Coincidence

[Buttermilk]

What is coincidence?

Does coincidence really exist?

 

[corvus_corax]

What is coincidence?
Does coincidence really exist?

I watched a tv show in which a woman died
3000 miles away, a woman died
Coincidence?
Yes

I thought about my sister yesterday
Today, she called me
Coincidence?
Yes

My granmother was a smoker
My grandmother died from emphysema
Coincidence?
Most likely not

 

[ChristianCenturion]

What is coincidence?

Does coincidence really exist?

I believe it exists as those small events that have no significance and fall under the free will arena, but I don't believe that it is without it's boundaries and I don't believe IN the whole chance and luck mindset.

 

[Chloe Williams]

What is coincidence?

Does coincidence really exist?

I saw this cute little saying somewhere else on here (hopefully I will get it right):

A coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.

*~*Chloe Williams*~*

 

[GreenDragon]

Coincidence is an illusion created by the mind. You really want ice cream and the ice cream truck drives down your street minutes later. Coincidence? Yes. If you hadn't thought about ice cream, would it still have driven down the street? Yes.

 

[PromiseSeeker]

I used to always say to one of my old friends that there is no such thing as coincidence, only "God incidents." I truely believe this.......

 

[Lithium Hobo]

I see it more as a label of an occurance. There are not coincidences, in the sense that those actions are seperate from others, but in the sense that they are more so..different than others. I can't explain it well enough, I know, but...whatever.

 

[MoonlessNight]

Coincidence, I think, refers to something were we feel that there should be a causal relationship between two events, but we cannot see the mechanism by which such a cause would occur. For example the classic thinking of a friend and then having that friend call. The two events are similar and intuitively it strikes us that the first could have caused the second, but when we examine the situation rationally no cause presents itself. So we label the whole thing as a coincidence and shove it in the back of our mind.

So is that such a bad thing? Probably not. If I want to talk to my friend and I think that the above incident was not coincidence, I may think of them and hope they call. But it would be much quicker for me to make the call. So even though in most coincidences we can't definitively say that there was no causal relationship, it is usually better not to assume that there is, at least in terms of practical living.

 

[Maynard Keenan]

The thing is if coincidences are all the result of God, God had to make occur everything that led up to that happening. If this is os no one is in contorl of their own destiny and we have no choice or free will. That would make us nothing but God's toys who can't choose anything for ourselves. I think God can intervene in some ways, especially if it involves a natural occurance, but making PEOPLE do things takes away the ocncept of free will and without free will we aren't human.

 

[The-Doctor]

There are a lot more coincidences than you might have think. Like my girlfriend and I met 6 years ago (we were in the same place at the same time) but didnt actually meet up till last year.

 

[DailyBlessings]

Yes and no.

Everything that happens happens as the result of the physical laws that govern our universe- so you only really have to accept "coincidences" if you think that those laws were random in their creation.