What does the evil eye bead do?
Isn't there a board? You have to hit the board! Some even scratch themselves afterwards. There are also those who tug their earlobes. There are also beads, I don't know if there is such a thing in other cultures, but we cannot do without wearing evil eye beads on the things we value.
Do you believe in the evil eye?
I believe a little bit.
I say a little bit, because normally, when the human eye is examined with modern science, it is not possible for there to be such a thing as the evil eye, I know that.
Nevertheless, there is a little bit of evil eye belief in me.
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Because the nature of man has not yet been solved.
In particular, the human brain has not yet been sufficiently analysed and it seems to me that it may be possible to be affected by the evil eye in our brain.
Therefore, I honestly don't know what happens in our brain, especially when someone with colourful eyes looks directly at you.
Maybe with the evolutionary development of human beings, those colourful eyes looking at us may trigger something in our brain and we may define it as the evil eye.
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I recently watched a programme on light and the behaviour of light, half joking, half serious.
The topic turned round and round, in fact, it came to the point that we only see the reflections of the objects we see.
Therefore, during the conversation, the subject came to the point that our brain synthesises things that are perhaps not real by evaluating them in its own way, limited to the information transmitted from the environment, and that it is actually very easy to deceive our brain.
The information coming from the environment is limited to the information we can obtain with our sense organs.
If we could somehow artificially influence our sense organs from the outside in coordination with each other, they said, then we could perhaps continue life in a dream environment in the same way as we live now.
Of course, this brings us to the scenario of the Matrix film.
In this film, the screenwriters had also discussed that people were actually living in cocoons with some cables connected to their bodies, and that they thought they were living the life called life in their imaginary worlds, in the matrix.
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Of course, the imagination of the screenwriters aside, we are quite sure that life in this world is real.
We are also sure that the objects we see with our eyes are real.
However, philosophers throughout history have been thinking about how this phenomenon of seeing happens.
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What do you need to see something?
We need a light source. Light from that light source will fall on the object, and when the reflected light reaches our eyes, image information will reach our brain through our visual nerves, and our brain will evaluate this information and we will see.
I have to remind you that our nerve cells work with electricity.
This means that the image information is somehow converted into digital information and transmitted to our brain through our nerve cells.
Without going into more detail, this is what the scientific data we know today says.
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But once upon a time, mankind didn't have so much knowledge.
He didn't even know what light was.
Imagine that you are a philosopher and you are trying to find an answer to the phenomenon of vision with the limited knowledge of that day!
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This is where the evil eye issue we mentioned at the beginning comes into play!
Once upon a time, it was thought that in order to be able to see, we send something from our eyes to the thing we are looking at and we can see with the rays reflected back.
Don't say such a thing!
I'm talking about when we were still at the beginning of everything.
And this could be a method, of course.
What do you think we call sonar today?
What is radar?
Okay, let me talk about something more natural.
How do bats fly without eyes?
Don't they navigate with the reflections of the high-frequency sound waves they send out?
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It was once thought that the things we see with our eyes could be seen in this way by reflecting back the elixir rays emanating from the eyes.
Epicurus, who lived in the 3rd century BC, and many philosophers even afterwards, thought a lot about being able to see, and Epicurus put forward his own perspective on vision, influenced by the views of Democritus, one of the philosophers before him.
Both Aristotle's views on vision and even philosophers such as Platinos and Heraclitus had different ideas.
Although the views of the philosophers of that time were more influenced by religious views and gods.
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Yes, today we say that the evil eye has touched us, but this evil eye belief is a belief from those days.
Many of us believe that some rays coming out of people's eyes affect the other person.
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Okay, but don't you sometimes get the evil eye?
You want to do something and if someone's looking, it somehow ends badly!
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Sometimes, no matter what you do, it just doesn't work out.
Has such a thing ever happened to you?
You know how sometimes there are some setbacks, but the setbacks never go away?
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No, I'm not talking about something like Mörfi's law, where if something goes wrong, it will go wrong.
I'm talking about not being able to do something that you could normally do easily because of some kind of setback.
There are always setbacks.
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That's what Mörfi said!
How is that different from the Mörfi law?
I don't know, it seems to me that Mörfi is talking about other things being bad all the time.
What I'm talking about is when something you're focussed on can't be done because of setbacks, no matter how many times you try, something always goes wrong.
It's almost like being cursed. Like the evil eye!
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So what I'm saying is a little different from the Mörfi law.
Mörfi is more likely to say that if there is a possibility of something going wrong, it will definitely go wrong.
There are those who explain Mörfi's law in a different way.
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Who is this Mörfi? Where did he come up with all these ridiculous rules?
Edward Aloysius Murphy Jr. is an American engineer. He was born in 1918 and lived until 1990.
In 1949, he was one of the engineers conducting experiments on rockets in the US Air Force.
Based on the mishaps that occurred during the experiments, he came up with the laws of mishaps that are known by his name today.
How did a simple engineer become so famous?
Because he expressed these mishaps and his theory of mishaps at a press conference.
After the war years, it means that these issues attracted people's attention at that time.
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* "If there is more than one possibility of getting something done, and one of these possibilities will produce unintended consequences or disaster, then that possibility will certainly be realised."
Of course, Edward Murphy is not the only one who has laid down some rules in these matters, there is also a simpler discourse known as Finagle's law.
* "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."
Are there only laws about setbacks?
No!
The opposite of Murphy's law is called "Yhprum's law".
(Yhprum = the opposite of Murphy!).
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Whatever the reason, many of us believe in the existence of such a thing as the evil eye, partly because of superstitions, partly because of the excuses we try to find for our incompetence, perhaps because of our fears arising from a lack of knowledge, and sometimes because we really believe so.
Let no one be touched by the evil eye!
Ouch, ouch, ouch... Is there a board? You have to hit the board too!
Some even scratch their sides afterwards. There are also those who tug their earlobes.
There are also beads, I don't know if there is such a thing in other cultures, but we cannot do without wearing evil eye beads on the things we value.
I wish you a week free from the evil eye.
Love and respect to everyone from Moscow.
