I once had a paperback book with the title “How to Attract Good Luck.” I lent it to a friend who was unhappy about her love life problems. When I asked her how she liked the book, she answered, “I lost it.”
You are all aware of the butterfly on the other side of the world causing a hurricane here idea. Consider a molecule of air moving a tree leaf ever so slightly because a different air molecule moved it. Now multiply that molecule by billions and the tree gets blow over on someone’s house. Then back up to look at the air molecule super closely and learn its smallest components aren’t solid anything, but forms of energy, and you realize, “Cause and Effect,” is incomprehensible, not necessarily invalid, but not reducibly understandable.
goboboyd 12 months ago
‘Fortune’ might encompass them both?
fuzzmoz 12 months ago
I once had a paperback book with the title “How to Attract Good Luck.” I lent it to a friend who was unhappy about her love life problems. When I asked her how she liked the book, she answered, “I lost it.”
poppacapsmokeblower 12 months ago
You are all aware of the butterfly on the other side of the world causing a hurricane here idea. Consider a molecule of air moving a tree leaf ever so slightly because a different air molecule moved it. Now multiply that molecule by billions and the tree gets blow over on someone’s house. Then back up to look at the air molecule super closely and learn its smallest components aren’t solid anything, but forms of energy, and you realize, “Cause and Effect,” is incomprehensible, not necessarily invalid, but not reducibly understandable.