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#99460 - 07/09/07 06:56 PM Re: Do you believe in the luck of 07-07-07 [Re: AROTC]
WillCAD Offline
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Registered: 06/29/07
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Loc: Baltimore, MD, USA
I don't believe in fate, luck (except as random chance influenced by outside factors), or any other superstition. Numerology, in particular, makes me chuckle; the belief that certain days could be more or less unlucky just because their callendar numbers include multiples of the number 7 is rediculous.

After all, callendars are nothing more than an artificial construct desined by humanity and changed multiple times over the last 2 millenia as our methods of tracking the passage of time became more exact, so 7/7/2007 could appear on many different callendars on different days of different years. Are they all luckier and we just don't know it because we don't use certain ancient callendars any more?

Was 7/7/0007 a lucky day even though the current callendar hadn't been invented yet and wouldn't be for over 1,000 more years?

If I make up my own callendar and include lots of 7s in it, will they all be lucky days?

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#99482 - 07/09/07 11:22 PM Re: Do you believe in the luck of 07-07-07 [Re: picard120]
Nicodemus Offline
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Registered: 10/30/05
Posts: 1341
Loc: Virginia, US
If anything of Quantum Physical Theory is true, then it is possible that it is not a number itself that inherently has any power, but rather the observer's belief in such a thing where a number's power lies.

In other words, if it is believed that a number is lucky, then that number may be imbued with luck. To go along with that, a belief that there is no such thing as luck may well be the reason a person is not subject to luck.

That's all just simplified for the sake of brevity, of course.

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