2006-06-17 05:55:33 · 13 answers · asked by sage 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No Such thing as luck.
"A rationalist approach to luck includes the application of the rules of probability, and an avoidance of unscientific beliefs. The rationalist feels the belief in luck is a result of poor reasoning or wishful thinking. To a rationalist, a believer in luck commits the post hoc logical fallacy:
A happens (I wear my lucky shirt) and then B happens (something good)
Therefore, A caused B
In this worldview, probability is only affected by confirmed causal connections. A brick falling on a person walking below, therefore, is not a function of that person's luck, but is instead the result of a collection of understood, (or explainable) occurrences. Statistically, every person walking under the building was just as likely to have the brick fall on them.
An alternative rationalist approach to luck is to contrast it with control. Luck is that which happens beyond a persons control. This view incorporates phenomena that are chance happenings, a person's place of birth for example, but where there is no uncertainty involved, or where the uncertainty is irrelevant. Within this framework one can differentiate between three different types of luck:
1. Constitutional luck, that is, luck with factors beyond a person's control because they cannot be changed. Place of birth and genetic constitution are typical examples.
2. Circumstantial luck, that is, luck with factors that cannot control because they are randomly brought on. Accidents and epidemics are typical examples.
3. Consequential luck, that is, luck with factors you cannot control because they are a capricious result of your actions. A typical example would be throwing a rock off of a cliff. Hitting someone walking below is a consequence of numerous factors beyond your control, it is a matter of luck.
The gambler's fallacy and inverse gambler's fallacy both explain some reasoning problems in common beliefs in luck. They involve denying the unpredictability of random events: "I haven't rolled a six all week, so I'll definitely roll one tonight".
2006-06-17 06:00:57 · answer #1 · answered by Mariners 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Luck is an athiest's word. Destiny is regardless of what you want to happen, what will happen. You can't change your destiny. It is unknown. Destiny is a result of your personality and choices. I'm not saying that you are helpless, I'm just saying that life happens. Sometimes you would not choose something, but it happens and makes you a better person. Karma is more true than luck. Luck implies no merit.
2006-06-17 06:02:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If u believe, from the Almighty comes destiny, from astrology its luck and from hard-work success.
Do you not think its a good recipe?.
2006-06-17 06:05:37 · answer #3 · answered by AEZ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the measurement of said intangibles that make it impossible to track with any degree of efficiency
2006-06-17 05:58:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. You carve your own path. Don't rely on luck, it will almost always let you down.
2006-06-17 05:58:42 · answer #5 · answered by bc_munkee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
luck is just coincedence
destiny is what we will do after we make the choice
2006-06-17 06:02:14 · answer #6 · answered by 0110010100 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think either exists, and it would be tough to prove either one is a force in the universe.
2006-06-17 05:58:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
success should not be success, it really is destiny! we will be tricked into believing we are fortunate, yet we are no longer, those activities of "success" that ensue to us are purely most excellent us to our destiny, be that reliable or undesirable! :)
2016-10-14 06:13:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that both have their affects.
This I believe; http://homelessheart.com/testimony.htm
2006-06-17 05:57:34 · answer #9 · answered by Don S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yup
2006-06-17 05:57:30 · answer #10 · answered by jyd9999 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