Have You Ever met someone who brings you bad luck somehow?

wow! I just got lost in twitter! So many new things to play with over there! :)

I get feeds pertinent to Q rom there but that is about it and I shut down most of what the b-ots find anyhow...

I have kind of let it go also, but this time in, I am trying different techniques for marketing. I connected as real and not so bot acting myself.. we will see. It is a real pita and a head ache, but I will give it the good old college try, huh?

I have a huge account over there you can tweet your things to? I am trying to build another huge one to back it up with different users. We see how that goes?

Sorry for the rant Ms Rewind, but I think it's important to differentiate the concept of luck from what is commonly misunderstood as the effects of cause and effect.

People can be summed up by being the product of their environment.

Everyone is just the sum total of their decisions which leads them to be mostly independently conditioned, but most people don't realise that they themselves are the ones doing most of the conditioning.

I could say I like to troll because I think of all the times I've laughed at myself and the dumb things I've done which were pointed out to me. I realised the absurdity of the things which I then found humorous. It really is a case of; if you can't or won't laugh at yourself, you shouldn't be laughing at other people.

But the same can also be said for "luck". Luck is nothing more than preparedness meeting opportunity. I could buy a lotto ticket and win a million dollars, but if I didn't prepare by buying the ticket I'd never win. Too many people ascribe to "luck" massive fortune when they don't understand causality and its role in the lives of everyone around them.

The luck people bring to your life is their experience and the decisions which lead to the formation of their complex personality.

People who bring "bad luck" tend to make atrocious mistakes and don't consider the effects of the consequences of their actions. Whereas more thoughtful people tend to think about how they're perceived and how that will affect their life's opportunities through the perception people have of them.

With people being "luckier" when others have a positive perception of them, which can be augmented by the positive emotional experiences you give to others.

By stoking other's ego you pander to their self delusion of their superiority and create in their minds the perception you like them so they think they're likable people. This reciprocates through mirroring and they like you because you make them feel good about themselves.

Sure there's circumstances which seem like magical effects of life like floods and fires. But a flood is caused by excessive humidity causing rainfall and fires are caused by fuel meeting oxygen and a naked flame.

It's true what Merit said about psychopaths missing out on the magic of life being wonderment at unknowable things, but they tend to be more successful because they see causality and can affect it through understanding life as we know it.

Success being nothing more than what people think of as "luck" because they don't understand how to affect it in their own lives. Whereas it's easy to be "luckier" than everyone else simply by learning enough to capitalise on your strengths.

Bill Gates is alleged to have stolen MS DOS from someone who wasn't prepared to capitalise on their own intellectual labor, because they didn't see the opportunity offered by mass production in having a computer in every nerd's basement.

Bill Gates was fascinated by computers and through his perception as a nerd realised everyone like him wanted to play Doom. He simply made that a reality and Microsoft was born.

Was Bill Gates "lucky"? Probably! But he capitalised on his strength as a programmer to lever his fortune in something he loved, because that's what really made Microsoft the behemoth it became.

If Bill Gate's father didn't make his fortune as a lawyer, which illustrates the fact that constant thoughtfulness leads to the success and fortune of one's progeny as a continuation of "luck".

Thus we see causality in the making of one of the great fortunes of the 20th century, Bill Gates.

There are endless examples of fortune being borne of thoughtfulness and constant vigilance in the creation of the vast majority of "luck".

Beautifully enunciated. Thanks for that, personally.

You're welcome. It grates my gears when people think of magical things such as "The Secret" as being the solution to their ills, when simple contemplation will get them much further in life.

Making a plan and executing that plan will deliver results far faster than wishing on a shooting star.

I still buy lotto tickets despite the probability of winning to be astronomically low, but I wouldn't recommend putting a person's entire welfare check into a one armed bandit. Pfft $2 lotto tickets... :D Who knows, I did buy the ticket...

I have an intellectually impaired buddy who gets talked about constantly over the interwebs, because he's a soft target and constantly screwing the pooch much to my constant amusement. :D

He believes he'll win enough money to bring his filipino girlfriend here to Oz by sports betting. I worked out the probability of his winning $20,000 from $500 seed capital and it worked out to be only ten times more likely than winning one million dollars on lotto! Based on $1.30 AUD bets with 50 percent probability of winning, it works out to be 1 in 65,000... As opposed to 1 in 680,000 odds for wining one million dollars. :o

And as always I tell people, I'm the crazy one...

My wife is a jinx.

No such thing as luck, only energy.

If someone has bad energy, the only way they can transfer it to you is to infect you somehow.

So it was your choice to receive that bad energy.

Stop being irresponsible and immature.

Say what you want, talk to people like adults, and all the bad energy will disappear, magically.

Sucks, can you just be friends from afar?

we are all under the curse from the garden


why don't you get it?


if two people understand that then they can make it work

I wish, we have 2 kids so I can't abandon them.

So dood… Why did you marry her?

You're supposed to get to know her before you put a ring on it. It's all well and good to chase the hottest piece of tail you've ever seen, but marrying a chick who is "all boobs" is a bad idea.

I Love your rants!

Yep. My life has been dark and dreary with my spouse in it. I should have cut in run early on when all he did was complain about being a victim in life. But, I stayed because I think I felt sorry for him.

This person I married has taken years of my life and my good health. If it weren't for the kids, there was nothing good in it being married to this person.

I know the pity obligation well. It is the wrong emotion to begin loving someone for. But I keep my word, mostly, except when the divorce papers get signed. I never figured out how it is ok to sacrifice your complete soul and spirit for others who appear down right evil and useless?

Since this thread has been posted, and it started out not that serious, or even anything I thought was really something in my life? I can now honestly say, those people in my life with crappy energy, I hate them now, and regularly search their obits. am I bad?

naw, in truth, they try but fail. I still hate em though, and search their obits just so I can be gleeful for a moment. Got about three obits so far I repeatedly look up and observe again over and over just for the joy of it all! Am I bad?

I’ve met a few people who could break things just by looking at them.

yeah, that is ok if they are nice people! I met a few people who just break things and claim accidental. Which one time maybe, but not everything or just your things all the time. Riight? Mean people suck. They try to pose as otherwise, but it is easy to see if you look.

Every person that ever caused me harm had pretty bad things happen to them. Very recently two people that tried to harm me died, one OD and one violent murder. I never wish them harm, it just happens. It catches every single one.

It was slated for them prolly, no matter their crossing your path. Nice you got to at least hear about it! :)

Those are bad things. Those who cross me usually just die or get killed in pretty normal ways. Like getting hit by a truck or some illness. I never wished harm on them either and still do not but I am fine giving them back what they give to me and others. It becomes their own choice.

Last Edited by rewind on 02/20/2020 07:39 PM

Well this isn’t my first rodeo, I just hope it’s not me who manifests their misfortune. They are just playing the game.

naw they are headed that way you might just be the tipping point.

it easy to blame others for your misfortune. lol

one time an ex got knifed in the pool hall and he told the cops I did it. ofc, it was obviously not me. years later, when he got hit by a car and died, pretty sure he thought I did that too.

you hang out with all the right people don't you? lol

so it seemed.. not anymore. Done with the social aspect of life. I am fairly safe on the webz.

if you say so! lol

I do. :) Always liked the wild side.