What is good luck really ?

Question: What is good luck really !?

can the notion of not getting bad luck be counted as good luck, because bad luck only happens in the absence of good luck!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

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If we look at this technically, the first thing we would ask is what exactly 'luck' is, anyway!?

Luck is just a statistical representation of the limits of human knowledge!. If I flip a coin and correctly guess heads three times in a row, we might call that lucky, since each time I had only a 50% chance of being correct!.

In truth, each time the coin is flipped, its landing is pre-determined by the laws of physics, and cause and effect!. We may say that there is a 50% chance of tails, but what that really means is that we only understand the outcome to a 50% degree of certainty!. If we were to understand all of the variables (wind speed, flip angle, velocity etc) we would be able to predict 100% of the time what the outcome would be, and we would no longer consider three tails in a row to be 'lucky' since we knew it was going to happen!.

Therefore, it's fair to say that luck is a subjective human concept, and therefore has a definition that is relative to circumstances!.

Therefore, if you consider unfortunate things to be a normal feature in your day to day life, then the absence of these mishaps in any given day could legitimately be considered to be good luck!. If, however, you tend to glaze over such events, or you are in a conconsist entvironment in which things tend to go your way, then the absence of 'bad luck' couldn't be considered good luck, because you were already expecting it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Ok lets say we're playing Basketball, i throw the ball and it totally misses and hits an Eagle which incase kills it, wow thats bad luck, if i throw the ball and take the required physical and mental work to aim and shoot the ball is an absence of good luck and bad luck, if i feel like i can just throw the ball and it'll go in, all i have to do is shoot near or at the target and it goes in, then that my friend is good luck!. its mostly a Do or Don't scenario, either your pregnant or your not, either your one armed or your not, good or bad it all can be verified with Luck!. "that is if you wish to perceive life that way"!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Actually "Good Luck" was the name of a god in ancient times Isa,65;11 and people worshiped it, Like you can imagine, If something good happened to you then you had favored well with him, and if something bad happened then you didn't have favor, so that's where you get good luck and bad luck from, kinda like Murphy's law!. it not really real!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

its not when you have money or a perfect life only!.

Luck is when all things works for your well being!. When you find a parking spot by the entrance of a store, when things works out smoothly in your life!.!.!.!. when someone opens the door for you or be nice to you, I think that is also luck!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

My definition for luck is divine intervention!.!.!. does that help!? but yeah if you don't have bad luck then you have good luck, if there is no light its dark, if there is no darkness there is light!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes you are right, you can't have the good without the bad!. Luck is just something that goes "right" for you at a particular time in your life!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Luck is a word coined to explain natural happenings after the event!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Anyone from Y!A at the tables apparently is extreeemly lucky!. And yes no news is good news as far as i'm concerned!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

its when you've been having a tough time and something nice happens unexpectantly!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Auspicious birth, accumulated merit!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

wen everything is goin for u and nothing bad rarely happensWww@QuestionHome@Com

I think it's in between!.
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the best of everything with no flaws
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I'd say Good luck is the opposite of bad luckWww@QuestionHome@Com