Winning the lottery and the Law of Attraction

[Greg HondaParticipant 6406]

Just read the Shakespear link. Looks like his female friend was more devious and deadly than his male friends. If it was me I would have given the guy who brought the tickets for me a share. Lets face it $17 million? how much money does one man need?

On a side note I found it funny that Shakespear was illiterate! There is a theory that the writer Shakespear was also illiterate and all his works were written by someone else. I can’t remember who but you can probaly find it online. He also never left England but wrote plays with a detailed knowledge of Vennice etc?

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[DorkShitParticipant 4353]

Stargazer wrote:

virtuous choices that lead to desirable outcomes and branches of other choices which afford more of the same.

So true.
Nothing good happens after midnight!

That is a 100% guarantee

Peace brothers

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Sadly the gentleman murdered was “learning challenged” (OK slightly retarded) IQ about 70. So he was easy prey by people he trusted. To me that makes the bitch’s actions even more reprehensible, and she gets life? Think how “nice” she must have been to this guy even while plotting his death. In my view AWALT.

I know I’ve said it before and I sound like a broken record but I think public hanging is justified. (Jodi Arras—I would yank the rope myself)

[BadgerParticipant 2277]

Greg Honda wrote:

Shakespear was also illiterate and all his works were written by someone else. I can’t remember who but you can probaly find it online.

One theory I read about was it might have been Sir Henry Neville. He appeared to have the requisite background.

http://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/wp-content/uploads/Oxfordian2012_Rubenstein_Neville.pdf

[narwhalParticipant]

PistolPete wrote:

I hate to disagree with Son of R’lyeh–but you are right Lookafter#1. Buying more tickets does not increase your odds of winning. It increases your chances of winning —chances of winning and odds of winning are two different things. If you buy one ticket and its a 1 in 40 million shot and then you buy a second ticket you don’t have a 2 in 40 million you have two tickets EACH with 1 in 40 million.

But both tickets are favorable outcomes from the same drawing, so it actually is 2 in 40 million.

I think it’s easier when the numbers are smaller, like a coin flip. Each coin flip is heads (H) or tails (T), each equally likely. So when you flip the coin once, you have a 50% chance of getting heads, as your possible outcomes are H or T, both equally likely.

What happens when you flip the coin twice, and you want H at least once? The possible outcomes are HH, HT, TH, and TT. So 3 out of 4 outcomes meet your requirements, or 75%.

3 coin flips? HHH, HHT, HTH, HTT, THH, THT, TTH, TTT. 7 out of 8 outcomes meet requirements, or 87.5%.

http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/probability/info.htm

I think this is the scenario you’re thinking of, however, that really isn’t what happens when you buy 2 lottery tickets for the same drawing. You actually can add up your odds.

Let’s switch from a coin flip to rolling dice, as it will make more sense. If you roll one dice and the outcome you want is a 1, then you have a 1 in 6 (17%) chance of a favorable outcome. However, if you roll the dice once and want an outcome of a 1 or 2, then your have a 2 in 6 chance (33%) chance of a favorable outcome. If you have 3 favorable outcomes, then 3 in 6 (50%)…and so on.

The lottery is 1 drawing, with 2 tickets. So it is 2 in 40 million, or 1 in 20 million. If there are 40 million possible combinations, you can buy 40 million tickets (unique) to give yourself a 100% chance of winning.

So I’d say if you’re going to play the lottery, but all your tickets for 1 drawing instead of 1 ticket for each drawing.

Ok. Then do it.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

I see your point Narwhal. Let me give you a counter example: As an old fuddy-duddy I still play panzer general. If you are not familiar with the game every time a unit gains a level there is a 1 in 10 chance they will be assigned a leader. I’ve had units gain a leader immediately OR after over 80 tries. Theoretically under your analysis I’m guaranteed a leader by try #10 and that clearly doesn’t happen. It is because every time the chance remains 1 in 10 no matter how many times I try.

I admit I’m not an expert but I have a friend of mine who IS a gambling expert and he explained this to me once.

