Random Thought Thread

[SwarthyGnome]

Off-roading incident

(while this is wildly misleading it is also technically true)

I would give more details but then Marc @Grenock it's going to tell me "I told you so", and I don't want that.

You definitely need to take the fact that you're alive much more seriously

Someone told me that too...!

-House of Suns
By Alastair Reynolds

 

[Hammer67]

We have enough problems of our own.

No doubt.

And we also don't have the problems a lot of other places do, or at least to a lesser degree. Despite what the perpetual whiners will say.

 

[Moorik]

Only rule was to walk straight when coming home .

I'm a completely non-religious person.

I don't believe in karma or any of that stuff. Not in the slightest.

But I'm convinced that everything in life is about probabilities.

Every single everyday action you take is literally a game of chance.

Even the best actions and precautions don't give you a 100% guarantee of safety.

You're always playing with probabilities.

I believe there's some kind of "luck reserve" or whatever you want to call it.

And it's better not to waste it on unnecessary risks.

 

[Elgatodeacero]

But that is the bizarre nature of luck and probabilities - they do not accumulate or accrue. Each roll of the dice, each spin of the bottle, and every other chance is a fresh experience of the world!

 

[Moorik]

If in some incident I get lucky and break only one leg instead of both.


Then I got lucky, right?

But in the next incident I’ll need to run fast.

And I have a broken leg.

Relative to the first incident, I kind of got lucky, right?

But now the next one...

 

[Moorik]

You need to remember two things at once.

1. Human possibilities are literally limitless. Literally.
2. You are a piece of meat, bones, and fluids on the inside.
   
   

 

[Elgatodeacero]

I am reminded of my favorite cartoon strip of all time….