Is there a reason to everything? Options

[datass]

So do you believe there's a reason to everything? Including love?

[*RubeTheCube*]

Depends on whether you're referring to a future driven reason (fate, destiny, something in the future that the pieces are deliberately coming together for) or a past driven reason (the bridge fell because of the years of weathering and use). I personally do not believe in the former, that everything was set up to fall in to certain places to insure future happenings, but I do believe in the latter, though not in a singular sense. I think of the reasoning behind every event as a cloud of numerous influences acting together, which each have various percentages of influential value. An influence that has a high percentage is usually called "the cause" of something even though there is a practically infinite line of influence clouds behind it that caused that influence to exert itself on the event. Seemingly small influences may also make way for larger influences in the future (think the butterfly effect).
Ummm I guess that might be kind of confusing... but I'm going to stick with it :p

The problem with my beliefs on the subject, though, leave pretty much no room for free will , so they aren't very practical. If you go on thinking that free will doesn't exist, things like blame, justice, and righteousness go out the window... but that is a matter for a separate debate