[Greg HondaParticipant 6406]

I used to buy the tickets when it was £1 each. It was worth a quid to have a dream of riches to fantasize about all week. Then I saw a show celebrating how the lottery money was helping these good causes/charoties.

One was buying new instruments for an expensive public, (upper class elitist) school, the other I remember was paying god knows how much to the Churchil family for his writings while Prime Minister, (every other prime minister has donated their memoires of office free to the state).

I just thought, This is not giving to the poor, its giving to the rich using the “Old Boy” network.

I now see it as a sucker tax.

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[Greg HondaParticipant 6406]

Yo Pete I love Panzer General 3D & Scorched Earth!

The Rommel campaign is my favourite 🙂

Can’t get it to run on WIN 7 and I miss those old strategy games.

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[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

I never tried 3d but I DID try to go to the support site and download new scenarios etc. But the guys running that site were A-holes so I contend myself with the old game. Just to add spice sometimes I recruit new units from the allied nations, so I play with a Spanish unit, an Italian unit and a Romanian unit. It passes the time.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

I know what you mean. Often new computers and operating systems won’t run the old games. I really miss the original Red Baron but nothing will run the program. Yes I have the CD version but it isn’t as good as the original. Same with Chuck Jaeger Flight simulator.

Strangely my old 486 will still run LHX attack copter.

[Sky-OParticipant 18936]

I won the lottery once.

Out of millions of sperm, I made it to an egg.

Then was fortunate enough to survive inside of another person for nine months and was born healthy. With eyes, ears, arms, legs and internal organs that were functional.

It’s all about perspective and being grateful.

Sure, things right now could be better and a crazy amount of money would enable that.

But there are things in life that money cannot buy.

I’ve known love and I’ve survived betrayal. Stronger and wiser due to both the triumph and tragedy.

I’ve learned that evil exists, but good eventually wins. Just not in any specific way one might want it too. It’s always there if you slow down and look for the signs.

This life is a test and only a test. I am unable to provide proof of what waits on the other side of our consciousness in this physical realm. But all current indicators tell me that what we experience here is a prerequisite for a transition to the next phase.

Enjoy the journey. For it has only just begun.

[LookAfter#1Participant 352]

If you dont have the winning lottery ticket. Don’t dispair… Just change that 0 to a 9. This guy altered his ticket, handed it in and is now £2.5 million richer. And the lottery company get the blame for it.

A 51-year-old man, from Kings Langley, had claimed the £2.5 million jackpot using a damaged ticket.

He was arrested for fraud last October and has been released without charge, Hertfordshire Police say they will reopen the case if new evidence comes to light.

The man has not repaid any of the money

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/16/national-lottery-winner-awarded-25m-prize-alleged-fraudulent/

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[Anonymous 22]

Nobody can prove whether Law of Attraction is real or not, just like no one can prove if God exists or not. We can only have opinions (often strong opinions) one way or the other, and personal experiences.

Personally, I believe that the law does exist (don’t ask me to give any proof of its existence because I can’t do that, LMAO)

[TaxGuyParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

Nobody can prove whether Law of Attraction is real or not, just like no one can prove if God exists or not. We can only have opinions (often strong opinions) one way or the other, and personal experiences.

Personally, I believe that the law does exist (don’t ask me to give any proof of its existence because I can’t do that, LMAO)

Just my opinion on the Law of Attraction, but if you believe in it, it sort of becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. If you are open to new things, you will find them. If you are closed off, you won’t.

I read a book a long time ago called the Celestine Prophecy. It’s a weird book about finding some amendments to the Bible. Anyway, the first prophecy is that the universe is not random, and people come in and out of your life for a reason. You just have to be open to the reason. For example, why are you on this website talking to all of these men? Be open to what they are telling you and you might learn something. Right?

So I see the Law of Attraction in a similar way. It’s not going to give you a winning lottery ticket, that’s just random chance. But if you are open to what is going on around you, opportunities will open up for you. The one’s that don’t work out are learning opportunities, and the one’s that do work out, well they work out.

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