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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: X_marks_the_ed on September 28, 2008, 01:56:07 PM
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Simple question with simple answers, inspired by my own stroke of luck this week.
Walking home from school, I actually found a copy of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle just lying out open in the field next to my house. Now I have something to do until I finally get a better computer next month. (Paper bags! AlmeidaChao anyone?)
Has anything ever struck you with a hope of some form of "luck?" If so and you still don't believe in it, tell us why!
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Yes and no.
I do believe that Friday 13th is a very "lucky" day for me, because good things always seem to happen.
Really it's all coincidental, but maybe it is luck considering it's always on Friday 13th (found $20 at a parking lot once).
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No. Luck is just a word for a low-probability occurrence, whether it be bad or be good. Chance is a better word for luck. Nothing such as a four-leaf clover, or Arabic talisman will effect that probability. Things just happen to people because they just have to happen to someone. People will die in friday the 13th just as people will win something on the seventh day of a month. People will win the a jackpot while wearing a charm just as people will NOT win anything while wearing a lot of charms. Things will just happen to people, because they have to happen. And it's not always left to chance.
Luck is just in your head. There's just probability, chance and coincidence.
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I guess. I never think of it about luck. I did find a 150 dollar cd player one day walking home 6 or so years ago.
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Nope. Luck is chance with a pretty name. More or less I just use luck as I would swearing. "You lucky bastard" When something happens to someone, and so on.
I do believe that Friday 13th is a very "lucky" day for me, because good things always seem to happen.
CHH CHHH CHHHH AAH AAH AAH AAH AAH AAH AAH CHH CHH CHH
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Luck isn't real, but it is nice to believe it is.
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Nope, I've been blessed with horrible karma. Unreliable/assholes family/friends, sucky jobs, not much OMG has happened and if it does happen... it doesn't last very long.
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Somewhat. I believe some people are lucky and some are not, in the sense that good random things happen to some people while to others don't.
That said, I'm usually pretty lucky on bingos and that kind of stuff.
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Idk what I would even consider luck.
Like if I find 40 bucks on the road, I think "woah awesome."
If I get laid, I still think "awesome."
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I do believe in luck, or chance, whatever. I once found a Pokémon Red Version while it was kinda new lying on the ground. I told some friend about this and I would of course get some "Oh, that's my brother's" or "Maybe it's mine". Of course, I kept it. I found money more than once on the ground too. An mp3 too, but I already had an iPod. I still kept it.
However, I also believe in badluck, kinda. Last year, my PSP, along with a game and Memory Card, and my wallet were stolen when I was at work, 10 or more GBA games, my GBA SP, a DS game and 180$ were stolen at home when I lived with my dad, and finally, my DS along with 6 games and a pile of XBOX games (one was mine) were stolen too.
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Luck is just in your head. There's just probability, chance and coincidence.
Thats how I see it
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Am I the only one here who isn't followed by some guy with holes in his pockets?
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I do believe in luck, or chance, whatever. I once found a Pokémon Red Version while it was kinda new lying on the ground. I told some friend about this and I would of course get some "Oh, that's my brother's" or "Maybe it's mine". Of course, I kept it. I found money more than once on the ground too. An mp3 too, but I already had an iPod. I still kept it.
However, I also believe in badluck, kinda. Last year, my PSP, along with a game and Memory Card, and my wallet were stolen when I was at work, 10 or more GBA games, my GBA SP, a DS game and 180$ were stolen at home when I lived with my dad, and finally, my DS along with 6 games and a pile of XBOX games (one was mine) were stolen too.
That's not luck or bad luck. Stuff like that happens to everyone everyday. You're not special for it to happen only to you.
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(Paper bags! AlmeidaChao anyone?)
What's with the customization of my name, eh? I didn't get it >.>
Anyway, I do belive in luck. I had a lot of luck strikes (no pun intended) is my life.
