Simple question. Do you believe there is such a thing as luck? You know, being lucky or unlucky... Or maybe you might say "Oh, I got lucky that I've survived that explosion!" while playing Fallout? That sort of thing... Ya know?

As for myself, I don't. I believe there is no such thing as "luck" but instead I believe in destiny. Everything happens simply because the actions we've done as a whole... Not because of "luck". Even in video games where you have a chance of gaining good or bad loot from a specific container... It isn't luck that determines your chances, it is the game's coding that does it. Whatever the game's code choose to do is what gonna happen and that has nothing to do with "luck"...

So what about you? Do ya believe in luck or not?

No; I believe in http://0.media.dorkly.cvcdn.com/95/40/037118ac655e43b5c6d1bb074ec0c90a-destiny-the-official-dorkly-review.jpg.

The saying in motorsport was, the harder you worked the luckier you got.

I beg to differ. In games like Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas there is a random percentage chance of certain items showing up, or no items showing up at all. It's a roll of the dice chance, therefore probability is at play. 'Luck' is the determining factor since there is just as much chance to find something good, bad, or nothing at all in a container.

No I don't believe in luck. There is no such thing, men decide their own fate and when it doesn't turn out in their favor they like to blame it on something they can't prove. If I were to be running along a trail and I fell into a hole and died, would I be unlucky? Or would it just be that I wasn't paying attention therefore I fell into the hole and died, it was totally my fault and no unknown force had any effect on it. I like to think that when I accomplish something it is because I had the skills to do it not because some ethereal figure rolled the dice and it turned out in my favor.

If you come to think of it we are all mental patients, we do whatever we can to discredit ourselves and our race as well Whether it be that aliens had to build the ancient structures because there is no way our ancestors were smart enough, or there is no way little Suzy could of got hit my a car so it must be bad luck. All of these have simple explanations but people tend to read into it more often than not.

An example being when I was in the military and someone was wounded it was my job to find and save them. It wasn't my "luck" or some all knowing power that saved these people it was my training and experience. When someone that had years of experience that I didn't have and they got killed we didn't call it bad luck, it was that they screwed up and got themselves killed. We are only humans and we make mistakes, although we like to blame something else or someone else so we don't look bad. Another example being when I saved someones life in the field they didn't say "Thank God I have good luck!" it was "Thanks Doc, I don't know what I would of done without you."

Then again if anyone even bothered to read this and you believe in "luck" you'll automatically disregard this post and run me into the ground. So I don't really know why I posted this at all.

No..lol.

Luck is the name of whatever it is you believe in that GAVE you the positive side of random generated numbers. It's just..numbers. It's not luck. You just call your success with randomness "luck", but that's a man made concept. It doesn't exist.

It sure seems to me as though some people are inherently luckier than other people. But it's just a gut feeling that I cannot even begin to prove.

I agree with this.

But, in reality, where physics and the laws of nature govern our world, some people are just "recipients of randomly generated outcomes that they prosper from" than others, it's not "luck".

Isn't that just a definition for "luck"?

But yes, i consider myself lucky. Everything (that really matters) seems to always go my way Why that is, i don't know. And don't really care either, i just enjoy it while it lasts

I do not. I actually can't afford to be lucky - I've broken tons of mirrors in my life, i walk under ladders every day multiple times, i cross black cats a lot, and i've opened many umbrellas while inside.

If i did believe in luck, I'd have like 10 lifetimes of bad luck.

Someone sure does. Otherwise It wouldn't be in our dictionary. Ha! All joking aside. I think luck is the product of our choices and actions. As we make a choice we set variables in motion.

Things such as what you wear will affect how others perceive you and thusly treat you. There's no formula for being successful and anything that brings good fortune is often considered lucky. In all it represents the unpredictably in our lives. That which can not be know due to our actions or inactions.

Luck is just a describing word for the outcome of events. It doesn't exist as an actual thing.

Destiny is a similar word in that it's a describing word for the outcome of events. It can't exist in its traditional definition because it implies predeterminism.

Luck? Yeah, no, maybe.

Ok, so if tons of people died in an explosion and you survived, people would call you lucky, but in most cases it can be explained in some way, why it happened (where you were at the location, what you were wearing, tons of things. And even things that seem random are the result of some chain of events that was started somewhere by someone. And if you had walked an inch further to the left while crossing the road, the car would have killed you. Tons of stuff like that happen, which can be explained. And you might as well just use the word luck to describe it.

Now of course there are occational weird incidents that defy logic and where it doesn't make sense at all. And whether you want to attribute that to luck, god(s), angels, satan, miracles, ghosts or whatever is up to you.

So I believe in luck, but I think most of the time it can be explained. Even when it comes to chance, you can flip a coin and get lucky. but if you really look into it, the way it was flipped and when it was caught decides the outcome, and so it is explainable.

So I will say that luck is when things end up in your advantage somehow, when skills are not involved.

Exactly. I was about to say... It's just the game's coding doing it's job...

I don't believe in luck as any sort of quantifiable attribute of a person, no. There certainly seem to be people that happened to have found themselves on the favorable end of an outcome more often than the average person, but that's just probability. Those people aren't inherently "lucky," that's just how things happened to work out for them.

I don't believe in "destiny" either, per se. I believe that things happen as a result of the convergence of a staggeringly complex set of variables.

I have the neutral luck

That's what I think too. I have neither been unlucky to end up getting cancer twice, nor lucky to have survived both. It is all based on my genes and my upbringing.

Wait, are we talking real life luck or video game luck here? Well, I guess they're kinda similar.

Some people mentioned destiny, I think destiny is stupid. Or it depends, you can achieve great things and it's often done through hard work and the achievement might be your "destiny" or whatever, but it happened because you acted and did something. I don't think some are destined for greatness and no matter what they do it will find them, even if they bum around their moms house until they're 40. I think the word destiny sounds epic and all, but it usually means that things happened just because it was destiny and it can't be escaped and the word to me often sounds like a limiting of free choise. Like if I was destined to be the president, I would somehow end up there no matter what. Or I end up there because I don't have a choise and someone else set my life up and pushed play. But I guess I was destined to have this opinion.