Comments on: Is There Really No Such Thing As Coincidence?

By: treehugrkatt

treehugrkatt — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:53:42 +0000

How about this.
I’d like to think of our lives as an abundant network of paths we have the choice to walk down. Ever hear the saying “We are all of us good people, some of us just make bad choices.”?
Most of the time you will come across a junction with multiple breaks in the ‘road’, and you have the option to stay where you are or travel down one of the presented paths. You cannot take steps back, but you can follow a path that leads back around to where you were. These circles can be any length, roads can be any width.
Each path may have stops along the way in order to finally reach your destination, or goal. There may be obstacles that block your path and may then open up another trail [opportunities] you can follow to circle around and gain access to the rest of that original path.
But, whatever you do, wherever you go, there was a reason you chose to go that way- a reason to why a path may be blocked, or may seem like it could go on forever with no destination at the end. Whether this reason is put there by yourself, some deity or spirit, or even a physical being on the other side of the world. There is a reason. It may not be clear to you now, maybe because the path that explains the reason has not yet opened for you yet- or the reason cannot present itself to you, perhaps due to a company you know nothing about but is, in fact, out there taking their own paths. Or maybe you already know the reason, and your path is quite clear, where you know just the right trail to follow when a junction appears.
Given the world is not as large in comparison to the universe, some people’s paths intertwine. To someone, this may be a side trail to help clear a block- to someone else, it may be their clear path of choice. This is the ‘chance meeting’. Hence, why in alternate dimensions [if there are such things] these two same people may never have met before, simply because the paths they had chosen did not converge at any point. But in some lives, whichever paths these two people may take, their trails will inevitably converge at some point- or even intertwine several times over. This is the ‘fated meeting’. Souls that attract each other- through some higher level of influence perhaps.
Regardless of the ‘how’ or ‘when’, each of us have our own lives to make our own choices in. Some like to remain on the ‘straight and narrow’, while others jump or fall off the edge of this path and might never [want to] find the right junction to get back to it.
In summary, there is a yin to the yang- a cause and effect- a balance of reason to explain the ‘why’. One thing is for sure, whatever happens to us- makes us who we are.
So far, there is no word for this belief. It is not quite fatalism, a hint of spiritualism and some notions of logic.
Maybe I’ll call it Pathism.. no wait, that’s taken [http://coppermind.17thshard.com/wiki/Pathism]. Something else then…
Oh, btw, i AM serious- just in case you were wondering. ^_^

By: William

William — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:49:18 +0000

I REFUSE to believe that everything in life is an “accident” and people who believe that “accidents” are all there is in life, may just as well give up, right away!

By: Kasrawy

Kasrawy — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:57:18 +0000

I think most people would go on about fate and destiny as though they believe it (and maybe they are trying) but when push comes to shove-when there is a decision that they believe will impact their lives substantially- they fret and worry about each and every step they take as if the outcome was not already predestined. It just baffles me as they are either unwitting or completely hypocritical.

By: Mario

Mario — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:01:42 +0000

It is both

It has been….

Things are given but we have choices.
Our conciousness decides and we have volition

By: Art

Art — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:53:41 +0000

I don’t believe in predestination. I believe we all have free will. God does not control us. But, He knows everything that will happen from the beginning till the end of time because He is God. Each of our choices determines what will happen next. But, I believe that things happen for a purpose and they happen because they’re supposed to happen. If you hit a glass with a hammer, it will break because that’s what the laws of physics dictate. So, if you keep running into someone, or someone comes into your life at just the right moment, it’s not because something you did, but a combination of things in your life and that other person’s life that put you in the right place at the right time. You’ll know if it was meant to be by the outcome of that meeting.

By: Melinda

Melinda — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:41:15 +0000

I believe that everything happens for a reason, that people are placed in situations and places to help others, to learn a lessons or sometimes due to a draw of the spirits.
Like spirits are drawn together. Have you ever caught yourself running upon the same person over and over in the mall or a restuarant or even on vacation.
Could it be your spirits are drawing you together?
I don’t believe in total predestination, I believe we have our on will, I believe things change as we grow in our spirits through God.

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:55:14 +0000

it is life it has happend for a reson. it is part of lifes corse and it will not be stop. there is nothing we can do abont it, it is evrywere. it is us an we are it life is great