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I don't feel special or anything, and I know I'm certainly not the only one who was robbed.
It just depend how you see luck. When something great and not frequent happens, like finding money on the ground or whatever, I consider myself lucky for being the one who found it, because someone else could've find it before me. And when lots of bad things happen to me, I consider myself unlucky. Sure, it does happen to everyone, but when it happens to someone else, that person was just as lucky or unlucky as I was.
Actually, the ones I mostly consider bad luck are the PSP along with the wallet and the XBOX game. PSP and wallet because the only day I left my bag on the ground, someone had to steal what was inside. I usually left it atop the shelf, but that day, there was no space for it.
And the XBOX game because the only pile of games that disappear had to have mine in it.
The rest is mostly living with dishonest people... but I still think about it as bad luck because all that happened the same year. Never been robbed before, so it was my year of bad luck.
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Again, luck is just a probability. Do you know that there's many things other people have found before you that you never realized? Did you know that when that person stole, he had that preplaned for some time, and that he probably has stole form someone else? Just because you found it before somebody else, does not make you any "luckier" than anyone else. Just because someone has a problem finding money and decides and plan to steal from someone, does not mean that, that person is any unluckier. It just means it was the right place at the right time. There's nothing, other than people themselves, that improve or worsen probabilities.
The only thing that I would pass as luck is the thought of something low chance happening to you by mere coincidence. There's no such thing as luck. There's no such thing as looking it at it from different ways. It's just there.
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Yeah... captain obvious, we all know that luck isn't real. It is just a nice justification for things that would take too long to truthfully explain. If you are to good for simple things like that, screw off. Don't give us some big "holy sh!t I no so muchz" speech.
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...Wait, did I post in the wrong thread, or did my ridiculous reply vaporize? I could have sworn I hit post...
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Where? Post it. I wanna read it and then comment on it.
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Well, it's definitely not here, and I can't remember all of it, so it loses a ton of what it was (or, in most of my cases, wasn't), so it wouldn't be worth posting anymore...
Oh well. I'm sure it'll resurface as something worthwhile somewhere else.
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Pardon, I had forgotten how many of you suffer from ADHD or just plain retardation.
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I don't believe in it. If I find a penny on the ground (which is supposed to bring good luck), and then later I find ten bucks on the ground, it's just a coincidence. The penny didn't magically make the ten bucks appear.
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This thread got stupid.
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I don't believe in luck. If something happens, it's because it's supposed to happen. That's all.
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We had a raffle drawing at our school, and i put one ticket in for a ps2 (at a dollar a ticket, a lot of people had put in about $20 worth). My friend at the time actually had given me the ticket. And I won the PS2. So i got it for nothing. It was pretty sweet.
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well our school started Sat question raffle( you asnwer the question right and get into the drawling for 25$ [3 winners] And i got all the questions right last week and I didn't win...(he JUST announced it))
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Note: This post is incorrect. It should read "bastard who was subject to events in which a low probability occurence took place purely by coincidence". Please make a mental note of this to prevent confusion.
Lawl.
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OMG I HATE THE MODERATORZZZ
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Again, luck is just a probability. Do you know that there's many things other people have found etc.
What I call luck is being in the right place at the right moment, and bad luck is obviously the opposite. I know there is no such thing as lucky charms (not the cereals) or whatever that will increase your luck. Now if you prefer to call it "event in which a low probability occurence took place purely by coincidence", then go on! I still call it luck or bad luck.
Pardon, I had forgotten how many of you suffer from ADHD or just plain retardation.
Why, because we don't type big paragraphs to explain that luck isn't real and that calling any rare events luck is wrong? Calling someone retarded or anything because they don't see things like you do is just lame.
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See, my luck is at 76, so I'm good to go. I hit crits almost every attack (I am a Soldier, after all).
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My luck caps at 40 :(
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Pardon, I had forgotten how many of you suffer from ADHD or just plain retardation.
haha you are such a cock lol
get off your high horse.
