Sport Game Excitement

1) The importance of play: As humanity has progressed, also commonly called progress, we have managed to make the most valuable luxury good more and more available to us. This luxury good is time. So after the duties are fulfilled, you have free time. And how do you prefer to spend your free time? With…

Gambling addiction

A chapter on gambling addiction is a must. The question that you want to ask me must be obvious, it must be imposing: “Are you addicted to gambling yourself? So far you have only thought so, but nevertheless: you do ask yourself, you simply have to ask yourself. But you may even ask me. In…

Game Philosophy

In my opinion, it is always worthwhile to look a little behind the motivation for playing, both in children and adults. This may well reveal the dangers that play entails, but it can also illuminate the sheer joy it can bring, on the one hand, but also serve as motivation itself. And why not? With…

Paradoxa

To make sure that you are sufficiently bored while reading, I also have to talk a little about paradoxes. The (im)point of it is that you have to strip away prejudices when you think about it. And prejudices include snap judgements. Overall, I find it generally helpful in life to approach many things without prejudice.…

More about subject Luck

14) More about luck… Here is another little anecdote about what can happen to you: I played Black Jack one evening in the casino. I don’t remember whether I won or lost. In any case, I had chips in my pocket. I walked past a roulette table. The ball was rolling. I was struck by…

Nothing is Real

Nothing is (real) Surely you could tell in the course of reading that I have a certain penchant for philosophising. And I don’t know how it is that you always reflexively think: philosophising is blah blah blah. Is the word even used synonymously (something like: “Now he’s starting to philosophise again.” Meaning: switch off)? I’m…

Murphy Law

Another chapter that serves to introduce a world view based on thinking in probabilities. Everyone surely has a certain idea of the “Murphy’s law” that is so often quoted. Here we look a little more closely at where this actually comes from. The assertion stands that the view expressed here so far still differs from…

My chaos theory

1) First encounter When I hear the word chaos theory, I immediately think of this sentence here: “…the flap of a butterfly’s wings can change the world…”. So basically it contains the statement that the smallest possible cause can have a maximum effect. And in my opinion, there is also a lot of truth in…

Lucky Birds

Lucky (mushrooms) and unlucky (birds) 1) Philosophy of a point A much quoted piece of wisdom goes like this: luck and bad luck balance each other out. This is a sentence worth thinking about. Even more than that, my reflections have unearthed a result: I doubt this wisdom. To put it bluntly, it is even…

Philosophy of Luck

Some philosophical thoughts on the subject of Luck “I forbid myself any further form of harassment.” Had you said that or just thought it? In any case, I simply cannot resist my fourth favourite pastime, philosophising. It comes upon me that way, unbidden. Of course, it would not be necessary to put all this down…