Idle poll of the day

[kellinator]

[Poll #323619]

Comments

[darkmattr.livejournal.com]

Why does it matter? It still happens.

[lula-fortune.livejournal.com]

Since I was just watching an episode of Sex and the City last night that addresed this same question, I am inclined to say:

Bullshit.

But in some cases, it's the only thing that makes sense. Otherwise, you could drive yourself crazy with "what-if's".

[streamweaver.livejournal.com]

I dont' really believe in fate.

I also think this general thinking on things is missing the point.

I don't think things happen for a reason, I think you find reason in things that happen.

[parilous.livejournal.com]

I don't have an answer for your poll, but I give you a link, instead:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2104085/fr/rss/

[dwivian]

Of course all things happen for a reason. That's cause-and-effect.

Now, I never said the reason was meaningful....

[eudaimonia.livejournal.com]

No, but reason you give it afterwards is entirely up to you. :-) Make the best of it.

[kai-ta-loipa.livejournal.com]

Sometimes?

[sujata.livejournal.com]

Yes, but human beings are endowed with the gift of free will. Most exercise their free will by choosing to disavow any knowledge of reason.

Consequently, Homo sapiens sapiens is a misnomer by two "sapiens." ;-)

Clarification

[misanthropist.livejournal.com]

I assume that most people who voted yes did so because they think there is some kind of fate or god or other mumbo jumbo that makes things 'happen for a reason.'

Just so you know, I'm a determinist/materialist. In my view, everything happens for a reason, but the reason is physics.