Do you believe that everything happens for a reason or that it is a direct result of your own actions?

Answer 1

Some things happen as a result of your own actions. Eating too much and becoming over weight can't be blamed on global warming. Other things just happen because you're at the wrong place at the wrong time.

However, somethings don't happen because of your actions. Choices, choices, choices. You can choose to not eat that chicken that smells bad. You can choose to not let your child grow up without an active role. Etc.

Answer 2

Most but not all, things happen around us happen because of a direct or indirect result (this is a reason) of our own actions or actions of others around us. But there is other stuff that we do not have any control over. Such as wind, natural things, etc. These things happen because of the nature of the world and it is a waste of time to think about it at the first place.
Everything in this world is interconnected and unfortunately people don't realize it.
Because I have a strong philosophical background, I believe that every action arise out of our mind. With our minds we make the world.

Answer 3

Everything happens for the reason that someone expected it to happen. That however is a direct result of the action of someone wanting or expecting it to happen. The way it happens is often far from the way that person expected it to happen. For example if you expected to come into a lot of money when you reached the age of 21, it would usually happen in the strangest way. Of course if one expected to receive an inheritance then one would receive an inheritance. But if one only had a vague idea, say if some psychic said that one definitely would and one believed him/her, then it would usually surprise one that such a thing could happen how it did. My theory is that our higher selves would arrange that it come to us as a shock to help make us aware of the limitlessness of our possibilities.

Answer 4

It's a combination of both. I believe that there are many paths we can walk in life but humans have a wonderful quality called "choice." We make our own choices, either intentionally or unintentionally, but I think there's a reason we make the choices we do. What we choose is a direct result of a higher energy working with us to make things in our lives happen for the reason they're meant to be.

Answer 5

Chaos theory and quantum physics go well together.
The second law of thermodynamic teaches us that with time, disorder increases.
Chaos says that everything, every single event, is the result of every other event that precedes it.
Everything has a reason, but as we are not omniscient, most events appear as random.
Say you wake up 5 minutes too late. You drive faster on your way to work and cause an accident.
In one of the cars involved, a man is injured and never makes it to an audition.
He never records a song, that will never be played in a club, and a couple will never form.
This couple will never have children, who would have found the cure for HIV.
Because you got up 5 minutes too late, millions of people will die.
A bit far fetched? Well, who knows?

Answer 6

Believe what you want.

I believe that I and only I am the captain of my ship; the director of my own play.

If I do nothing, plan nothing, choose nothing....I have no right to expect ANYTHING, much less any right to cry in my beer about my pitiful life.

On the other hand, if I make choices, make decisions, I can feel as though I'm taking an active part in my life and its direction.

That said, I fully realize that a million, billion random things can come into play that might totally ruin my plans or contribute to my success.

We cannot forsee these other random elements, so there's no point in talking about them.

Make your choices, make your plans, and move forward with faith.

What's the alternative?

Answer 7

I believe that everything happens as a direct result of what you do, for instance people may think that they have bad luck, but if a person looks and acts weak or doesn`t mix, human instinct notices this and people treat you accordingly. If you do not put yourself out there, you are more likely to miss opportunities or miss people who are likely to point you in the right direction to find "better luck.

Answer 8

Giving the strange example that I encountered yesterday; I never go out for chips after work, even though on my route home is a chip shop that I like. The chips there a never ready when you order them. I did go to the chipper then and the chips *were* ready when I ordered them!
On my way home, which is a mere 5 minutes walk, I met a friend of mine whom I wouldn't have met, had I not gone to the chipper, or if the chips weren't ready yet. He forced me to go off to the local pub because my boyfriend was there and I hadn't seen him in three weeks (he just came back from meeting his entire family abroad, where he comes from obviously). Had I not met that friend on the street I would have just passed the pub by, not even looking in and go straight home, which was my plan.

Now I'm going to say that I don't believe that everything happens for a reason.

Imagine that.

In fact, I am going to say that every action is the result of another action which preceeded that action. I am a bit peckish ---> I go to the chipper
in the mean time; people have ordered chips ---> chipper made a load of chips

that's when I come in. Then I order my chips ---> chipper has them ready.

In the mean time; friend comes out of pub ---> walks down the street.

Me, now with my chips, decide I've nothing more to find in that chipper so I leave for home ---> meet friend ---> friend tells me to go to local pub, which happens to be on the same street and 2 mins away from my place.


I can even add more. Late that night, an old friend of mine who I've not seen in over a year, comes in with someone he knows.

He just went on a date with that woman, but fate has it that she spent the night with her friend, who also lives 2 minutes away from that same pub.

So; girl stays with friend ---> has date with my old friend ---> I see him there after over a year and happy as hell.

Now you could say that I was meant to feel peckish and go to the chipper and that that all started it... All I really care about is that I finally saw my boyfriend again after 3 long weeks.

Nothing happens for a reason; it's just action and reaction from different people that comes together somehow. Some would call it divine intervention, even synchronicity. I call it normal and everyday.



I'm actually writing a book about it which I might be able to publish within a year or so; it's all based on true events, hardly one word of it changed, to show how - in one person's life, in a span of only a couple of months - many times that law of action and reaction and those chains of events that perfectly intertwine can happen.

But they go on and on endlessly and so on, so I don't believe there's a reason for it. I used to believe it for a long time, though.

Answer 9

Were you born for a reason or was it a result of your own actions?

Answer 10

This is fate versus choice. I don't think the 2 are separate. You can choose your fate, and the choices you make create it. Same with the choices of others. Also the fate brought on by those choices can then direct the way you choose.

So I don't see where this idea that they're separate and one is better than the other came from.