Is it really true that everything happens for a reason ?

Question

feel like im the only person who didn’t believe in coincidences

Answer 1

For me, yes. So far, everything that has happened has been for a reason, and sometimes I could not see that reason until in hindsight

Answer 2

It's not really true that everything happens for "a" reason ("one" reason). To be more exact, everything happens due to an intricate combination of causes and conditions.

For example, the growing of a plant has several different causes, for example the seed is a cause for the plant, but also the planting of the seed (if someone deliberately planted it). Apart from these and other kinds of causes, there would be no plant if not certain conditions were there, like sunshine, enough water, good earth, the right temperature, no-one killing the plant, and so on.

Also, I don't really like your choice of the word "reason". A "reason" is for me something that comes from a reasoning mind, that is soemthing thought out and decided by someone (human, God or other), and I prefer to use the more neutral terms "causes and conditions", because then you can make more people agree with your words, whether they think there is a God behind everything that happens or not.

Answer 3

no, its only coincidence. consider the fact that 6.5 billion people live on earth. lets assume they all live an average of 50 years, thats 18250 days. lets also assume that everyone experiences on average 2 experiences per day, whatever those experiences may be. whatever they may be, may be the same as others, may be different from others. do that math, 6.5 billion times 18250 = 118625000000000 days out of all days out of every human's life added up. multiply that by 2 experiences per day. you get 237250000000000 total experiences for the 50 year period from all the days of each humans life added together.

does any story ever surprise you knowing that statistically it was bound to happen? you hear amazing stories that people think are miracles simply because they are thought to happen rarely. in reality these events could happen all the time. its coincidence.

Answer 4

You ask this question as a joke, correct?

It is of course not true. Whoever believes that, is sick in his brain ...
There are for sure some things that happen for a reason, but not all, I would say the most times no reason.

Answer 5

Yes, it's true, only we can cause,lot's of things to happen or not. You don't put yourself or others knowningly if danger .You don't have un-protected sex,and think you're not going to get pregrant,or could get a disease. We have choices, and very,very seldom are we victims.

Answer 6

i dont think its true, i think its something we use to comfort ourselves and as a means of coping when tragic things occur, we dont tend to do this so much with wonderful things