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Originally posted by Colin@Dec 2 2002, 12:17 PM
Example: I win the lottery. Later in life I am a drug addict and messed up my life. Can I then say "everything happens for a reason" and that winning the lottery happened in order to make me a drug addict?
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Oh, Colin, sometimes you make my head hurt!
IMHO, yes, many bad things happen as a result of a good thing happening. You marry the girl of your dreams and find out she's carrying some mutant gene that makes all your children born profoundly retarded and die w/in a year (happened to a friend of mine, so I'm not creatively morbid
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Because you can't have kids of your own, you decide to adopt older children with medical problems. One turns out to be an idiot savant and wins a huge award for showing others how to convert garbage into energy. Then stabs you (in keeping with the "Holiday Stabbing Spirit"). Good-bad-good-good-bad. Had you not adopted this child, they wouldn't have invented the garbage=power thing and not helped others. But you'd also still be alive
Then again, maybe you would have become a drug addict even if you hadn't won the lottery - as a result of a DIFFERENT event
Last edited by Peaches at Dec 2 2002, 12:35 PM