I mean, when sometimes you're at the right place at the right time, and things are just too perfectly aligned for it to be just a coincidence...don't you ever think there must be something behind it? at the very least..fate?
No? everything is just completely random to you?
2007-07-06 07:36:05 · 27 answers · asked by Jmyooooh 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, it's not hard to accept coincidence if you are familiar with both statistics and the behavioral tendencies of humans.
For example, it is far more likely you'll run across another American of your acquaintance in Paris than in Cambodia - because more Americans vacastion in Paris.
Your cash register total would normally be even dollars every 100 times - except typical pricing structures ($9.99, $13.95, plus tax) make it unlikely you'll see it more than 1 in 1000 times - which fools people into thinking it is more significant.
2007-07-06 07:43:09 · answer #1 · answered by Brent Y 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a big gap between "everything is completely random" and "God did it". There are patterns -- seen and unseen -- in life that can make it look as if fate is playing a hand. Being in the right place at the right time can be luck or intuition or good judgment. You don't need to believe in some mystical power.
2007-07-06 07:42:00 · answer #2 · answered by Sandy G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well... why would anything happen for no reason, right? Think of all the events leading up to that coincidence, and that whole thought of there being more at hand than just coincidence just disappears like the contents of my nose on a cold winter day...
2007-07-06 07:41:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-01 00:55:43 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you were always in the right place at the right time, then you'd have a point. But since it doesn't always happen, then you really don't do you? Unless you're saying that everything that happens, good and bad, is controlled by a higher power, and if you're saying that, why would you worship someone who keeps doing bad things to you?
2007-07-06 07:44:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Hard to believe" doesn't make it not coincidence.
You'd be surprised at how streaky and apparently patterened random can be.
And it's not entirely random, as your life has patterns to is, as do other people's lives.
When you consider all the people alive for decades, the "one in a million" thing happens all the time.
And when you consider that the vast majority of the time, there aren't coincidences, unless we make them up, then, no, such things don't make me believe in fate or woo-woo beings controling things, or the supernatural.
2007-07-06 10:18:22 · answer #6 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a simple class in probability and chance would do you good.
if you live for 60 years, and each second gives u a chance to experience something coincidental...
thats 1892160000 chances to experience a coincidence.
*shrug* and sometimes your coincidences are not so coincidental.
sorry when i am driving and the light turns red on me, i think, hey out of all the lights ive driven through, one does this to me... what a coincidence? no...
2007-07-06 07:39:01 · answer #7 · answered by Chippy v1.0.0.3b 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Until proven otherwise, "randomness" as you put it is the most logical explanation. I would love to believe in fate and heavenly fathers and stuff like that, but I cannot abandon critical thinking and my committment to common sense
2007-07-06 07:40:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope
I'm just impressed by the odds.
Besides really nasty things happen to really nice people. Do you honesty want to believe there is a force behind that
2007-07-06 08:19:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about ALL the times that you're not in the right place at the right time? There are a hell of lot more of those incidences.
2007-07-06 07:40:15 · answer #10 · answered by TriciaG28 (Bean na h-Éireann) 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