or time of your arrival in a place can set in a motion a chain of events which as one leads to another, build up such momentum that they become a guiding force in your life?
your opinions are welcome. =)
2007-11-23 19:35:07 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
*i meant innocuous details, soreee =P
2007-11-23 19:36:01 · update #1
Yes, Yes Yes! Everyone always thinks I'm crazy when I tell them that, but something as little as wearing the wrong socks can change your entire day. I remember one day I went to put on these socks, and they were the same sock, but in different colours, I was going to look for the matching one, but I figured no, no time. Yet I had a bad feeling, that I was going to get arrested because of it. Sure enough, that night I got arrested. I told the cops that was why it happened, and they wrote in my disclosure that I was muttering about random inane details that had nothing to do with the case, and that I must have been extremely intoxicated. The last time I was arrested, I had put down a shovel at work, but then I thought, hmn... I should pick it back up and put it down again, but on the other side of that spade, but i figured no, I'm just being obsessive compulsive. Then what happens, I fly past an undercover detective and he books me a few hours later. Now whenever I get the feeling I shouldn't wear something, or should or shouldn't do something, I listen to my gut instinct.
2007-11-24 05:16:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if I would go so far as to say a 'guiding force', but every event has precipitous effects in your life. Some may cause scale large changes in the short term, some small. The magnitude of causality in the web of events that take place is unimaginable and may not be readily apparent.
Let's say that I choose a particular pair of socks. I may not have noticed that one socks has a hole in the toe. As I go about my day, the hole becomes aggravating and I sit for a moment on a bench to adjust it. As I bend down to remove my shoe, a bullet meant for me whizzes over my head and strikes someone standing behind me.
Now, from that persons point of view, this was a totally random act. But what if he had decided to buy the soda from the vending machine a few minutes earlier? Perhaps he would not have been there to get hit by the bullet. Perhaps If I had worn a different pair of socks, I wouldn't have stopped and the bullet would have met it's intended target.
This is a very short term example of precipitous events with only a few variables mentioned. Imagine how complex the scenario gets when you factor in all of the details.
2007-11-23 20:25:37 · answer #2 · answered by Gee Whizdom™ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, definitely. Chaos theory and chaos mathematics says that a small and seemingly inconsequential event can trigger a huge chain of events - the classic example is a butterfly flapping its wings and creating a storm far away. People sometimes say that one person can't make a real difference in the world, but I keep saying that chaos theory suggests that almost anything can change reality in gigantic ways. One number can make the difference between winning the lottery or not, and in so many ways that situation can apply to almost anything.
2007-11-23 19:40:37 · answer #3 · answered by KatGuy 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Like choosing to submit this question or not? or maybe even just thinking of it for example?
For me, it is closer to the opposite.
Where-as something done today will guide the future (like what your question is asking) is more like something done today is a result of the past.
Think of wind through a valley for example...
Is it being pushed through the valley or pulled through the valley?
Basically the moment we are living in is the gray area between the black and white of future and past combined. there is no forward or backward it only seems to be constantly forward because thats the direction time travels (which by the way, is man-made).
2007-11-23 21:07:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well-composed and excellent question!
synchronicity of events, leading to chain reaction of events.. i may believe in it, but i dont think they can take control of my whole being.. iT would be like leading a life without goal, or that, i could always blame destiny for all the contributory factors affecting my life..
2007-11-23 19:57:40 · answer #5 · answered by oscar c 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not really,
I don't think ONE specific detail can become a guiding force in your life,
but it also depends on the detail and the time and place in which it happens,
at best it may affect your day or even week but not your whole life.
2007-11-23 19:56:22 · answer #6 · answered by Don_$armad 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
If the socks were toe socks, in pink.
If you then arrived to work in flip-flops to show off the socks, despite the business-casual dress code enforced....the chain of events could prove disastrous.........Especially if you are a guy with size 13's.
Not that I have any experience here.....
Goddess help the makers of toe socks.
2007-11-23 20:45:27 · answer #7 · answered by earthcaress 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes i have experienced this a few times, when 1 minor thing caused a chain-reaction of unwanted outcomes. i believe it is called the chaos theory.
2007-11-24 08:41:39 · answer #8 · answered by sweetnspicy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
coincidence? my husband and i always went to the same
place for our christmas tree, 1 year we tried somewhere else
and the tree ended up dying. (ours usually last for months since we put it in our florida room which is not heated).
last year we went somewhere else again and he ended up
having a heart attack in january. if something bad happens this year we are going back to the original place.
2007-11-24 05:34:10 · answer #9 · answered by Mary S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sometimes it seems I could trace a truly bad day back to one minor detail...like a watch not worn or a door not locked...
yup
2007-11-23 19:39:14 · answer #10 · answered by sltydgx 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