Dear Joe:

Randomly, everything works from time to time. For example, carrying a small rock or crystal that some people believe has power, a positive energy to make positive things happen, well if you carry this rock everywhere you go, you are bound to encounter something positive happening, something happening your way. Is it because of the rock?

What if I decide that painting my nose green is a sign of good luck (the luck of the Irish like)- and over ten years ten positive things happen in my life while my nose is green. What then?

Regarding gambling, as long as gambling institutions exist at all, it by definition means that most people lose all the time or most of the time and the chances, statistical chances that one person wins again and again do exist, but they are very small.

* Dear Wisdom: I am so excited you are reading this thread, as if it was written for you… but no, it was not- it just so happened that Joe wrote it. He was not destined to write it… This kind of thinking, Wisdom, is very common, this magical thinking. I employed magical thinking myself.. a lot! Glad to get rid of most of it, aiming at all of it!

anita