Posted by:
elderolddog
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Date: March 26, 2019 05:09PM
mel Wrote:
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> Elder Old Doggie,
>
> Thinking about your bell curve, and 'debacles' v
> 'miracles'....
>
> does the universe even out, a debacle for every
> miracle? Does my miracle mean disaster for
> another? and vice versa?
>
> Someone I talked to yesterday insisted the
> universe is 'fair'...for every gift, something is
> taken away, somewhere, somehow to even things
> o
>
> I would like to think so. So far, I think I've
> gotten the debacles and someone is living well off
> my 'evened- out' miracles!
Ms. Mel, an illustration of how the Bell Shaped Curve 'works' can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUSKTk9ENzg Turn off the sound and just watch the machine in action: all the BBs enter at one point and then randomly (hahaha! Not really, ghawd is controlling each BB, right?) bounces hither and yon before finally coming to rest.
The notion of the bell-shaped curve exists because every time this experiment is carried out, the distribution is the same, if you use sufficient BBs.
It's my perspective that one may think of him or herself as one of those BBs. You're all excited to start your journey and when you start to drop, you can assume that you'll wind up in one of the four center columns, simply on the basis of the odds. But ya just don't know!! Debacles on the left, miracles on the right! While the majority of us might hit one the associated pegs on the way down, most of us wind up in the middle.
Lot's Wife, that biotch, doesn't want to accept that her whole life can be portrayed with just one BB drop! No, she wants a do over, like every morning, or something. But ultimately it doesn't matter, so I'm going to forgive her temerity because she's always been a 'Toujours l'audace' kind o' broad and knowing her has been a touch of the right side.
The point to the Bell Shaped Curve, in my estimation, is to illustrate that nothing is certain, and those good things, way to the right, and bad things, way to the left, can happen to anyone and there will be some who will at their deaths be living the dream and some who will rush to meet death because of how poopy their lives are.
There is a lovely randomness to being a human being! There simply are no guarantees.
Also, Albert Einstein's saying about "there's only two ways to live your life.." That's another Hallmark card moment and has nothing to do with reality. It's an artificial sentiment. Artificial sentiments are those that are not a product of evolution, forged by the need to survive. And if he wants to argue the point with me, I'm happy to oblige.