FAQ: Why do I always have bad luck?

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FAQ: Why do I always have bad luck?

by DrGURU @ 2008-07-22 – 17:17:32

Dr. GURU speaks,

Such questions leave poisonous residues in the minds of those who are weak enough to speak them...

Though I cannot explain why one person seems to have more good-fortune than another, nor can I explain why one person may roll a dice and hit a ‘6’, whilst the next person only a ‘1’. All sides seem much the same to me; it is only the value we place upon them that gives them their importance. Indeed, they have real-life impact and consequences to deal with. The person who only rolls a ‘1’ may be considered unfortunate, but if he had been trying his luck for a-time, many may have little sympathy for him.

You are what link the bad things that happen in your life. There are often few, if any, other common factors. And so, the poison is laid...

Though I may not be able to explain to the ‘truly’ unfortunate, who have had no part to play in their misfortune, why they find themselves in their situation, nor would I ally misfortune with misery, as they make for troublesome foes. Individually they can be overcome...but in unity, their forces are multiplied. Such wars are difficult to win when battles are given up too easily...the poison spreads.

You must strengthen your reserve, throw away your sense of misery and get back to dealing with the consequences, as wallowing in the trenches leaves only the poison to consume.

The GURU must now sleep.
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- shotclock (Visitor)
- 2008-08-05 @ 22:22:35
yes poison is the best way to describe bad fortune and its traverse consequences.......i like that.....but i want to add a fundamental dimension that you have missed,

How do you explain that sometimes you receive more bad luck depending on who you associate with? They say the unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune onto themselves, and then onto others (wisdom of great thinkers).

And then they say the unfortunate draw it upon themselves by their destructive actions and unsettling effect on others. So then it seems like a pattern. And considering others can receive this through osmosis, should we help them if we become infected ourselves? Or do they help themselves?

To add another dimension, sometimes there are people who bring fortune onto themselves using selective power and timing. Some people know they have prosperity. Some people bring prosperity. Some people simply assoicate with them, maybe there is a lot more to luck than simply placing a value......not maybe DEFINATELY
- - DrGURU
  - 2008-08-06 @ 22:05:26
  Dr. GURU speaks,
  
  I welcome your thoughts on this issue brethren...
  
  This '7th' dimension you speak-of is elusive. It is easily articulated, but impossible to grasp. Let me share how I articulate with this extra dimension...
  
  When an individual associates with the “wrong crowd”, one may be fair to assume that he will fall prey to “wrong doings”. This “bad-luck” is self-provocated, and is easily understood...“live by the sword; die by the sword”.
  
  Should we help such individuals?...
  
  We should provide them with the other revenues; other ways of living their lives. But of course, the ultimate decision can only be made by them.
  
  Finally, for those individuals fortunate enough to be able to realise a multitude of different avenues, and remain successful in their approach...you may not be able to recognise these inspirational people among us by knowing their previous life experiences alone...what makes us is not necessarily what we experience, but rather what we make of those experiences. So this leads us back to the dice...
  
  What makes people so different in their influences is subjective and essentially unpredictable. Although the dice is only metaphorical, it achieves well in presenting the ‘spectrum of luck’...No matter what has happened before in your life, you can step up to the table, and through will or decree, make a difference...for good or bad.
  
  You may think my metaphor “incomplete” and “simple”...but where do your enquiries lead you? I suspect it leads you to learning about, and learning from, inspirational and successful figures in history...so as to improve your chances of luck in life. This is positive as it pulls you away from asking why bad things happen to you and makes you focus-in on the road ahead (how to make it better). But let me ask you...
  
  What makes you think all your efforts won’t be in vain? Have not many before you, and do not many now, try every day of their lives to provide for a better future? There is no secret to luck. No hidden depth not yet explored. It is, in essence, as unpredictable and changing as the dice.
  
  Do not be so rested in your assuredness...good and bad luck can come-and-go at a whim.
  
  The GURU must now sleep.
  - - shotclock (Visitor)
    - 2008-08-07 @ 00:03:29
    I wouldn't say learning about lucky people to increase you own luck. If you don't have luck, then you don't have it, just associate with it - or them.
    Also, when you are a source of pleasure the effect you have on the world (influence) means there is little reason for you to have bad luck. So there is no need for predictability but just to accept that change happens, whether bad or good, things happens.
    But then when you have bad luck all the time, perhaps there is something you must do, rather than a way to live.
    
    This leads me to one of many factors that encourages luck, and the only one i need to discuss. Power can be a form of good luck, because once you have power things fall into your lap, and you can watch it as it happens.
    I don't mean power just in occupation, money and respect but:
    *particular golden rules which you as an individual must hold,
    *things you must refrain from doing,
    *things you should do and look out for,
    *a way around common problems,
    *stimulating others conscious,
    These are forms of power although some are rather indirect, you can attain these ways to power, certain power you must be born with, nevertheless these can help bring you luck. So what are the indications of these? Is this even luck? Or a greed which leads to a bad cause and a bad way to advance?
    
    These to me are like code of conducts, once you follow....it positions you to fight luck. And packing a greater punch means you can draw more luck, but then you can lose a lot more. But in the least, the person knows that can have luck rather than wait for it. So here people for search luck...
    
    'To notice someone with good fortune is to simply observe their effect on the world' (Shotclock, '08)
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- DrGURU
- 2008-08-07 @ 23:22:26
“To notice someone with good fortune is to simply observe their effect on the world”...(Shotclock, ’08)

Dr. GURU speaks,

You have tugged on several points my friend...let me pick out the threads that have entangled you...

A person would have to have an amazing run of good-fortune to have much impact on the world. I would not deny that such things happen.

Some people have the “power” to influence their own luck, almost to the point where they seem to determine it. But tragedy shows no discrimination in its actions, and is reckless in its timing. You would not deny that such things happen.

