Does everything happen for a reason?

Question

I think it does. What about you?

Answer 1

I believe so. I had a horrible childhood. Really awful things happened. As an adult, I was raped. As twisted as it sounds - I was actually glad that he picked me, as opposed to someone that was less prepared. I knew that I could handle it. My life had prepared me for that moment. When I was a kid though, I remember crying and asking God why all the time. After I survived the rape, I didn't need to ask any more. I am not a religious nut or even a good Christian, but I can say that God has always given me what I needed (not what I wanted necessarily.) There is always a bigger picture that I can't see or understand whenever anything happens.

Answer 2

Of course there must be at least a cause for anything to happen.... but that does not necessarily mean that there was a reason behind that cause... reason can only be there if the cause was the result of a will.... often a cause can be the side effect of another cause like a chain forking into several chains..... but yes, the entire chain of cause and effect must have logically begun from a grand will and such a grand will could never logically be assumed to be without a reason.... in that sense, yes, anything and everything happens due to a reason!!

Answer 3

Everything on Earth is happening for a reason unknown for human beings. Every action is a consequence of an other action in the past etc. It dates back to the birth of the universe. And it will never change. But we are here to decide, because even if we can't change a thing, we can believe that we rule our life.

Answer 4

We are designed to seek cause and effect in everything. What's really going on in the universe is still being debated.
This approach leads to a mechanistic view of the universe with the need for an original cause/mover, currently occupied by 'God'.
The answer is yes by definition, as the mind cannot grasp a thing without a reason. Exceptionally God.

Answer 5

Yes.
Whether the reason is because you ought to do some stuff for others to happen, or that this happened because you did that.

Example:

Marrying a loser view #1: It ended up in divorce because you decided to give a chance to such a loser.

Marrying a loser view #2: You had to go through that experience so you could value a good one when you find it.

Maybe this is not the best answer, but I hope it ads some views into your criteria. :)

Answer 6

There are no coincidences. Everything that happens to us is as a result of positive or negative vibrations that we project through our beliefs, thoughts, emotions, words and actions. We bring our own experiences unto ourselves. Ever think of someone you haven't seen in ages and the next thing you know, you bump into them? Yeah, that's no coincidence. You've emitted the vibrations which attract that experience. Same with everything else in life.

Answer 7

i always believe that everything does happen for a reason especially when i'm going through some bad times. for me personally, believing that it is happening for a reason gives me the strength to continue on..i always think that if i get through it, no matter how bad it is going to be, at the end of it something good will come...

Answer 8

Yes! man creates the reason? such a horrible word to use because we are supposedly human and able to reason? We are the cause of every possible occurrence on this planet and beyond and the after effects are such that it staggers the human imagination and yet we proceed to make all of the same errors all over again.

Answer 9

Obviously you're thinking about causality.
1. In physics, absolute causality is not believable.
Einstein believed in it, because he wanted his God to have absolute control over even the smallest particles, but his friend Niels Bohr and most other great physicists like Heisenberg and all the modern ones, did not and for me they are right.
2. In psychology it is established that every mental phenomenon like a nevrosis or other states of mind have causes, but sometimes one must dig deep in history, tradition, and myths to understand them.
3. In philosophy I think it's an open question and I remain open-minded about it. Here is some more from Wikipedia:

"Causality is the relationship between cause and effect. The philosophical concept of causality or causation refers to the set of all particular "causal" or "cause-and-effect" relations. Most generally, causation is a relationship that holds between events, properties, variables, or states of affairs.
According to Sowa, up until the twentieth century three assumptions described by Max Born in 1949 were dominant in the definition of causality:
- "Causality postulates that there are laws by which the occurrence of an entity B of a certain class depends on the occurrence of an entity A of another class, where the word entity means any physical object, phenomenon, situation, or event. A is called the cause, B the effect.
- "Antecedence postulates that the cause must be prior to, or at least simultaneous with, the effect.
- "Contiguity postulates that cause and effect must be in spatial contact or connected by a chain of intermediate things in contact." (Born, 1949, as cited in Sowa, 2000)
Causality always implies at least some relationship of dependency between the cause and the effect. For example, deeming something a cause may imply that, all other things being equal, if the cause occurs the effect does as well, or at least that the probability of the effect occurring increases.
However, according to Sowa," relativity and quantum mechanics have forced physicists to abandon these assumptions as exact statements of what happens at the most fundamental levels, but they remain valid at the level of human experience.""

Answer 10

yes i truly think everything does happen for a reason but it becomes sometimes very difficult to figure out the whys?in life