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Aug 5, 2009 6:23 PM CST The reason you are here, we are here...does everything really happen for a reason?
StressFree
StressFreeStressFreesmall city, Kalmar Sweden176 Threads 16 Polls 8,986 Posts
Discuss...

Why do you think you are here on earth right now? Why do you think we are here on earth collectively right now?

Does everything happen for a reason?

Fascinating topic I think. I'm counting on an assortment of various views here.

I'll be in and out, but I'll get back here sooner or later to add my views and observations...
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Aug 5, 2009 6:30 PM CST The reason you are here, we are here...does everything really happen for a reason?
Big_John
Big_JohnBig_JohnOcean Springs, Mississippi USA19 Threads 9,767 Posts
I don't believe in destiny! I don't think life has a pre-determined plan for us. I don't see all of us are designed to fit into a puzzle and that the pieces are pre-set.

Life is what we make it. We can control some of our future by our actions. Some things we can't control. I guess the game is to know which is which!
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Aug 5, 2009 6:37 PM CST The reason you are here, we are here...does everything really happen for a reason?
luvlife2
luvlife2luvlife2Birmingham, Alabama USA18 Threads 1 Polls 185 Posts
I am here on earth because God chose for me to be here,yes people have different beliefs but mine is to learn and to treat people like i would want to be treated,to do the best you can on this earth and learn from your mistakes,i will go through trials that only make me stronger and have a closer connection with God!I do believe things happen for a reason,i have been through some heavy stuff from a terrible marriage,my dads suicide 3 years ago,low self esteem,but it is only a learning process,it took me many stumbles in the road to get to the path i am on today,i still have issues as we all do,but my main goal on this earth is to be a very good mother,love my neighbor,worship God as i see fit,and enter those gates one day,,all the pain i have suffered will wash away then!!handshake
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Aug 5, 2009 6:57 PM CST The reason you are here, we are here...does everything really happen for a reason?
gingerb
gingerbgingerbLetterkenny, Donegal Ireland7 Threads 1 Polls 4,139 Posts
Coincidences are funny things..............


Coincidental Deaths
This is a similar story of coincidence, (to the previous story on the web page), not of twins but of two brothers.

In 1975, while riding a moped in Bermuda, a man was accidentally struck and killed by a taxi. One year later, this man's bother was killed in the very same way. In fact, he was riding the very same moped. And to stretch the odds even further, he was struck by the very same taxi driven by the same driver - and even carrying the very same passenger!

(Phenomena: A Book of Wonders, John Michell and Robert J. M. Rickard)


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Aug 5, 2009 7:19 PM CST The reason you are here, we are here...does everything really happen for a reason?
HDALE
HDALEHDALEINDIANAPOLIS, Indiana USA8 Threads 1 Polls 97 Posts
Agnostic by choice,for now anyway.There is a cartoon movie ,old,Horton hears a Who.Maybe some of us r here for a purpose ,how do u know?
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Aug 5, 2009 8:01 PM CST The reason you are here, we are here...does everything really happen for a reason?
cameraman
cameramancameramanSt. Petersburg, Florida USA29 Threads 19 Polls 2,501 Posts
I'm here cause I was born to be who I choose to be. We are here to produce things to meet our needs. conversing Everything happens because of cause and effect.
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Aug 5, 2009 8:03 PM CST The reason you are here, we are here...does everything really happen for a reason?
avecaim
avecaimavecaimSan Jose, California USA9 Threads 1 Polls 4,084 Posts
cameraman: I'm here cause I was born to be who I choose to be. We are here to produce things to meet our needs. Everything happens because of cause and effect.


OOOOKaaaYYYY laugh uh oh
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Aug 5, 2009 8:04 PM CST The reason you are here, we are here...does everything really happen for a reason?
wonderworker
wonderworkerwonderworkercosby, Tennessee USA201 Threads 2 Polls 1,883 Posts
"When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains I was in Time again,hearing the watch.It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said: I give you the mausoleum of Hope and Desire.It is excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience.
I give it to you not to remember Time,but in the hope you might forget it now and then for a moment and not waste all your breath trying to conquer it.
Because no battle was ever won or lost.They are not even fought.The field only reveals to Man his own folly and despair,and Victory is the illusion of Philosophers and Fools."

William Faulkner

THE SOUND and the FURY

cool
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Aug 5, 2009 8:05 PM CST The reason you are here, we are here...does everything really happen for a reason?
BrunoMcMahon
BrunoMcMahonBrunoMcMahonHardwick, Vermont USA20 Threads 3 Polls 733 Posts
There are plenty of people that will pretend to know the answer for all of us in order to create the illusion they are something special.

I’m here to help give them the chance to look like even bigger buffoons.

That and to open the door for the dog. If he figure that one out it will only be a few weeks more until he knows how to change the locks and I’ll need to find new digs.

We’ve all got our own missions, opinions and experiences. So, we all have our own answers.

