stolen from another blog...

Well, this is from one of my friends (Dez) friends' blog (Lorne). I just thought it was good and wanted to post it. Oh let the good time roll! (pardon the pun)

"Dice and Chance

You're sitting in a room with a six-sided dice in your hand. Four sides are red and two green. You can sit forever and analyze the possible outcomes and chances of this die: 4/6 chance that it is red...2/6 chance that it's green...twice the chance of being red than green...if you roll it three times, this or that may happen.

You can sit forever analyzing this die...the possible commentary is unbounded. The fact remains, however, that this die is either rolled, or it begs rolling, and then everything changes.

The dice will bounce along, bouncing off the surface and anything it comes into contact with, involved in its own odd dance, and then come to a stop resting with one side up.

Now, everything said before doesn't matter. The dice has rolled an outcome. No matter of chance can change this outcome. Whether the outcome had a 1 in a million chance or a 1 in two chance before is irrelevant...it is what it is.

Chance is replaced by certainty. All left is seeing what side is up."

Isn't that beautifully thought-provoking?