everything happens for a reason, do you agree? Options

[ichiban]

I think everything happens for a reason. For me, they've been pretty good reasons. for example, my ex- best friend started acting all bitchy towards me for no reason and ditching me for everything and hogging all of my other friends. but then i got way closer to an awesome girl i was kind of friends with before and i was happy again.

So everythangg happens for a reason

Whatchu think?

[gigiopolis]

That would be a false statement. I agreed with you, as I had written almost the same thing, until you said that everything happens because of humans. There are elements that happen that are out of any humans grasp. Cancer, Tornadoes, etc. In those situations no human is responsible, except sometimes with cancer.

Okay, I agree. Humans don't WANT cancer to happen, nor are they capable of conjuring up tornadoes. But there are reasons for tornadoes happening, are there not? There are scientific studies, good, hard evidence. Tornadoes happen for reasons. Cancer happens for reasons. Reasons that can be backed up with evidence. What I should have said is that everything that happens can be backed up with true "reason", and not emotional "reasons". (see definition in next paragraph).

It's kind of weird to me how people overuse this phrase, "everything happens for a reason". Reason is the ability to think criticially and draw logical conclusions. Most of the "reasons" people use for that phrase are not logical at all.

I don't want to seem like an emotional prude or anything, but I think that humans can take control of whatever they do, and we shouldn't go and think that things happen without our knowing.