Pondering thoughts by Citruscide

[Citruscide]

I've often heard and used the cliche... "Everything happens for a reason" -- it seems as if a futile attempt to explain away the reason things happen...

Guy dies in an automobile accident... must be a reason.

9/11 happens... must be a reason

2 people go through eriely similar situations with loved ones and meet up unexpectedly --- must be a reason.

What the heck is the reason? Why do things happen? Is there a better way to explain why Bad things happen?

C

 

[Uh Oh]

There doesn't necessarily have to be a spelled out, well-defined reason. Sometimes, it just helps to think that someone we love is taken away from us for a reason. It's easier than thinking that there was no damn reason for them being taken. Or else, someone was in an accident for a reason. It's just easier to give it a bad explanation than no explanation at all.

 

[Japanese machine]

"Shit Happends" nothing more to be said.

 

[Citruscide]

Well put

C

 

[mylife]

Everything is one big ripple effect caused by free will. There's no such thing as fate or luck, it's all timing.

 

[Dr.M]

"Shit Happends" nothing more to be said.

Thats what I was gonna say

 

[Code]

Oddly enough, in college one of my mathematics professors had done his doctoral thesis re: life experiences.

One of his conclusions was that there is a finite number of dramatic life experiences and the odds are in your favor of meeting people with similar experiences.

 

[big4life]

I do wonder if there is something called "fate." When you look at times in your life where you did something different that your normal routine. Only to find out later if you had followed your routine you would have had something happen to you, whether good or bad.

Why did you change your routine?

Coincidence? Timing?

Or maybe, just maybe, something that we can't explain.

 

[the People's Champ]

it's all timing.

yup

 

[casavant]

All I can say is, if someone I love dies tragically and someone says to me, "Well, everything happens for a reason." I'm going to spit in their face and break their jaw.

 

[javaguru]

Most people would rather believe there is a "reason" for everything happening as opposed to random chance. I think it makes their lives feel less out of control. I chalk everything up to random chance.

 

[gettinlarger]

There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.
- John Connor, in Terminator 2

 

[WODIN]

I have yet to meet anyone who has been sodomized by a llama while wrapped in aluminum foil, covered in yak placental discharge on a Twister Mat.

All I can say is I will never do left foot green again in my lifetime.

 

[KHMER ROGUE]

Oddly enough, in college one of my mathematics professors had done his doctoral thesis re: life experiences.

One of his conclusions was that there is a finite number of dramatic life experiences and the odds are in your favor of meeting people with similar experiences.

Sounds like the theme in "Magnolia".

 

[havoc]

There is Yin, there is Yang, they have to balance, you or anyone elses bad or good is a result of this. Its all about energy and how energy is reacting.


peace

 

[HUGHJORGEN]

I have yet to meet anyone who has been sodomized by a llama while wrapped in aluminum foil, covered in yak placental discharge on a Twister Mat.

All I can say is I will never do left foot green again in my lifetime.

Probably not a bad idea with your brittle bones!

 

[WODIN]

Probably not a bad idea with your brittle bones!

I have on brittle bone that I use on your moms cavernous roast beef lipped vagina....

Son.

 

[havoc]

I have on brittle bone that I use on your moms cavernous roast beef lipped vagina....

Son.

lol

 

[HUGHJORGEN]

I have on brittle bone that I use on your moms cavernous roast beef lipped vagina....

Son.

See now that is just plain mean.

 

[HUGHJORGEN]

and besides she does not like older men!

 

[saint808]

everything does happen for a reason, it just may not be the reasons we want to hear, especially with love because it is very blind.

 

[Kali]

Are we talking about someone in particular or just talking? I try to buy into the "pain is weakness leaving the body" shit, but it is really hard. I know if my father was still alive, my life would be completly opposite of the way it is now... Maybe things were meant to be, but why they have to happen the way they do is still a mystery. When I was a kid, my dad's best friend told me that they only want really good people in heaven, so that is why the really good people leave us. The people that are left still need to finish things up and do more good things before they can go too... I don't know, it worked at the time, then again, I was only 12.