2006-11-19 21:45:28 · 49 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am not religious
This is not a GOD orientated question!
Do you believe that bad things happen in order for us to realise and put right something we did wrong?
2006-11-19 21:58:15 · update #1
no. I believe they just happen.
2006-11-19 21:47:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
There are series of events that have causation, for example if you line up a row of dominoes on their ends and tip the last one over, the whole row will fall down. Similarly, if you feel hungry you eat. The difference between people and domiinoes is that we tend to ascribe intention to humans - the dominoes fell down for a reason, but not in the sense that the first domino meant to knock the others over. So the phrase "for a reason" can be ambiguous, since it can mean "because the cause is known" or "because there was intention".
Human beings are programmed to look for patterns in everything. This is how we make sense of the world and how we survive when it changes - from where the herds go to feed to where Tesco has hidden the pasta this week. As part of this search for meaning, we also tend to ascribe intention where there is none ("God hates me because my car won't start", or even "My car hates me!").
Sometimes, looking back on your life, you find that things slot into place and even bad things seem to work to make things better as a whole ("There was a pile-up on the motorway this morning. If my car hadn't refused to start, I could have been involved"). Is this because God is helping you all along, or because you are ascribing intention where it doesn't exist? Can you ever tell? At the end of the day, if you get a warm fuzzy feeling from believing that there is someone or something guiding events, whether it is God or a feeling that your car really loves you, then go with it.
(Changed slightly as this was not intended to be a God-oriented answer, God just slipped in as an example of how people ascribe intention).
2006-11-19 22:16:39 · answer #2 · answered by keith 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. But Christians believe that, for those who love God, all things work together for good. (Romans 8:28). My own understanding of that is that God conditions my thinking so that I will turn, say , a bad thing into something useful and beneficial. I still have a completely free will to choose.
Many bad things have happened in my life (victim of a paedophile, death of a father at a young age, a crash as an RAF WW2 pilot, the deaths of two wives), but they have resulted in a happy life, and conditioned me into what , I believe, is the more fortunate person I am today.
2006-11-19 22:08:55 · answer #3 · answered by Malcolm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many bad thing in life is 'created' by our own perceptions and thoughts, 'cause and effect'. If you constantly think about bad things your mind somehow manifests bad things into your reality (magic). You will be surprised how powerful thoughts are. What makes this complicated is that every ones thoughts create good and bad things, so sometimes things happen not because of your doing, but because of someone close to yous doing. There might be some influence from other spiritual beings too, who knows?
2006-11-19 22:09:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do believe in karma, but I also believe that sometime bad things happen for no reason at all, wrong place at the wrong time kind of thing, somewhere deep within bad things you will see that you must persevere, survive and move forward. I believe this above any thing else is human nature.
2006-11-19 22:15:03 · answer #5 · answered by ponitail 55 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe in G-D then you would know that everything happens for a reason. Even if it looks bad at the time it is happening. You can't see the results of things that accur right away. Sometimes it can take years, and years, and then you realize why it happened. But in the end you will always understand. The ways of the almighty are mysterious
2006-11-19 21:55:58 · answer #6 · answered by michelebaruch 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think everything is a test even taking a day of work, everything is done for a reason this has happened to me quite a few times. I think we all have to learn by our mistakes and that includes boyfriends say you have a few bad boyfriends you have obviousley not learnt by your mistakes as your going back to the same people. Its all mind baffling really so sorry if it sounds a bit weird
2006-11-27 00:25:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends what it is, I don't think this war on terror etc etc is a good thing as look what's happening around the world today as a result of all of this. That can't be happening for a reason (apart from the political reasons, or so called fake reasons).
2006-11-19 21:48:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not really, some stuff is just accidental. Even the physicists had to admit that starting with Einstein's paper on Brownian motion. That forced the acceptance of molecular theory and his statistical and probability approach led into quantum mechanics and modern high energy physics. It is all very strange.
As humans we are addicted to cause and effect, we desire a predictable, plannable future but that does not seem to be quite how reality works, certainly not all the time.
2006-11-19 21:51:12 · answer #9 · answered by Barabas 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sorry, got to give a God answer.
All things work out for the good for those that love God and are called by Him according to His will
2006-11-20 08:02:41 · answer #10 · answered by waycyber 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From personal experience yes I believe everything happens for a reason.
Jessie
2006-11-27 20:45:53 · answer #11 · answered by cavatina_2005 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