I used to like that cereal, but one day I just thought it was way too sweet.
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Hm why would an INTP carry an amulet, Perseus, considering the rationals' tendency to skepticism?
Superstitions such as amulets and such are quite funny/interesting, yet dumb things. Last year, an aunt who's very into "magic" "energies" and all that new age BS gave me a little sheep sculpture. Supposedly you hang it on your door so that "it lets money in" (Because the spanish word for wool, "lana", is also slang for money). Ridiculous.
I've also considered the christian use of scapulars, medallions, and crucifixes to be interesting, all the syncretism behind them... You know, even drug lords have a patron saint...
Seriously. Why would wearing a couple of brown squares on a thread give you luck or grace or anything special, working as a substitute for actual belief?
Yet this reminds me that when I went apostate, I continued to wear my cross for several years. I thought it was an ironic gesture, and the fact that it was black and the christ had fallen off in an accident also helped giving it an air of satanism which made bible-thumpers awkward and I didn't really mind. But mainly I used it as a memento of my own gullibility and the deceptiveness of man and religion. I might still wear it if it weren't broken; in fact I still have the pieces in a box (together with all my other personal mementos/old junk. It's an INTP thing, right? Collecting objects because of their nostalgic associations).
Another thing that comes to mind is this leather bracelet I have. I really don't wear any "accesories" at all, I don't like wearing things that aren't mainly utilitarian, except for that one bracelet. It wasn't a gift or is anything special, it just so happened that one day I was thinking about how I always seemed to be wearing it whenever I was in a particularly confident and defiant mood. So now I utilize it as a sort of pavlovian conditioning focus object, wearing it whenever I actually want to get into that "stop hesitating and get what you deserve/desire" kind of mental state.
Like when you wear a costume or some particular clothes, and you can behave different because you feel it's not "you", it's like a game, a chameleon-style act.
I guess in that sense objects can have a relationship with a person's identity, but not as a magical fetish or amulet or charm as Perseus seemed to suggest.
(Edit: Arrrg! Sometimes it takes quite an effort to avoid beginning every sentence with an I.)
and I'm not superstitious in the slightest.
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