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Everything Happens For A Reason
#18831031 - 09/12/13 02:16 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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If that's true, then what's the reason that everything happens for a reason?
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Re: Everything Happens For A Reason [Re: Diploid]
#18831054 - 09/12/13 02:27 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Is the answer to make us wonder?
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Re: Everything Happens For A Reason [Re: Diploid]
#18831078 - 09/12/13 02:51 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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It's a way of looking at things you can't change. I mean it happened so there isn't much of a point in considering it could have been any other way.
Amirite?
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Re: Everything Happens For A Reason [Re: Diploid]
#18831971 - 09/12/13 10:46 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I think the reason that everything happens for a reason is pretty simple: it's an axiom of the universe's structure.
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Re: Everything Happens For A Reason [Re: Penelope_Tree] 4
#18832005 - 09/12/13 10:57 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Everything does happen for a reason, and that reason is there was a series of actions that you took that led you to that exact moment where something happened to you.
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Re: Everything Happens For A Reason [Re: Penelope_Tree]
#18834513 - 09/12/13 09:38 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I think the reason that everything happens for a reason is pretty simple: it's an axiom of the universe's structure.
Oh, quite simple, until you try to make any specific claims about such laws of nature
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Re: Everything Happens For A Reason [Re: Diploid]
#18838967 - 09/13/13 09:32 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Diploid said: If that's true, then what's the reason that everything happens for a reason? 
If what's true?
I think most things happen because of chance, although people seem capable of throwing some anthropomorphism into the mix.
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Re: Everything Happens For A Reason [Re: LunarEclipse]
#18839045 - 09/13/13 09:49 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I think most things happen because of chance, although people seem capable of throwing some anthropomorphism into the mix
It's almost like there's a craps dealer up there somewhere.
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Re: Everything Happens For A Reason [Re: Rahz]
#18839857 - 09/14/13 02:12 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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When you get yourself and your mind right, opportunities start to present themselves. The universe has some kind of "fair play" built into it. It's very much a living, divine universe.
Please don't post any pictures of African children being eaten by vultures. I still have no explanation.
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Re: Everything Happens For A Reason [Re: Diploid]
#18840053 - 09/14/13 04:10 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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The reasons are not only in the past.
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Re: Everything Happens For A Reason [Re: circastes]
#18840266 - 09/14/13 07:42 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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The universe has some kind of "fair play" built into it. It's very much a living, divine universe.
Tell us all about how that works!
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Re: Everything Happens For A Reason [Re: Rahz]
#18842044 - 09/14/13 06:54 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Rahz said:
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I think most things happen because of chance, although people seem capable of throwing some anthropomorphism into the mix
It's almost like there's a craps dealer up there somewhere. 
7 out! New shooter!
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Re: Everything Happens For A Reason [Re: Rahz]
#18842132 - 09/14/13 07:19 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Rahz said:
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The universe has some kind of "fair play" built into it. It's very much a living, divine universe.
Tell us all about how that works!
Eh I know it sounds ridiculous but the universe isn't at all what science thinks it is. At all.
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Re: Everything Happens For A Reason [Re: circastes]
#18842166 - 09/14/13 07:29 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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circastes said:
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Rahz said:
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The universe has some kind of "fair play" built into it. It's very much a living, divine universe.
Tell us all about how that works!
Eh I know it sounds ridiculous but the universe isn't at all what science thinks it is. At all.
7 out! New shooter!
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Re: Everything Happens For A Reason [Re: circastes]
#18842187 - 09/14/13 07:38 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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circastes said: When you get yourself and your mind right, opportunities start to present themselves. The universe has some kind of "fair play" built into it. It's very much a living, divine universe.
Please don't post any pictures of African children being eaten by vultures. I still have no explanation.
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Re: Everything Happens For A Reason [Re: Diploid]
#18842193 - 09/14/13 07:40 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Diploid said: If that's true, then what's the reason that everything happens for a reason? 
Do you count "because it just does" as a reason?
If so, then everything happens for the same reason.
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Re: Everything Happens For A Reason [Re: circastes]
#18842616 - 09/14/13 09:44 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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circastes said:
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Rahz said:
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The universe has some kind of "fair play" built into it. It's very much a living, divine universe.
Tell us all about how that works!
Eh I know it sounds ridiculous but the universe isn't at all what science thinks it is. At all.
Science doesn't know what the 'universe' is. Anyway, I'm a fan of the karma concept. What comes around tends to go around but I'm not sure that correlates with fairness except that fairness and unfairness are built into the karmic cycle.
Didn't someone say "Life's not fair"?
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Re: Everything Happens For A Reason [Re: Rahz]
#18842771 - 09/14/13 10:50 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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There is some kind of fair play built in. If you get everything right, people will start showing up in your life that will be just the people you were looking for. Things like that.
I also think there is some objective good coursing through all of us. We are divine beings, we are essentially good. This universe is no mistake and it's not all for nothing. If we get ourselves 'right', goodness will pour into the world.
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Re: Everything Happens For A Reason [Re: circastes]
#18842785 - 09/14/13 10:54 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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It appears to be life itself is a kind of intellectual problem or EVERYTHING is some kind of challenge to your brain power. If you start solving everything you don't like about life, instead of taking easier, 'dumber' routes, you will reap benefits. This seems to be how it works.
That's the main thing to understand, it's all a construct reactive to your thoughts, if your thoughts start to figure out what it is, it begins to do unexpected things, it seems to attempt to avoid you solving it entirely.
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Re: Everything Happens For A Reason [Re: circastes]
#18842926 - 09/14/13 11:43 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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circastes said: There is some kind of fair play built in. If you get everything right, people will start showing up in your life that will be just the people you were looking for. Things like that.
False, the elephant man had no choice, there was nothing to get right. Anymore than so many others. You're thinking in Disney world logic
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I also think there is some objective good coursing through all of us. We are divine beings, we are essentially good. This universe is no mistake and it's not all for nothing. If we get ourselves 'right', goodness will pour into the world.
Where does all this come from? I think you're just telling yourself this to feel more comfortable
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