But you do not let it lie there...

You say that:
“If you don’t have luck, then you don’t have it...”, and
“...there is a reason for bad luck...”, and
“...you have to fight for luck...”.

These concepts are conflicting.

I do not proclaim to have such a manipulative grasp of concepts such as ‘luck’ or ‘fortune’. You grasp for things which vanish in your hands.

Finally, you ask whether trying to gain success through self-centred power-seeking could be considered ‘evil’... and thus, the thread tightens as you squirm...

Suffocated by a fate which is indeterminable and an evil which is necessary, I would plead for you to realise that not everything is “under-control”...

Even mighty kings can be dethroned...and made pauper.

The GURU must now sleep.
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- deleted user (Visitor)
- 2008-09-17 @ 23:36:47
Interesting thoughts but no mention about the law of attraction as to why people experience bad luck? Alas... aren't we what we think?
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- DrGURU
- 2008-09-18 @ 00:32:17
Dr. GURU speaks,

Our minds have powerful influences over our lives...but we are not what we think.

Misery loves company. Some people can continue to suffer one mis-fortune after another, because of their doing or for no reason at all, whilst others can benefit from great prosperity...and then be suddenly stricken by mis-fortune.

You can heavily influence your life by changing you state of mind...but we are all human.

The GURU must now sleep.
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- deleted user (Visitor)
- 2008-09-18 @ 12:45:25
This is a contradiction of terms - "our minds have powerful influence over our lives - but we are not what we think"

I guess one of the greatest philosophers of all time must have been wrong. I.e Descartes when he said "I think, therefore I am"

You speak of "misery" in the objective sense as though it has presence but it is merely a presence of emotion.

If you did not "think" of becoming a "guru" then who thought of it for you, did you just wake up one morning and find that you were a "guru" or did you think about it - therefore becoming what you thought.

You have still shown reluctance to address the law of attraction, or in other words - we get what we think, therefore our lives are what we think they are.

Example: Woman has low self esteem and feels that she is not worthy of a good man. How many times will that woman attract a man that reinforces this inner belief, and thus she continues to find men that treat her badly?
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- DrGURU
- 2008-09-18 @ 21:08:28
Dr. GURU speaks,

“Our minds have powerful influences over our lives...but we are not what we think.”

“Our thoughts will have some effect on our lives...but will not always be the deciding factor”

People live in their own Worlds, and mould their environment around it.

What you think of yourself may not always be what other people think of you.

You do not always get what you want (“think”).

Miserable people attract other miserable people.

People who have been mis-treated may come to expect abuse later-on in their lives.

This “law of attraction” you speak of sounds like people being attracted to a particular life-style; for reasons left to them. Ofcourse, this is a recognised phenomenon...but has nothing concrete...because it is only a statistic.

It is less a “Law”...more a “trend”.

When Descartes said "I think, therefore I am.", he was referring to Existentialistic ideals and the Soul...not to determining life with your thoughts alone.

It is good to have the belief that you are what you think...but do not be complacent. Things can happen which are out of your control and come out-of-the-blue.

You yourself must have experienced countless times when your ideas, beliefs, and foundations were rocked? Do you now think you are immune?

If everything that will happen is written in your mind, then may God’s blessing be with you.

The GURU must now sleep.
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- deleted user (Visitor)
- 2008-09-20 @ 17:44:09
Much of this thought is based at the conscious level. Many people "think" about trying to better their lives. I "think" I want that car, I "think" I want that house, I "think" I want money etc etc - and rightly so, the "thinking" does not always result in the appearance of the goods, therefore rendering the notion "we are what we think" as being slightly mischievous.

However, we don't "think" solely at a conscious level do we - we also think, feel and more importantly "believe" at the sub-conscious level and the two are usually in conflict. Hence we think one thing yet we "attract" something else because that is what we believe to be our true worth.

It is a battle between the Ying and Yang of the minds, and somewhere in between is balance - some people find this balance, others do not.

Ref - Descartes. Is conscious thought not the soul? We think we are... therefore we are. We are what we think.
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- DrGURU
- 2008-09-20 @ 22:13:27
Dr. GURU speaks,

Your method of conclusion has a fundamental flaw...

"We think we are...therefore we are. We are what we think."

...is like saying...

"Wine is made from grapes, and so grapes are filled with Wine."

Great thinkers, such as Descartes, would not have wanted their words spoiled like this.

You have been blessed with life and the ability to think and question.

Do not now proclaim..."I am what I think"!
When giants before you have only muttered..."I can think, so therefore I exist".

The GURU must now sleep.
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- deleted user (Visitor)
- 2008-09-21 @ 15:00:18
This is a most unusual declaration? You compare human thought and consciousness to wine and grapes, are we to believe that grapes also have thinking power? This is like saying thoughts are made from heads, and so heads are filled with thoughts - which is actually alot closer to my original suggestion, and at least encompasses thought and not grapes as a comparison...
Descartes existed over 450 years ago and it is nothing but wild speculation to presume what he would've regarded as a spoiling of words or ideas.
I cannot see the difference in analogy when you proclaim "I can think, so therefore I exist" to be any different to saying "I am what I think"
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- DrGURU
- 2008-09-23 @ 08:28:18
Dr. GURU speaks,

Please do not conclude from my words that grapes have thinking power...no such suggestion was made.

Your head is filled with thoughts of "life" and "existence"...but you have merged them together so much that you now cannot differentiate between one and the other.

Your existence can be certified, but what you have made of your life is left to question. The answers to what type of person you are, or will be, are not only to be found in your thougths. Your life is also affected by the circumstances you find yourself in, the people around you, and the uncertainty of the future.

The GURU must now sleep.
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