Poll: Do You Believe in Luck?

[Deleted member 87036]

Some people appear to be born with more inherent luck than others. You may have a family member who consistently wins on scratch cards, a coworker who consistently receives promotions and accolades at work, or a buddy who has a once-in-a-lifetime event that only one in a million people have.

Some people appear to always be at the right place at the right moment, and they always seem to be blessed. Is luck, however, a creation of superstition or does it exist at all? Do you believe in luck? Why or why not? Are you a lucky person?

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

Some people appear to be born with more inherent luck than others. You may have a family member who consistently wins on scratch cards, a coworker who consistently receives promotions and accolades at work, or a buddy who has a once-in-a-lifetime event that only one in a million people have.

Some people appear to always be at the right place at the right moment, and they always seem to be blessed. Is luck, however, a creation of superstition or does it exist at all? Do you believe in luck? Why or why not? Are you a lucky person?

Some people have it harder than others for no factor of their own.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

You may have a family member who consistently wins on scratch cards

I don't gamble, but if you play these kinds of games a lot, you will probably win a lot more than an average person, sometimes even have winning streaks.

a coworker who consistently receives promotions and accolades at work

Having good social/professional skills connections is lucky, but their benefits cannot be attributed to luck.

or a buddy who has a once-in-a-lifetime event that only one in a million people have.

Happens. Why can't someone be that 1 in a million?

 

[Deleted member 54065]

Some people appear to be born with more inherent luck than others. You may have a family member who consistently wins on scratch cards, a coworker who consistently receives promotions and accolades at work, or a buddy who has a once-in-a-lifetime event that only one in a million people have.

Some people appear to always be at the right place at the right moment, and they always seem to be blessed. Is luck, however, a creation of superstition or does it exist at all? Do you believe in luck? Why or why not? Are you a lucky person?

Potluck, yes. Good luck, no.

 

[Macha]

Some people are born lucky. Some are lucky to be born.

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

Some people are born lucky. Some are lucky to be born.

All of us are luck to be born, the chance of us being this one of us is like 1 in a trillion

 

[Sp4de]

I believe in my own lack of knowledge when it comes to "lucky" situations or circumstances. Enough knowledge, and a lucky/unlucky event is only a given.

 

[Echimera]

Happens. Why can't someone be that 1 in a million?

That's the thing, we can argue all day that something has a low chance of happening after the fact, but if it didn't happen we wouldn't discuss it.
On the other hand it's not like there's only one '1 in a million' thing that could happen at any point, and we're not talking about these, because they didn't happen and are therefore not noteworthy.
But we're more than 7 billion people on the planet, which means everything with a '1 in a million' chance has 7 billion tries, so at least some of them are bound to happen.

In a way, the chance that every single person on the planet is the way they are has an insanely low probability to happen. Even if we take into account that there have to be people to even think about this (which means discarding every potential universe without life in general) we're still left with insanely small probabilities for each individual outcome. but one of these insanely many different outcomes has to happen, no matter how small a probability it has, otherwise nobody would be able to ask themselves these questions.

 

[gaylolis]

as a gacha player, believing in luck is just a free pass for the gods to screw you over.

it feels much better when im just grateful with whatever i get, even if it's basically trash.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

Some people are born lucky. Some are lucky to be born.

All of us are luck to be born, the chance of us being this one of us is like 1 in a trillion

By that logic, dying in an airplane crash, getting some rare incurable disease, getting into a very freaky accident are all lucky. I really don't like it when people bring this shit up

 

[Topgun1908]

By that logic, dying in an airplane crash, getting some rare incurable disease, getting into a very freaky accident are all lucky. I really don't like it when people bring this shit up

Good luck and bad luck are the same thing. It's cliche but in a way they are two sides of the same coin. Having neutral luck would be if nothing special happens. Having good or bad luck is when anything special happens that wouldn't normally happen to someone. So in the case of getting a very rare incurable disease, you are lucky. It just isn't seen as lucky because people think being lucky carries a positive connotation and people think the rare horrible event carries a negative connotation so the two things are seen as unrelated.

 

[Amok]

chance and randomness in a seemingly infinite universe, yes. Luck is just chance with a positive outcome from an established perspective. In a duel if you hit yer opponent in the head and they miss you'll call it luck, the corpse won't.

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

By that logic, dying in an airplane crash, getting some rare incurable disease, getting into a very freaky accident are all lucky. I really don't like it when people bring this shit up

Yes. It’s bad luck so it’s a part of luck.

 

[Ninini]

I AM GOD KING EMPEROR LUCK IS NOTHING BUT FAIRY TALES. I CONTROL MY FATE. AND MY CURRENT FATE IS TO THROW UP FROM OVER EATING

 

[SternenklarenRitter]

There exist factors attributable to oneself well outside of human perception. Each of these personal traits, (likely of diverse sources including but not limited to physical, social, genetic, and chemical origins) would be analyzable by both science and statistics, should either ever figure out where to look to find them. I don't have a problem calling these real but hidden factors luck. In my case, I have great luck with people; I tend to draw people who are fiercely defensive of their friends into close association, while manipulative people often become disinterested in me.

 

[Hasty]

Yes. I need smth to blame when i fail smth or miss the previous metro

 

[iampsyx]

I believe luck exists — that is, things happen in a pattern and we just don't know what the sequence is. What I don't believe in is "lucky rituals". At the end of the day, I think consistency is better so we can manage expectations and plan for the worst.

*resigned to the fate of always reaching pity in gacha*