Determinism is the doctrine or belief that everything, including every human act, is caused by something and that there is no real free will while randomness tells us that nothing happens for a reason. Determinism connects the past with present and then lead one towards the future while for randomness there is no connection between anything, everything is happening randomly. This creates two groups of peoples. One who believe in determinism and other who follows randomness.Determinism is believed to be a old study while new trends follow randomness.
Now the question is on which category do I fall? For last six months I have been analyzing my past life. I counted all events which occurred there & I found something interesting. I found links between the events. One event occurred because of other even after a gap of 2 or 3 years. What I learned from the previous event was useful to some other event while there was no connection between them. What are these links or connections all about? I found one answer " Everything Happens For a Reason". I must mention something from my recent past.
I was in B.E. final year when I was organizing two events in the technical fest of my college. One of the two events required computers for it and other needed question papers. While we were assembling the computers at the venue of the event, I started playing a game on a computer. I was so involved in the game that I did'nt notice that there was no power & the computer was getting power from UPS. I played the game for almost half hour & then someone told me that there was no power, I turned off the computer. This is what happened during the first event. Now in second event, question papers were to be published just a day before the event but due to some problem we were unable to do so. So on the day of event we had to publish the papers. But when we were taking out the prints of the papers, there was a paper cut & some papers were left to be printed. Somehow we arranged a laptop running on its battery but then the main problem raised. It was about printer. How to supply power to the printer? When we were thinking about it, the computer on which I was played the game came to my mind & then its ups which was having a battery backup of more than half hour. We brought that ups and took prints of the rest papers.
Here it can be seen that the thing happened in the previous event helped me to get rid of the problem in second event. So, I believe in Determinism. "Everything happens for a reason".
What do you think?
