Disjointed thoughts of a roving mind

Dieting &Gambling/ Luck & Divine Intervention

I have been called a provocative thinker by a friend but, I must admit, only after I have consumed a few sips of my favorite merlot. Otherwise, I tend to be on the quiet side of things preferring to keep my thoughts to myself especially in the unintended company of boors, fools, and idiots.

I have no idea why, but I do most of my non-provocative thinking while I'm shaving my rather sparse facial stubble in the morning. Notice that I did not say deep thinking. For that you have to go to Nietzsche.

I never thought that I would mull about dieting and gambling at the same time( talk about evocative), but this morning, hours after I lost a hefty amount ($900.00,... unhefty in Sir Charles Barkley's world) at the local casino, I realized that dieting and gambling offer contrasting emotional responses in humans. Dieting is often described as painful by most, but the occasional resulting loss of the fatty deposits in the shank could be soporific; on the other hand, gambling obviously is pleasurable but the perpetual resulting loss of the money deposits in the bank could be sulfuric. I often hear that it is harder to lose weight dieting, than to gain back the pounds; it is easier to lose the pounds ( in Sir James Bond's currency at least) gambling than to gain it back.

It's not that I dont have any provocative ideas even if I am not drinking. Several days ago I posted on the Forum section of HubPages a question : "Is it luck or is it divine intervention?" In the post I wrote: The assignation that you are one lucky (or unlucky) bastard comes from the assailable notion that you, to the extent that other operative forces allow you no time and space for action or inaction, do not have complete control over your life. In turn, this notion proceeds from the idea that Albert Einstein himself once propounded when he said that God does not play dice with the universe. I will agree with what he is proposing if he applies it solely to the function of the known and (yet) unknown physical forces that rule the wider universe. I believe that one can not really apply this "Divine Intervention Theory" even in its strictest sense to the human mind. Free will as it exist purposely in the realm of human interaction could only be truly free, if the human brain that assuage its manifestation is not subjected to structural and functional anomalies that could wreak havoc on how it finally expresses free will.

As the ensuing heated discussion proved, it was provocative enough to have stimulated a lot of folks to join in offering their unique and equally provocative thoughts.