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There is comfort in structure, and structure is superimposed from the top-down.

Governments are structures. Societies are structures. Most people are very uncomfortable with uncertainty. I say this from personal experience, but I am sure there are a multitude of experiments that corroborate my statement.

I have work in the morning so I'm not going to be doing research at 1 AM...but look at the Milgram experiments, the Stanford prison experiment, etc. People have such a strong preference for structure, that persons with no criminal background are willing to kill and beat others to maintain order.

The world, however, is only structured in a mechanical sense.

The pioneer of Game Theory, John Forbes Nash Jr., created an economic paradigm which blew anything close to it out of the water at the time. Then, he went on to develop paranoid schizophrenia and fled to Europe, under the delusion the CIA were hunting him down. Nash regained his sanity, and was working on groundbreaking maths with differential equations, when he and his wife were killed when their taxi was impacted.

The universe, if it operates according to some order, does not act in accordance with what we expect of it with our limited understand of causality and how all things are interconnected.

"Is it fate or just random circumstance?"

Fated to happen. Seemingly random to the person these things happen to.

MissCommunication stated: source post

 

This realization that we have no control over anything and it doesn't matter if you're a good person or a shit person cause really bad shit can happen to anyone in an instant messes my head. And I know I'm stating the obvious.  

Mmhmm....shit happens....if you are lucky...you live, if not?....game over. 

@Trypt

The universe, if it operates according to some order, does not act in accordance with what we expect of it with our limited understand of causality and how all things are interconnected.

..you know...if there is or not/ a God or Universal cause and effect...remains unknown and of little point to debate as none will ever know the answer anyways....and if we did....what might it change or not is beyond comprehension. However, it does seem that the Laws of Chaos / Equilibrium are a pair of funny fuckers...lol...

I'm not sure but I think you might be saying you believe in fate, even though it feels random to those involved? Personally, I find comfort in the idea of fate. Like what happens is meant to be and there's a reason for it even if we will never understand it. 

Primal stated: source post

 

MissCommunication stated: source post

 

This realization that we have no control over anything and it doesn't matter if you're a good person or a shit person cause really bad shit can happen to anyone in an instant messes my head. And I know I'm stating the obvious.  

Mmhmm....shit happens....if you are lucky...you live, if not?....game over. 

@Trypt

The universe, if it operates according to some order, does not act in accordance with what we expect of it with our limited understand of causality and how all things are interconnected.

..you know...if there is or not/ a God or Universal cause and effect...remains unknown and of little point to debate as none will ever know the answer anyways....and if we did....what might it change or not is beyond comprehension. However, it does seem that the Laws of Chaos / Equilibrium are a pair of funny fuckers...lol...

 

The universe appears to be rather structured. Consider things such as genetic engineering, chemistry, Boeing airplanes, the Internet, pharmaceuticals, knowledge of where the "pleasure center" is in the human brain, 3D-printed surrogate organs, satellites that make precise orbits because physicists work on how the gravitation of different planets will affect movement, the LHC that found the Boson particle predicted to exist. And so on. There seems to be a structure.

Sure, you can't know if there is a God, or we're living in a simulation, etc. But I think it would be ignorant to disregard the accumulation of human understanding.

I'd also like to propose the idea that what you see as "chaos" may actually be structure that you simply can't account for.

Basically this, but I don't believe things are "meant to happen," other than in the sense that they are inevitable consequences of all things interacting in tandem.

Primal stated: source post

 

MissCommunication stated: source post

 

This realization that we have no control over anything and it doesn't matter if you're a good person or a shit person cause really bad shit can happen to anyone in an instant messes my head. And I know I'm stating the obvious.  

Mmhmm....shit happens....if you are lucky...you live, if not?....game over. 

I get it. You're edgy. "Shit happens" Meh, you think you're unaffected but to me you come across as another sheltered suburbanite, Primal. 

Tryptamine stated: source post

 

I'd also like to propose the idea that what you see as "chaos" may actually be structure that you simply can't account for.

I can work with that....for what else is Equilibrium but constant Chaos? ...the trick....lol....;) ....  God is in the rain....

I get it. You're edgy. "Shit happens" Meh, you think you're unaffected but to me you come across as another sheltered suburbanite, Primal.

.....BAWhahahhaha....So so sooooooooooooooooo not even close..... 

So there is no reason...
I mean every action has an equal and.... ya, you know the rest. But no, this doesn't fit what my mind is gnawing on.... 

I think you have the term equilibrium mixed up with thermodynamics? At any rate, I am not sure what you're getting at here.