I had a "awesome" moment tonight.
high five.
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"Has anything ever struck you with a hope of some form of "luck?" If so and you still don't believe in it, tell us why!"
I was telling you why.
it's not about seeing things as you do or as I do, but to have a topic conversation. But you guys can't have it cause you ARE retarted. Can't really say you're smart for taking things so seriously.
But whatever it's not like it matters now, the topic will go off-topic in the next 5 posts.
And no rev, the weather is nicer up here than down there. Better stream of oxygen.
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"Has anything ever struck you with a hope of some form of "luck?" If so and you still don't believe in it, tell us why!"
I was telling you why.
No you weren't, you were just contradicting us, well mostly me, by saying that luck doesn't exist. It's not the same.
it's not about seeing things as you do or as I do, but to have a topic conversation. But you guys can't have it cause you ARE retarted.
Ok, so, you were there trying to prove that you were right, instead of actually telling us your opinion, and then called us retarded... but we're the one who can't have a converstation... seems quite wrong.
Can't really say you're smart for taking things so seriously.
Maybe it wasn't directed to me as well, but I'm pretty sure it was.
I'm not taking it too seriously, I'm just replying to tell my opinion, to get into the conversation. And see? I'm not calling you retarded just because you don't share my opinion.
But whatever it's not like it matters now, the topic will go off-topic in the next 5 posts.
Now I can't really say anything against this...
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The thing about luck so far that I can see by the first page alone is that if you lot are having GOOD luck, give a thought to the people who lost their money/sonic 2/ipod/pokemon red. Their luck isn't quite as good as yours, apparently.
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HALO I M HTML
I AM MASTER OF ALL LOGIC AND SENSE. EVERYONE AROUND ME CLEARLY DOESNT UNDERSTAND VERY BASIC CONCEPTS OF LIFE AND THE WORLD AROUND US, SO I MUST INFORM THEM ON EVERYTHING DESPITE THEM A) NOT GIVING A **** BECAUSE IM A TOTAL DOUCHE OR B) ALREADY KNOW THE **** IM SPEWING.
WHAT?
A RESPONSE THATS NOT "I AGREE"?
YOU'RE RETARDED.
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You're both retarded. Stop talking.
There needs to be a little give-and-take on Charas. By all means explain your views to someone, but insisting that you're right and insulting those who don't agree is a bit of a faux pas.
If you don't take each other seriously, the argument dissolves. Everyone needs to lighten up. IT'S JUST A FORUM.
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I dont know if you've met me before, but I dont take ANYTHING seriously.
ANYTHING.
DOES CAPS LOCK MEAN NOTHING TO YOU PEOPLE?!
Btw todays my lucky birthday.
LUCKY LUCKY.
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No.
I did not make this thread to start arguments like this again. This is about luck, not Charas or members/people in general. Why else did you guys think I was so inactive this past month? Tone the argument down to luck again plz.
sonic 2
To be honest, I'm glad the previous owner lost it. It's murdered! I'm suprised it even still runs, let alone without crashing.
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Kijuki is a douche.
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The thing about luck so far that I can see by the first page alone is that if you lot are having GOOD luck, give a thought to the people who lost their money/sonic 2/ipod/pokemon red. Their luck isn't quite as good as yours, apparently.
Yeah, it sure sucks for them. I know how it feels... :'( But you know the expression(or whatever the word is):
"The misfortune of one is the happiness of others." (Google translated, so words may not be exact).
Nah, I'm joking... well, kinda...
Also, uhm, sorry X_marks_the_ed.
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If you say your life has no luck..but In a certain consent luck does exist, Even if in the form of Chance/ Happening/ Odds/ or Probability...
And to say luck doesn't exist then neither of these exist and that must mean you belive in fate ( Life is set in stone and you can't do a F*** about it) or some other odd thing
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*CRIT ROCKET*