"Everything Happens For a Reason"

private joker · #1 06-15-2005, 01:29 AM

"Everything Happens For a Reason"

Why do people over the age of 12 still say this? I continually hear this nonsense from the mouths of naive and deluded adults, yet it never fails to mystify me.

If they mean that due to natural laws, all changes in matter are physical reactions to equal actions, then yes technically everything does happen for a "reason," e.g. the reason the ball hit the ground is I dropped it.

But that's not what they mean. They mean some cosmic reason to life events. I even hear atheists say this. It really has nothing to do with predestination or theological determinism. Most people actually seem to just think that sh[/i]it doesn't just happen.

Who are you people, and what are you talking about? Come forward and explain yourselves!

jaxUp · #2 06-15-2005, 01:33 AM

It allows them to find comfort when crappy things happen. If not everything happens for a reason, then there is no good that comes of some things, and that is upsetting to a lot of people.

x2ski · #3 06-15-2005, 01:40 AM

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Who are you people, and what are you talking about? Come forward and explain yourselves!

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They'll come forward as long as God wills them to come forward.

manpower · #4 06-15-2005, 01:41 AM

I'm pretty sure quite a few churches teach that 'everything happens for a reason' because it's all part of the 'master plan'. That said, I still here this from my very religious mom.

AngryCola · #5 06-15-2005, 01:50 AM

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I even hear atheists say this.

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That's not suprising.
Most atheists are extremely misguided.

Personally, I have no clue.
Maybe everything does happen for a reason.
Then again, it might not.

But I'm always very skeptical of anyone who says they know something like that for sure.
It shows they have been deluded into thinking they 'understand' reality.

toss · #6 06-15-2005, 01:53 AM

It allows them to cope with tradegies. Why do you care so much?

Dynasty · #7 06-15-2005, 01:55 AM

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It allows them to cope with tradegies. Why do you care so much?

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Some people just don't like it when others have different beliefs than they do. So, they feel the need to ridicule those beliefs.

Edge34 · #8 06-15-2005, 01:57 AM

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It allows them to cope with tradegies. Why do you care so much?

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Some people just don't like it when others have different beliefs than they do. So, they feel the need to ridicule those beliefs.

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And, it seems, a great deal of those people find their way to these forums... [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

private joker · #9 06-15-2005, 01:59 AM

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But I'm always very skeptical of anyone who says they know something like that for sure.
It shows they have been deluded into thinking they 'understand' reality.

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But you have to admit the burden of proof falls upon those who say "everything happens for a reason" rather than upon those who deny that everything happens for a reason, right?

If you assert Santa Claus exists and I say he doesn't, the burden of proof is on you. Same here. Someone who denies that everything happens for a reason is not claiming to understand reality without question -- but someone who says that everything does happen for a reason IS claiming that.

Am I understanding your post?

private joker · #10 06-15-2005, 02:02 AM

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Some people just don't like it when others have different beliefs than they do. So, they feel the need to ridicule those beliefs.

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This is not true of me, and it's arrogant of you to imply it.