Do you believe in luck?
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I believe that nobody can know everything therefore the best way to appreciate some scenarios is to assign them probability's based on what you think should happenI Have No Idea said:
and if something 'unusual' happens just call it bad luck or vice versa
so yes I believe in luck from a technical standpoint only, it's rather inaccurate but then so is rounding pi and we do that daily
Well, it depends on how you define it. Good fortune? Yes, of course that exists. Random chance, good or bad? Yes, of course. If you want to think everything is predestined, that is fine. Just think what that means though.
I heard a math grad student bring this up about a year ago. Luck is actually mathematically provable. I have no idea what it is, but all I know is that was said.I Have No Idea said:
...Who bothers advertising for a 41 year old novel? It's just a book recommendation based off of the topic at hand. I'd second the recommendation. Niven touches on the topic from a pretty interesting perspective.Whateveralot said:
A bit of a silly one when you think sit back and think on it. But certainly an interesting one.
I do believe that good/bad things happen to people for reasons outside of their control, but I do not believe that this happens because of some cosmic force like luck.
So no.
So no.
Well this guy does and he is going to steal all of your luck and have you die in an accident.
No really thats pretty much the entire premise of the manga hes in.
No really thats pretty much the entire premise of the manga hes in.
Luck is a substitute word for coincidence, in my head. In that sense, I do "believe" in luck. Every coincidence has a reason, as every effect has a cause. I don't believe it is guided by some sort of force or some other 'unexplainable' thing.
Oh.. and All hail Urthdat!
Oh.. and All hail Urthdat!
If we are going by this definition...Success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions.
I would say that winning a lottery is based off of luck. So is getting a 100% on a multiple choice test by bubbling randomly.
But if you were thinking along the lines of...lucky=winning 80 games of poker in a row and that there must have been magical powers from a plant involved in that 80 win streak...that I don't believe in.
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I would say that winning a lottery is based off of luck. So is getting a 100% on a multiple choice test by bubbling randomly.
But if you were thinking along the lines of...lucky=winning 80 games of poker in a row and that there must have been magical powers from a plant involved in that 80 win streak...that I don't believe in.
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I don't believe in fate I believe in destiny
The way i see it there are three possibilities, Chaos, Fate, and Destiny. In Chaos things happen for no rhyme or reason. In Fate(or luck for that matter) Shit happens and its just they Universe playing itself out and there's nothing will come of it and there is nothing you can do about it. But with destiny, shit still happens but it preparing you for something or guiding/changing you to be a better person. There is an overall plan and things will get better.
The way i see it there are three possibilities, Chaos, Fate, and Destiny. In Chaos things happen for no rhyme or reason. In Fate(or luck for that matter) Shit happens and its just they Universe playing itself out and there's nothing will come of it and there is nothing you can do about it. But with destiny, shit still happens but it preparing you for something or guiding/changing you to be a better person. There is an overall plan and things will get better.
