The endless realm of possibility = Fate

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Okay, check this out. Have you ever wondered about stuff like "what if this happened"? I do. All the time. So what about meaningless coincidences, like meeting the same dude twice in one day, just out of nowhere? And where does deja vu tie in? I think it's all interconnected, like the whole weave of possibility and coincidence all works together in one big gigantic universal algebraic equation to make one thing: Fate. Seriously. Because coincidences can turn into big events. For example:

A guy goes out drinking on a Saturday night with a few of his buddies. They all get really hammered and start on the journey home. Long story short, they crash into some regular dude who is driving home with his wife and two kids. The crash kills all of them.

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Okay, so that's a seemingly innocuous chain of events at first (something that happens quite often in the US). However, it turns into the deaths of four people. Coincidence becomes fate. It has to be fate, because there's no other explanation for it. Why didn't the drunk drivers hit somebody else? Because the family was fated to die. However, let's say one of the people involved in the accident survives. Why? Because he wasn't fated to die. Simple. But it gets really complicated at times, and we ask all these questions, like "why do 4 year old kids die instead of 80 year old dudes that are gonna die soon anyway?" That's why I came up with a theory to explain the phenomenon of fate. Okay, there are numerous scientific laws that would explain my positon. But I'll use algebra. You know how if you do something to one side of the equation, you have to do the same thing to the other side? My theory is that the universe works the exact same way. There's some sort of gigantic equation that determines the entire balance of the universe, from everything to the proper amount of atoms present in an element to the proper amount of people alive. But there has to be a way to figure out the equation, some sort of universal constant that would allow us to solve the equation and figure out exactly what it is that causes things to work the way they do. That sounds nuts, but it's what I believe. We just need to polish the theory. Ideas?

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Lucien wrote:

like meeting the same dude twice in one day, just out of nowhere? And where does deja vu tie in? I think it's all interconnected, like the whole weave of possibility and coincidence all works together in one big gigantic universal algebraic equation to make one thing: Fate.

I don't think that is it. I happen to have a lot of deja vu's. the amount going up and down every once in a while. The first deja vu I had was that I fell off of a schooltool, you know the kind of thing you used to climb on when you were little(don't know the exact word, sorry). The very next day I fell off of it. I fell on my back (didn't hurt myself) but couldn't stop thinking about me having experienced that some time earlier. Later I figured it was a deja vu, after I had another 5.
There deja vu's are not only about myself, but also about other persons. (pretty scary some times).
Where they come from, I have no idea. But the thing you are describing is equal to the idea of "God" but then again, if it is God we are talking about it wouldn't be coincidences, and why did God (or that gigantic universal algebraic equation, Fate) give me the deja vu's instead of you?

Lucien wrote:

Why didn't the drunk drivers hit somebody else? Because the family was fated to die.

OR just because the family happened to be walking there? Bad luck, would most people say, but saying that we're talking about fate again.

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