What the vulgar call chance is nothing
but a secret and concealed cause.
~David Hume
Can randomness really exist? Can one believe something so explicit as chance, it is almost as if the concept of chance was fabricated out of convenience. What about being surprised, can we really never be surprised? The fact the we can actually be not surprised is due to the fact; i say fact because it is a fact, that we have taken certain things for granted. That is why we have the capacity to become not surprised. Imagine if everyone never took anything for granted, then every second of the day, every event would shock you to death. Random and suprising events are held to be a sign of our limited knowledge and our convenient nature.
~David Hume
Can randomness really exist? Can one believe something so explicit as chance, it is almost as if the concept of chance was fabricated out of convenience. What about being surprised, can we really never be surprised? The fact the we can actually be not surprised is due to the fact; i say fact because it is a fact, that we have taken certain things for granted. That is why we have the capacity to become not surprised. Imagine if everyone never took anything for granted, then every second of the day, every event would shock you to death. Random and suprising events are held to be a sign of our limited knowledge and our convenient nature.
Look back in time, what are the odds of you happening? Your ancestors would have to meet at specific times, marry and have sex at very specific times. The "chances" of you coming into this world are one in a billion. But you are here, you are here reading this. What would "surprise" you even more is if time was to rewind back a few hundred years, things would still unfold the same way. In truth, whatever happened happened and could not happened in any other way. There is no such thing as chance, no randomness just inevitability.
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