it the living and the dead cat (pardon the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts."
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It is an interesting twist on new age angels.  Supposedly, 1,111 "midwayers" or angels were sent to earth to help out people as they went through their lives.  It trips me out too.
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The city allows for up to three cats, but I could not find the punishment portion for breaking that ordinance.  If there were not that many more cats than 4, I doubt that it would be more than a class C misdemeanor.  \n\nUnless they believe that she will have a large number of cats again, then I doubt they would refuse to allow her to have 3 cats back.
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Superstitions> are a result of a combination of Fears, Lack of Reasoning & low functioning intelligence.\n\nAs a Feral Cat Advocate, I adopt black cats, for just the same reasoning; since Animal Shelters kill black cats because stupid superstitions keep people from adopting them.
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No.  Well, there is a cat food called 9 Lives.  Cats really only appear to have 9 lives because they tend to live through things that would be fatal to humans or dogs such as falling from a tall building.
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The resilience of the cat, especially when falling from a height (and "always landing on hisfeet") has long been noted.  In the 19th century someone finally was able to PHOTOGRAPH a cat falling and observe just HOW the cat had the ability to quickly twist, making the balance adjustment it needed to land as safely as possible.\n\nBut why NINE lives (not seven or eight or ten)?  It might be from the idea that nine was a "trinity of trinities" and so symbolic of perfection or completeness. This would fit with the apparent EGYPTIAN origin of the notion.   \n\nThe specific number probably stems from Ancient Egypt, in whose religion the cat played an important role:\n\n"But why nine? Nine, a trinity of trinities, is a mystical number often invoked in religion and folklore. The cat was once revered in Egypt, and this is probably where its nine lives began. The priesthood in On - known to the Greeks as Heliopolis and now a suburb of Cairo - worshipped Atum-Ra, a sun god who gave life to the gods of air, moisture, earth and sky, who, in turn, produced Osiris, Isis, Seth and Nephthys. These gods are collectively known as the Ennead, or the Nine. Atum-Ra, who took the form of a cat for visits to the underworld, embodied nine lives in one creator."
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I think it's a good idea to get young children to believe in it.  This is so they will be very careful with glass.  As glass can be seriously dangerous to children.\n\nAs for giving you bad luck for seven years is not even a myth.  It is utter nonsence.  But I believe that I should pretend to believe it when kids are playing with my mirrors!\n\nWhy don't you believe that breaking mirrors give you 7 years GOOD luck?  It's because children will break them hoping that their bullies at school will emigrate to Australia.\n\nI do believe why they say; 'Don't walk under the ladder as it gives you bad luck'.  That one makes sense as something could fall on your head from above.  But there is nothing logical about mirrors giving you 7 unlucky years.\n\nPersonally, I reckon that everyone on the planet doesn't believe in the 7 years bad luck with mirrors if they had to tell the truth for a million pounds.  They would be frightened incase the lie detector discovers their lack of honesty.  So they all will say that the so-called myth is utter crap!
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He is a cat and cats, especially Garfield, live in their own world and dont care what other's think or do. Live their 9 lives to the fullest!
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Being superstitious is the only thing that will give you bad luck.  You'll do it to yourself!  I break all kinds of mirriors for fun and sometimes I line up rows of ladders and walk underneath all of them one after another in a room full of black cats running around.  I should be dead.. :)
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Mainly, it's due to a lack of even basic understanding.  Many people prefer to believe what they are told rather than dig deeper to find out what we're really about.  I'm not a Wiccan, but I am a Pagan, so I know where you're coming from.  People have it in their heads that we kill kitties, eat children, turn people in to toads and cavort with Satan on a regular basis.  I don't know about you, but my life is devoid of the killing, toad turning, child eating and general cavorting.  \n\nPeople don't want to see that we are doctors, lawyers, business people, mechanics, soccer moms and dads.  They don't want to see that we are pretty much the same as them because it takes away that mystery and fear of the unknown.  Most people in my day to day life have no idea that I'm a Pagan. They know that I'm a good person with a good heart.  Some stop talking to me when they find out, which is really their loss and not mine.  Others are just fine with it. \n\nI'm truly saddened by the ignorance and hatred I see here on a daily basis.  If people opened their minds and hearts, there would be a great deal less suffering in the world.