Since she brought up all that nothingness about things happening for reasons, you probably bought all that crap about fate. According to the oft-believed fate theory, you would have gotten that job no matter what. You could have sat on your duff and starved a month (or however long it took you to find it) and you still would have gotten the job. Yeah. Okay.
According to cause-and-effect (notice this is no theory), you lost your job. Since you lost your job, you lost your money. And since you lost your money, you couldn't buy groceries. Since you couldn't buy groceries, you got hungry. Since you were hungry, you started looking for a new job to get more money. You got the job. You got more money. You got more groceries. You ate. You were happy.
It's just plain coincidence that the job was as great as it was.
As a final sidenote to Old Fashioned Fate, if both God and fate are real, why does God punish us for something out of our control? For that matter, if God knows all things present, past, and future, why does he even bother putting us on earth at all? Why not just divide us into Heaven-goers and Hell-goers and be done with it? I look forward to comments from Christians on this subject.
Cont'd next entry . . .
2 comments:
I love it!
Well, I'm a Christian and i can answer your question. God doesn't know the future. then there is no reason to our existence. Maybe God isn't punishing you but giving you a heads up. i forgot this guy's name but his brothers sold him as a slave but in the end he was by the king's side. so god wanted him to be prepare and that's why. when he was a slave he commander slave which is really good. so he manage great and that was a practice for him. a lot of things can happen during our lives so people can change. when you are born you are pure of sins but when you die you are tainted with sins. it just depend which sins are more greater. a nice person can be change into a person that can no longer trust and love. a bad person can be change into a person that loves and trust. it depends on time.
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