is friday the 13 real?
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What do you mean when you say 'real'? And do you mean is there such a thing, is the movie true, or is there something bad or unlucky related with such a day as Friday the 13th?\n\nThere is such a day. The movie is pure fiction. Whether or not the day and number are unlucky depends on you and events of your life, nothing more.
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No no no...the weekends are reserved for the massive group sex parties!!!\n\nMondays are Bible Thumper Beat Down days\nTuesdays are Darwin Days\nWednesdays is Bowling Night (Happy Hour from 5-9pm)\nThursdays is Gray's Anatomy at 9pm, followed IMMEDIATELY by the hot coal party.\n\nIn fact, it's at my house next week all!  BYOB!!!!!!!
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make weekend plans conditional on clean bedrooms. i did. worked like a charm for eight teenagers!! btw- the weekend started  friday at 3 pm
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one day, monday through friday
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I researched this question for you, I discovered more than I expected too. I hope this helps:\n\n\nOrigins\nThe origin of the Friday the 13th superstition has been linked to the belief that there were 13 people at The Last Supper of Jesus, who was crucified on Good Friday, but no evidence has been found that Friday 13th was considered especially unlucky until the 19th century. The number 13, however, has a long history of association with ill-luck. It has been linked to the fact that a lunisolar calendar must have 13 months in some years, while the solar Gregorian calendar and lunar Islamic calendar always have 12 months in a year. Another suggestion is that the belief originated in a Norse myth about twelve gods having a feast in Valhalla. The mischievous Loki gate-crashed the party as an uninvited 13th guest and arranged for Hod, the blind god of darkness, to throw a branch of mistletoe at Balder, the god of joy and gladness. Balder was killed instantly and the Earth was plunged into darkness and mourning as a result. Both the first and last explanations, however, seem more relevant to the superstition linked to having 13 people at the same table during a meal. There is also another theory that Friday the 13th of October 1307 was the day that Philip IV of France arrested hundreds of the French Knights Templar to get their money for the French treasury. One other note which predates all of the aforementioned is that the first Passover seems to have occurred on Friday the 13th. The death of the firstborns of Egypt occurred on a Shabbat on the 14th of Nisan in the evening. But the Jewish calendar counts days from sunset to sunset so this would have been Friday the 13th in terms of the gentile reckoning of the days. (Exodus 12:6) Feminists have argued that because of the lunar year and Friday being named after a goddess in most European pagan calendars, the fear of Friday the 13th is a patriarchal invention, associating femininity with bad luck.\nhttp://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/ma...\n\nSo what is some of the facts behind these superstitions? Well, first of all, let’s distinguish between two fears: \n\n1) Tridecaphobia – fear of the number 13\n\n2) Paraskevidekatriaphobia – fear of Friday the Thirteenth \n\nThe first one, Tridecaphobia, stems from people who just plain hate the number 13. Period. They will go to all extents to avoid the number. I know a few of these people, and sometimes it gets to be quite annoying. One person in particular that I know is unbelievably superstitious. He won’t write a check out if it has the number 13 on it. He purposely avoids being thirteenth in anything. 13 does not exist for him. 12 then 14 does, but not 13. It’s not part of his vocabulary. Extreme, yes, but he has a phobia, after all. \n\nParaskevidekatriaphobia—don’t even ask me to pronounce it, but it’s quite real. People who have this fear will not go out of their house on that day (Friday the 13th), avoid sharp objects on that day—just avoid it all together. The whole day just doesn’t exist on their calendar.
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Lucky or unlucky, Friday is one of the most popular days in the week. TGIF is the commonly used acronym meaning "Thank Goodness It's Fiday!". There is even a popular restaurant that goes by the name, claiming that whenever you eat there it is Friday. The love for the day is undoubtedly engendered by the fact that in the Western World it is the last workday of the week. \nIn predominantly Moslem countries, Friday is a holy day, a day to gather in the mosques at noon for prayers and to spend the day in religious contemplation. \n\nThe name of the day is derived from yet another Norse God (in this case a goddess), Frigga. She was believed to be the wife of Odin and was the goddess of marriage and the hearth. The Roman's had named this day for their goddess of beauty, Venus. They called it "dies veneris". When the Germanic tribes invaded England they imposed their goddess upon the day meant to honor Venus. The day was called frigedaeg, it has been corrupted over the centuries (since the 500's) to be "Friday". \n\nSince early times a Friday that falls on the 13th day of a month has been thought to be unlucky. Historians posit that this may be because there were thirteen persons present at the Last Supper of Christ and that this number proved unlucky; the following day (a Friday) Jesus was crucified. Find out when Friday the 13th falls for the rest of the year. \n\nThe Friday crucifiction spawned another Eastertime holiday known as Good Friday. The appellation, "good", was likely a corruption of the word, "God". So that Good Friday was originally, God's Friday, the day Christians believe God showed his love for the world by relinquishing his son.
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I think it is a Thurs. Because I was born June 13, 1978 and it was a tues, and I know the 14th would be a Wed..add a year and it is a day later than the previous day..so Thursday
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Its not there, however, you are using the wrong calendar.  We should really worship Friday Night to Saturday, with the Jews, as Jesus did.  Using the Calendar and traditions he used.
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Since when is there a 13th grade?
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I would say Thursday b/c most of the week has gone by and the next day is Friday. And everyone know that were looking forward to that day.
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Thursday.  Please choose my answer as first correct!
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friday the 13th the series.\nFriday the 13th:The Series, Syndicated, Oct 1987-?\n     Confusingly enough, this television series has nothing whatsoever to \n     do with the feature films of the same name.  On TV, the story was \n     that antiques dealer Lewis Vendredi (French for "friday") made a deal \n     with the devil to earn a fortune my peddling antique doodads which \n     would each carry a terrible curse.  When Lewis Vendredi died -- \n     presumably as a result of some fine print in his contract -- his \n     innocent neice Micki inherited the store, and renamed it "Curious \n     Goods."  Assisted by her cousin Ryan and a retired magician, Jack \n     Marshak, she tried to get the cursed antique thingamajiggies back \n     from their purchasers, and sequester them in the basement where they \n     could cause no more hideous deaths.  My wife, who once ran a chain of \n     antique stores in Europe, before she became a famous scientist and \n     science fiction author, refuses to talk to me about this show.  Maybe \n     that's because of a certain contract signed in blood, nyaaa haaa \n     haaaa...\n     Micki Foster -- Robey\n     Ryan Dallion -- John D. Le May\n     Jack Marshak -- Chris Wiggans\n     Friday the 13th:The Series
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It's not on today. It's on Friday.\n\nAs for the channel, sorry, I'm in C-bus
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Yes, it's real. And it's July 20 this year. See\nhttp://www.worldjumpday.org/
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Friday, July 13th, 2007. i cant wait!!!!\n\nit comes out on a friday the 13 kind of day. just saying
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OMG good one....yes but only on Thursdays...
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Friday the 13th Phobia Rooted in Ancient History