Many People Believe That Our Lives End

For 13 To Be Unlucky Would Require There To Be Some Kind Of Cosmic Intelligence That Counts Things That Humans Count And That Also Makes Certain Things Happen On Certain Dates Or In Certain Places According To Whether The Number 13 'is Involved' Or Not (whatever 'is Involved' Might Mean).

This Sentence Contradicts Itself - No Actually It Doesn't.

Perhaps The Problem Is The Seeming Need That People Have Of Making Black-and-white Cutoffs When It Comes To Certain Mysterious Phenomena, Such As Life And Consciousness. People Seem To Want There To Be An Absolute Threshold Between The Living And The Nonliving, And Between The Thinking And The "merely Mechanical," ... But The Onward March Of Science Seems To Force Us Ever More Clearly Into Accepting Intermediate Levels Of Such Properties.

Meaning Lies As Much In The Mind Of The Reader As In The Haiku.

How Gullible Are You? Is Your Gullibility Located In Some "gullibility Center" In Your Brain? Could A Neurosurgeon Reach In And Perform Some Delicate Operation To Lower Your Gullibility, Otherwise Leaving You Alone? If You Believe This, You Are Pretty Gullible, And Should Perhaps Consider Such An Operation.