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In the 21 years I've been living on this earth, I can with no doubt say that there are no such things as coincidences – or at least that's how I've been perceiving it.
When something "amazing" happens to me, to someone I know or just around me, I often never find myself being amazed nor emotionally affected by it; a plane can crash right into my office and I won't care about it any more than did my burning of that same day's morning waffles.
I don't know whether this is partly due to my gradual losing of any type of sensibility to things (for some reason I'm unaware of) or simply because I knew it would happen regardless of the initial conditions which allegedly led to it.
It's almost as though a recondite being living in a tenth dimension is making a living out of puppeting human lives to kill time. But hey, if that's the case, at least we're not the only motherfuckers in this universe!
Back in 2007, high school days, I fell in love with a German girl. She was my best friend. I liked her because she was a complete dick, but also highly intelligent; the feeling of getting outsmarted on a daily basis feels much better than the idea suggests. However, this particular characteristic of hers, that one of learning, was one of the things that stuck to me tighter than a frog's butt in a watermelon seed fight. So I started learning German when we started dating.
We lasted a little over two months before she had to leave to Deutschland upon our graduation. We kept in touch for quite the same amount of time before I never heard from her again. Four years went by, and I'm still learning German, and it has helped me so very much in the workforce that I'd be living off of tomato-sauce-and-hot-water soup had I not done that to begin with.
What was she? Was she just another coincidence? Another event that was tossed up in the air like a pair of dice? A fleeting, passing chance? Hell fucking no; before meeting her, I couldn't give a damn about Germany, whilst I'm now finding myself being a wannabe and planning to live, die and be buried there.
There are no such things as coincidences. I don't care in what god(s) you believe in but there's definitely someone out there pointing down on earth with a magnifying glass. So props for believing in one, if you do, 'cause sure as hell one's freestyling us right now worse than SlayerS_BoxeR put against a TSL Protoss.
Have fun boys.
  
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Sounds a lot like me. ^^ 
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Well, what is gonna happen is gonna happen no matter what, so in that sense there are no coincidences. You can't change the future, but you can form it.
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everything is a coincidence life has no meaning . . . . . .
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Life is a series of moments ::shrugs::
Coincidences = random probability in life.
It's nice to find something that emotionally stimulates you, I'm sure
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On March 24 2011 01:09 des wrote:
everything is a coincidence life has no meaning . . . . . .
Everything is a coincidence? You can't think of any event or situation that could very well lead to another?
I'm sorry to hear that life has no meaning for you 
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Germany is good
Your story is pretty much how I started learning Chinese. I added a second girl after that though to enhance the learning experience.
Hopefully it pays off
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To me, it's more that life does not have a grand universal meaning, not that it has no meaning at all to each person on earth. My life has the meaning I attach to it.
Situations certainly will lead to others. I don't see how that's debateable. But the question is behind the "meaning" of those situations leading to others. And there is no empirical answer that can be made from that - people will believe what they want. I do not believe there is a universal plan or guiding force or whatever, and it requires less arbitrary assumptions to believe it happened due to probability rather than positing the existence of an additional entity. I also have not experienced anything that made me think there must be a supernatural being out there watching us.
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obviously causality exists but it's absurd to think that someone is steering just because of that
op meets girl, girl is german, op decides to learn german/about germany
the only thing steering this is his boner!
you're the only person with any semblance of control over your life and it's pretty foolish to assume that you even have that much of that
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well my friend there are things such coincidences every where, for example i had a girl
that use to go to a restaurant, and i meet another girl i invited her to that restaurant, u know what happend? my girl found me with that girl in that restaurant because she went there with a Friend of her
with this boyfriend... SO THIS IS COINCIDENCE
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Life is just a series of coincidences.
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Honestly, I don't really think much about whether any event was a coincidence or not... if it happens, it happens.
On March 24 2011 01:05 Rayzorblade wrote:Sounds a lot like me. ^^
wow.. coincidence?
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On March 24 2011 01:14 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Show nested quote +On March 24 2011 01:09 des wrote:
everything is a coincidence life has no meaning . . . . . . I'm sorry to hear that life has no meaning for you
without speaking for des, those of us who consider life to have no meaning consider it a very positive thing, life has whatever meaning you want it to have and you can do with it what you will. in fact i find the OPs determinism extremely depressing (or i would if i believed it) as it impedes free will.
