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TheChaser
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I believe that all events are governed by an unseen guiding hand, the hand of God. I believe this because of my faith.
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Many things happen for a reason. I touch a hot stove, my nerves fire, I feel pain, I scream. Cause and effect. I do not believe, however, that there is any divine or pre-determined reason for any seemingly random action. I don't believe that I got rejected from my first choice college because some higher power wanted it so; I believe I got rejected because my application didn't stand out enough. I don't believe that I was born into such a wonderful family for any reason besides luck. I believe that not only is there no reason for anything happening, but there's no purpose to life either. It may be hard to imagine my viewpoint, but I don't see why there needs to be such reasons.
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I think everything has a cause, and an effect, yeah. I don't think things happen because an outside, invisible, supernatural force makes them happen though. For example - Tsunamis happen because of earthquakes, or volcanoes, or meteorite strikes - not because a wrathful god has decided to punish some Solomon islanders for being naughty. OR A woman meets a lovely man a year after leaving her abusive husband because she's left the old guy, recovered to a certain degree from the trauma, was lucky enought to meet the nice feller and decided to make a go of it - not because an invisible force of fate or karma manipulates events...
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No. Because the result is always the same, we live and in the end we ALL die.
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No, things happen for many, many reasons.
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Absolutley, if there was no reason for why things happened the world would be in chaos.
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Yes, I think things happen for many reasons. What happens is a culmination of previous decisions and events.
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I believe it does because I can't wrap my brain around things happening helter-skelter. That would be madness.
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Decided upon by an external force? No. We give reason to otherwise completely random happenings so we can glean some meaning from it and make some 'sense' from the non-sense. We give ourselves a feeling of safety & sense of self that we can and do exert some control over things that are in reality - beyond our power to control.
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i really do. ..thats is my favorite quote ever.. "everything happens for a reason"
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yes I think they do. Some thing we never know the reason for or don't look for a reason so never find it.
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personally i believe we have limited control over our own destiny, but even limited control is still control. example: if you play with fire you are bound to get burned so if you dont want to get burned dont play with fire. example 2: if you drink and drive you are bound to crash so if you dont want to crash dont drink and drive
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