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Luck plays a huge role in our lives. In my limited experience with traumatic situations, talking with people, especially people who have dealt with similar exp

by ISL 6y ago

Luck plays a huge role in our lives. In my limited experience with traumatic situations, talking with people, especially people who have dealt with similar experiences, can help to temper the psychological impact. For now, though, just hang in there. Things can get better.

Gerardd 6y ago
Indeed for luck... Things are already better thanks to our community and supportive friends and family. Thank you.
- apacheCamel 6y ago
  I always heard the phrase: "I'd rather be lucky than good." growing up and the older I get, the more I realize just how true it is.
mlrtime 6y ago
Luck has a huge role in how we were created as well. Think of the all the permutations in atoms since the big bang and the probability of you even existing.
- gkfasdfasdf 6y ago
  And all the mutations in DNA as well to produce a living breathing thinking human being! Indeed we are all incredibly lucky.
  - acqq 6y ago
    "Life is quite strange Life is quite weird, Life is really quite odd. Life from a star is far more bizarre, Than an old bearded bloke they call God. So gaze at the sky, and start asking why You're even here on this ball. For though life is fraught The odds are so short You're lucky to be here at all" (Galaxy DNA Song / Eric Idle)
- martyvis 6y ago
  I am always amazed at how people can hold this thought, considering the billions of lucky moments that would have had to go right over the eons, at the same time as one that demands diligence and deliberateness in planning and executing on those things in our lives and the world in order to make meaningful and successful progress every minute of every day
  - lostlogin 6y ago
    If the alternative is believing that some chap is orchestrating it and actually intended for my car keys to fall down that tiny hole in the deck because it would ultimately be a meaningful success, no thanks.
    - kaonwarb 6y ago
      I may be reading you wrong, but this strikes me as a straw man argument - there's a lot of space between the idea of intelligent design (which may be implied by a statement of how improbable non-intelligent creation of sentient life would be) and a complete abdication of free will (which is how I read your comment). Am I misinterpreting your point?
      - lostlogin 6y ago
        I interpreted the original point as championing intelligent design, but maybe I’m wrong and I’m missing something?
  - _underfl0w_ 6y ago
    You seem to be underestimating the vastness of time throughout the entirety of the universe's existence. There's been far more time in the existence of the universe during which these things didn't happen than the time it took them to happen. If this all measurably happened immediately after the universe's inception, sure, intelligent design seems more likely. But that's simply not the case - the opposite of this all happening is it simply not happening, which was already the case at one point and occupied immensely more time and space before now than that of "existence" as you and I know it.
- 20after4 6y ago
  infinity is an interesting thing. Every combination of thing that can be, will be and has been. The probability of not existing is zero.
  - crooked-v 6y ago
    Not true. 'Possible things' and 'impossible things' are two separate categories, and you can have an infinity of one that doesn't include the other. For another example of separate infinities, consider the set of integers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5...) and the set of integers-plus-one-half (1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, 5.5...). Both are infinite, but don't contain the other.
james_s_tayler 6y ago
EMDR also
sharken 6y ago
Speaking of luck, the Formula 3 crash involving Sophia Floersch is one of the craziest displays of luck I can think of. All of it documented here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/formula-1/2020/04/23/sophia-floersch-exclusive-interviewi-will-always-girl-had-big/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/formula-1/2020/04/23/sophia-floe...
- lostlogin 6y ago
  There are a lot of very lucky people after that disaster. Thanks for the link.

by ISL 6y ago

Gerardd 6y ago

Indeed for luck... Things are already better thanks to our community and supportive friends and family. Thank you.

apacheCamel 6y ago
I always heard the phrase: "I'd rather be lucky than good." growing up and the older I get, the more I realize just how true it is.

mlrtime 6y ago

Luck has a huge role in how we were created as well. Think of the all the permutations in atoms since the big bang and the probability of you even existing.

gkfasdfasdf 6y ago
And all the mutations in DNA as well to produce a living breathing thinking human being! Indeed we are all incredibly lucky.
- acqq 6y ago
  "Life is quite strange Life is quite weird, Life is really quite odd. Life from a star is far more bizarre, Than an old bearded bloke they call God. So gaze at the sky, and start asking why You're even here on this ball. For though life is fraught The odds are so short You're lucky to be here at all" (Galaxy DNA Song / Eric Idle)
martyvis 6y ago
I am always amazed at how people can hold this thought, considering the billions of lucky moments that would have had to go right over the eons, at the same time as one that demands diligence and deliberateness in planning and executing on those things in our lives and the world in order to make meaningful and successful progress every minute of every day
- lostlogin 6y ago
  If the alternative is believing that some chap is orchestrating it and actually intended for my car keys to fall down that tiny hole in the deck because it would ultimately be a meaningful success, no thanks.
  - kaonwarb 6y ago
    I may be reading you wrong, but this strikes me as a straw man argument - there's a lot of space between the idea of intelligent design (which may be implied by a statement of how improbable non-intelligent creation of sentient life would be) and a complete abdication of free will (which is how I read your comment). Am I misinterpreting your point?
    - lostlogin 6y ago
      I interpreted the original point as championing intelligent design, but maybe I’m wrong and I’m missing something?
- _underfl0w_ 6y ago
  You seem to be underestimating the vastness of time throughout the entirety of the universe's existence. There's been far more time in the existence of the universe during which these things didn't happen than the time it took them to happen. If this all measurably happened immediately after the universe's inception, sure, intelligent design seems more likely. But that's simply not the case - the opposite of this all happening is it simply not happening, which was already the case at one point and occupied immensely more time and space before now than that of "existence" as you and I know it.
20after4 6y ago
infinity is an interesting thing. Every combination of thing that can be, will be and has been. The probability of not existing is zero.
- crooked-v 6y ago
  Not true. 'Possible things' and 'impossible things' are two separate categories, and you can have an infinity of one that doesn't include the other. For another example of separate infinities, consider the set of integers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5...) and the set of integers-plus-one-half (1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, 5.5...). Both are infinite, but don't contain the other.

james_s_tayler 6y ago

EMDR also

sharken 6y ago

Speaking of luck, the Formula 3 crash involving Sophia Floersch is one of the craziest displays of luck I can think of. All of it documented here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/formula-1/2020/04/23/sophia-floersch-exclusive-interviewi-will-always-girl-had-big/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/formula-1/2020/04/23/sophia-floe...

lostlogin 6y ago
There are a lot of very lucky people after that disaster. Thanks for the link.