What is luck?

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Yesterday was a pretty lucky day, driving back from my mom's after cleaning the garage and helping her with a tag sale, I was doing 85 in the Cayenne with uhaul trailer in tow (full of junk) when I look behind me and see a state trooper. I signal and merge into the center lane, coasting down to 80, trooper just passes me.

50 miles later I passed a parked trooper that no one had reported to Waze yet at 83.

Also turned in trailer 20+ minutes passed 24 hours, only charged for one day, but that's not really luck. Uhaul is pretty cool about stuff like that. Still nice.

Good day with my mom, good day driving home.

[sc_rufctr]

"Ways to get lucky:

Hope luck finds you.

Hustle until you stumble into it.

Prepare the mind and be sensitive to chances others miss.

Become the best at what you do. Refine what you do until this is true. Opportunity will seek you out. Luck becomes your destiny."

@naval

https://x.com/NavalismHQ/status/1971665578411597879

[BK911]

Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

What is luck?

Interesting question.
Some believe, me included, that energy manifests.
So people with bad attitudes attract bad luck, or negative energy.
People with good attitudes attract positive energy.
It goes a LOT deeper than that of course, but luck is not random.

And it involves energy frequency and vibration, of course.
Those with positive vibes can sense other things with positive vibes; people, things, even choices and consequences.
Once you are "in tune" you can "follow your heart" and surround yourself with positive energy.
The more positive energy surrounding you, the higher you vibrate.
The higher you vibrate, the more positive energy surrounds you.
Exponentially.
Yeah.
Crazy, ehh?

Your pine cone has crystals in and on it.
Crystals are piezoelectric, meaning they produce electricity when compressed.
These crystals can sense surrounding vibrations and send electrical pulses through your body.
Some are positive pulses and some are negative pulses.
If you learn how to sense these pulses you will have jedi luck.

Everything is atoms, which vibrate.
So everything vibrates.
Everything sends a signal.
We need to learn how to read it.

Supposedly, this was the forbidden fruit (toroid) given to Eve.
This is the divine knowledge.
Yeah.
Crazy, ehh?

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by LWJ

Well heck.



Yeah. I'm lucky.

Great post.

My Son got married yesterday, I just got back. My wife and I took separate cars because of logistical needs of folks flying in, wedding preps, etc. in West Virginia, very close to Pittsburgh. She'll be home a a few hours.

She took our daughter and her fiance to the airport in Pittsburgh.

Amazing experience, so wonderfully done between families that knew what we were seeing: A union of equals, of peers, a melding of talent and love.

That said, my son wanted a commission as an Army Officer and went to VMI on an ROTC scholarship to attain that goal. His aims post commissioning were to go do things I could not imagine trying.

Lost his left eye to injury, lost his commission. He never complained.

Bad luck? If there is good luck, most assuredly there is bad luck: Yang and Yin so to speak. Could have been, but...

His grades at VMI were great (the preparation part of luck) and he went to law school post injury and graduation from VMI and went to work...where he met his now wife: From the end of a dream to the start and husbanding of a new one.

To me, "luck", both kinds, are tests of humility, we learn from both if we are honest with ourselves.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

I’ve posted about this before but I have always been lucky finding 911s. One example is a 73T that was on Craig’s List for two months for very reasonable money. I kept wondering why it hadn't sold especially seeing that it had been special ordered with ‘67 sport seats. I finally emailed, they said it runs fine but there's something wrong with the motor, it bogs down. It had Zenith carbs so I thought that was an easy fix. Went out to see it, not much rust but some ugly welds underneath. Great interior. Bad black respray over Gemini Blue.

Owner was nice, said a lot of people had seen the car but mostly low-balled him which I thought was strange since it was worth the asking price all day long.

Owner gave me the key, it started right up, I put it in first, it bogged down and not 2 seconds later he came running over yelling to turn it off. Did that, got out, there was a huge puddle of gas under the motor and in the most nonchalant way, I told him I’d give him half his asking price. He happily agreed. I took the Ducati home and got a trailer.

Getting it to my shop, $5 worth of fuel line fixed the fuel system. I said to myself when I originally started and shifted into "first" how sloppy it was, so I pulled off the shift coupler cover plate and found the coupler completely disintegrate. It was dust in the floor pan. Going into first it was actually going into 3rd, hence the bogging. Put in new brass bushing and it became a great little car. I later put a 3.2 into it and lightened it down to 2174 lbs making it insanely fun to drive.