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I know that the core of the blog wasn't about this but I'm glad whenever people find interest in a country like France or especially Germany in a time when it may not be the most exciting culture compared to the dazzling countries in the east who shine brightly and alive, but it has a full past that endowed it with a lot of depth.
The reason for this feeling is that allthough Germany seems more resilient than the rest of the old world to its fading, the perception of Europes irrelevance makes me sad (That is imho also the reason for the european arrogance and gloating in sc2, we try to be recognized), because i feel human culture is losing a lot with europes demise.
This continent had centuries with enough prosperity to develop a culture beyond the functional necessities on many different nutrient media (for example in a mercantile culture or a few hundred miles away in a feudalsystem), that could interact on small scales in time an space.
The resulting richness and manifoldness in culture is something that is not likely to be duplicated again in the more homogenous environment of today.
While the obvious achievements can and have been assimilated the depth they are rooted on is gone.
In my experience it is a must to learn a culture's language if you want to really 'get' it and since i know that this is a laborious thing to do it makes me really glad if someone who doesn't have to is learning German.
In conclusion i really appreciate your efforts and hope you stick to it. If you do so long enough there is a lot of beauty to be found in the german language with its pictorial and expressive character.
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On March 24 2011 02:16 rolfe wrote:Show nested quote +On March 24 2011 01:14 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:On March 24 2011 01:09 des wrote:
everything is a coincidence life has no meaning . . . . . . I'm sorry to hear that life has no meaning for you without speaking for des, those of us who consider life to have no meaning consider it a very positive thing, life has whatever meaning you want it to have and you can do with it what you will. in fact i find the OPs determinism extremely depressing (or i would if i believed it) as it impedes free will.
But that's exactly what I mean. Your life has its own meaning, which is whatever meaning you want it to have.
A meaningless life truly means that there's no reason to keep going (and I think suicide would be terrible, considering you're ridiculously lucky to exist in the first place, given the odds). At least, that's how I'm interpreting it in this scenario (perhaps his lack of elaboration and syntax is causing a misinterpretation of semantics on my part).
I'm not claiming that the very fact that you exist means that you must have one set goal or meaning. I'm not saying that existence necessitates a certain meaning for your life.
I'm merely claiming that you eventually find meaning in your life, or else you wouldn't still be here.
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Most people describe coincidences as like: Go to holiday in Spain and randomly go to see a football match and meet your next door neighbours who you don't see that much at the stadium. It's just something that is unlikely to happen but probabilistically coincidences are likely to happen by the sheer amount of possible ones.
What you describe is falling in love with a German girl and your interest in Germany sprouting from that. Seems like more of a natural progression that you have the right personality to follow through. If someone else was in the same situation maybe he wouldn't like to live in Germany.
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On March 24 2011 02:27 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
But that's exactly what I mean. Your life has its own meaning, which is whatever meaning you want it to have.
A meaningless life truly means that there's no reason to keep going (and I think suicide would be terrible, considering you're ridiculously lucky to exist in the first place, given the odds). At least, that's how I'm interpreting it in this scenario (perhaps his lack of elaboration and syntax is causing a misinterpretation of semantics on my part).
I'm not claiming that the very fact that you exist means that you must have one set goal or meaning. I'm not saying that existence necessitates a certain meaning for your life.
I'm merely claiming that you eventually find meaning in your life, or else you wouldn't still be here.
i think i understand your meaning a little clearer now and i'm sure what we think seems quite close. i've always loved the kurt vonnegut quote "we're here on this earth to fart around and don't let anyone tell you any different" and i think its the best way to feel about life. i'm still unsure about the word meaning though, i think it implies too much maybe. finding something for your life is important of course, whatever it happens to be
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On March 24 2011 02:45 rolfe wrote:Show nested quote +On March 24 2011 02:27 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
But that's exactly what I mean. Your life has its own meaning, which is whatever meaning you want it to have.
A meaningless life truly means that there's no reason to keep going (and I think suicide would be terrible, considering you're ridiculously lucky to exist in the first place, given the odds). At least, that's how I'm interpreting it in this scenario (perhaps his lack of elaboration and syntax is causing a misinterpretation of semantics on my part).
I'm not claiming that the very fact that you exist means that you must have one set goal or meaning. I'm not saying that existence necessitates a certain meaning for your life.
