" Lucky" Imran vs " Noetic" Dan

Hello people,

Over the past few days I have had the chance of doing most things I love to do - including watching movies and reading novels. So, these two pursuits allowed me to watch the latest Imran Khan starrer "Luck" and finish the Dan Brown thriller " The Lost Symbol" in 1.5 days flat.

But, the thing is when run-of-the-mill Bollywood meets adult fiction best sellers, crazy ideas are born ( at least in my brain they are :-) )

So let me propose a thought ( with all the flourish of a marriage toast ) -

" Investment in human luck can be a very profitable business if the subjects can properly focus their thoughts-in short, God can be made to play loaded dice"

"Luck" despite having a very average script, accompanied by the usual Bollywood hype-hoopla and impossible sequences, is built around a very interesting concept- Investment in Human luck as the substitute/ future for the stock market, shares, gold and commodities. Some would say that the stock market is centered around luck , but if u have sat through any IIM portfolio management/ securities analysis classes....believe me...ur thoughts will change radically.

Dan Brown has written of Noetic sciences.....an esoteric branch of science that even has an institute (IONS) in California. For the uninitiated ( or those who are not DB fans)...this deals with human mental capacities and has come up with several startling discoveries including the fact that thought has physical mass and if properly focussed can affect and change other physical mass. The good news for non believers of esoteric terminology/sciences (NBET/S :-) ) is that the institute is categorized as a questionable institute for practicing health related sciences.

But suppose for a moment..that their discoveries are true ( or actually are...to be politically correct) ...then this in combination with Luck's concept gives rise to a very interesting idea.....if u could change luck by concentrating ur thoughts then u can become rich by overcoming the laws of probability and investing in ur own/ someone else's luck. This is how the idea can play out....

U have a game of dice where the stakes are high and as u push the stakes up...ur thoughts get concentrated. Being a true practitioner of the noetic sciences, u will ur thoughts to focus on the dice on the table. But u cannot control the way in which these " heavy ideas" :-) interact with the outside world. So, this is a two edged sword....as the stakes go higher...ur thoughts become concentrated...fueled by ur desire to win....and heavier thoughts upon interaction can potentially tip the dice either way. Hence u can create loaded dice of ur own ( or if the noeticists are to be believed, u always do), thereby negating the laws of probability and potentially creating a matrix where this law does not hold and u win everything.....but being unable to control the way these powerful thoughts/ emotions interact with the dice...the probability returns though in a different form.

So people, one can invest in people's luck...as luck can change if u are a noeticist...and it can change at ur will...but which way your luck will change you do not know.....so this leads us to the age old adage- " The only thing certain about luck is that it will change" ....so long Dr. Einstein