This is the last post I’ll make about the lottery for a few weeks, I promise :-P.
My old intention was to simply win the lottery. I told myself constantly that, “I am happy and grateful now that I’ve won the lottery.” I visualized. I got my emotions going. I obsessed my mind with it. All that stuff. And I won.
And it’s made me realize that I really don’t want to just “win the lottery”. Sure, I’ve won a bunch of scratch off tickets, but that’s the end of the road. What I really want now is to win the jackpot.
I’ve changed my intention to, “I am happy and grateful now that I’ve won the entire MegaMillions Jackpot.” This simple change has made me uninterested in playing scratch off tickets. Which is the correct emotional response, according to my intention.
I have a rule that I won’t play MegaMillions unless the jackpot is $45 million or more. I made this rule a few months back. The reason being: if I win the jackpot, it’s going to really suck if I win the $12 million one, when on average the MegaMillions will pay out between $50 and $100 million. So the rule was created not to play unless it’s $45 million or more. Maybe you think I’m just being greedy now :-P. But hey - I think it’s a smart choice. Brand me any adjective you wish.
When someone wins the jackpot, it goes back down to $12 million, and slowly climbs it’s way up. It takes about 2-2.5 weeks to reach the $45 million mark again. So during this time period, I don’t play.
Now the kicker: someone won $44 million. I was pissed :-P. I had waited patiently for 2.5 weeks to play again, waiting for it to get $45 mil or higher. Someone wins right below the cut off point for me. Back to ground zero. Now I have to wait another 2.5 weeks.
Which is the reason why I won’t be posting about the lottery for a little while. I’m not doing the scratch off anymore, and I’m not playing MegaMillions until it gets to $45 mil or higher. Perhaps this will force me to talk about some new topics, and give the whole lottery thing a rest for at least a little while :-P.
June 3rd, 2007 at 1:50 pm
More importantly what would you do with the money? A pool of Jello maybe???
June 3rd, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Aw, I love reading about your latest victories over conventional physics and chance
June 3rd, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Well all I could say on this article is good luck and donate some money if you win! :).
And definally go for the pool of Jello ;).
- hotfoot982
June 3rd, 2007 at 3:53 pm
12 million not enough for ya?
June 3rd, 2007 at 9:25 pm
when you win i hope you put a nice portion of that to good use
June 3rd, 2007 at 9:28 pm
I hope you put all of it to good use.
June 3rd, 2007 at 9:53 pm
You should make a post about how the subconscious helps you on a daily basis and stuff.
June 3rd, 2007 at 11:09 pm
You should send us some money.
June 4th, 2007 at 1:15 am
I agree with bobelly, I’ve seen the video of you winning scratch tickets, and truthfully, I’m impressed. if I may speak for us all and say it might be interesting to hear some of your average daily stories of how being so connected to your subc helps you daily. I know we all have our own. maybe you could share some of yours.
June 4th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Hehe, perhaps the person bought it before your limit, so you have more chance next time(people get discouraged after losing, and such)
June 5th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
personally, i think $12 million would be enough for anyone to be happy for the rest of their lives, but thats just me.
anyway, good luck with that $45 mil. and if you do win i really hope you put it to good use.
on a totally unrelated note: i’m turning 18 tomorrow, a big year. it sure would be great if i knew a millionaire that could buy me some great birthday present(s). hell, it wouldn’t even bother me if it was 2.5 weeks late or so
(j/k)
June 6th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Well, keep in mind that a $12 million jackpot would come out to about $3.8 million after taxes. Which is a good chunk of change, but I could do a lot more with $12 million raw (which would require a jackpot prize of about $40-something million). That’s my reasoning.
June 6th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Well, if randomness existed, it would be very coincidental for my dad’s cancer to be diagnosed only because of a shot that was administered incorrectly… Strange things happen? Yah right!
On a further note, I believe that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics says it all. But I also agree with Einstein: “Ich glaub’ nicht das der Alte wurfelt” (I don’t believe that god plays dice).
One possible way to explain the notion of randomness is the theory that once an observer looks, the wavefunction of the electron collapses and it is “converted” to a state where it exists as a particle. Now, who caused that change/transformation? The observer! But what exactly classifies as an “observer” in physics? I need a clear answer to this question before I can actually start making theories about randomness, because otherwise I’m just shooting in the blue with my theories. My current belief is, that randomness only exists as long as you’re not looking. Once you’ve observed, gathered information, and processed it, the random system is destroyed, because you as “observer” have injected your thoughts, your energy, etc. (to sum it up: your consciousness) into that system. What we’re looking at here is a sort of chaos theory: even the smallest change in perception can cause huge differences, because you have inadvertently altered the system. It is even possible for radioactivity to appear spontaneously, because the interaction with the system might cause a change in particle stability. This might be explainable by the nucleus disintegrating because one set of virtual pairs have been destroyed, because the observer didn’t “imagine” or perceive the second set (should result in mostly gamma and beta radiation). Maybe it is even possible to create other effects, simply by having a sort of “information filter” that ignores all the unwanted perceptions and lets through the ones desired. =O
The EPR paradox presents even more puzzling questions and answers some thoughts on this information based theory.
I’m really no expert on physics, just my 2 cents (most of my info gathered from wikipedia :p).
June 6th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
ClearVision:
I am by NO means a qualified person, so feel free to ignore me
… I believe (have not researched, experimented, etc) that an observer is anything that records the outcome, whether it is your own eyes or a camera taping the experiment or something similar. Maybe it only counts as an “observer” to physics if someone sees the outcome (through said camera or otherwise)… As I said before I am no qualified person.
All I have is my opinions on the subject, and they aren’t much at this stage, since I haven’t researched quantum physics all that much.
-Derg