LUCKISM® SITE OUTLINE
Headline: WELCOME TO LUCKISM®
( Luck explains everything – including the fact that not everything can be explained)
Tagline: A New Way of Life Draws On Ancient Wisdom, Deep Science and Common Sense
Illustration: Blake modified (God throws dice). (With full explanation of modification)
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Ancient Wisdom: Many ancient philosophies posit an unknowable force behind all reality such as the Dao behind Yin and Yang. [Read more]
Deep Science: Uncertainty in Physics, Incompleteness in Mathematics, Randomness in Biology all support the centrality of luck [Read more]
Common Sense: The personal experience of luck in life is a generally accepted fact. [Read more]
LOGO – with scroll-over discussion of subject & explanation of its meaning and link to other logo possibilities.
The Basics – Reverence for the natural luck involved in all existence is the key to a good life. (scroll-over explanation of “natural luck”)
Definition of “natural luck”
A source of energy
A limit on control
A standard of harmony
Therefore: A guiding principle for all human conduct.
The Proofs – Showing that natural luck is involved in everything and is something to be revered.
Traditional – mysterious, omnipresent and omnipotent gods, unknowable entities and forces
Scientific – unknowables in all basic fields. Hawking quote.
Personal + Lem – common knowledge
Existential/Ritual – confirmation and reinforcement of the proofs
Sublimated Gambling explained
Aleatory Analysis explained
Aleatory Guidance explained
The Practices/Applications – Examples of how reverence for natural luck guides human conduct.
In daily life – How the basic principal applies to human life. Nourishment, relationships, birth, death and everything in between, transactions, science (in the broadest sense of attempts to know and control the universe), entertainment
Directness vs. indirectness, natural vs. unnatural, real vs. virtual/synthetic
Communal – meetings as equivalents of “church.”
The Organization – How to keep it going without losing the way. (The most challenging part of the design)
Trademark
Following
Joining
Financing
Future
The Designer – The limits of its role and control.
Why “it?”
Its ordinariness and modesty.
Avoidance of deification or other form of sanctification.
Suppression of natural ego.
FAQ
Archive – Young’s writings since 2012 + luck-related designs and design methods (Wishpaper, Magnetic I-Ching)
Blog – (w/ moderated comments?)
Honorary Luckists – Aristotle etc.
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