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08-21-2008, 11:11 AM #21
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08-21-2008, 11:12 AM #22
I'm agreeing with pure_merc too. I don't think everything happens for a reason BUT you can extract meaningfulness out of a situation and give significance to that meaning. I think that's the difference between a fool and a wise person. You can extract meaning, but there may be no meaning there for you to extract. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and sometimes it's not. I guess it's knowing when it's nothing and when it's something. To me it comes down to applying good discernment to situations.
Relationships have normal ebbs and flows. They do not automatically get better and better when the participants learn more and more about each other. Instead, the participants have to work through the tensions of the relationship (the dialectic) while they learn and group themselves and a parties in a relationships. At times the relationships is very open and sharing. Other time, one or both parties to the relationship need their space, or have other concerns, and the relationship is less open. The theory posits that these cycles occur throughout the life of the relationship as the persons try to balance their needs for privacy and open relationship.
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08-21-2008, 11:16 AM #23
"Everything happens for a reason."
I believe we are unconsciously directed by evolution.
Evolution has instinct but not purpose.
I am appreciative that we have evolved to perceive and develop our perception of beauty and the experience of love.
What or whom I show this appreciation to would only cause distraction.Last edited by colmena; 08-21-2008 at 11:20 AM. Reason: Well... this is what I believe this week, anyway.
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Ti Ne Fi Ni
-How beautiful, this pale Endymion hour.
-What are you talking about?
-Endymion, my dear. A beautiful youth possessed by the moon.
-Well, forget about him and get to bed.
-Yes, my dear.
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08-21-2008, 11:16 AM #24
You guys are welcome to explore avenues within the topic, but I what I meant when I started the thread was do things happen for a reason, inferring that there is a universal plan of some sort.
carry on.
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08-21-2008, 11:16 AM #25
I disagree. It reeks of "God gave Timmy cancer so he could test our faith" kind of talk.
No offense.
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08-21-2008, 11:17 AM #26
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Nah, he didn't, I'm just playing with Ideas.
If we define destiny as everything you can't control, then we will have a situation that makes you responsible for your life as you can gain more power over your destiny by controlling your attitudes and reactions better. I find this interesting.
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08-21-2008, 11:19 AM #27Who wants to try a bottle of merc's "Extroversion Olive Oil?"
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08-21-2008, 11:22 AM #29
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Well, I guess everything happens for a reason to a certain extent, but it depends on how you look at it. If you're a person of science, then yes, everything does happen for a reason. As far as a more philosophical standpoint, I can't be sure. I like to think there's a reason but if I can't find the reason or even comprehend the reason, then I shall assume that it doesn't happen for a reason.
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08-21-2008, 11:23 AM #30
What do you mean?
Are you wondering whether some form of the Principle of Sufficient Reason holds for the actual world, or are you wondering if there is an ethical component to events that occur in the actual world, i.e., that there is a good reason, a valuable reason, why all things unfold the way they do?
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