Do You Believe In Lucky People?

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02 Dec 08

A Unique Nickname

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02 Dec 08

can a person be born lucky? or is any good fortune that come anyones way worked for?

Raven69

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02 Dec 08

Fortune helps the brave.

Jusuh

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02 Dec 08

I believe in free sex education. Luck is just a sidenote to it.

A Unique Nickname

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02 Dec 08

Originally posted by Raven69
Fortune helps the brave.

so while big brave bob joins the army and gets his legs blown off little tim has no luck happily sitting in front of his pc doing his 5-9 office job with 3 kids a wife and no luck?

Raven69

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02 Dec 08

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Originally posted by trev33
so while big brave bob joins the army...

I said brave, not stupid. 😛

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Palynka

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What do you mean? I rub your back, you rub mine?

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02 Dec 08

Originally posted by Palynka
What do you mean? I rub your back, you rub mine?

no, that's quavers.

Nordlys

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02 Dec 08

Originally posted by trev33
can a person be born lucky? or is any good fortune that come anyones way worked for?

I believe that many things that happen to you are due to luck (good or bad). What's interesting is in which situations people tend to talk about being lucky - very often that's when something really bad happens, but it could have been worse, e.g. they have a bad accident, but they are very lucky because they survive.

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02 Dec 08

Originally posted by Nordlys
I believe that many things that happen to you are due to luck (good or bad). What's interesting is in which situations people tend to talk about being lucky - very often that's when something really bad happens, but it could have been worse, e.g. they have a bad accident, but they are very lucky because they survive.

its funny you mention that, i came off a mountain bike in peru and ended up spending a night in hospital with damaged diaphram (sp?) (i couldn't breath)...among other cuts and bruises. i wasn't wearing a helmet and even though i couldn't do a lot for about a month after...including laughing or coughing...i considered myself pretty lucky, i've seen people come off bikes before the way i did and do some serious damage.

Raven69

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02 Dec 08

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It comes from Latin "Fortes fortuna adiuvat"

adiuvat = help

caissad4

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02 Dec 08

Originally posted by trev33
so while big brave bob joins the army and gets his legs blown off little tim has no luck happily sitting in front of his pc doing his 5-9 office job with 3 kids a wife and no luck?

Getting a 5-9 job which supports 3 kids and a wife is pretty lucky.

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02 Dec 08

Originally posted by caissad4
Getting a 5-9 job which supports 3 kids and a wife is pretty lucky.

i thought that as i typed it...but then again his wife could be working and making a lot more money that him....secretly she could be cheating on him....maybe the kids that he though were his were really some other dudes....he could be getting bullied at work...so many things could make him unlucky...

Nordlys

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02 Dec 08

Originally posted by caissad4
Getting a 5-9 job which supports 3 kids and a wife is pretty lucky.

Where do you get 5-9 office jobs? And is that am or pm? 5-9 pm would be great.

Fleabitten

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02 Dec 08

Originally posted by trev33
can a person be born lucky? or is any good fortune that come anyones way worked for?

I think you've got a bit of a contradiction here. Luck implies chance or randomness. To say that one is 'born' lucky would imply that there's something deterministic to it. So, I would say no, I don't believe we're born lucky or unlucky. We all recieve varying amounts of good and bad fortune through our lives, but I think it's down to chance.