Luck
Mr. Dean bought a metal detector, a treasure-hunting tool, a decade ago. He takes real good care of his baby - wipes it down after the customary 6 hours he uses it (he's been doing this since 2012), replaces worn out parts, stores it in a special custom-made container he had made. He never found treasure; he once thought it did, but digging at the spot revealed only abandoned, rusted nails.
Mr. Leland bought a metal detector (same model as Mr. Dean's) yesterday and today he took it for a test drive and discovered treasure - gold/silver bullion - worth $135 million right in his backyard.
Mr. Leland bought a metal detector (same model as Mr. Dean's) yesterday and today he took it for a test drive and discovered treasure - gold/silver bullion - worth $135 million right in his backyard.
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Mr. Dean meanwhile loved nothing more than the humble walkabout thrill of combing landscapes with his metal detector and little terrier dog, Boo.
Quoting 180 Proof
No fair!
Are these the best of times? Are we all lucky folks? As an example, slavery is in the past and animal rights is in the future. We're at the cusp of a ethical revolution that though it's fragmented and chaotic is full of promise.
No they are not, on still exists and the other will not get very far until humans evolve to be able to live on a different type of diet.
Ok. We can do better.
Unless you've seen this opera before, we can't assume that there is only one fat lady singing. If I was librettist, my opera might be composed of only fat ladies, singing for hours and hours and hours (perhaps days).
:zip:
I remember on some older thread I tried to explain something @180 Proof had said about, I don't remember exactly. Ordinary vs extraordinary or something? Something like things are ordinary individually, and extraordinary all together. I had said that, eating a sandwich in itself is pretty ordinary, but if you think about everything that had to happen for the sandwich to come to be, and what had to happen for you to be able to be there to eat it, it is extraordinary.
Meaning is the opposite. Individually things have meaning. Eating a sandwich is meaningful when you are hungry or desiring pleasure. But compared to infinitely, every limited meaning loses its meaning.
Its interesting that we should want meaning, when meaning is limiting.
Consider if we combined all meanings of words together. It would lead perhaps to "all meaning" which has no meaning.
Its like how if you combine all colors you have no color: White
Within the web of life, everything is interconnected, nothing to chance. So everything in the context of the web of life is full of meaning. Outside of life there is obviously no meaning, for there is no consciousness to create it.
No.
You get full marks for confidence, but what about the PSR (principle of sufficient reason)?
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/693943
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/720487
I get where you're coming from, but in my humble opinion the reason why x happens is to be found in the future (light cone) of x and not in the past (light cone). For instance John missed his plane because he was supposed to meet Jane, the woman he has to marry, on the next available flight. So, the reason for the random (acausal) origins of our universe will/can only be known when the universe meets its very own Jane so to speak.
:smile: Too much, eh?
Luck is nothing more than the coincidence of time, place and purpose.
I am in the right place at the right time to catch a plane, I am lucky. Too late or wrong airport, I am unlucky.
I am in the wrong place at whatever time to find the treasure, I am unlucky