I must write that I'm surprised at your disagreement Vic...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes and no. I think if I flip a coin 5 times in a row to heads it is //luck.// Dumb luck, based on probability/chance/statistics. But I still call it "luck." I don't see it the same ways as I see the belief in gods. I see it as a name for unusual circumstances that /just happen// that way. Right-place-at-the-right-time kind of "luck".

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Hmmm... I see what you're getting at. But, whether we're aware of it or not, there's always an explanation. Always some logic or circumstances or series of events that lead up to the seemingly inexplicable event that causes some to refer to it as "luck".

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's not that luck //causes// the incident, it's more of a term that describes it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Exactly. To me, luck doesn't have to be super natural.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No offense intended but, what it is to you doesn't really matter. Luck is in and of itself supernatural. It is a mysterious inexplicable force. And it is used by those who can't connect the dots of cause and effect.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That literal definition of luck is just what it is to you; who's to say //that// doesn't matter?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm really not sure what to say to that... do you intend to write that you're free to make up your own definitions of words and then propose that others should be tolerant of such... absurdity? What I write about this word matters because it's a predefined word. It's already got a definition. Sorry man, you can't just make up your own definitions, say you believe in them and expect people to take you seriously.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Luck: good fortune; advantage or success, considered as the result of chance. ^chance, is essentially the same word as, luck. Science has loads and loads and loads of chance in it. Even if something is predictable there is always a chance that something will go wrong,i.e. unlucky.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Chance defined as, “there's a chance that something could go wrong” is not the same as, “we'll be lucky if nothing goes wrong”. Hindsight is always 20/20. Better preparations could have been made. One can see what could have prevented something from going wrong after the fact. That these realizations come after does not change the fact that they were preventable. It is not luck that “causes” something to go wrong. There are the unknowables but, once we know them we can prevent them in the future. Would you propose that a scientist who made the decision to significantly reinforce a container before igniting a combustible material of unknowable strength thereby preventing a catastrophe got “lucky” or, made a wise decision in an unknowable situation?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This is pointless. Luck is when circumstance works in one's favor, when a person does not know, or has no way of knowing whether it will or not. That is still luck, even if physics and a knowledge of the entire universe can show why it turned out so. If a person guesses on a multiple choice test and gets every question right, that is luck, even if it's completely explainable and understandable. Luck is not defined as a supernatural force that //causes// circumstance to work in one's favor, it is simply the term given to scenarios in which it coincidentally does.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And watchful questioneer bitch slaps OP with an open handed palm of logic. Looks like OP didn't quite have an idea what he was talking about, but he sure sounded like a cocky ass

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Posting anonymously is extremely cowardly.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't really condone it either, sorry for inspiring a douche

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Posting anonymously is extremely cowardly.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Your understanding is wrong. But, that's your perception and I'm not going to change it as your perception is your reality.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You say that as if //your// perception is a //universal// reality, which seems quite self-absorbed. Am I correct to understand that you believe the definition of luck is a force that causes circumstance to work in your favor? Because google does not define it as such, and I'd love to see the dictionary you're using. That's what I love about language. Every word is defined, so there's very little grey area.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I respect your perspective and your candour combined with your acknowledgment of our douche friend is appreciated. I'm at that point in my online "blogging/debating/posting" experience that I rarely have the attention span required to engage in more than a few lines of debate. My perspective on this may be wrong and I challenge my perspectives daily. And, you've nailed a truth about me; like most people who write or speak with confidence I can have a tendency to come across as being egotistical which may or may not be intentional as again we're usually self-aware. And with this, I'm aware that I'm babbling so, until our next engagement...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I admit I too was somewhat condescending about this matter, and I appreciate that you admit something you did wrong (it's not often you see that on the internet).

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I admit I too was somewhat condescending about this matter, and I appreciate that you admit something you did wrong (it's not often you see that on the internet).

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The actual definition of luck is "Success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions" and "Chance to find or acquire: 'he lucked into a disc-jockey job'". There is nothing about supernatural in the definition- Sorry man, you can't just make up your own definitions, say you believe in them and expect people to take you seriously. Also, I recommend actually looking up the definitions of words before you go tell people to not make up definitions.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Your understanding is wrong. But, that's your perception and I'm not going to change it as your perception is your reality.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's from a dictionary, //your// understanding is wrong- you made up your own definition then accused other people of doing that when they used the official definition. And your perception isn't reality, so quit telling people their perception is wrong.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I am guessing the concern here is with the use of the word "luck." I am agreeing with the NW crowd because I follow the "book" definition of luck as "happy circumstance" but I also guess you are referring to "lucky charms" like: having a rabbits foot or crossing your fingers or rubbing a baby's head "for luck". IF that's what you mean by "luck" then I agree with you that is just primitive nonsense.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Primitive nonsense?!? Me and my cursed monkey palm beg to differ! Don't you know that rabbits feet are infused with quantum particles that make chance circumstances repeat in the same manner at a higher frequency, I thought that was common knowledge.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That, and coincidence.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity." That's pretty much my philosophy on it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

“Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.” -Steve Maraboli I'm still going to use it to describe an event that happened but was unlikely. But I hate when people (or the bitter) look at the success of another person and say, "well, they're just lucky." My 9th grade social studies teacher gave us the perfect quote about luck but for the life of me I just can't think of it. The one above will have to do.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think that's an instance of the word simply being abused. If someone won the lottery, that was luck (and if not, then what else was it?), but if someone truly worked hard and embraced inevitably opportunity, it was not.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't like the use of the word "primitive" in this. I don't understand how believing in luck can really be compared to believing in God or a god. People believe in luck because they have no in-depth understanding of what's behind the things that happen. I, for one, believe in God for completely different reasons. Why would that be primitive?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You believe in God cause you have no in-depth understanding of the world too. That's how they are both equally primative. We've seen why you claim to believe in God for diffferent reasons, but its still the same in the end.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Please tell me all the reasons why I believe in God. I'm dying to hear it, because its not because I don't have an in-depth understanding of the world

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If you were actually dying I still wouldn't list them. There are about 20 pages of Amirite filled with them. Amirite already has enough of your nonsense. It is because you don't have an in-depth understadnding of the world (that's really the only reason needed).

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Funny because I've never seen anything on amirite that tells me why I believe what I believe. My faith is personal and no one will ever know why I have it except for me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think they meant your posts specifically. You post a lot about your faith.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's because my faith is a big part of my life. I don't see a problem with posting about it a lot

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I never said it was a problem. I'm saying you said "Funny because I've never seen anything on amirite that tells me why I believe what I believe." They didn't say amirite tells you your religious beliefs and that's how they know your beliefs, they said you tell amirite your religious beliefs and that's how they know what you believe.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh okay I see what you're saying

by Anonymous 12 years ago

you play blackjack?

by Anonymous 11 years ago