I'm merely claiming that you eventually find meaning in your life, or else you wouldn't still be here. i think i understand your meaning a little clearer now and i'm sure what we think seems quite close. i've always loved the kurt vonnegut quote "we're here on this earth to fart around and don't let anyone tell you any different" and i think its the best way to feel about life. i'm still unsure about the word meaning though, i think it implies too much maybe. finding something for your life is important of course, whatever it happens to be
I think we're pretty much in agreement
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Sorry, misread.
I don't believe in fate. I don't live a life of probability either. Sometimes, things just happen. You can influence how your life unfolds through the actions you decide.
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law of attraction WOOOO :D
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It's just the probability of certain events occurring. It's actually quite probable that humans, as sexual creatures, will look for mates. You found one that you liked, which is also quite common seeing as how there are close to 7 billion of us. She spoke a different language, which is more than likely not AS common but not too rare to be considered beyond the possibility of coincidence. "Luck is probability taken personally". Thats just my two cents, but the important thing is that you're happy with the outcome so congrats to you.
On a side note I enjoyed your metaphors. "stuck to me tighter than a frog's butt in a watermelon seed fight." Can't say I've heard that one before.
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the thing about the idea that some higher being is running everything to get x y and z out of you is that it is pretty focused on the idea that no one but yourself has agency and is just a puppet used by "god" to get you to do something
seems awfully self-centered
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On March 24 2011 01:57 buhhy wrote:
Life is just a series of coincidences.
Good book
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On March 24 2011 00:51 EsX_Raptor wrote:
What was she? Was she just another coincidence? Another event that was tossed up in the air like a pair of dice? A fleeting, passing chance?
Yep.
Hell fucking no; before meeting her, I couldn't give a damn about Germany, whilst I'm now finding myself being a wannabe and planning to live, die and be buried there.
You met her and started learning german because of her. I don't see anything magical about this. If you had chosen to do otherwise, that would've just led you down another path of choices and you'd probably be saying the exact same thing.
I don't know what drugs you did to come to the conclusion that a supreme being is controlling everything. I mean really, think about it. You're using a skill you developed for your advantage, because of an event that happened in your life. Yep that does it guys, there's a god guiding OP's life and he's the chosen one.
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the fact that us humans exist is a coincidence. The probability of humanity existing is pretty much zero so life itself is the biggest coincidence
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Lol I'm pretty much the opposite, "we're all just on a hunk of space rock" kinda thing 
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Reminds me of CLAMP's xxxHolic :D
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On March 24 2011 03:02 des wrote:
the thing about the idea that some higher being is running everything to get x y and z out of you is that it is pretty focused on the idea that no one but yourself has agency and is just a puppet used by "god" to get you to do something
seems awfully self-centered
Yea that's what I've thought too. Like you forget to set up your alarm clock so you miss your flight, then it turns out the flight crashes, and you're like "this is not a coincidence, this was an act of god". Well honestly, why would god save you of all people and decide to kill 200 others no more or less innocent than u? Always bugged me when religious ppl think like that.
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On March 24 2011 01:32 des wrote:
obviously causality exists but it's absurd to think that someone is steering just because of that
op meets girl, girl is german, op decides to learn german/about germany
the only thing steering this is his boner!
I think you are reaching at too conclusive a metaphor there. I have never heard of anyone taking up Goethe and Schiller because of excessive hormones, but if that is true, it just comes to show the miracles of human nature.
Für mich hab' ich genug erworben
Soviel auch Widerspruch sich regt;
Sie haben meine Gedanken verdorben
Und sagen, sie hätten mich widerlegt.
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Life, in and of itself, has no meaning.
A person's life has meaning, insofar as they define it. (Existentialism)
As for being "amazed" or "excited" surrounding occurring events, I take a simple approach. Nothing is surprising, exciting and the like unless I wasn't aware of possibilities. Given that essentially anything is possible, there is nothing amazing that could occur, just probabilities.
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On March 24 2011 05:33 MoltkeWarding wrote:
I think you are reaching at too conclusive a metaphor there. I have never heard of anyone taking up Goethe and Schiller because of excessive hormones, but if that is true, it just comes to show the miracles of human nature.
i'm not doin any metaphors i don't know what you're trying to tell me!
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so guy meets german girl, learns german then moves to germany => god exists. Q.E.D. mutha fuckas
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On March 24 2011 05:33 MoltkeWarding wrote:
Für mich hab' ich genug erworben
Soviel auch Widerspruch sich regt;
Sie haben meine Gedanken verdorben
Und sagen, sie hätten mich widerlegt.
Wer schrieb dies?
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