Do you believe in the saying "Everything happens for a reason"?

[just_a_potato]

The "butterfly effect" can also be noted

Whether you are religious or not I'm sure someone's told you that at least once, how much does it ring true to you? Do you really think everything happens for a reason? Why or why not

I believe everything happens for a reason

I believe everything happens out of coincidences

I believe a mixture of both

I don't know/something else

[MCheetah]

A mixture of both. Just look at the universe. Billions of galaxies born out of chaos, and most of the universe is just flying space debris, supernovas, black holes, and dark matter. Yet stars have orbit, planets have orbit, and even galaxies sometimes orbit in their supercluster.

Most of life, and the universe, is chaos. But I do believe there is a natural "order" that always establishes itself through the chaos. I'm neither religious nor atheist, so it's hard to say whether everything has an order or "intelligent design" or everything is just random chaos. Probably a bit of both.

[MCheetah]

I guess to give you the most literal answer to your question, no. Not EVERYTHING happens for a reason.

[TheSpaceGnome]

The butterfly effect, or chaos theory, is the idea that nothing in nature can be reliably predicted, because the amount of variables are too high (my favorite example of this is in jurassic park)


This is different than everything happening for a reason, because reason implies forethought, ie that someone intended for an outcome to happen, and then made it so through predictive calculations, which is the exact opposite of chaos.


On small scales, within controlled environments, predictions are possible, but in large complex systems, chaos is king, and its pretty much impossible to predict outcomes reliably, nor does nature have a collective reason for doing anything.


Instead, a mixture of unthinking objects, and competing organisms with their own individual reasons, create unpredictable outcomes.

[purplepoppy]

All actions have effects and those effects effect other things. All the actions and effects bump into each other. So yes things happen for a reason but the reason isn't controlled by a higher power.

[IveGotNoName]

No. Usually the reason for something happening is known before it happens. In this case something happens and from that we get a result. That's not reason, that's coincidence.

[FakeName123]

I think everything that happens can be used as a learning experience and you can come out ahead. If that is what some people mean as "for a reason", sure. If not, then I don't care, either way. Nothing I can change about what happens to me in life based on other peoples actions. Only thing I can influence is how I deal with whatever curveball is thrown at me..

[Darbby]

Yes definitely things happen for a reason and sometimes the reason is we are stupid and made the wrong choices ✌

[DaMack999]

Well thats just common sense. Do you just go to work for free? Do you go to school for nothing? Do you have family and kids just for no reason? Everything does have a reason. Even when you leave to go buy something at the store you have a reason for going there. So why would you assume God created all this massive thing for no reason. That our lives are pathetic and useless.

[exitseven]

We make our own fate. There are so many random things that happen around us on a daily basis. We make the best choices we can and then see what happens. It is what makes life exciting sometimes.

[Gwenhwyfar]

Everything happens for a reason but it still makes me cry sometimes

[SaoirseS]

I think it’s a hollow expression, just like “it is what it is.”

[Jaylaaa2000]

Yes. It doesn't have to be a religious reason, but everything that happens has a lesson to learn

[NathanDavis]

To me this a nicer way to say "shit happens" but maybe is not nicer.

[FireFox01]

In terms of causailty, yes - we are not paracausal.

However, you don't always have control over the causes. So no - I don't believe it in the way that saying thinks it.

[jshm2]

That's a rather silly question.

Everything has a "reason" to happen - it's about whether that reason is directed or undirected that is the real question to ask.

[collie22]

God has thing for us to do but we have free will to make your way

[TallAnon]

No, I do not. The universe is literal chaos. In small terms society sets certain boundaries, but nothing is guaranteed.

[ohshee]

If you understand cause and effect then it has to happen for a reason

[Anonymous]

Nope.

Most things happen as a result of people being assholes.

[Jamie05rhs]

I don't really believe in that crap. Things just happen because they happen.

[michael1469]

Everything...

[najekim]

More like everything happens by a roll of the dice.

[NoManTwo]

Sometimes things happen but you have to get off your ass and do the work.

[legalboxers]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/OxGFr1jidI4

someone is watching out for you...

[zoe2187]

I think if it’s meant to be it’ll happen.