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Superstition: A Mind Stalker Lynn Shehab (9B) “Superstition, the mother of those hideous twins, fear and faith, from her throne of skulls, still rules the world”. This quote asserts and proclaims that superstitions clog, fetter, shackle, and manacle people’s competency to flourish and thrive their intellect. Superstitions are old traditions and rituals that lack logical explanation; they’re mere presumptions that linger in our contemporary world despite the logical and scientific reasoning. In fact, one cannot lose sight of the negativity accompanied by superstitions. Superstitions, a piece of fiction dealings, encapsulates a plethora of drawbacks on the social, physical, and academic aspects. To begin with, superstitions hold a bunch of social drawbacks, for it prevents logical thinking and precludes adequate decision making. To start with, being affected by it, superstitions blind man’s power of rational judgment. For example, people generally hate losing more than they l...
Mysteries: Egregiousness of Nescience Miriam Kassem (9C)       “The gateway to mystery swings open at a touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.” This quote asserts and alludes that mysteries are the ideology and tenet of the inadequate and weak-minded, the cretinous and moronic prattle of backwardness, the phantoms and phantasm of countries with sparse abilities to prosper, and the gruesome and loathsome series of intellectual retardation. They have the uncanny wand of ruses, artifices, and tricks to stealthily trap the core of the easily hooked to imbecile and stupid babble. In fact, one can only notice the nuisances, pitfalls, and drawbacks of mysteries. Indeed, mysteries need ludicrous and preposterous bodies with absent minds and that have enough inner strength to shoulder the snags, flaws, and disadvantages of mysteries that vary between social by-produ...
Superstitions: The Counter of Reality          Carla Hamieh (9B)       “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” This quotes asserts and alludes that superstitions have always ruled over intellect and brainpower, altered history with human tragedies as witch hunts and more, and manipulated the week’s minds —those who underestimate their capabilities in science and create with their emotions a border preventing science to invade and reduce enthusiasm, hold one’s emotions at bay, and banish superstitions with logic. Humans have always been emotional and enthusiastic creatures which allows the flow of superstitions along with these feelings and the only medicine to this contagious disease is through sanity and rationality. One can’t lose sight of the negative drawbacks of superstitions. After all, the shelter to all fragile minds, superstitions, encapsulates a myriad of byproducts on the soci...