Does everything really happen for a reason?

Question

Tell me what you believe about that statement.

Answer 1

we create the reasons with rationale after something has happened. i met my guy because he lived in the apt above me. if i hadn't selected that apt complex, we never would have met. i picked that apt because love was waiting for me there? i can't say that isn't the reason i picked the apt because that's not what happened and imagining all the what if's in the world won't help me come to a better conclusion.

i was mercilessly harrassessed when i was little for not being white. it hurt me, confused me and eventually made me stronger and more sure of myself. did that misery happen for the reason that i would be a more secure person? no, that is what i made of it myself. i could have turned out insecure and full of hate. and then if i attacked one of my tormentors, what could the reason be? or if i just lived my life miserably alone and full of fear, what then?

so, i believe it happened because it happened and it is up to me to make something of it or not. there are too many 'what ifs' and possibilities that make it difficult to choose a Best One. especially when the only real choice is the One That Happened! i love life's unpredictability and live it as best i can.

Answer 2

Yes, everything that happens is the result of something else. Causality rules the entire universe. Something just can't happen on its own without some reason or stimulus. On the other hand, I'm not a fatalist. I don't believe that everything is 100% predetermined or that everything has a purpose. Nothing happens for a single, ultimate reason, rather, for every event there is a predictable but uncertain response.

Answer 3

Yes, it's true. If it wasn't why would things happen?

I will admit, sometimes we don't wanna believe that because we don't know WHAT the reason is/WHY the reason was what it was.
For example, I was told that I was gonna get to go shopping this weekend and got all hyped up about it. I just found out that I can't go shopping and have to stay home all weekend. I don't know what the reason was that my parents can't take me today or something, but there was a reason behind it.

Answer 4

Yes it does because someone is always affected by something someone else does whether it is good or bad. There has to be a reason or there would be no meaning to life or purpose for being here. This is what I am thinking about your statement.

Answer 5

Yes! Always. For every action, there is always a reaction. Imagine a pond and dropping a stone in the middle...look at the ripples...everything is like those ripples...you cannot tell what happens under the current...but things do move.

God will need for some of those ripples to be stopped and for others to make it right to the very edge of the pond. ALL things work for His benefit and for those who love Him, they are good, sooner or later. Even the bad stuff, He turns it to something good.

Yes, all things have a purpose and a conclusion, and God shapes His plans around us or with us....depending on whether or not you and I are willing to be shaped.

Answer 6

It depends on what sort of viewpoint you have on life. Say you get caught up in a bad situation. A positive thinker would be likely to think that there is a reason for whatever happened, while a negative thinker would be more likely to chalk it up to being a terrible occurance. I want to say that religion may have an effect on whether or not you think this way, but seeing as I am not religious, I cannot make that judgement.

Answer 7

The statement speaks to what is true. Everything that one experiences is due to ones Fate Karma, and it is to fulfil the Karmic due bills that things happen in ones life. Everything in ones life is mystically designed to "fit" ones Fate Karma.

Ones Fate Karma is designed before one re-enters the physical plane of existence. Fate Karma consists of unfulfilled desires from previous births; lessons one needs to work on leaning; and Karmic due bills from previous lives.

Then one waits until a couple that owes one a birth are aligned with those with whom one has Karmic due bills to repay. One then enters the physical plane of existence via a dissociated bit of ones Apache [Operational Energy of ones Soul] that fixes itself within the union of sperm and egg, thus creating a new birth.

At a point near birth, the Soul enters the embryo and awaits birth. At birth, a veil separates the Soul from knowledge of itself, and it shifts into the MIND realm to seek out an identity... which is then taken-on from the MINDs of ones parents.

But, yes, everything does happen for a reason... and that reason is to fulfil the purpose of life.

Answer 8

In my opinion, yes they do. A few years ago I escaped a horrendous robbery because I was late to work. I would have been on time if I could have found my shoe. I was ticked off that I couldnt find my shoe until I found that if I had been at work I probably would have been shot or worse. To this day I look at each mishap as having a reason.

Answer 9

I believe that to be true~
Question~Does everything really happen for a reason?
Answer~Yes, though we don't always like what it is.
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It all comes to destiny, we do have control to shape our lives but others contribute to it and not always for the good. I have had events in my life that were very negative yet years later the experience of what happened becomes useful. To help another ,to avoid the same. They are all about building character. At the end of our lives hopefully we like what we are and other do too.
We are the sum of our experiences.....

Answer 10

I believe it does. I've had some bad things happen to me in the past and when I look back now and see where I would have been if it wouldn't have happened, I always have the better outcome.