do you think things happen for a reason?

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
rh71

rh71

No Lifer
Aug 28, 2001
52,844
1,049
126
that's like asking if we believe in religion. Nice cover-up!

Anyway, my answer would have to be NO. Other than how we got here, I don't think there are "miracles" or "destiny". Getting back to "how we got here" being different - chicken or the egg...
 
Red Dawn

Red Dawn

Elite Member
Jun 4, 2001
57,529
3
0
Originally posted by: moshquerade
or do people just say that to justify happenings?
Click to expand...
Depends on what you mean. If you mean because of destiny then I say no but if you mean because of an action then obviously yes.

 
moshquerade

moshquerade

No Lifer
Nov 1, 2001
61,504
12
56
Originally posted by: rh71
that's like asking if we believe in religion. Nice cover-up!

Anyway, my answer would have to be NO. Other than how we got here, I don't think there are "miracles" or "destiny".
Click to expand...
hmmm, no.... i wouldn't liken it to believing in God/religion.

i'm am asking it like you meet someone by chance and later that person becomes your best friend. well, you chance met that person for a reason. so when you look at something like that do you see things in your life happening and then later see that it happened for a reason.

 
JujuFish

JujuFish

Lifer
Feb 3, 2005
11,420
1,046
136
Originally posted by: rh71
that's like asking if we believe in religion. Nice cover-up!

Anyway, my answer would have to be NO. Other than how we got here, I don't think there are "miracles" or "destiny". Getting back to "how we got here" being different - chicken or the egg...
Click to expand...

You don't have to be religious to believe things happen for a reason, and vice versa. I don't think everything happens for a reason, but I am religious.
 
M

MobiusPizza

Platinum Member
Apr 23, 2004
2,001
0
0
We Chinese have a saying "Our action makes things happen"
It's true whether you believe in religion or not

Miracles do sometime happen, but of course not often. If you want something to happen, you need to do it yourself and put effort in it.

Meeting someone by chance has no reason in it; But you deliberatly finding someone to be your friend is, and is affected by your action
 
A

ahurtt

Diamond Member
Feb 1, 2001
4,283
0
0
Yes, everything happens for a reason. Sometimes the reason is simply that you were born. But everything that happens occurs as a result of something else that happened. Every single thing that happens sets in motion some chain of events no matter how significant or seemingly insignificant those events. The only question is, what started it all? What was the first thing that EVER happened (like the big bang or something) and why? Everything that happened or will happen after that will be for some reason that is the consequence or effect of something else that happened or happens. Even your mere existence causes things to happen and is a happening in and of itself.
 
DannyBoy

DannyBoy

Diamond Member
Nov 27, 2002
8,820
2
81
www.danj.me
Originally posted by: AnnihilatorX
We Chinese have a saying "Our action makes things happen"
It's true whether you believe in religion or not

Miracles do sometime happen, but of course not often. If you want something to happen, you need to do it yourself and put effort in it.

Meeting someone by chance has no reason in it; But you deliberatly finding someone to be your friend is, and is affected by your action
Click to expand...

What do you classify a miracle to be?
 
E

Eli

Super Moderator | Elite Member
Oct 9, 1999
50,419
8
81
Of course.

But probably not, in the context of this thread.
 
M

Mucho

Guest
Oct 20, 2001
8,231
2
0
To me it's just a rationalization that make us feel better about things we cannot control.
 
H

Hammer

Lifer
Oct 19, 2001
13,217
1
81
nope. people just say that to make themselves feel better about bad things that befall them.
 
G

gigapet

Lifer
Aug 9, 2001
10,005
0
76
things deffinitely happen for a reason its a matter of stopping to take the time to pull out the meaning. syncronicity.
 
sixone

sixone

Lifer
May 3, 2004
25,030
5
61
Saying 'things happen for a reason' is a way of making sense of something that might be difficult to accept. When something happens to you, and you recognize that it has changed you in some way, you give that event meaning in your life. Was that change the reason for the event? We could argue that all day, but we each have to decide that for ourselves.

 
Mrvile

Mrvile

Lifer
Oct 16, 2004
14,066
1
0
I'm actually a fatalist, I believe that things are all predestined to happen, and everything that will happen to you will happen to you. However, I don't believe that your fate can be told, foreseen, or in any way brought to anyone's knowledge, so I just live my life how I want to live it.

Pick a number.

Did you really pick it yourself? Or were you already destined to pick it? Who cares?
 
n7

n7

Elite Member
Jan 4, 2004
21,281
4
81
I'm not really sure if things happen for a reason...there are too many f*cked up things i life that i cannot see a reason for.
 
V

vegetation

Diamond Member
Feb 21, 2001
4,270
2
0
Everything that can happen, does happen in an alternative universe. We, in our universe, are merely living out one road of many infinite possibilities.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom