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How much of what happens in your life is chance or luck?
I am one who wants so badly to have complete and utter control of myself and what I do and what happens to me but there is the this terrible wrench in this from a thing called chance, luck, or whatever people want to call it. Considering that so much of this "chance" thing we may not even know, I am curious to see how much people believe is in play. I will give examples of the chance circumstances that we may not know about. You get a great job, yay, but there was one person more qualified than you and their children got sick the morning of the interview and they couldn't make it. You would never know that Chance, Luck just happened for you. We forgot our badge for work and turned around and went home just in time to avoid that six car pile up on the road we would have been on, Chance, Luck just happened. So how much chance do you believe is in play in your life. |
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It's not chance. It's other ppls decisions. The car pile up? Someone decided not to pay attention to their driving. The job deal? That person decided not to go for the interview. You cannot control what other ppl do.
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The more control you give away, the more control you have.
Life is governed by paradox ... |
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chance, luck and timing are forms of the same thing...if you happen to be at the store at the right time, and take a chance on buying a lottery ticket, then get lucky and win a million dollars...
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The more control you give away, the more control you have. Life is governed by paradox ... I don't believe that for one iota. |
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I don't like to believe in chance or luck but it just seems to be something that cannot be logiced away.
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The more control you give away, the more control you have. Life is governed by paradox ... I don't believe that for one iota. Well, there y' go, then - that's why it ain't workin' ... |
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Edited by
wux
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Sat 09/04/10 11:24 AM
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The badge thing would not work for me. I don't have a job, haven't had one in seventeen years. I got fired because I used the company printers to print my thirty-seven page novelette. No chance there. The audit department where I worked had nice printers, state-of-the-art, they were better than the stupid Samsung printer I use now, and that was, like I said, seventeen years ago. After I got fired, I decided to become a writer, an author of books, and haven't made a red cent since with my writing, or with working. What chance have I got? I stopped buying lottery tickets, because, very predictably, I never won any big money. Very predictably I won a ten-dollar prize for evey $234 I spent on the stupid thing, which works out statistically. I am fat, short, ugly, and getting on with age. Do you think I have a chance with girls? Any luck here? No. I haven't had a date for eleven years now, and there is no ball in a hell's chance that I will get one now. In 1999, New Year's Eve, we ordered Chinese -- everyone got a fortune cookie, and mine said nothing. Absolutely nothing, this ain't a joke. It was a blank piece of paper. It said, "printed in the United States." This is how unlucky I am. Nothing happens for luck in my life, or for chance. Completely predictable. Not an iota left for chance. The complete epitome of the deterministic model of causation. Well, Dragonness, if you want some luck in your life, good luck to you, but in my life it's not an issue whatsoever. |
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Edited by
wux
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Sat 09/04/10 11:31 AM
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The more control you give away, the more control you have. Life is governed by paradox ... I don't believe that for one iota. I'm going to give you two iotas... ...no, three iotas, if you promise to believe that. -------- Edit: I used the word "iota" in my post above this one, before I read the reply by this shoe=lady. It's funny how unchancey and unlucky it is that we both used the word "iota" in our independently composed posts. Those who have more iotas than they can give away, think alike: we still don't like to give our iotas away. |
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