Superstitious Spam

In primitive times, people lived in superstitious fear of malevolent spirits and followed strange rituals and shamanistic commands to keep evil events from befalling them and propitiated the gods in the hope of obtaining mysterious favors of good luck.

Today, people cringe when they open an email that commands them to forward it to several people within an hour to gain good luck and warns that horrible things will happen to them if they fail to do so.

Come on people!! Have we made no progress? No one has ever died or suffered bad fortune because they failed to forward an email. And no one has hit a jackpot or obtained unexpected awesome sex because they did.
When you receive an email such as this:
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This email has been around the world 22 times.

Don’t break the chain or horrible events will befall you.

Take Katie Robinson She received this e-mail and being the believer that she was, she sent it to a few of her friends, but didn't have enough e-mail addresses to send out the full 10 that you must. Three days later, Katie went to a masquerade ball. Later that night when she left to get to her car, she was killed in that spot by a hit-and-run drunk driver.

You must send this on in 3 hours after reading the letter to 10 other people. If you do this, you will receive unbelievably good luck in love. The person that you are most attracted to will soon return your affection. If you do not, bad luck will rear its ugly head at you.

THIS IS NOT A JOKE! You have read the warnings, seen the cases, and the consequences. You MUST send this on or face dreadfully bad luck.
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JUST SAY NO!! Be brave of heart! Do not cringe. Do not "hedge your bets". Do not fear that evil will befall you if you don’t forward it. Do not believe that wonderful things will happen to you if you do. Do not subject your friends to having to cringe in fear and forward it ever onward in a downward spiraling Ponzi scheme of superstitious spam. Take the pledge: "I will not forward any email that threatens bad luck if I don’t."

If the poem, story or anecdote contained in the email is good ... people will forward it without threats. If its not ... then it doesn’t deserve to be forwarded. If it really is worthwhile, and you really would like to forward it, but it contains threats ... CUT that part of the email before you forward it, so that the threats are gone and you don’t subject your friends to them.

Let’s try to act as though we who live in the internet age are a little more enlightened than a bunch of paleolithic cave dwellers sitting around a fire staring in fear at the messages the fire gods are conveying.