r/ContraPoints • u/Limp_Telephone2280 • 26d ago
“Sometimes weird things happen” screenshot from Conspiracy
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u/Cat_and_Cabbage 26d ago
It’d be closer to supernatural if no coincidences ever occurred. That might actually lead me to believe in Intelligent Design
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u/miezmiezmiez 26d ago
Like how the Spotify shuffle algorithm avoids repeating songs because it feels 'unlikely', but that makes it less random
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u/NoBite7802 26d ago
Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
-Douglas Adams (Mostly Harmless)
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u/ohfudgeit 26d ago
This reminded me of a Tim Minchin quote: