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Luck; What is luck?
Topic Started: Dec 31 2008, 01:01 PM (162 Views)
Red Fox
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just another silly scientist

Such a simple question yet the true meaning of this word escapes me. There's no simple answer to this question...Yet when I ask most people they give me the meaning the word but not it's meaning & what luck really is. This is a small thing i've been pondering my whole life. What is luck & what is it's true meaning? I would love to hear what peoples take on luck is. maybe even discuss each persons thoughts.
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Oh my....I am shy......Xd but theres still a award for that?

I'm still the same shy old fox just....not so much if a sciencey foxxy.

welp nevermind. :P
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knnywood364
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Random generic thing.

Luck is something to praise when things go right and blame when things go wrong.

And it's a stat in some RPGs.
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Red Fox
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just another silly scientist

Those are two simplistic forms of the definition of Luck. i'm digging deeper into the rabbit hole. i'm looking for more then just it's definition. nice try though Kennywood. :)
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Oh my....I am shy......Xd but theres still a award for that?

I'm still the same shy old fox just....not so much if a sciencey foxxy.

welp nevermind. :P
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knnywood364
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Random generic thing.

Seriously though, luck is just an idea that people form when things are going right or wrong. It gives a form to the idea of something that causes certain random events to take place.
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Red Fox
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just another silly scientist

Oh whoa....I wasn't expecting to run into that until much later...Yes the meaning of luck can & what it is can have many differing thoughts. It all depends on what you beleive. i'm starting to see you have a straighforward simplistic idea of the word luck. Yet dont get me wrong this answer holds many answers to what luck is to this person it's just not the type of answer I was looking for...i'm thinking more philosphical (Is that the right word.)
I have been pondering this question for a while now & I no longer have a answer to this question. I find there might not be a answer yet found for this question yet I still would love to hear what each person thinks. Maybe even
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Oh my....I am shy......Xd but theres still a award for that?

I'm still the same shy old fox just....not so much if a sciencey foxxy.

welp nevermind. :P
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Molotov
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Relaxing, no?

I'll take a wild crack at this, seeing as how I'm no good explainer, but I'll try regardless.

For Luck, I mainly see it as two simple things: would the day/event/occasion/life go very well for you, or will it go down the drain into deep depression? Seems to me that many things affect how Luck really works, but I hardly see people paying attention to the little things that count.

As much as I would like to give an example, I doubt it would be a good one at best, so I won't do one.

But yeah, that's what I feel on it. I mean, we've all had our shares of good and bad luck every now and then, right? Think we would learn a bit about it from those experiences, heh.
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Trixie Prower
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I don't know if I believe in luck, I think we can come into good fortune, but I don't think there's a higher power in charge other then God who allows people to come into good fortune.
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Red Fox
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nothing determins Luck Trixie...There is no governing force over luck....Thus why it is luck....This about the only answer I can give about luck. This might be wrong...so i'm not standing by it but this is a small part I beleive in....Luck is just that....Luck....It's not chance, it's not a decision, theres many things about luck yet it's all of the above....& none of the above....this is yet again why i can't explain luck....Thus beleiaving in or not believing in luck is impossible...Look at me rambling on about the term when i'm seeking others opinions to this subject....I'm gonna shut up now & simply listen.

I understand what you Mean Molotov if barely...most of the phrase is quite close to Kennywood's yet you also added a very imprtant lesson dealing with luck. It is something we all must learn from....

Again to trixe:

I wish I had the devotion to something like you do Trixie....I'm lost on the subject of beliefs...Thus I take a scientific approach....
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Oh my....I am shy......Xd but theres still a award for that?

I'm still the same shy old fox just....not so much if a sciencey foxxy.

welp nevermind. :P
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Tails Fox
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I don't believe in luck, really. I believe everything happens for a reason... I do believe in luck on a certain degree, but Trixie sums it up well for me
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Missy
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I believe in luck. My view is that it comes once in awhile when you don't expect it. ^^; For me, Saturday is always a bad day... I dunno why. Rarely is it ever a good one.
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"TrueAim" Prower
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I can't say I believe in luck, it can't say I don't believe in it either. I just think it depends on the situation. When I escaped from a near death experience then I could call it lucky. I just call it lucky. It may have been something else but as far as I know I call it luck.

I also talked through MSN about this with Red and told that I see luck more as a Feeling you get on certain times on certain events. When you fall and only broken a leg while you're spine or worse would have been broken. That is what I call lucky.

I also heard someone else (not here on the TTFF for as far I know) say that people make their own luck. I don't know if this is true or that there is a guardian angel watching over me. But at training I face some bad near death experiences. Mostly consisted of braking my spine or neck. All that happend was a short passing out when my spine got hit or that that magical 3 inch saved me from breaking my neck. This was when I need to make a high fall (sounds weird but it's a way to catch less damage when you fall on your back) and got to close with my neck to the trampoline. I forgot to jump and dived down instead.

Nonetheless, you can't really say what luck is. Everybody thinks of it his or her way.
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TwoTailedWanderer
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hhmmm...you've got me interested. I didn't plan this out very well, and it's a new thign to ponder so bear with my thoughts on the subject.


I'll give you all that it is something to blame for good and bad things.


I think that luck is what we name the result of things that are left entirely to chance. Luck is corrolated to probablity. For something you have control over the result going in or against your favor would express no luck whatsoever, but place a probablity to it...even as simple as a 1 in 10. Should the result go towards the 1 in 10 instead of the 9 in 10 than it's luck. I personally think luck is what we call it when the unlikely happens the least favored odd is luck. That's why luck is best attributed to gambling and rpg's. Gambling is a game of odds, and most of the statistics in an rpg are based of numbers and probablities (correct me if I'm wrong) I don't have any claim on being right or intelligent, but I feel that luck is unbiased hince bad luck and good luck.


I hope this makes as much sense as it does in my head if not...I'll elaborate better later.
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Durandel
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Luck? Luck is, without going into much detail, something much like Fear. It can not be explained or prevented; it is just there, there to constantly strain our lives while we waste it so our fate will come; how he help our fate shows us how early it comes, but no one ever knows, at all, when Death's on their doorstep, it is something not to ponder, just to live with in hopes it won't turn you into a corpse as you wonder and ponder the Earth.
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Ooh, what is luck? What an interesting question. :]

I think luck is merely the probability of several outcomes, where the outcomes depend on certain factors. Like, if you take a little circular board and spun a thing to make it land on a certain outcome. When there is more of the same outcome, the probability of landing on that outcome would be higher than it would be for other outcomes that do not have duplicates. Factors in luck would be things like skill, persistence, or background knowledge.

Luck is either something that is extremely difficult to control, or it could be manipulated depending on those certain factors. We've all played Mario Party, haven't we? When you're playing on the board and push a button to stop the dice on a certain number so you can move that many spaces on the board, you can probably manipulate it to be a 10 if your eye catches, per se, the 1 on the dice, and you know to press the button a fraction of a second later to make it land on 10. That would probably take a little skill and some focus. Most people would say things like that depend on pure luck, but I think luck CAN be manipulated depending on some factors and what routes you take in life. :]


I really hope that made sense. D:
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"Luck is being prepared for an unexpected opportunity." :T0:
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