The power of Faith

This story is about faith. And so, it’s also about Love.

Love and faith equals each other for one can not exist without the other.

Faith in yourself, faith in life, faith in your partner, faith in love itself. When you have faith in yourself you have love for yourself, when you have love for yourself you can love someone else with faith in this person.

But this story is not about faith for yourself or someone else but more about faith in life in general.

Lottery experts know that there’s a very low chance for your selected numbers to come out as the winning ones. One very special time in 2005 one hundred and ten people won for the same set of numbers in the same drawing.

Chances are that something like this should happen are very slim, almost impossible yet it did.

It was so out of the ordinary that they investigated it. And they found out that all of them that won that night, played the same set of numbers, that they had found in their fortune cookie.

The same week that they played these numbers they all came out.

Now this story makes me wonder how much faith had to do with it. If they played these numbers thinking they would come out given it came from a fortune telling cookie maybe there faith alone made it happen?

110 people believing in these numbers could and probably did have make it happen.

Now I wonder, if we gather a few hundred people and play the same set of numbers, with a little faith behind it, could it make it happen again?

I mean what are the odds that the numbers from that fortune cookie’s fortune comes out anyways?
Very slim I gather.

But maybe, just maybe, faith from 110 souls, beleiving enough that it would happen, really did make it happen.

Faith can move mountains and can also make your wishing numbers become winning numbers ♣

[Maguru]

Originally Posted by Kpastelle

This story is about faith. And so, it’s also about Love.

Love and faith equals each other for one can not exist without the other.

Faith in yourself, faith in life, faith in your partner, faith in love itself. When you have faith in yourself you have love for yourself, when you have love for yourself you can love someone else with faith in this person.

But this story is not about faith for yourself or someone else but more about faith in life in general.

Lottery experts know that there’s a very low chance for your selected numbers to come out as the winning ones. One very special time in 2005 one hundred and ten people won for the same set of numbers in the same drawing.

Chances are that something like this should happen are very slim, almost impossible yet it did.

It was so out of the ordinary that they investigated it. And they found out that all of them that won that night, played the same set of numbers, that they had found in their fortune cookie.

The same week that they played these numbers they all came out.

Now this story makes me wonder how much faith had to do with it. If they played these numbers thinking they would come out given it came from a fortune telling cookie maybe there faith alone made it happen?

110 people believing in these numbers could and probably did have make it happen.

Now I wonder, if we gather a few hundred people and play the same set of numbers, with a little faith behind it, could it make it happen again?

I mean what are the odds that the numbers from that fortune cookie’s fortune comes out anyways?
Very slim I gather.

But maybe, just maybe, faith from 110 souls, beleiving enough that it would happen, really did make it happen.

Faith can move mountains and can also make your wishing numbers become winning numbers ♣

I'm inclined to believe this 'energy' manipulation is happening all the time. But in general we are all over the place, thinking thousands of things a day, so we don't see it. There is no focus on one thing.

How do you view 'faith'?

How do I view faith...good question faith to me comes from belief...If I believe in you then I have faith in you

[Seawolf]

Faith is believing in something without knowing for sure but believing it anyway. It works best when it's for good. People have tried to use it for lotteries and such but it doesn't really work that way. Since it comes from the higher self it works when you use it for higher purposes. Mainly to help guide us in life towards a positive path. That's basically what all of spirituality and religion is about. It might work though, I don't know that it wouldn't.

[Maguru]

Originally Posted by Kpastelle

How do I view faith...good question faith to me comes from belief...If I believe in you then I have faith in you

What if you have faith in me and I fail? Is your faith mis-placed?

I definitely recognize and use the power of belief / faith, but I think this is different. A small probability is still a probability, when we discuss faith I think of miracles, which are actual violations of nature and, by definition, impossible. Just because a freak event occurs does not mean faith is related. In arguments like this I notice a common mistake - confirmation bias. I know many people who use fortune cookie numbers, lucky numbers, etc as lottery numbers and do NOT win. In fact, that's the usual case, suggesting that faith in the numbers has nothing to do with it, or faith is biased. Further, there's no reason to believe people had faith in this numbers rather than, say, simply randomly chose to use the numbers in their fortune cookies.

As for love and faith, I see no connection.

[Maguru]

Originally Posted by Seawolf

Faith is believing in something without knowing for sure but believing it anyway. It works best when it's for good. People have tried to use it for lotteries and such but it doesn't really work that way. Since it comes from the higher self it works when you use it for higher purposes. Mainly to help guide us in life towards a positive path. That's basically what all of spirituality and religion is about. It might work though, I don't know that it wouldn't.

I haven't thought of faith as a 'working' component. I've always viewed faith as a belief that 'something' either does work, or will work, or is just true. It's the 'object of that faith' that promotes faith. It doesn't stand alone, we have to have something to have faith in. I could be wrong though, it's just my experience.

you keep having faith in something, itll eventually just come true.

[Maguru]

Originally Posted by Adept

I definitely recognize and use the power of belief / faith, but I think this is different. A small probability is still a probability, when we discuss faith I think of miracles, which are actual violations of nature and, by definition, impossible. Just because a freak event occurs does not mean faith is related. In arguments like this I notice a common mistake - confirmation bias. I know many people who use fortune cookie numbers, lucky numbers, etc as lottery numbers and do NOT win. In fact, that's the usual case, suggesting that faith in the numbers has nothing to do with it, or faith is biased. Further, there's no reason to believe people had faith in this numbers rather than, say, simply randomly chose to use the numbers in their fortune cookies.

As for love and faith, I see no connection.

How do you use the power of belief/faith? If we are being realistic would faith make any difference?

Originally Posted by helloquepaso

you keep having faith in something, itll eventually just come true.

That's not true.