Fortune Cookie

[SPX]

So I was going to go to Wendover tonight but decided not to at the last minute. I really don't have the money. Missed a couple of days at work and my check was a bit short, bills due, etc.

So I did what seemed most reasonable under the circumstances. I went to the corner store to buy beer.

It's owned by a Korean guy who's cool as hell and we were talking about going to Wendover and he told me to take a fortune cookie. (Normally he charges $.10 for them but gave one to me for free.) I reached in, grabbed one at random and it said:

"You may lose the small ones but win the big ones."

And that was just so appropriate and ironic that I have to mention it. And I admit that it made me feel a bit better, being the moderately superstitious person that I can be. Now I know there are going to be people out there who are going to get crazy and write some equation to "prove" that this post is stupid.

They're going to be all like:

"I've worked it out on paper and the equation x*n=14/GHB-DNA√2(y)=R.E.S.P.E.C.T+867-5309 proves that this post is stupid."

But whatever. . .

[Kasi]

Originally Posted by SPX

"You may lose the small ones but win the big ones." ...

I'm glad it made you feel better.

If i got it, being the "half-empty" guy I am, I'd figure it probably meant I'd lose 99 hands at a dollar and then win a couple "big" $5 hands

Hope it comes true for you

[SPX]

Originally Posted by Kasi

I'm glad it made you feel better.

If i got it, being the "half-empty" guy I am, I'd figure it probably meant I'd lose 99 hands at a dollar and then win a couple "big" $5 hands

Hope it comes true for you

And that's what I call Brotherhood!

Thanks Kasi. . . I hope it comes true for me, too.

P.S. And by the way, I am very much a "half-empty" kind of guy myself.

[Kasi]

Originally Posted by SPX

And by the way, I am very much a "half-empty" kind of guy myself.

Then I'm a "99%-empty guy"

[SPX]

Originally Posted by Kasi

Then I'm a "99%-empty guy"

Trust me, you ain't got nothing on me when it comes to pessimism.

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by SPX

Now I know there are going to be people out there who are going to get crazy and write some equation to "prove" that this post is stupid.

When was the last time you got a fortune cookie that foretold bad news? No fancy formulas necessary.

I'm joking, but there is some truth to that statement. Those fortunes are written by people who understand how to use the same “shotgunning” techniques that supposed psychics use to do cold readings. You could have picked any cookie in that box and gotten a relevant message. There may not be any mathematical formulas, but it is definitely a science.

-Sonny-

[SPX]

Originally Posted by Sonny

When was the last time you got a fortune cookie that foretold bad news? No fancy formulas necessary.

I'm joking, but there is some truth to that statement. Those fortunes are written by people who understand how to use the same “shotgunning” techniques that supposed psychics use to do cold readings. You could have picked any cookie in that box and gotten a relevant message. There may not be any mathematical formulas, but it is definitely a science.

-Sonny-

So is that to say that you don't leave the door open to the possibility of extra-sensory abilities?

I will admit that I haven't experienced much myself but I do have some people I am close to whose word I trust (my father, a close friend) who have had some truly unexplainable experiences. Plus, you do have the research of guys like Michael Talbot (author of The Holographic Universe) and Dean Radin (author of Entangled Minds).

Besides. . . Not all fortune cookies are THAT relevant to the circumstances. The last one wasn't. . .

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by SPX

So is that to say that you don't leave the door open to the possibility of extra-sensory abilities?

I leave the door open to all possibilities, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t try to find rational explanations for everything. If I didn’t, I’d be in line waiting for predictions from Sylvia Brown, having my palm read, checking my biorhythms, horoscope and slaughtering animals to find divine answers.

There are lots of things in life that I can’t explain, but there are many more things that I don’t even understand. Truth is where knowledge meets experience.

-Sonny-

[SPX]

Originally Posted by Sonny

I leave the door open to all possibilities, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t try to find rational explanations for everything. If I didn’t, I’d be in line waiting for predictions from Sylvia Brown, having my palm read, checking my biorhythms, horoscope and slaughtering animals to find divine answers.

There are lots of things in life that I can’t explain, but there are many more things that I don’t even understand. Truth is where knowledge meets experience.

-Sonny-

Word.

I hear you. I'm not a Sylvia Brown fan for sure, not do I believe that the future can be divined from the entrails of dead wildlife.

I suppose I'll put it this way: Today's mysticism is tomorrow's science.

[Kasi]

Originally Posted by SPX

Trust me, you ain't got nothing on me when it comes to pessimism.

I'm so pessimistic, I don't think I'm going to win this argument

But, yeah, karma exists lol.