Are dice rolls and card falls random or divinely controlled

[paiute]

I rolled a pair of dice and they came up 666, so I am getting a kick out of this story.

 

[Nonpareil]

I rolled a pair of dice and they came up 666, so I am getting a kick out of this story.

You rolled two dice and got three numbers? Wow. You're good.

 

[Towlie]

Do you believe in Free Will?

Are you asking as if I could choose my own answer, or are you just wondering what God will make me say?

 

[Gate2501]

Are you asking as if I could choose my own answer, or are you just wondering what God will make me say?

He/she is probably asking if you are a proponent of libertarian free will.

 

[Beerina]

I used to argue with my D&D buddies that die rolls only appear random to us because we lack the ability to calculate all of the variables included. It is not truly random, just unpredictable.

It always ended up with us all in a 3 hour argument about the definition of random!

While true quantum randomness would percolate up to the macroscopic all the time, thanks to the butterfly effect, for any given dice roll, it would not make a difference. That's just classical ignorance, which is to say, limited knowledge of initial conditions. I haven't run the numbers, but I doubt any quantum events could possibly affect any particular dice roll in the space of the few seconds it takes to do.

The butterfly effect takes time -- time for the "billiard balls" of the universe, atoms, to bounce around, angles deviate, and eventually the weather itself is different, people are copulating at different times, different sperm are fertilizing different eggs, and poof, the entire population of the planet is different from what it otherwise would be.

Of course, you could have a ridiculously unlikely event, like half the protons in the die (or table where it hits, or your muscle) suddenly degenerate, changing the composition, weight balance, mass, and so on, enough to change the outcome (to say nothing of the die suddenly turning into a doll-sized microwave oven).

 

[Shalamar]

If god controls dice rolls, then he REALLY hates my Tau Army!

 

[paiute]

That's nothing

You rolled two dice and got three numbers? Wow. You're good.

One night I was playing poker with Tarot cards.

 

[Ladewig]

One night I was playing poker with Tarot cards.

For those that don't recognize the joke: "Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.” ~Stephen Wright.

 

[sadhatter]

Am i the only one who thinks that the article seems to insinuate god isn't a fan of his time being wasted by some d and d players? Maybe its because i just got up but that is making me giggle a bit. I can see it right now god cracking his knuckles " well i am finally going to get all that crap in the middle east settled down and.......Oh for f*** sakes Ryan, i don't give a s*** about how much damage your mace does!"

But that would explain some of the wierd crap i have seen, like a d4 landing on its tip, a ( i honestly forget if it was a D6 or a D8) exploding on its first roll, or the d4 i got that rolled well over 30 1's before i microwaved it and threw it out a window.