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Someone wrote somewhere a thing that I think is probably true in many cases with Bitcoin/Nostr people, regarding the "just world" fallacy. If they allow themselves to entertain the thought that people can be the victim of unlucky circumstances, they would have to accept that they are more lucky than someone else. I'm not sure why, but this seems to create cognitive dissonance in many bitcoiners. I think this is relevant, as many are bragging about their "proof of work", some downright denying the existence of luck. Seems like they put more value to their amount of work put down than the result, despite most of them knowing through Austrian economics that's not how value works, at least not interpersonally.

(Me still holding the amount I hold today, I see as 90% luck.)

@IsabelSydow Queen of Shrimps (but u can call me Dan.) 11mo ago

Yes!!!

I can't remember if it was before 2008 or 2010, but I had seen a photographer's book at a Borders. I wish I remembered the name of it,but the concept was not too dissimilar to arsehole Warren Buffet's acknowledgement of the womb/ovary lottery.

The book was nothing but pictures of happy wealthy babies compared to those of babies born and dying in poverty or war torn countries.

We forge the parts of our lives/destinies that we can, but we must also understand chaos is NOT non-existent.

There is such thing as the unexplained, mystery that we will never comprehend.

The New Thought Order wants us all to think WE ARE 100% responsible for what we attract.

This is a fallacy.

We do, and are responsible for attracting some things, events, and even people into our lives. But to deny the Great Mystery is to be an atheist which in itself contradicts their own atheism. As by removing the belief on a greater power, they've made themselves into the God they claim doesn't exist.

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ElectronicsQuestions 11mo ago

I'll have to disappoint you by saying I'm atheist myself, but your point still mostly stands, in my view too - whatever the randomness comes from - divine power or simply randomness from the beginning of the universe and/or quantum mechanics, amplified through time- people have different circumstances and are different, meaning there is such a thing as good and bad luck. However I don't believe in the law of attraction either, and think it can even be a harmful belief in many cases (maybe somewhat exaggerated, but e.g. "if I think positively, others will do so too", proceeding to walk through crime-infested area).