[MD] Freedom

[John Carl]

Arlo,

"Dumb luck" expresses precisely the concept you're trying to get across.  I
mean, if it was guided or intelligent luck we'd be back in the hands of the
big bad manipulative boogeyman in the sky you construe to avoid.

I can't help that it's pejorative, it's accurate!

There's nothing inherently pejorative about boasting:  "It ain't braggin' if
its true."



John

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:56 AM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:

> [John]
> I got no problem with ale, but overcoming randomness with dumb luck doesn't
> seem to me cause for boasting.
>
> [Arlo]
> "Dumb" is a useless word in this sentence, a pejorative that adds nothing
> but a
> false weight. I'd say "luck" is indeed a cause for celebrating.
> ("Boasting"?
> You added this negative word too)
>
> In the entirety of evolutionary history, it was never certain *you* would
> be
> here. Day by day, your continued existence depends heavily on "luck" (no
> asteroids have smashed into the earth last year). If this is not cause for
> an
> ale now and then to celebrate life, I don't know what is.
>
>
>
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