I have a lot of other stories like a $2K “parts” car that the owner thought he had fleeced me on but it had about $20K of rare parts on it. Sold the tail for $3500 alone. Well over $30K in parting it out.

Very lucky with 911s.

[BK911]

Originally Posted by BK911

Interesting question.
Some believe, me included, that energy manifests.
So people with bad attitudes attract bad luck, or negative energy.
People with good attitudes attract positive energy.
It goes a LOT deeper than that of course, but luck is not random.

And it involves energy frequency and vibration, of course.
Those with positive vibes can sense other things with positive vibes; people, things, even choices and consequences.
Once you are "in tune" you can "follow your heart" and surround yourself with positive energy.
The more positive energy surrounding you, the higher you vibrate.
The higher you vibrate, the more positive energy surrounds you.
Exponentially.
Yeah.
Crazy, ehh?

Your pine cone has crystals in and on it.
Crystals are piezoelectric, meaning they produce electricity when compressed.
These crystals can sense surrounding vibrations and send electrical pulses through your body.
Some are positive pulses and some are negative pulses.
If you learn how to sense these pulses you will have jedi luck.

Everything is atoms, which vibrate.
So everything vibrates.
Everything sends a signal.
We need to learn how to read it.

Supposedly, this was the forbidden fruit (toroid) given to Eve.
This is the divine knowledge.
Yeah.
Crazy, ehh?

Wow.
That's deep.
But, what if...

Your pine cone not only receives, but also transmits vibrations to the multiverse, which shapes your "reality".
So you make your own luck.
Oh shoot that's deep(er).

[oldE]

Luck?
This morning when my wife went out with the puppy she was met at the door step by the young donkey. Apparently she was trying to let us know there was a fault in the electric fence. Why do I call that lucky? Because we have in the past had equines who would (and did) end up on the road. That would not have been so good, a black donkey on the road at 0 dark 600.
I took the opportunity to mend the faults.

[NY65912]

I feel I'm the luckiest guy I know. I should have been killed a few times. Driving with a friend who fell asleep at the wheel, driving with a friend who was DWi and just missed hitting a stopped highway maintenance truck in the left lane of the BQE at 4am when I had just suggested to him to move over. Missed an outside construction elevator accident where 2 guys got killed, I just missed it going up, got broadsided by Mack truck a around 35 mph, was knocked out for 10 min but no damage. Lucky at work, became a partner and also got a nice payout after an rear end accident that required surgery. Dodged a pulmonary embolism after lumbar surgery. Hopefully I will dodge another bullet since they found renal tumor and something in my pancreas. I still consider myself lucky.

[ted]

I believe in some luck and Karma.

The Watts link broke on my race car coming down the corkscrew.
1. Is that unlucky?

I saw tire smoke in the car so at the last second swerved into the pits to have a look.
2. Lucky or experience to detect and and exit the track immediately?

Definitely Lucky the broke Watts link did not cause the car to go off track.
3. Very lucky to have friends that helped fix it so we made the race.

[ted]

My mom had long term health care insurance that paid for 2 years of skilled nursing care.
I mentioned that to my new MIL.

Unknown to me my MIL bought a great long term health care insurance policy after our discussion.
20 years later Mil suffered from Alzheimer's and required 10 years of care in a memory care unit.
That was about $100k a year for 10 years and her insurance paid for all of it.

Saved all of us big $ and protected her assets.

I feel lucky I had a random phone call with her and shared my moms story with her.

[jyl]

In Larry Nivens’ book “Ringworld”, humanity has for centuries had a lottery for the right to bear more children. Sometimes persons who were lucky enough to be born via the lottery will meet, and their child will be lucky enough to be born, and that child meets another similarly lucky child, and their child is in turn lucky, and meets . . . inadvertently, humanity breeds a population of genetically lucky persons.

[BK911]

Originally Posted by BK911

Your pine cone has crystals in and on it.
Crystals are piezoelectric, meaning they produce electricity when compressed.
These crystals can sense surrounding vibrations and send electrical pulses through your body.
Some are positive pulses and some are negative pulses.
If you learn how to sense these pulses you will have jedi luck.

Dude, you are brilliant.
Heard stuff like this before but now it's starting to get some traction.
Thanks for sharing your wisdom.


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[Skip Newsom]

I'm amazingly lucky!

Went through some very rough times early on, my father had mental and physical issues all my life, had 1/2 a lung removed when I was 3, rebounded and had very bad spells of cancer and/or depression until his passing when I was 19.

