Do you belive everything happens for a reason?

[Agnostic Bear]

Nope, things just happen because they can, no reason at all. Happens to me all the time.

[Jesus-Egg]

Yes in the sense that event A causes event B, which in turn causes event C etc. But no, I don't believe there is any divine reasoning to why things happen. They just happen.

[Hazza]

Everything happens for a reason.
All I am saying

[Virgin Mary]

Everything happens for a reason.
All I am saying

Aren't you going to tell us the reason?

[clueless]

I'm not religious in any shape or form but I do believe this and in karma

[Slowpoke]

Yes, I do.

[Immenseman]

Not at all. You have to believe in some sort of omniscient force (God, Karma etc) to believe that isolated things happen for a reason. If you don't, you're just looking for something to excuse what you've done which seems a bit like avoiding responsibility imo.

I don't think you have to believe in any of that, it's just merely common sense everything that happens has a reason behind it. "I dropped a cup" that'll be because your fingers opened and you lost grip. I struggle to see how events don't have reasoning behind them, they must.

I certainly don't think it's God determining it or any other religious explanations.

[Trinity]

Of course everything happens for a reason, it's a simple, unquestionable fact. That reason being that something previous caused it to happen, just like Immenseman said. (Which means that if you could work out exactly what happened at the beginning of the universe, you should be able to predict the entire future of it)
This also means that everything is predetermined, and has been since the beginning.

But if you mean does everything happen for some sort of future based reason (bad wording, I know), then absolutely not, the present/future has no effect on the past, only on our interpretation of the past.
(Although if you listen to some theorists, both are exactly the same thing)

[Janeisntpleased]

I don't think you have to believe in any of that, it's just merely common sense everything that happens has a reason behind it. "I dropped a cup" that'll be because your fingers opened and you lost grip. I struggle to see how events don't have reasoning behind them, they must.

I certainly don't think it's God determining it or any other religious explanations.

is what you're saying about the cup more causality? if so then yeh everything obviously happens for a reason. i thought the question referred to everything having some sort of deeper meaning, if that makes sense.

[Hazzles]

Possibly.
Not like karma and that if you do something bad, bad stuff will happen, so anything bad happens to me is my fault, but more like I was meant to do this, its not my fault.
But this may just be an excuse to blame someone else, so yeah, not sure.