Comments on: Does Everything Happen for a Reason?

By: How to Overcome Disappointments | Travel To Grow

How to Overcome Disappointments | Travel To Grow — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:46:57 +0000

[...] 13% Does Everything Happen for a Reason? [...]

By: danstelter

danstelter — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:37:06 +0000

Yeah, it seems that some people will grow and learn, while other fall and stay stuck. It seems that humanity as a whole, progresses much slower than many individuals. After all, they say history repeats itself, which it does. Hopefully, people can learn and not repeat the mistakes of the past

By: danstelter

danstelter — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:37:06 +0000

By: danstelter

danstelter — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:20:23 +0000

When you say “humanity as a whole needs to take lessons from it” I think you're exactly right. The problem is we are forgetful as a whole and history repeats itself. On the individual level, people seem enlightened enough that they can learn lessons and stop repeating hisotry, but as a whole, the story is much different. Great article though!

By: Devin Licastro

Devin Licastro — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:25:18 +0000

Hey Dan, glad you liked the article.
You make a really good point, humanity does have a dark past with countless wars and genocides. We've caused a lot of nasty crap to happen to each other. I think as a species were still pretty young and we've done a lot of stupid things. I do however think we are making slow but steady progress over the years… its hard to see it in our short lifetimes but we are as a whole slowly becoming more civilized. I do believe in the future we will eventually get passed all this violence and destruction and things like the holocaust will be a distant memory of how the world used to be. In order to reach this place though I think we have to look at these horrible things and take reasons and lessons and grow as a species from them. I think when something happens that effects an individual they should strive to take individual reasons from it, but when something happens that affects humanity at large, humanity as a whole needs to take reasons and lessons out of it. Perhaps an event like the holocaust has caused all of humanity to learn and grow from it.

By: danstelter

danstelter — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:34:03 +0000

Really a very nice article and blog you have here! I think that everything does happen for a reason, but the reason isn't always subjective, although it often is. I agree that bad things happen so that we can learn and grow. But sometimes, like the Holocaust, a bunch of really nasty crap happens and people are destroyed for no good reason. Individually, I think that individuals affected by that would have a hard time finding a reason for those events. I would too, and I would be open to hearing your response as to why just “crap happens” sometimes. Great post!