I kind of believe things (especially the most seemingly random things) happen so we learn and grow.. like to help thicken the skin.
..and that anything above that is subject to (and possibly ruined by) interpretation.
Things happen. We then take that event and turn it into whatever we want. Like a young kid gets hit by a bus, the kids parents are crushed, it's a horrible thing - but to the old man next door who hates kids in general - and this one specifically for breaking his window with a baseball, it's not such a bad thing, he may even be overjoyed by the accident.
Same event, different meaning. Attitude and belief specific in my opinion.
I think things mean whatever we want them to (at least to an extent) but at the same time that we have more impact on things than we think.
Intent influences action, action influences results with a hunk of randomness thrown on so we can never fully figure things out... Leaving the point of our existence (whatever that may be) intact.
I don't think anything happens consistantly enough for any rule or theory to apply as much as we'd like them to.
-Dennis
