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Old 01-12-2015, 12:52 PM   #1
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I just can't get myself to accept the idea that the entirety of the universe, and everything in it, is all just one big coincidence.

YMMV, of course.
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Old 01-12-2015, 11:07 PM   #2
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I just can't get myself to accept the idea that the entirety of the universe, and everything in it, is all just one big coincidence.
If the dice are thrown enough times, then it was not a coincidence. It was inevitable.
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Old 01-13-2015, 12:54 PM   #3
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If the dice are thrown enough times, then it was not a coincidence. It was inevitable.
Coincidence and chance are terribly close to the same thing.

Happenstance.

Six of one, a half-dozen of the other.

An accident.
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