Rhodmhire wrote:Not so much in the sense that life is a pattern and series of events that lead from point A. to point B., but in a way that everything happens for some reason, significant or insignificant, to you, someone else, or even animals or other living organisms.
I've always thought that everything that happens, intentional or not, leads to another thing, and another, and another. In a way that everything in life has some purpose and can affect another aspect of life, and so forth.
You might think kicking a rock on the ground without even knowing it isn't significant, but for all you know in five minutes that rock might cause someone to fall off their bike, and that might cause new bike laws to be introduced, which might cause a rebellion, which might cause a government to be overthrown, which might start a war. I doubt that would ever happen, but the point is, I think we choose our destinies, and that everything we choose to do, or even don't choose to do--knowingly or not--has an effect on ourselves or others--significant or not. There's probably a name for this thought I just explained, and it's on my tongue, but I can't name it. Or maybe I'm just being over-detailed about the common view of life.
That also could lead me into the speculation that it's true that if you went back in time if you touched anything that it could drastically alter the future, that could also include you crushing some grass or technically even breathing in air.
That also leads me to speculate time travel in the past is 100% implausible.
Damn, I went from philosophical debate about life reasoning to scientific speculation on time travel.
Awesome.
Certainly there's causality in the Universe. And humans do have a tendency to attach unseen agents to events. Here's Michael Shermer on "Agenticity."
The Bicycle Uprising of 1964, a little-known and not well-understood event that changed the face of history.
And yes, nice progression.