discussion Do you believe in luck or do you think everything is planned?

[Garaf]

Although i do believe in luck and karma, i also believe that everything happens for a reason

 

[fthegovernment]

its random & nothing more, stop thinking about it as if "you are in the matrix"

 

[Republican Bear]

Interesting question that has been debated for centuries. My opinion is we all have limited freedom to choose, and most things are planned.

By a higher power or a machine...who the hell knows but there are many interesting books on the topic.

 

[Karamchad]

After seeing what kind of things happens to friends and family on the course of years, yes, personally I absolutely believe in the concept of luck.
We even have a friend that we say he has "luck build" like in fallout.

 

[Wolflorz]

I believe in that people believe. If you believe in such a thing as luck, predominantly bad luck, then I think you are going to experience more missteps in life than usual. Not that that is necessarily the case, it's just that your brain is hardwired at that point to expect and focus on the bad outcomes while ignoring or brushing aside the good. The same thing goes for "good" luck. Everything boils down to arbitrary chance, in which we all are both winners and losers at the end.

 

[PhineasFlynn]

I believe in luck, but it avoids me a lot. I'm not complaining, it's just the way it is.
In my life, no matter how hard I try, it usually ends badly. Sometimes I feel like if I were standing at a crossroads and on one path I was waiting for a million dollars and on the other death, I would always go where death awaits me, and besides, it would be very painful and at least with multiple rapes.

I used to be very depressed about it, but after very serious injuries that I always more or less got with, I look at it much more positively. I may look like a patchwork quilt, but at least I can usually walk on my own.

The books "Why Mummy Drinks" also helped me a lot because they accurately describe my thought processes and I know that I'm not the only tragic person in the world, even if Ellen is just a fictional character.

 

[KingTerra]

I personally believe in luck, though when its comes to contests there are definitely some that are planned winners

 

[User_111574]

I don't believe in the concept of "luck" as such. The play of a number of random factors - yes, this is the case.
Little depends directly on the person. Well, unless he knows that the journey to the railway station takes 50 minutes, and the train departs in an hour, nevertheless he will leave the house half an hour before the train departs and, naturally, the train leaves without him. But this is not a question of the influence of any external factors, but of the lack of organization of the latecomer himself.

 

[LUVGAMZ23]

The universe is a giant ball of suck. Almost everything outside of Earth can and will kill you.
Most things on Earth will also kill you.
Any breath you take, is therefore, by definition, the luckiest thing you've ever done. There is no plan.

I'm a French, nihilistic, asshole. What did you expect?

 

[xel101]

I'm defiantly a firm believer in luck as i truly believe fate is something that can be changed if not influenced

 

[JadedSkywalker]

I think life is chaos and planning how to survive such chaos is a skill. You don't always get dealt the greatest hand. People get cancer, and people die all the time without any reason. Dumb and poor life choices can haunt a man. They can nip at your heels and torment you with nagging regret. I prefer, grace, kindness and mercy, but I know it's usually not granted. People in general can be mercenary. It has the ability to make one quite cynical. I'd prefer money over luck.

 

[flappynoodle]

I think I have to go with the false dichotomy answer.

Reality appears to be entirely deterministic and without any sort of central authority.

Meaning there is 'no luck' but also no 'plan.'
The world is almost impossibly chaotic though.

Each of us a pachinko ball with particular properties bouncing along a set of pegs unique to us. No two people would have the exact same set of outcomes from the same chaos and yet the influence of those random elements cannot be denied.

If none of that makes any sense then please refer to my profile picture.

 

[lewlew]

You can play Gacha game, surely you will get plenty of S rank

 

[Sadfruit30]

I don't think luck actually exists, but at the same time i wouldn't say everything is preplanned. I think that we can make our own choices, and other people will make theirs, and if life decides to fuck us over. Well, then you don't have bad luck, nor did the universe plan to fuck you over. It's just the effects of the actions everyone has taken coming into play.

 

[everestkrona]

I think everything is pretty much a combination of randomness and cause/effect. "Luck" can just be used to describe our feelings about the results of that combination.

 

[User_192463]

every time at least in my life I have noticed when things go well something shitty is right around the corner and it seems to cycle. make of that what you will.

 

[largeforeskin]

I don´t believe in good luck / bad luck or a plan. Shit happens, sometime more sometime less.

 

[Deleted member 207685]

A mix of both. Also I like to call luck a happenstance.

 

[BrodyPresto]

Luck feels more romantic, and I guess it’s a way for people to cope with the bad choices they’ve made in life.

Hey, I’m not pointing fingers. I’ve had my share of bad luck too. /j

 

[bingbear]

Luck isn't real. Luck is when billions of people, make trillions of decisions, most of which will never affect you. Someone driving too fast and distracted thin hits a car; that's not luck, it was very likely to happen and predictable. It only feels like bad luck if you were the one that got hit not someone else. But the accident could have been worse or could have saved you from a worse fate, so maybe it was actually good luck. Since you can't predict all the outcomes of your decisions, and you can't control others, all that is left is what can you do, now that you are here. Blaming 'luck' does not help you move forward.