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Do you feel your belief system has hindered your life?

17:17 / 14.08.01

I don't know where to post this so my apollogies if I messed up.
After a week of reading the kind posts on my previous thread (read *I need your help...not a joke!Please read b4 thursday* posted in conversation for the full story of my situation) I get the feeling that we who adopt the idea that there is much more end up getting cheated in life.
I guess what I am asking is, Do you think that because you incorporate meta beliefs in your lives that you are more prone to ( for lack of a better term) bad luck?
I'm curious to your responses.
Thanks.

Rex City-zen

17:20 / 14.08.01

17:41 / 14.08.01

quote: the feeling that we who adopt the idea that there is much more end up getting cheated in life.
When you say 'adopt the idea',could you explain what it is you are referring to?Personally,I don't really pay any attention to luck,good or bad,its more like events which are transpiring in front of me,and how to deal with them,rather than feeling unnecessarily bad because of forces that are outwith my own control,which is a total waste of time.I'd rather have a more positive outlook,than the one that involves the implied victimisation of 'bad luck'.There are more ways to look at the world than the model of good and bad,ying and yang, as there are all kinds of patterns to life,some on the surface and some not.'Meta-beliefs' are temporary,much like all human ideas to an open mind.Even the most wise can't see the repercussions of every possible action.And through action you define yourself.

Mordant Carnival

18:08 / 14.08.01

Hmm. As to luck... I did come across a study (I forget the details now, but it seemed at the time to be a well run sort of study) which seemed to inicate that people who thought they were lucky tended to actually be more lucky. I know the problem with studies like this is that another study usually comes along six months later and contradicts the findings, but it's still an interesting idea.

To be honest, though, I don't beleive that life is really about luck. Everyone has fluctuations in thier fortunes; it's what you take away from the experience that counts.

10:41 / 15.08.01

If you have low expectations, everything comes as a pleasant surprise.

14:41 / 15.08.01

No, not more prone to bad luck -- but there's a good reason why the Surrealists called their "magical consciousness" by the term CRITICAL PARANOIA.

It's all on where you focus your attention.

17:25 / 15.08.01

My mistake in using the word luck.