Sploom:
Wow,I did read your post but couldnt follow everything.but about randomness,I think you would be surprised if you rolled a coin 100 times how far from 50 to 50 it could be.
I remember once,I went to the crucible to watch the snooker and they had this roulette wheel just to play for fun.I started off with a couple of hundred “pounds” and eventually won 60k.Why cant that happen for real! Very annoying.
I did mention in the post above that “Luck” tends to be “Better than average” if you stand to be better off Life-and Limb wise, but always below average if you stand to gain from it financially…
If you’d been playing said “Roulette Wheel” for real money, then the chances of getting a number straight-up are one-in 37, or around 3% IF you bet, say £1.
If you bet a week’s wages on that - the “luck” reduces by around half as much again, meaning you’ll only get your number come up once in around 50 spins, which of course means that you won’t come up on top - if you literally did away your wages at the same establishment every week for a year.
Bookmakers - rely on people’s luck being at it’s worst - when they are over-staking, of course.
If people were lucky “according to the law of averages” - then just think: You could bet £1 36 goes in a row, and should you lose those 36 times - you’d lump every penny you had on for spin 37… Right?
The “Gambler’s Phallacy” is supposed to be that “The roulette wheel - doesn’t know or remember what it’s last spin was, so the chances of a single number coming up on the NEXT spin - remain at 1 in 37 (UK wheel) indefinitely…”
But in Galileo fashion - I would argue… “Yet there is clusterluck, where the same number occasionally comes up multiple times in quick succession”…
If a gambler found a codex for predicting that in advance - then Casinos would be in big trouble indeed.
On American wheels - the addition of the 00 bed adds that “luck reduction” for REAL, meaning it is a mug’s game indeed IF you must be playing roulette - to ever play on one in say, Las Vegas.
There are even players who “bet on the last number that comes in” - consistently, in which case they will automatically get the “clusterluck” should it ever happen… BUT I’m told that “changing your stake” all over the place, and even betting “any kind of system” is considered as CHEATING in many casinos, especially in the US, where there’s no such think as a “Layer” of risk - only an accountant of the laws of average!
Another system such as “doubling your stake if you lose” - doesn’t work neither, as you’d have enough cash for about 8-10 spins, which is nowhere near enough to get a straight-up number, on roulette at least.
Betting the EVENS things - is even worse, as the attrition works against you much more slowly, meaning you need a lot more spins to go your way than a mere “3 out of the next 5 spins” to come out decently ahead…
In Ireland, it used to be normal to see Nuns and Dog Collars present at Racetracks.
Theologically, I could suggest that “As Catholic clergy have taken a vow of poverty - what better place to achieve that?” - than at a racetrack?
Roman soldiers - cast lots to decide who should acquire the “Robe” shed by Christ just before he was crucified.
“Is Gambling Immoral?” is a question that has plagued thinkers for centuries.
I would say "If you leave loved ones short as a consequence of OVER-Gambling - then YES. It is as immoral as being a Drunk. Not everyone who consumes alcohol - is a drunk though, far from it.
Medical Science suggests that a very SMALL amount of alcohol inbibed on a regular basis - is better for you than “no alcohol consumption at all”.
This would support the Roman Catholic notion: “Everything in moderation” and the fact that Mediterranean Catholics - drink wine at so many meals, including the younger family members sitting at table…
Should you stop someone “Throwing their money away on an obviously bent-gambling method?”
Should you stop someone voting when you know the vote will be discarded if it is for a non-deep state approved challenger?
Dunno. Make up your own minds. It’s that or “Rise Up” I suggest.
If elections were allowed to do what they are supposed do do, unmolested - the world would be a much fairer, and happier place.
If Religions got better press - there might be more converts to it as well.
Alas, people tend to be “Brought up” in a religion, and once they lose that faith - never take another on the whole.
The “door to heaven” thus - is firmly closed behind you. There’s no need to make it “For all eternity!”
Who would do such a daft thing?
Anyone from whom evidence to the contrary - has been withheld, lied about, or even denied outright by officialdom.
We don’t get to ever leave this dirtball - except with the help of the powers above.
Not “Thetans” not “Alien Ancestors”. Just keep it simple, and accept there is a greater, supreme being present everywhere in the universe, but that supreme being does NOT influence every single moment of every single life being lived upon Earth. The Supreme being - only needs to make the occasional “policy rollout” if you like: Those “Policies” are what we call “Mainstream Religion Scripture”.
No one “Faith” - has all the answers, a bit like the shattered shards of a crystal. You can’t have one without the other.
That’s why God never destroyed the “Other” faiths, rather than the NO faiths, the “Fake” faiths.
To a Christian - the Jew, the Islamic, the Hindu, and any other “Spiritual” based religions out there - are closer to him than anyone who worships a bit of wood or stone, anyone who worships money or power, or of course anyone who worships themselves or the human race as well. Of this latter group, I would argue that those called the “Deists” are the most dangerous by far: They’ve elevated Humanity to the point of “Self-Godhood” which attempts to doom all of humanity to the same fate as he that was cast down here in the first place… Their main “Hubris” is that Mankind can solve all of Humanity’s problems, such as World Poverty, Endless Wars, and Global Disasters - by pretending that “policy rollouts” can prevent all of that, when quite clearly it CANNOT - or such problems would have been solved weeks after a major “change the world” technology reached the masses, such as Household Hard-wired Electricity, Water on Tap, or Personally carried Communication devices…
The Deists offer Humanity the ultimate “Jam Tomrrow” deal(s). You’ll never ever see the fruition of their policies, as “If only we had a bigger majority” or “more power” or “more money donated by those we’re supposed to be allievating from poverty”… Go figure!
The Deists - have effectively called themselves akin to the ancient “gods of Olympus” already, (Polytheistic Pantheon) and it is only a matter of time until the strongest OF them - proclaims themself in person to be God Almighty - when at last, - the “Man of Sin” shall be revealed to the world: The AntiChrist.