Are you an "everything happens for a reason" or a "sh!t happens"person?

[LakeArenal]

Just curious.

[spooky3]

1. Shit happens. Nt

[Harker]

2. Shit happens.

All the time.

Of course, there are clear reasons for some shit happening.

[Mister Ed]

3. I think everything happens for a reason...

...and the reason is "just because."

[MLAA]

4. Random shit happens 🤨😵‍💫

[hlthe2b]

5. Either "shit happens" or everything we do is pre-ordained. I refuse to believe we have no free will

[multigraincracker]

6. **it happens, but

I feel like the luckiest man in the world. Half of it good luck and the other half bad luck.

and you?

[LakeArenal]

10. Totally shit happens. No fate or preordination for me.

[Ocelot II]

7. Everything happens for a reason, but usually the reason is shit.

[LakeArenal]

8. Haha😉

[pandr32]

9. Sometimes we make shit happen.

[sanatanadharma]

11. Understanding the 'how-it-came-to-be' does not negate having a ...

Understanding the 'how-it-came-to-be' does not negate having an "Oh, shit!" emotional response to 'what-it-is'.

Reasons there are. Reasons unknown there be. To whom and when the 'shit happens' is not ours to foresee.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

12. Shit happens.

When I was going through a particularly difficult part of my life I talked with an 80+ year old neighbor and asked what he had learned during his eight decades. "Things change," he said. I clung to those two words for the next two years as things slowly improved. Eventually things did change. Shit does happen, but also good things.

Bill Nye, the science guy, has weighed in on the "things happen for a reason" argument:

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[LakeArenal]

15. Oh I believe there is good shit and bad shit.

[Wounded Bear]

13. Shit happens, mostly because I'm not an absolutist...

saying "everything" happens for a reason kind of presupposes some kind of a master plan.

Too many plans I've seen are human generated and have evil motives.

[MOMFUDSKI]

14. Shit Happens but then

it is how one handles the shit that matters. My husband likes to say, "You make your own luck".

[zanana1]

16. Shit Happens.

There's no rhyme or reason.

[LuckyCharms]

17. Everything happens for a reason. The reason is: Shit happens.

[Raine]

18. Both...shit happens but for a reason

you can't go somewhere you wanted to, maybe your stuck at home but are right where you're meant to be.

[frogmarch]

19. Shit happens.

I believe in cause and effect. Cause is the reason shit happens.

[Trailrider1951]

20. Shit happens

usually at the most inopportune time.

[Different Drummer]

21. I believe shit happens.

Sometimes, a lot of shit happens.

[Marthe48]

22. I think those are both the same

If we plan things out, our plans either work or they don't.

If we don't make plans, we still accept the outcome, but don't feel like we invested effort in the results.

I have the idea that God wants me to win the lottery, but He wants me to pick the numbers

[wnylib]

23. Some things are coincidence. Some things are not.

It is not a coincidence that J6 happened. It was planned and fomented, with several people in charge of various phases of it.

But there are random coincidences in life, too. Some are good; some are not. What makes them good or not good is subjective.

Just because there are causes and effects to events does not mean there is a specific planned purpose behind them. We assign meaning to them.

[elleng]

24. 'Random'

[TexasBushwhacker]

25. Shit happens n/t

[sarge43]

26. Fecal material occurs, flows downhill and spreads out.

Usually at the worst possible time.

[3catwoman3]

27. "Shit happens" is the only explanation I can think of...

...for the wide assortment of shitty experiences humans are subject to:

-the death of a child for any reason - illness/accident/murder
-children being orphaned
-enduring a slow, miserable decline from a fatal illness or watching that happen to someone you love
-having your home destroyed by natural disaster
-rape/sexual trafficking/abduction
-etc, etc, etc

If occurrences such as those above were part of some grand master plan, then the planner is a cruel, sadistic SOB.

In 1978, when I was 26, my 23 yr old brother died in a winter scuba diving adventure gone wrong. A friend of mine said, "God must have wanted your brother with him really bad." I suppose she intended that to be some sort of comforting thought.

It was not.

[LakeArenal]

28. Great comment.