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Although it would be a near impossible task to convince people NOT to worry about Friday thirteenth, don't you think it would be a good thing if we counter-balanced it with a superstitiously optimistic Friday seventh?
When Friday falls on the seventh of the month, rush out and buy a lottery ticket.
Call Claudia Schiffer, she'd love to come round for dinner. Dial a random number in your phone, because it'll probably connect to a long lost school-friend.
Notice those improbable successes, and forget the terrible things which *might* be lurking round the corner.
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Actually, if we could inculcate a general superstition that all Fridays are alternately bad luck and good luck, such that those susceptible superstition have a much shorter frequency on which to deal with the stress or elation that comes with impending bad or good luck, depending. Not sure how we'd do that, and that is the problem. |
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Yes. Perhaps we could layer these luck-time links, too, so that a dedicated superstitious would be able to chart the percentage of luckification of each day, in a redlined calendrical biorhythms style. This allows for days of peak luck, where the superstitious can stride optimistically from their hovels feeling that the world will land in their lap, and trough luck, where the day is ruined even before it begins, due to the wearingness of the horrible foreboding and, of course, all the shades of luck in between. |
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Or we could conceal all knowledge of the calendar from the general populace so that they would have to resort to talking about the future in terms like: "I'll meet up with you in 57 days then". Knowledge of the calendar would be confined to a high priesthood of numerologists and astrologers. If, on a certain day you felt particularly lucky or unlucky, you might bow down before them and ask whether it was Friday 13th or not. They would of course refuse to tell you. |
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This is stupid. EVERYONE knows that the truly lucky day is THURSDAY 7th. |
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The Law of Conservation of Luck would suggest there must be something to balance out Friday 13th. It could be though that all the quanta of luck are concentrated on one, supremely lucky, individual. |
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//luckification// - calum
that's why I love the halfbakery. right there. |
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Yeah, it's called the bell curve. |
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//Is there a scientific method for measuring luck?// There is, but it's so complicated that almost noone can do the calculations. Best to leave such things to the experts (astrologists and numerologists). |
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If luck is geographical in nature, then it must be quite granular. For every stroke of good luck at a poker table, there is bad luck at the same table. If it were measured by chips in a simple heads up example, the good and bad are equal and opposite, so clearly luck is newtonian in nature. I would like to see a map, but I suspect it's temporal. Have a well balanced non-heptaphobic bun. |
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I agree, but those scenarios transcend individual luck events and speak to the larger, all-encompassing coincidence force commonly referred to as karma. |
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Karma's just revenge without the satisfaction. |
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I don't think that the mapping of the luck-based scenario you outline would necessarily have to be netted off, [zen], particularly as it is neither temporally nor geographically static. I think that the logical product conclusion of all this is a chunky black rubbery plastic wrist watch with a large colour display (and perhaps 1980s casio calculator watch style-buttons) which would provide the wearer with a shifting map of his immediate and not-so immediate surroundings, showing him the pulsing and fading of luckzones ahead, allowing him to plot the maximally lucky route home. Cracks show up black, obviously. |
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No, [zen_tom], you've got it all backwards.
Odd numbers are the evil, unlucky ones.
Just look at them! Especially 3. You can
never trust 3. |
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I always thought that the devil is six, the devil is six, the devil is six. |
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“And if the Devil is six, then God is seven! Then God is seven! Then God is seven!” |
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[zentom] And there will be a Luck Channel, and Luck forecasting as a career. People will complain about the inaccuracies of the prophets. |
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