Need some insight

[Mirana]

I'm the type of person that likes to analyze everything. It's probably unhealthy seeing as it's brought up a lot of anxiety when I was growing up... I've had people tell me that being smart is my problem.

But I started talking to one of my friends about what I thought about life and society (Note that this guy really isn't the brightest light bulb) And he suggested that there's "A reason for everything" And for some reason I just keep thinking about what he said, I can't get it out of my head. I just find that ridiculously idiotic way to look at reality.

Anyone agree? Disagree? I would really like to see what other people think about this.

EDIT:

I did not notice this thread until I made this.

http://bbs.zoklet.net/showthread.php?t=4869

But it has a lot to do with what I'm saying here.

[Nisko]

"To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."

Think about that.

[toker420]

sounds like you have a form of ocd. tell a doc and get on some good drugs if it annoys you.

[Mirana]

I was just reading the wiki on OCD and it was frightening how much it related to me.

Well tomorrow I'll go to my doc and explain to him, I've spent almost 7 years just living with this problem and always thought it was next to impossible to get subscribed drugs so I never bothered.. people told me they start you off on anti-depressants and I know I'm not depressed.

[AtrainV]

always thought it was next to impossible to get subscribed drugs so I never bothered..

Like a magazine?

But in all seriousness, let us know how it turns out. Anti-depressants are often used for psychological issues aside from depression because many disorders are linked to similar neurotransmitters that are affected by anti-depressants.

[Der Fahrer]

I agree with that saying too. I'm just kind of confused by it, because even though I think "everything happens for a reason," I still don't think that people are predestined or fated for things to happen to them. I feel like it's up to me to create my destiny, and that there's a reason I chose the options I chose to create that path.

Even though I think I'm borderline OCD with some stuff, it doesn't run my life by any means. It's only every once in a while that I'll have a tangent where I'll think, "Is there a reason I accidentally forgot to grab my wallet on my way out? What would've happened if I'd left two minutes sooner?" Shit like that. It'll take me into the past and future and it'll be five before I realized what I'm doing and get back to whatever I'm supposed to be working on. It sounds like you're fine though. Humans think. That's what we're wired for.

[Dionysus]

I personally think that few things happen for a reason. In hindsight people see people reacting to an event, but that doesn’t mean the event made them react. It didn’t make them a better person and it happened for a real reason. People seem to confuse fate with experience. It may have made you a stronger person but it also may have ruined your life. Everything as far as I am concerned is a fucking coin flip.

Hope that makes you feel better.

[Death_Merchant]

I'll solve it for you. The reason is Will. The universal drive behind the universe. Everything from the tangible to the intangible. Things don't happen because of someone's reason, like god, but simply happen because Will puts things in motion, and life carries itself out. It's a chain reaction kind of thing, but Will is behind all of it.

[Centipede2]

Do you think there is a cause for everything instead? Do you believe in free will? If everything is caused by something, then is our thinking and acting not as similarly caused by something?

I don't know, my first response is "who's reason?" "There is a reason for everything" is such a fucking vague statement you can only assume the underlying statement is "there is God's reason for everything" and then you come to the question (or ask him) "If God causes everything and God is all good and all knowing then why is there evil and why does God have to send his son to earth to change humanity even though God created humanity and can see everything including the future?"

I believe a lot of things are determined as responses to chains of causes but I still haven't concluded if humans have free will. What are your thoughts?

[Thecosmicexplosion]

Everything is in and of a single instant, Why analyze when you can exist, learn and simply be?

[Mirana]

It's hard to explain Thecosmicexplosion.

But fortunately medication will make everything not matter anymore. Got my appointment early next week, hopefully his not a dick.

[Thecosmicexplosion]

It's hard to explain Thecosmicexplosion.

But fortunately medication will make everything not matter anymore. Got my appointment early next week, hopefully his not a dick.

If you are as you say in your original post, Medication will not make everything better, perhaps it may numb it to the point that you can ignore it, but peace lies within yourself.

[Ambient]

It depends how you look at it "there is a reason for everything". You need to define "reason" and "everything".

If by everything we mean "reality" and reason we mean "accountability"( which is how i interpreted it) i do believe everything that has an effect within reality has a cause.

You can see this with energy; when energy is transferred it is transformed. It becomes something else and it comes from something else. Something cannot come from nothing.

So ultimately everything in reality must have an accountant.

P.S as a "smart" person you are probably operating mostly intellectually and therefore egotistically; try not being so egotistical.

[IWD]

It's hard to explain Thecosmicexplosion.

But fortunately medication will make everything not matter anymore. Got my appointment early next week, hopefully his not a dick.

Enjoy your SSRI's/SNRI's.

Or maybe your anafranil.

I used to be just like what you described. I was very happy, but obsessed about deep philosophical things all of the time. Eventually I realized it was starting to negatively affect me, and then it started getting really bad and I wasn't happy anymore. It never goes away. This world is fucked, and you have to lie to yourself in order to find peace while alive.

SSRI's didn't help me either. You know why they really prescribe people SSRI's? So all of the fucked up people become impotent and can't reproduce. The entire time I was on that medication I had sexual difficulties.

[lowballer]

I'll solve it for you. The reason is Will. The universal drive behind the universe. Everything from the tangible to the intangible. Things don't happen because of someone's reason, like god, but simply happen because Will puts things in motion, and life carries itself out. It's a chain reaction kind of thing, but Will is behind all of it.
Exactly. That's factual.

[Mirana]

Internet-Weed-Dude why did you bump this?

Also I only took the stupid pills for a week before I decided I would rather feel something then nothing at all. Never again took anti-depressants. (Was almost a year ago)

[Slightly Stoopid]

SSRI's didn't help me either. You know why they really prescribe people SSRI's? So all of the fucked up people become impotent and can't reproduce. The entire time I was on that medication I had sexual difficulties.

Makes me think about the government breeding out certain traits of humans to make better human servants. Do you Feel uncomfortable, don't like work, are bored, analyze/think to much, think fads are stupid? Then you must be depressed! take these various pills and stop thinking and spend your money on worthless crap like a 50 dollar bread basket.

j/k, though I wouldn't be suprised if it was true. It's not the frist time the government has treated humans like cattle.

[never]

OP: You are the only person to ever think that they think too much.