(July 16, 2020 at 11:55 am)ModusPonens1 Wrote:(July 16, 2020 at 11:47 am)Brian37 Wrote: Life is a crap shoot
Very true indeed. Because it's (1) Fun, (2) Completely luck-based and (3) Usually an expensive waste of time at best and life destroying at worst.
The superstitious call it a "miracle", the sane laypeople call it "luck" but the truth is it is living or dying are simply a matter of conditions either way. And we don't always find the exact details. But the one thing that is certain, is magic is never involved either way.
There is no God/god/deity or even karma playing a part in our species lives. There are only conditions with countless factors that lead both ways.
Humans certainly are capable of inventing ways to reduce risk. But that is a matter of evolution, not divine intervention or luck.
I don't like the word "luck" either. Not so much in that it IS more accurate, but in that using that it gives fuel to the superstitious. I like talking in terms of sample rates and probability and conditions on a case by case basis. But that doesn't translate as well as "divine intervention" or "luck". Humans are unfortunately far more bumper sticker thinkers than slow intentional pragmatic thinkers.
"Luck" is better than "superstition" for sure. There are not enough "0" or "1"s we can comprehend, and QM gets quite freaky.
But I like to look at life much like a hurricane, GAWD, I know you are going to respond.
In all seriousness, I look at life as both predictable and random, not either or. Just like you can predict the conditions that can potentially lead to a hurricane, but you can't predict the exact number of rain drops it produces from beginning to end.
If someone dies or survives a plane crash, or heart attack, it isn't magic or a god or luck, but conditions. And sometimes we don't get the answers of those conditions.
