| User | Comment |
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| joachim | | posted 23-May-2000 8:04am |
I like to think of myself as relatively witty and charming (2 each). I know I don't work hard, so that couldn't really have been it (4). I believe I have been fairly lucky so I put that in as 4 too. I don't believe in fate so that's 7, I don't recall ever knowing anyone at all so that's 7 and I can't think of anything else so that is also 7. |
| leemanette | | posted 23-May-2000 1:23pm |
My willingness to take risks and live actively. |
dab   | | posted 23-May-2000 1:54pm |
Opportunities came by, luck if you like, but then it was a matter of being willing to take a chance on them and hard work to make them succeed. That middle part, willingness to take the risk, is critical and I'm not sure in which category to place it. |
| mary | | posted 23-May-2000 3:09pm |
Karma. |
| mandy | | posted 23-May-2000 4:13pm |
I have issues with the word/idea of success. I am in search mode....what is success? why are we here? why do we suffer and die? why are some people happy and others sad?
I don't even know what I want to be when I grow up. I don't know if I even have to be anything. |
| guillem | | posted 24-May-2000 7:48am |
How do you make ranking surveys? |
bill  | | posted 24-May-2000 8:03am |
These were good options, all are significant factors. |
Zang  | | posted 24-May-2000 5:25pm |
Something else (I'm not saying), charm, wit, nepotism, blah blah blah...and I don't believe in luck. |
| anonymous | | posted 24-May-2000 5:43pm |
Zang, don't believe in luck, huh? So starving third-world children just haven't been sufficiently charming and witty? Wouldn't you say the luck of the draw resulted in them being born with no opportunities? Or are ya on of them karma people... |
| Zang | | posted 24-May-2000 9:48pm |
anonymous #1: Hey! You wouldn't happen to know someone named anonymous #3? As I said, number one is "Something else (I'm not saying).
No, I don't think that starving third-world children haven't been sufficiently charming and witty. I also don't think that it would be to their advantage if we air-lifted a cargo of rabbit's feet to them. Although I benefit from the exploitation of third-world resources and labour, I am not personally in a position to (nor would I want to) exploit anybody.
Am I "on of them karma people..."? Certainly not the way I would choose to describe myself, yet I suppose the epithet has some accuracy (in a crude way).
Well...did that clear up anything? |
| Andyroo | | posted 31-May-2000 7:38pm |
I think it's who you know, not what you have to offer. |
| natsim | | (reply to Zang) posted 2-Jun-2000 3:01pm |
I think anonymous #1 is trying to say that they believe luck is very important, because they feel lucky not to have been born into poverty. Whereas if you believe your previous life was good enough, your karma would have saved you from being born into poverty, and that would make you a karma person.
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| Zang | | (reply to natsim) posted 5-Jun-2000 4:10am |
Yes, I figured that part out too. |
