Comments on: Everything Happens for a Reason? http://www.ultraparadoxical.com/2009/10/12/everything-happens-for-a-reason/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=everything-happens-for-a-reason I told you so... Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:37:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: RIP Jurgen 2003-2011 | Ultraparadoxical http://www.ultraparadoxical.com/2009/10/12/everything-happens-for-a-reason/comment-page-1/#comment-3711 RIP Jurgen 2003-2011 | Ultraparadoxical Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:55:38 +0000 http://www.ultraparadoxical.com/?p=71#comment-3711 [...] type monologue, fuck that.  I have already written about my thoughts on the notion that “everything happens for a reason“.  There may be no grand “reason” but everything does happen, and when we as [...] [...] type monologue, fuck that.  I have already written about my thoughts on the notion that “everything happens for a reason“.  There may be no grand “reason” but everything does happen, and when we as [...]

]]> By: kskipworth http://www.ultraparadoxical.com/2009/10/12/everything-happens-for-a-reason/comment-page-1/#comment-782 kskipworth Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:50:31 +0000 http://www.ultraparadoxical.com/?p=71#comment-782 Where is the sense of responsibility to push oneself, to strive, if everything is part of a bigger 'plan,' if we're all puppets with a predestined fate? Who's accountable for life's successes and failures, if not yourself? John Wooden said it more eloquently than I can. "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." Besides, the idea of coincidence is so much more fun anyhow. Where is the sense of responsibility to push oneself, to strive, if everything is part of a bigger ‘plan,’ if we’re all puppets with a predestined fate? Who’s accountable for life’s successes and failures, if not yourself?

John Wooden said it more eloquently than I can. “Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

Besides, the idea of coincidence is so much more fun anyhow.

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