If you meet the Buddha on the road…
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Aug 5, 2009 8:05 PM CST The reason you are here, we are here...does everything really happen for a reason?
cameraman
cameramancameramanSt. Petersburg, Florida USA29 Threads 19 Polls 2,501 Posts
avecaim: OOOOKaaaYYYY


laugh That's true. conversing Thank you.
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Aug 5, 2009 8:07 PM CST The reason you are here, we are here...does everything really happen for a reason?
BrunoMcMahon
BrunoMcMahonBrunoMcMahonHardwick, Vermont USA20 Threads 3 Polls 733 Posts
cameraman: I'm here cause I was born to be who I choose to be. We are here to produce things to meet our needs. Everything happens because of cause and effect.


Cameraman speaks great truth.


And didja notioce even he didn't question it this time?
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Aug 5, 2009 8:12 PM CST The reason you are here, we are here...does everything really happen for a reason?
cameraman
cameramancameramanSt. Petersburg, Florida USA29 Threads 19 Polls 2,501 Posts
BrunoMcMahon: Cameraman speaks great truth.And didja notioce even he didn't question it this time?


laugh That's true. conversing Thank you.
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Aug 5, 2009 8:15 PM CST The reason you are here, we are here...does everything really happen for a reason?
QuietStormF
QuietStormFQuietStormFSouthern Ontario, Ontario Canada25 Threads 610 Posts
StressFree: Discuss...

Why do you think you are here on earth right now? Why do you think we are here on earth collectively right now?

Does everything happen for a reason?

Fascinating topic I think. I'm counting on an assortment of various views here.

I'll be in and out, but I'll get back here sooner or later to add my views and observations...


Very good question and thread..I used to think I knew. but with the events in my life of the past three years.. I have no answers.. only questions, so think I will watch this one.. teddybear
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Aug 5, 2009 8:18 PM CST The reason you are here, we are here...does everything really happen for a reason?
avecaim
avecaimavecaimSan Jose, California USA9 Threads 1 Polls 4,084 Posts
confused help dunno sad flower
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Aug 5, 2009 8:19 PM CST The reason you are here, we are here...does everything really happen for a reason?
thewall2
thewall2thewall2montreal, Quebec Canada61 Threads 10,499 Posts
StressFree: Discuss...

Why do you think you are here on earth right now? Why do you think we are here on earth collectively right now?

Does everything happen for a reason?

Fascinating topic I think. I'm counting on an assortment of various views here.

I'll be in and out, but I'll get back here sooner or later to add my views and observations...


I kind of like what CHUCK says...''To make A DIFFERENCE!'thumbs up
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Aug 5, 2009 8:22 PM CST The reason you are here, we are here...does everything really happen for a reason?
Good4U2
Good4U2Good4U2Gallatin, Tennessee USA15 Threads 1 Polls 929 Posts
Big_John: I don't believe in destiny! I don't think life has a pre-determined plan for us. I don't see all of us are designed to fit into a puzzle and that the pieces are pre-set.

Life is what we make it. We can control some of our future by our actions. Some things we can't control. I guess the game is to know which is which!
Thats two of us. I agree with you John... We are what we make ourselves some do how ever draw the short straw but that is not because they deserve it or ask for it. Life is not perfect and things do not always go as planned.
cheers
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Aug 5, 2009 8:35 PM CST The reason you are here, we are here...does everything really happen for a reason?
Kattsrose
KattsroseKattsroseKind of near Portsmouth, NH, New Hampshire USA52 Threads 4 Polls 911 Posts
Big_John: I don't believe in destiny! I don't think life has a pre-determined plan for us. I don't see all of us are designed to fit into a puzzle and that the pieces are pre-set.

Life is what we make it. We can control some of our future by our actions. Some things we can't control. I guess the game is to know which is which!


I'd take it a step further and say it is how we change the future of others as well. It is very easy to say I WANT MINE and ignore the person next to you.

I've seen times when the application of simple human respect would make a huge difference in a situation.

Our actions do make a difference. Some people only think of that in terms of making a cash donation or going to a protest. They forget how important it is to honor the dignity of others even when you may have trouble seeing the dignity in that person.

Check out how some people treat the waitstaff in a restaurant or the cleaners in an office for an example of how it isn't done.

I'm far from perfect on that. I can be very classist if I don't watch myself. If I stop trying though I lose big time.
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Aug 5, 2009 8:49 PM CST The reason you are here, we are here...does everything really happen for a reason?
gooddogman
gooddogmangooddogmanLeesburg, Florida USA23 Threads 1,028 Posts
We are here to reproduce. We have thoughts that are quicker than the speed of light, we learn to stay alive, we must, survive. Trying to survive, we pick and choose, a partner, food and shelter. Cause and effect. The cool part is when we interact, at a moment, our lives can change forever, A woman passes you with a certian look and you enter another world or maybe she someone from another life, that has come to memory.
Is she your soul mate.
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