What do you think about this theory?

Question

Every event is inevitable. If it wasn't, it wouldn't happen.

Answer 1

You are not accounting for events which did not happen. John Adams could have lead us into a war during his presidency. A war is an event. It didn't happen, therefore it was not inevitable.

Answer 2

Only events in the past are inevitable. The events happening now are predictable, but the events of the future are both un-inevitable and unpredictable. That's why we are here, to decide upon our future.

Answer 3

That stretches predestination to the limit.  It also would seem to make for a bleak exsistence.  What would be the point of trying to succeed at anything in life, to attempt to better yourself or achieve dreams if every event that happened in your life was inevitable and inflexible?  I believe that the choices we make determine almost every event in our lives, thought there are predetermined events, but that's where religion comes into play and it gets sticky.  

Answer 4

every event is a matter of choice, distill every event that ever happened or could happen and it devolves to a choice, turn left, turn right, move this way, do this not always your choice, but someone's. once this choice is made then the event becomes an inevitable conclusion to the choice.

And that's what I think about that.

Ad hoc, ergo propter hoc, by any other name.....

Answer 5

It's possibly untrue. In other words it says that everything has a reason. Therefore if they didn't have a reason they wouldn't happen. So if there are reasons, or potential reasons, every event is inevitable.

The thing is DETERMINISM is a thing invented by humans (read some Hume's philosophy).

Determinism is not a certainty.

Also check some phisycs... in I don't remember what experiences they found out that some particles were jumping with no apparent reason.

Why things not happen without a reason?! Just cause we don't want them to?!?!?!?!?!?

Answer 6

i completely agree with that.  

i think what happens must happen and can only happen that way.

like dropping a drop of water on a surface, the water will take the path it must take give the properties of water and the surface.

i think that even the human mind and the actions people take must be this way also. given a certain mind that has had certain experiences, and given a certain stimulus there is only one choice they could or will make and if you could rewind the universe and press play again they would choose the exact same choice given all the criteria for choosing would be exactly the same.

i also think this is true of the way the universe works, in a physics sense, and mathematical. it must be this way, there is no other way it can be. pi is pi, it needs to be.

and i think this is why science can be possible, i don't think science is science because it uncovers how the universe is, but it is science because can discover why it must be.

granted science doesn't have all the answers as to why it must be, but it has a lot of them, and this is the mission it's on.

i think since humans are different as individuals it's hard to notice this on a individual human scale, but if you look at history, it repeats itself, because humans aren't changing that much and neither is the world we live in, apart from technology wise, since knowledge that humanity as a whole has, is the cumulative portion of humanity.  

Answer 7

In the book of Revelations, it is said that believers will have their destinies set out before them.  Their future is insured.  I don't know whether or not people are destined to do certain things.  Although, there is always Deja-Vu.  I've gotten the feeling as though I had already done something before, or the event seems very familiar.  I often 'remember' a certain event although it is just happening.  Just the other day I had that feeling, but the situation played out differently this time.  Have we been through this life before?

Answer 8

In general you are right. However the chance of a specific event occurring in a specific space-time is a probability. In the infinity of time and space, all events than can occur, do occur.

Answer 9

I think it is a true statement.  Events are inevitable.  Sort of like the old everything happens for a reason, or fate, or destiny.  

What I think is priceless is how after many things occur in my life, I step back and analyze everything and come out with the fact that all of those things were suppose to happen in order for me to be at this place, right here, right now.  But in many cases, we cannot predict or understand why things happen when they do.  

And even though we may understand this concept, and welcome it into our lives, it still does not mean we understand why it is happening to us, and we probably do not have enough patience to look at it in a positive light.

Thanks for reading!

Answer 10

That is true.  But what is even truer is that we can choose what kind of attitude we have for every inevitable event.  At least they remain unknown to us. So the next best option God gave us is to choose the attitude to face it.

Answer 11

I think it is true. But they happen because of free will ;o