Do you believe in coincidence?
Do you believe that everything happens for a reason?
The way I see it, you must believe in one or the other. If you prefer to be passive, then coincidence is the easy option. If things happen for a reason, then there must be someone/something taking responsibility for the occuance. For the sake of Christianity and my own beliefs, I will assume that God is the reason for events. If you choose to believe in another power--mother earth, the full moon, the pull of gravity, your mother--you are more than welcome to do so, but the fact still remains that intentional events must originate from an facillitator.
conversely, coincidental events originate from nothing. They are not connected in any way. They come about by random chance, which has not reason.
So then, if what I say has any truth, and if you believe in coincidence, where is hope, faith and understanding?
If events happen without reason, how can one hope for anything to improve or for life to get better?
Where does one derive faith from? Or is it merely faith in oneself? Can you have true faith in yourself, or is this a selfish and dead-end belief?
How can you make sense of the world if you do not believe in a higher power with omnicient control?


P.S. what about karma?

Eminem: Till I Collapse

Music is like magic there’s a certain feeling you get when your real
and you spit and people are feeling your shit.
This is your moment and every single minute you spend trying to hold onto it
cause you may never get it again.
So while you’re in it try to get as much shit as you can
and when your run is over just admit when its at its end.
Cause I'm at the end of my wits with half this shit that gets in.
I got a list here's the order of my list that it's in...

Peel away the layers of my skin

and you will find me

somewhere below the surface.

Below the epidermis

the dermis is laced with nerves

of high tensile wire

beneath the packages of greed

are veins, flowing with sewage.

Pull out my veins and find musle

that pushes you away

and leaves the last punch.

Below the muscle

you will find a hrad, white cage

holding in the me inside,

the me that wants to hide,

the me I keep inside.

Jewel: Foolish Games

Well in case you failed to notice,

In case you failed to see,

This is my heart bleeding before you,

This is me down on my knees, and

These foolish games are tearing me apart,

And your thoughtless words are breaking my heart.

You're breaking my heart.

David Bowie/Nirvana: Man Who Sold the World

We passed upon the stair, we spoke of was and when
Although I wasn't there, he said I was his friend
Which came as some surprise
I spoke into his eyes
I thought you died alone, a long long time ago
Oh no, not me
I never lost control
You're face to face
With The Man Who Sold The World
I laughed and shook his hand, and made my way back home
I searched for form and land, for years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazely stare at all the millions here
We must have died alone, a long long time ago
Who knows? not me
We never lost control
You're face to face
With the Man who Sold the World