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  • NBQ00-6

    Do you believe in destiny?

    That everything happens for a reason?

    • Nodrgs
    • Everything happens for a reason, sure.
      If you burn your hand on the element of your stove, the reason is you were stupid enough to put your hand on it.
      Continuity
    • khm, may i ask how you know that the touching the stove burns your hand?
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    • No. Reason would imply some sort of plan, and I see no compelling evidence for such a thing.monospaced
    • @NBQ00: your parents fucked be happy about that, your mother decided to let you see the world for which you should be grateful, etc. actions have consequences
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    • @sted, I should have added 'lit element'Continuity
    • God has a plan.utopian
    • the consideration of those consequences gives you reason to act and shapes your destiny.
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    • @Continuity idk what that is? i just wanted to say that the stove example describes a learned involuntary response to a stimulus.
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    • when that happens for the first time you aren't smart or stupid just have no idea about the consequences.
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    • I figure a nomally grown man — despite all evidence pointing to being a hormonal teenager — would know better than to do something like that ...Continuity
    • ... and that that thing happened for a very demonstrable, traceable reason, and not because some invisible hand will it to happen.Continuity
    • It was just an example anyway ;)Continuity
    • Yes. The reason being the thing itself.
      Taking the stove example:
      Because of a reason: your stupidity.
      For a reason: you being burnt.
      palimpsest
    • LOL.. I misread that and I thought it said DENSITY.. I was like, yeah, and Mass alsoautoflavour
    • Prefer Destiny 2.Morning_star

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