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Luck is real Anonymous 08/31/18 (Fri) 19:26:21 5942c1 No.6607

Anything good or bad that happens to someone that they, within reason, could not predict or control is a form of luck.

> Getting hit by a drunk driver

> Winning the lottery

> Born with a permanent disability

> Struck by lightning

There's no sound reason for anyone to say that luck isn't real. They either don't understand the meaning of the word or have a very distorted view of reality, like the ones who claim every experience you have is just a manifestation of your own thoughts. This is patently false, as you could wake up tomorrow with a spider on your head without a single thought to spur it. There may be a reason, a cause, for everything, but that doesn't mean every event can be controlled or accounted for by a person at all times. When these unpredictable, uncontrollable events affect someone positively or negatively, it's called luck.

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Anonymous 09/02/18 (Sun) 15:30:47 382361 No.6622

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>>6607

I don't think the rationale is wrong but rather the language used. The word "luck" implies a sort of cosmic law as if things, even if happening at random, happens for a reason which is not true. Things don't happen for a reason. They simply happen. You may call it "luck" but luck as a tangible / observable law of nature does not exist.

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Anonymous 09/03/18 (Mon) 13:36:12 2d9310 No.6626

(Bad) luck is the excess of probability. Everyone knows people subject to misfortune wholly unrelatable to their particular circumstances by any method of rationality, the opposite is true as well. To assume the non-existence of luck because there is no possibility to understand it beyond its given nature is to pull the cart before the horse; the same is true for every conception of being, every chain of logic has its event horizon, there is always excess.

I've often come across the paradox of the impossibly minute chance of our universe existing with the laws that it has, of it even existing at all (the simulation hypothesis for example). I don't see why this prime force, this excess, should be assumed to have been hermetically cut off once it finished its function of spawning the universe/knowable reality; unforeseeable happenstance is as intrinsic to everyday life as it is to meta-physics.

>>6622

If luck implies a sort of cosmic law, then it is precisely the sort of. It can never be relied upon as a causal constant, except as for the consistency of inconsistency.

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Anonymous 09/09/18 (Sun) 04:29:49 5942c1 No.6640

>>6622

I see your point, that "lucky" events don't necessarily have some predestined, god-ordained significance to them. I also didn't mean to imply that luck is some sort of law, just a label for a certain type of event.

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Anonymous 09/27/18 (Thu) 17:18:39 2af1a6 No.6657

>>6640

It's just a way to measure undesirable low frequency events, it's like temerature or distance or time.

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Anonymous 09/27/18 (Thu) 20:59:00 7f1114 No.6658

>>6657

nobody could have said it better. but its a measure of all ranges, desired or undesired, luck itself. lol. its a cipher, a representative word.

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Anonymous 09/28/18 (Fri) 21:28:23 382361 No.6659

>>6657

Well no because temperature and time can be measured through empirical means but luck cannot.

Things that can be measured : Weight, height, speed, gravity and so on. Tangible forces that exist despite us.

Things that can't be measured : Luck, love, hate, peace and so on. Nebulous concepts created by humans to explain feelings, needs, wants and unexplainable phenomena within our world.

If a bird shits on your shoulder right after you've found a lone 5 dollar bill on the street there's no real correlation between the two happenings. One thing didn't happen just because of this other thing.

They just happened and we ascribe this as having more meaning to it than it actually does.

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Anonymous 09/29/18 (Sat) 13:14:59 2af1a6 No.6662

>>6659

If you consider that a bird shitting on your shoulder is unlucky and you recorded every instance of a person getting shit on vs not shit on, you would be measuring the frequency of luck. Maybe not the magnitude or strength of luck though.

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