New bird believes...

[hyperD]

in FATE, LUCK and SUPERSTITION??

How do I deal with this???

Tell her you have a magic and if she rubs it three times, she'll will receive a small deposit.

[Diver]

New bird believes... in FATE, LUCK and SUPERSTITION??


It'll be herbs and crystals next

Then her spirit guide

then the big black dribbly candles (there's two ways of looking at this)

Burn her

[norrahe]

Burn her

Check if she floats first, otherwise she won't burn or if she weighs the same as a duck.

[d000hg]

Whether you are atheist or deist, luck is certainly real (actually if you're not atheist you could argue everything is planned but that's a different topic). Luck is just probability and statistics.

You say you got a contract due to your skills and abilities, but lots of people with equal or better skills did not get the job so it's clearly not 100% down to merit... your happening to be able to answer the phone when the agent rang or the place your name is in the alphabet could be factors too.

Watching the guys play in the snooker championships, sometimes a ball just does something unexpected, or a shot goes wrong and a ball bounces off another and goes in in a way nobody could predict.

[wim121]

While luck and superstition may not be tangible or scientific, it is the layman term for a series of unexpected events.

Example: Once in the past, I applied for a good contract, but my agent was too late forwarding my CV: Unlucky? No, lazy no good agents. I got a call a month later though telling me I had the contract starting the next work day (unbeknown to them, I had told my current client an hour earlier, after their behaviour, I wouldnt be returning the next day as I had enough with their illegal behaviour) as the guy they took on blew it by having inappropriate discussions in the workplace. That contract went on far longer than anticipated and I loved it so much I was considering becoming a permie: Fate? No, just working in a soul destroying public sector role with arsewipes, an inept contractor elsewhere, unexpected clients work demands at new role leading to more work and nice people to work with in new place.

However most people would simplify all that as luck or cosmic timing. In reality it was a fluke, good set of events or well timed without prior knowledge.




Anyway long point short, isnt it a blessing the new chick isnt too bright? An intelligent woman, is the wrong kind of woman to settle down with. You'll never win a logical argument and you will get screwed over when the relationship dissolves.

[KentPhilip]

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
- Stephen Hawking

Is she a cleaner, by any chance?

[Sands of Time]

Whether you are atheist or deist, luck is certainly real (actually if you're not atheist you could argue everything is planned but that's a different topic). Luck is just probability and statistics.

You say you got a contract due to your skills and abilities, but lots of people with equal or better skills did not get the job so it's clearly not 100% down to merit... your happening to be able to answer the phone when the agent rang or the place your name is in the alphabet could be factors too.

Watching the guys play in the snooker championships, sometimes a ball just does something unexpected, or a shot goes wrong and a ball bounces off another and goes in in a way nobody could predict.

Well...

Repeat business - client asked agent to seek me out, because I did a good job last time.


Tone

[Sands of Time]

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
- Stephen Hawking

Is she a cleaner, by any chance?

Funny!!!!


She's a PM!!!!

Why bother planning anything????





Tone

[d000hg]

Funny!!!!


She's a PM!!!!

Why bother planning anything????





Tone

A pro sportsman puts everything in they can to achieve the absolute maximum, but events outside your control still affect things. You're just raising the limits between which luck can affect things, i.e. Nadal might say luck gave him or lost him a critical point in the Wimbledon final, but he only got to the final through hard graft.

[wim121]

Well...

Repeat business - client asked agent to seek me out, because I did a good job last time.


Tone

Ive had that before as well. Congrats, it's a nice feeling isnt it!?