Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Coincidence

"I don't care much for coincidences. There's something spooky about them: you sense momentarily what it must be like to live in an ordered, God-run universe, with Himself looking over your shoulder and helpfully dropping coarse hints about a cosmic plan."
We talked alot about how people think of coincidences. Should we take time in trying to find a reason why things happen in that way? Or should we just brush these instances off and forget about them? Barnes doesn't believe in coincidences. He prefers to think that things are not planned and are just random and chaotic. I personally love coincidences! Whenever I encounter one, I always try and find a reason why it might have happened that way. Part of me still thinks that it might just be completely random, but I still try to put the pieces of the puzzle together.

2 comments:

Anna Morgans said...

I agree with you Alei. It's fun trying to connect the dots, is it not?
Maybe that's what makes us human; trying to connect the dots. Perhaps we are human because we walk ourselves through the coincidence. Does that sound plausable?

Sarah Carlson said...

I do too Alei. Where's the fun in just letting them go by? Barnes just doesn't fully appreciate them. Either that he doesn't WANT to appreciate them.