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Good evening friends do you believe everything happen for a reason the whole day I have been in the mood to go out and have fun. I called my lady friend we planned to paint platinum town (Rustenburg) red tonight. Around 18:00 she said I must come fetch her cool as I get into the car she sent me a text that her aunty refuse to look after the baby. I'm disappointed I call my other friend he tell me he is not around he will call me when he come back.

I'm disappointed Oh well I crawl back into the house now the is this voice at the back of my mind that everything happen for a reason. Maybe something bad was going to happen to me tonight and I should not be upset. Do you guys everything happen for a reason.
 
I think punctuation happens for a reason.
 
Everything happens for a reason.

That the reason might be so you can avoid a potential future calamity? Well, that would be magic, so no.
 
Everything happens for a deterministic reason.
For a more spiritualistic or karma one? That is just your confirmation bias working..


That being said, you can still be happy or unhappy that something happened. Knowing that there wasn't some mysterious reason for why something happened doesn't take away the joy or sadness that that something impacted on your life.
 
Everything does happen for a reason.

That is how cause and effect works.
Lady could not get a baby sitter, you did not go out. Clear cause and effect in action
 
Patrick_Hockstetter said:
If you say everything happens for a reason then the step to Providence is close by, yes?
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No, not at all. In actual fact, I see it as quite the opposite - If we posit a caring and protective god, then we are forced to tangle ourselves up in all sort of outlandish knots trying to explain away suffering, etc). Which is a debate for another time, and I am well aware of all the arguments in any event.

But back to everything having a reason? In itself, this seems obvious and doesn't mean much, surely? I suppose it depends how you define it. Does everything have a cause? I reckon so. Do we know what that cause is? We do, when it comes to certain things. I suspect it's when we don't know and start filling in those gaps with flights of fancy that my assumption could be seen as supporting the notion of some sort of deity.
 
Ramodiana said:
Good evening friends do you believe everything happen for a reason the whole day I have been in the mood to go out and have fun. I called my lady friend we planned to paint platinum town (Rustenburg) red tonight. Around 18:00 she said I must come fetch her cool as I get into the car she sent me a text that her aunty refuse to look after the baby. I'm disappointed I call my other friend he tell me he is not around he will call me when he come back.

I'm disappointed Oh well I crawl back into the house now the is this voice at the back of my mind that everything happen for a reason. Maybe something bad was going to happen to me tonight and I should not be upset. Do you guys everything happen for a reason.
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Your lady friend already had a date with your other friend.
 
How does this topic fall into health wealth leisure and relationships because it doesn't seem to be anything other than an off topic type rant which could easily be a post from a banned clone like Ekstasis but without punctuation and grammar in your post I am just not not sure anymore
 
Define reason :p

As merely a pointer to cause/effect, sure "reasons" happen all the time. As a measure of assumed intent in an as yet undiscovered realm of consciousness that exists beyond the scope of life, the only scope where we've ever observed consciousness to exist in the first place but we magically assume can be transcended somehow, that supposedly controls the universe - Well this is a tad more difficult for me to believe :p Just a tad... Especially since, well, in all likelihood consciousness itself is merely cause/effect and in some sense cannot be distinguished from any other chemical/electrical occurrence in nature thus in essence having no true distinction from non-living matter. In other words, the reason you consciously manipulate or decide on something is merely a reaction or a cause to a plethora of other reasons, thus a reason itself in the same manner by which an eroded rock suddenly dislodges and rolls down a hill and causes chaos where it lands. That which you call consciousness therefore does not somehow grant life some sort of transcendence from non-living matter in my view.

So to wonder about an alternative reality to the one that happened, and then think the reality that did occur was somehow chosen, is in itself merely an effect that I cannot distinguish from natural occurrence. There was likely no transcending conscious power behind that outcome. Particularly as consciousness itself is often regarded as somehow special and is therefore misapplied and mis-represented - so the common logic on this concept is possibly just a mess. What I can say is wondering about this shyte is therefore likely a waste of time unless something can be learned :p So was typing this post, but this thread caused me to want to do it. :p

And this post may have caused someone to think why this isn't in the PD section all of a sardine. :D
 
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No, **** just happens, nothing happens for a reason and if you took one second to see how vast the universe and everything in it is, it is so highly unlikely that anyone of us is so important that things would happen for a reason and revolve around us and lign up perfectly in order for us to be here for a split second longer than we have to.

But it makes us feel a little special to believe that things happen for a reason or that everything is being controlled by higher powers or forces. That is why we like to believe in conspiracy theories, it puts our minds at ease to think that **** doesn't just happen randomly, but that something or some people out there are in control, when in fact our little planet is... never mind, you get the idea ;)
 
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