Despite all that Mom was the rock and source of love and encouragement, and put a roof over our heads from when I was 14 and my sister 16.
Her Missouri farm born and raised down to earth outlook, hard work and never ending love were my road maps.

Lots of long days and hard work do payoff.
Particularly when it was 36 years at a big company, like Boeing.
I still can't believe I've hit the Medicare years, been retired for 10 years and lack or want for nothing other than time with loved ones and another adventure somewhere.

Talk about lucky!!!

PS, my pine cone likes being outside a LOT

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by jyl

In Larry Nivens’ book “Ringworld”, humanity has for centuries had a lottery for the right to bear more children. Sometimes persons who were lucky enough to be born via the lottery will meet, and their child will be lucky enough to be born, and that child meets another similarly lucky child, and their child is in turn lucky, and meets . . . inadvertently, humanity breeds a population of genetically lucky persons.

I look around and see the inverse. Then I leave Walmart.

[oldE]

Originally Posted by BK911

Dude, you are brilliant.
Heard stuff like this before but now it's starting to get some traction.
Thanks for sharing your wisdom.


https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1C4orwpkZJ/

You just replied to a post you made, replying to a previous post you made.


That is not the way to increase your credibility with this group.

[BK911]

Originally Posted by oldE

You just replied to a post you made, replying to a previous post you made.


That is not the way to increase your credibility with this group.

Increase my credibility?
That implies I had some to start with?
Awesome!!

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Have any comments or questions?

[oldE]

Anything more than zero is an increase.

No.
No.

[BK911]

Originally Posted by oldE

Anything more than zero is an increase.

No.
No.

Oh man, that hurts Les.
I'll try to stay off your lawn.

[sc_rufctr]

What amazing fortune

To be 1 of the 100 billion homo sapiens sapiens that have ever lived
And to be alive at this the moment of the great inflection
Not to be 1 of 50 billion that died of mosquito borne disease
Nor to be 1 of 30 billion that died before age 5
Nor 1 of 10 billion killed in an act of violence
Instead to witness this a historical moment, to contribute in whatever small way in our outward expansion and proliferation,
To stand on the cusp of history:

What amazing great good fortune

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[Shaun @ Tru6]

Last few weeks have been filled with both good and bad luck but a notable piece of good luck is scoring an original pair of A-arms and front crossmember for the one year only 69 Boge hydrapneumatic (most often called hydro...) self-leveling front struts, also used in Citroens. It was part of the Comfort Group package for the 69 911E.

These struts failed miserably and nearly every single one was replaced with a standard crossmember and A-arms with Koni struts. This package was advertized regularly in '70s Porsche magazines. The old parts were mostly thrown away many years ago.

I was fortunate 15+ years ago to pick up 2 pair of the struts. You can still find them now and again actually, I think mostly because it's harder to throw something so unique away. That and since the bubble, anything unearthed from a shop basement/backroom that has gone out of business, is always kept and put on eBay.

But the A-arms and crossmember I have never seen for sale and that's with checking Classifieds here 5 to 10 times a day, every day, for the last 25 years.

About a month ago, lo and behold, there was a complete front suspension for sale. One member had already called them saying he was local and can come and get them. I sent emails to both the seller and prospective buyer, the former asking to let me know if the deal falls through and the latter asking if he would want to sell the crossmember and A-arms. No response from both.

That is until 2 weeks after, the seller sent me a note saying the buyer never showed. He was going to contact him to confirm (a true gentlemen) and let me know the outcome. Luckily, he never heard back. The seller and I struck up a conversation about why I needed them and like so many times here over the years, we bonded on these unique and special cars. We arrived up a deal for the parts and he was a true compatriot in getting everything packed up and off to me which I just received today. I feel lucky to have seen these in the first place, lucky that the first buyer never showed and lucky that the seller and I were of the same mind.

And lucky that I have extremely rare parts for my 69S that was a special order car with the hydra= suspension and one year only '67 color paint Velvet Green among other special touches like factory AC. It is a true Special Wishes car long before Special Wishes became a factory program.

Winning the car advertised on Classifieds was also an immense bit of luck as nearly 100 people contacted the owner after he posted it for sale with a '75 Carrera, but that's another story.

The parts are unique in that the A-arms don't have a strengthening plate under the arm like standard torsion bar cars have, it is open, no splines in the front tube and the crossmember ends are open not needing to clock the torsion bars.
















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