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no not at all i believe in God
but those who dont say i am the luckiest person walking.
but if that were true i would have cleaned out every casino in CA by now.
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Originally Posted by distraff
Given all the hurricanes that have been hitting New Orleans, and that the universe knows what it is doing, what conclusion can we draw?
New Orleans must die!
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Just kidding. But you guys really didn't build/live in the best spot for a large city. You kind of put that situation on yourselves. Luck as you believe plays no real part in it.
As to the OP. I think Random chance at points does influence our lives positively. But from what I getting in your post. You think some people are just lucky. Well I'm more inclined to think that folk may get some lucky breaks but they take those breaks and build off them. Whether it be through good networking, choosing right projects, having the ability to delegate well, good at butt kissing, etc. So I think luck seems to play less into the equation and good choices and maneuvering are the keys to their success.
That some people who get opportunity after opportunity, are just lucky?
It depends on how one thinks of and defines "luck".
Do I believe unexpected things can happen that a person considers fortunate (or unfortunate)? Yes.
Do I believe that "luck" is a real something that some people have and others do not that increases a person's chances for certain types of events to happen to them? No.
When events are truly random, they will stack up a little more frequently on some outcomes than others. An example of this is balls in the lottery. Every ball has an equal probability of travelling up the tube and being chosen each draw, but if you look at a frequency table, you'll see that some numbers have shown up a little more often than others. That is the expected pattern of truly random events.
So, even if life events were truly random, some people would get a little more of them than other people. But, the majority of life events are not random. Some people keep having a lot of bad things happen to them because of the coices they made or the circumstances they are in (i.e., they hook up with people that aren't good for them, or they go into professions where the work is not that stable, or they don't take good care of their health,etc).
Finally, "luck" seems to be a matter of perspective. There are some people who love to play the victim and so are keyed to interpret their life events as bad luck. Two people can have roughly the same number and type of events happen to them and one interpret it as luck and the other one doesn't. Some people see even fortunate things as unfortunate; others see the good fortune in "negative" life events.
Luck can be defined as a subjective reality, where the subject making the decision to use the word "Luck" is describing an outcome of precision and accuracy from apparent chaos, the exact opposite of the laws of entropy.
Luck can also be defined as having a high probability of success from a task with a low probability of success.
So whether I believe in "Luck" depends on how people and you define it.
That some people who get opportunity after opportunity, are just lucky?
i absolutley do
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