Originally Posted by LucidFlanders
What if say in 1 month....your best friend died, your parents died in a car accident, you lost your legs, all your friends hate you for no reason, you are getting evicted, you lose your job, your kids are being taken away, your TV gets broken when you turn it on, you get into massive dept. All this in 1 month. That's bad luck. I just made this up but i'm sure this has happened to some people in a month. Bad luck is there if you see it or not. bad luck is not something paranormal, or not paranormal. It's just there, when you least expect it. BAM! Happens to every single person, some more then others. Bad series of events that happen from time to time in your life, just like good series of events.
Don't you see that you are contradicting yourself? You're trying to say that hypothetical situation would be "bad luck," as in an active malevolent force, but then you say "I'm sure this has happened to some people in a month." That's an appeal to probability, which is contradictory to this wierd idea about bad luck as a force of nature.
No a little word about "streaks." Statistical distribution always appears in streaks of results, particularly when results can be exressed binarily. (That is to say, in dualities, such as good/bad, or win/lose, or plus/minus, or, as I will illustrate, head/tails.) Say you take a quarter and start flipping it, then recording the results of each flip. There will be some instances of getting heads five, or maybe even ten or fifteen flips in a row. Is that because your quarter is more likely to land on heads next time you flip it?
Of course not!! The odds are always fifty/fifty. But stats always show streaks of consistancy, because the alternative is a perfectly repeating pattern of heads, tails, heads, tails, heads, tail, ad nauseum. And why should chaos fall into patterns like that.
So you see, streaks of what you call good or bad luck are statistically inevitable, and are not meaningful in any metaphysical way.
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