A fork of Rural Dictionary
Thinking about the cause of an earthquake relating to yourself.
Maybe us moving, redirected the epicentre of U.S earthquakes to where we were from. I like to think of it as Ego-Seismic thinking
Thinking that earthquakes revolve around you.
From Rhett & Link's Good Mythical Morning.
Link: 'I will gladly accept being a Ego-Seismic, wherever I go earthquakes flee!'
the belief and/or personality that wherever you are or live is immune to earthquakes simply because you are present there
Link has an ego-seismic personality and thinks that the only reason North Carolina never had an earthquake when he was there simply because he was present.
the changing of an epicenter due to a person's presence
Well I Would Call It Ego-Seismic Thinking -Link
WHEN YOU MOVE SOMEWHERE WHERE EARTHQUAKES ARE FREQUENT AND THERE HAVE NOT BEEN ANY QUAKES SINCE YOU MOVED AND YOU THINK IT'S BECAUSE YOU MOVED THERE.
Rhett: We haven't been in an earthquake since we moved to California!
Link: Maybe it's because we moved here, the quakes flee from us!!
Rhett: Link, that's Ego Seismic Thinking.
The theory that earthquakes follow you, wherever you live.
Steve: "We never get earthquakes here!"
Paul: "We will now, I just moved here."
Steve: "You are so ego-seismic."