Quote: Originally posted by jarasan on Jun 28, 2010
Joker writes:"Life just doesn't work that way" "and I mean no one can be that lucky" etc.
These declarative statements are the type that will cause one trouble. It is very similar to how the current US admin. thinks. They know how everything is and should be for all of us. There is bad luck also, and there are people that are perceived to be lucky, but the statement that it is something that happens "rarely" and it "just doesn't work that way" is just Joker's OPINION and belief and should make that clear when he makes this type of statement. ALso at the end of his statement his implies the post is "suspect" in other words lying, being lied to, or fabricating.
From Wiki:
Luck or fortuity is good or bad fortune in life caused by accident or chance, and attributed by some to reasons of faith or superstition, which happens beyond a person's control.[1][2][3]
The term "luck" is pervasive in common speech.[4] There are at least two senses people usually mean when they use the term, the proscriptive sense and the descriptive sense. In a proscriptive sense, luck is the deterministic concept that there is a force which proscribes that certain events occur very much the way the laws of physics will proscribe that certain events occur. In a descriptive sense, luck is only a descriptive name we give to events after they occur which we find to be fortuitous.
Cultural views of luck vary from perceiving luck as a matter of random chance to attributing to luck explanations of faith or superstition. For example, the Romans believed in the embodiment of luck as the Goddess Fortuna,[5] while the atheist and philosopher Daniel Dennett believes that "luck is mere luck" rather than a property of a person or thing.[6]
Lucky Symbols have widespread global appeal and are represented by human, animal, botanical and inanimate objects.
DEFINITION:
Luck is a way of understanding a personal chance event. Luck has three aspects [7] [8] which make it distinct from chance or probability. [9]
Luck is good or bad.[10] Luck is by accident or chance.[11] Luck applies to a person.
Some examples of Luck:
You win repeatedly at gambling, against significant odds. You correctly guess an answer in a quiz which you didn't know. Your car breaking down could be bad luck, if it was by chance and against the odds.
From the free dictionary:
luck (lk) n. 1. The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; fortune: They met one day out of pure luck.2. Good fortune or prosperity; success: We wish you luck.3. One's personal fate or lot: It was just my luck to win a trip I couldn't take.intr.v. lucked, luck·ing, lucks Informal To gain success or something desirable by chance: lucked into a good apartment; lucked out in finding that rare book.Idioms: as luck would have it As it turned out; as it happened: As luck would have it, it rained the day of the picnic.in luck Enjoying success; fortunate.out of luck Lacking good fortune.press/push (one's) luck To risk one's good fortune, often by acting overconfidently.try (one's) luck To attempt something without knowing if one will be successful.[Middle English lucke, from Middle Dutch luc, short for gheluc.]