One shell, Two shell, Red shell, Blue shell.

Found this picture online, at Rock, Paper, Cynic, a webcomic. I just thought of posting it up here, well, in dedication to Mario Kart, which will forever serve as an excuse to write up random nonsense and call it philosophy.

Sacrifice: The Risk

In order to gain, you must lose. It can be of equal amount, or not. If the latter, than the difference must be made up with the intangible, such as risk.
Some say that to gain something you desire you must also lose something of equal value to obtain it, such as when you are buying an apple with money. But what of those "bargain prices"? Where the price is less than the value of the apple, then will that rule still apply? Actually, yes, because the company will benefit from this transaction because it will attract more customers, but it does not necessarily mean that it will attract more buyers, there is a risk. So in place of the difference in prices, there needs to be a risk involved in order to balance it out. This rule, the risk rule, states that if the value of gain and the value of loss is unbalanced, risk/luck will become involved in the equation, either leading to greater loss or greater gain, and the amount of loss or gain is dependent on how much risk is involved, like in gambling.
Other factors, such as the loss from another person or time, are included in this relationship of loss and gain, but those will be discussed later.

~C.

Painful coincidences and other outside forces

There are only two outside forces that interfere with the law of possessions.

They are known as.

Painful coincidences and Luck.

Luck is technically a sub-branch of painful coincidences.

What you call "karma" is inexistence.

There is no karma.

Most bad people will get away with bad things.

However, some of them suffer very unfortunately, from...

Painful coincidences.

Murphy's third law would be of Painful Coincidences.

That when everything is going right

everything is reaching the peak of perfection

only then will everything come crashing down.

In a manner that is so unpredictable, if you are waiting for it to happen, it won't.

Not until you let your guard down.

(note:ilikepressingtheenterkeytoemphasizepoints)

an excerpt from Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams.

"Many speak of the legendary and gigantic starship Titanic, a majestic and luxurious cruise liner launched from the great shipbuilding asteroid complexes of Artrifactovol some hundred years ago now, and with good reason.

It was sensationally beautiful, staggeringly huge and more pleasantly equipped than any ship in what remains of history, but it had the misfortune to be built in the earliest days of Improbability Physics, long before this difficult and cursed branch of knowledge was fully, or at all, understood.

The designers and engineers decided, in their innocence, to build a prototype Improbability Field into it, which was meant, supposedly, to ensure that it was Infinitely Improbable that anything would ever go wrong with any part of the ship.

They did not realize that because of the quasi-reciprocal and circular nature of all Improbability calculations, anything that was Infinitely Improbable was actually very likely to happen almost immediately.

The starship Titanic was a monstrously pretty sight as it lay beached like a silver Arctuan Megavoidwhale among the laserlit tracery of its construction gantries, a brilliant cloud of pins and needles of light against the deep interstellar blackness; but when launched, it did not even manage to complete its very first radio message--an SOS--before undergoing a sudden and gratuitous total existence failure."

The law of Painful Coincidences states that improbability of an event occurring is inverse to the probability that it happens immediately.

This law slightly coincides with Murphy's first law.

~BKH

Wish.

Three wishes. No more and no less, says the genie. One wish is far too dangerous; what if the wish was wrong? Two wishes is better, for the second can negate the first. But with three wishes, the lesson is learned, and the wish is for better. Four wishes is one too many, for then the power shall utterly corrupt. Five will destroy, never go beyond that.
What would you do with three wishes? For good or for evil? For self or for all? Gain or lose? With power there are rules, and along with those rules there are consequences. The trick is knowing exactly what the rules are, so the consequences don't turn against you.
So, what would you wish for?

~C.