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Do you think everything happens for a reason?

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  • #32
    Vic_08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,170 ✭✭✭Vic_08


    ladyella wrote: »
    A few weeks ago I might have said yes but my friends lovely mam has just passed away, completely out of the blue, for no reason whatsoever. Its very hard to come up with a justification for it. So no, I don't think things happen for a reason

    So war, famine, genocide, incurable epidemics, natural disasters are all part of the great plan but your friend's ma died so it's all just too unfair?

    I have scant respect for people with stupid supernatural beliefs, I have none for those so narcissistic to ditch their beliefs at the first sign of personal tragedy.

    Why did God do this to ME, why, Why, WHY.


  • #33
    Fred Swanson
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  • #34
    livedadream
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    Melisandre121 wrote: »
    Or is this something we tell ourselves to make sense of things and make ourselves feel better? I like to think everything happens for a reason but I do wonder sometimes if life is just completely random.


    yes.








    but i think sometimes that reason is because people are assholes and do stupid ****.


  • #35
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    I think so. What will be will be.


  • #36
    livedadream
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    Fred Swanson wrote: »
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    not **** stirring but like seriously?

    did they teach you anything in school?

    eve ate and apple, the world went to hell in a handbasket...

    fukced the rest of us...

    #originalsin


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  • #37
    Fred Swanson
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  • #38
    livedadream
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    Fred Swanson wrote: »
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    but you knew the answer to the question.

    buying it or not doesnt matter, you asked a question...
    If God existed why does he allow famines and pestilence?

    because Eve was hungry ate and apple and invented original sin.

    i didnt say it was true or even real, i just answered the question you asked.


  • #39
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    A native American came to me in a dream one night and explained the whole mystery of life and the universe to me. He said,

    'It is what it is'


  • #40
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    livedadream wrote: »
    but you knew the answer to the question.

    buying it or not doesnt matter, you asked a question...



    because Eve was hungry ate and apple and invented original sin.

    i didnt say it was true or even real, i just answered the question you asked.
    Very good, if only uncle Gaybo had that answer for old twisty nose the outcome would have been so much different.


  • #41
    livedadream
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,455 ✭✭✭livedadream


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Very good, if only uncle Gaybo had that answer for old twisty nose the outcome would have been so much different.

    twisty nose?

    huh?


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  • #42
    Your Face
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    Yes and no.


  • #43
    Sam Kade
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    livedadream wrote: »
    twisty nose?

    huh?
    Two Gay men ;)


  • #44
    Elliott S
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Elliott S


    Melisandre121 wrote: »
    Or is this something we tell ourselves to make sense of things and make ourselves feel better? I like to think everything happens for a reason but I do wonder sometimes if life is just completely random.

    Nope.

    I'm not perfect, I've made tonnes of mistakes in life, but I did nothing to deserve advanced cancer. Nothing.

    I understand that it's comforting to people to try and think of reasons why shítty things happen, but I think that's a form of self-flagellation.

    I'm an adherent of chaos theory.


  • #45
    livedadream
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    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Two Gay men ;)

    im so confused?!?!?! will someone PM what this is about if its one of those potentailly slander type things...

    i am literally lost.


  • #46
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Do things happen to you for a reason? No.
    There are billions of people, and other things like weather affecting the situation. Some will affect you positively, some negatively, in your opinion.


  • #47
    [Deleted User]
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    No. I think events in the universe unfold pointlessly and blindly. And unpredictably (over the long run and in total detail) from the point of view of both machines and humans, both in theory and practise. And that they are not preordained by some higher entity with specific concern for events involving human beings. Whether events unfold deterministically or not (ie. Whether what ends up happening is the only thing that was possible to happen) is up for debate but I believe things are ultimately deterministic with indeterminism just being what is perceived when the act of extracting information from a system, to ascertain it's state, upsets the system and makes it unpredictable.

    And whether events involving you are perceived by you to be good or bad, it is "nothing personal" as far as the universe is "concerned" - good stuff and s'hit "just" happens. That events involving humans should be special from the universes' "perspective" is an absurd notion when you think about it - like at what stage in our ancestors history did that start to be the case, that stuff involving living beings on this one planet ever "happens for a reason". Was the outcome of a specific bacteriums life 2.53 billion years ago also preordained to unfold the way it did "for some reason"? What about events relating to an aborted fetuses life? Etc.


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