My Favorite Debt
Mar 9, 2009 hitchhiking, reading
I picked up a hitchhiker this morning and he identified me immediately: “You’re a Cedarville student, aren’t you?” Is it that obvious? Do I just radiate repressed fundamentalist vibes? But Samir assured me it was just a guess based on probabilities: C.S.U. students speed by, C.U. students pick him up. He’s living at Wilberforce but [...]
Tags: Cedarville, Central State, hitchhiking, Holocaust, luck, poker, randomness, Wilberforce, Xenia
Brief Discursus on Luck
Feb 9, 2009 philosophy
I’m told that good Christians don’t believe in luck. I am not a good Christian. But I am one, and I do believe in luck. In fact, misunderstanding luck may lead to illogical reasoning and illogical behavior. Luck is simply this: the improbable becoming actuality. The modifiers “good” & “bad” are not absolute, but do [...]