In a chaotic interconnected system, most things are reactions to other things happening. Everything happens for a reason

Feb 23, 2017
6:57:03am

Tim Freddie Cougar, Jr.

but most things don't have a purpose for happening -- they're just reactions.

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Author

Time

"Everything happens for a reason" Does it?

Borg

2/23/17 6:23am

I don't believe it. And I doubt that guy in the video a few threads down

BigEasyCougar

2/23/17 6:29am

Some things happen for a reason. Some don't.

IndependentGeorge

2/23/17 6:33am

Sure, but the reason is usually mundane

DapperDan

2/23/17 6:40am

No, there is such as thing as coincidence, but it's not as common as it may seem

CopperLix

2/23/17 6:44am

Everything can be used over time to provide the growth & experience necessary to

Six Foot Seven

2/23/17 6:49am

Most everything happens for a reason, but not a divine reason.

Blue Print

2/23/17 6:50am

Agreed. There is cause and effect for every decision we make.

LV Mike

2/23/17 8:51am

In a chaotic interconnected system, most things are reactions to other things happening. Everything happens for a reason

Tim

2/23/17 6:57am

It can be a very self centered erroneous view. God didn't kill someone's friend

RdF3

2/23/17 7:22am

I don't think it does, but I think that everything that happens can have meaning

WhiteKnight

2/23/17 7:25am

It's annoying.

AeroCoug

2/23/17 8:04am

False, but out of anything that happens you can learn something or grow from it.

ByuMba90

2/23/17 8:17am

For example...a man in his prime or child gets cancer and dies...

Borg

2/23/17 8:22am

I don't think this is always "for a reason" as if it was intended by Deity

WhiteKnight

2/23/17 8:27am

I don't think God plays with us like pieces to a game like that

Frank Castiglione

2/23/17 8:46am

It's possible that "everything" does happen. And it's supposed to...

ClackamasCoug

2/23/17 8:48am

Interesting

WhiteKnight

2/23/17 8:53am

I've thought of this before...kinda like Groundhog Day..in which you experience

Borg

2/23/17 9:01am

It explains so many things that we ponder about. Like polygamy...

ClackamasCoug

2/23/17 9:09am

What about the many men your wife is married to?

coolblue

2/23/17 11:11am

Exactly... what about it. Is it a one way street or a two way street?

ClackamasCoug

2/23/17 12:35pm

I love Groundhog Day. One of my all time favorite movies.

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