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Tbickle wrote:When I lost my job, many people told me that "everything happens for a reason". When I didn't get selected for a job I interviewed for, they told me the same thing. I constantly have to resist beating them upside the head whenever I hear this. Of course I could just tell them that it, like everything else, happens for a reason I guess.
Armageddo wrote:Tbickle wrote:When I lost my job, many people told me that "everything happens for a reason". When I didn't get selected for a job I interviewed for, they told me the same thing. I constantly have to resist beating them upside the head whenever I hear this. Of course I could just tell them that it, like everything else, happens for a reason I guess.
You're just being negative.
Everything does happen for a reason. There's no effect without cause.
Maybe you haven't yet realised it, maybe you never will, but losing your job was a good thing in the long run. Chin up.
Armageddo wrote:You're just being negative. Everything does happen for a reason. There's no effect without cause.
Armageddo wrote:hackenslash wrote:Our entire existence as a species is the result of coincidence, quite literally. If the Earth and the K/T bolide hadn't coincided in the same space, we wouldn't be here.
Wrong.
Cause and effect. Everything has a cause, therefore everything has a reason. So using logic rather than wishful thinking, there are no coincidences.
hackenslash wrote:Armageddo wrote:hackenslash wrote:Our entire existence as a species is the result of coincidence, quite literally. If the Earth and the K/T bolide hadn't coincided in the same space, we wouldn't be here.
Wrong.
Cause and effect. Everything has a cause, therefore everything has a reason. So using logic rather than wishful thinking, there are no coincidences.
Utter bollocks. Coincidence is real. It simply means 'coming together'. As for everything having a cause, perhaps you could tell us what the cause of the Casimir effect is?
Sounds like somebody's been swallowing the Kalamity Craig Kool-Aid.
hackenslash wrote:Then tell us what the cause of the Casimir effect is. It's a fairly straightforward question.
Edit: I can wait to see if google gives you the answer, if you like. It won't, of course, but there you go.
hackenslash wrote:Bollocks. You asserted that everything has a cause. Now support that assertion by telling us what causes the Casimir effect.
hackenslash wrote:I swear a lot. Get over it. Meanwhile, the assertion was yours, therefore the burden of provision of evidence (not proof, as you have already been schooled on the distinction) is also yours.
When you're ready...
Armageddo wrote:
Your use of the word "bollocks" does nothing for your theory. And you're forgetting who the burden of proof lies on here
hackenslash wrote:What question? The only outstanding question in this thread is the one put directly to you, namely 'what is the cause of the Casimir effect?'
It will not reflect badly on you if you just state that you don't know, by the way. In fact, it will raise your stock considerably among the critical thinkers here.
hackenslash wrote:Where there is a cause, then yes. Question answered. Now answer mine, which goes directly to your assertion that every effect has a cause. Please elucidate for us the cause of the Casimir effect. If you can actually do this, there are some extremely serious men in Stockholm that would like a word with you.
iamthereforeithink wrote:While I agree that everything need not necessarily have a cause, particularly where quantum theory is concerned, the Casimir effect is probably not the best example.
The Casimir effect is caused by vacuum energy. Specifically, the difference in energy density between a confined space and the surrounding area.
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