Can life make a mistake?

Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed

Be what you is not what you what you ain’t
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I say no, life is incapable of making mistakes.
 

Pepper said:
Childhood is not in our hands. It is the luck of the draw. I was lucky. Some were not. Childhood forms us and alters life decisions and outlook for the rest of our lives unless intense work is involved.
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I agree. In fact, I read an article a few years ago about the head bartender in a big fancy cocktail lounge inside a big fancy hotel in New York city that hosted a lot of conventions. One convention held there every year was the American Psychiatric Association's.

This bartender said every year, he overheard at least a couple of therapists from that convention--and they hadn't had that much to drink either--bemoaning the fact that they were therapists and wondering if they'd gone into the wrong line of work since they felt like if they were really honest with their patients the only way they could help them was to tell them to get in a time machine, go back and choose different parents to be born to. The bartender said he heard that every year.
 
hollydolly said:
Whose life ?
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Excellent point, not who but life in general. In other words freak events such as Siamese twins or weird birth defects. Can life make a mistake? what about evolution or freaks of nature? I contend is not capable of a mistake.
 
CallMeKate said:
Life is what happens in response to choices people make... so humans make the mistakes and "life" reflects them.
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Define mistake? Humans don’t make mistakes, they make poor decisions that may be classified as mistake. In reality there are no mistakes including human error.
any and everything that happens is the result of one or more components that changes the outcome of a given situation. Mistakes are not possible, however, personal preference might deem a mistake has been made. To that individual or individuals closed minded is a trait shared by many.
 
If aliens created/started life on this planet, and are monitoring it's evolution, then they might see some of the behavior of life as not what they planned. So that might be construed as a mistake.
 
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officerripley said:
I agree. In fact, I read an article a few years ago about the head bartender in a big fancy cocktail lounge inside a big fancy hotel in New York city that hosted a lot of conventions. One convention held there every year was the American Psychiatric Association's.

This bartender said every year, he overheard at least a couple of therapists from that convention--and they hadn't had that much to drink either--bemoaning the fact that they were therapists and wondering if they'd gone into the wrong line of work since they felt like if they were really honest with their patients the only way they could help them was to tell them to get in a time machine, go back and choose different parents to be born to. The bartender said he heard that every year.
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Wow, that is totally validating to hear. I don't think some understand that an abused child is a developing human. Their brains are developing. When I heard that they believe childhood abuse rewires the brain, it explained just about everything. Nothing will stop my brain from telling me I'm a POS everyday. Because I was raised to believe I was.
 
Remy said:
Wow, that is totally validating to hear. I don't think some understand that an abused child is a developing human. Their brains are developing. When I heard that they believe childhood abuse rewires the brain, it explained just about everything. Nothing will stop my brain from telling me I'm a POS everyday. Because I was raised to believe I was.
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It's so sad but those formative childhood years are really important. (But I totally don't think you're a POS; hugs.)
 
Remy said:
Wow, that is totally validating to hear. I don't think some understand that an abused child is a developing human. Their brains are developing. When I heard that they believe childhood abuse rewires the brain, it explained just about everything. Nothing will stop my brain from telling me I'm a POS everyday. Because I was raised to believe I was.
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stop Remy... you are in no way a POS... you just spent time with the wrong people in your life ... not your fault, but we all know what a good decent, kind person you are... 🤗
 
Remy said:
Wow, that is totally validating to hear. I don't think some understand that an abused child is a developing human. Their brains are developing. When I heard that they believe childhood abuse rewires the brain, it explained just about everything. Nothing will stop my brain from telling me I'm a POS everyday. Because I was raised to believe I was.
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I know what you mean about validation. I have a hereditary digestive medical condition (sorry about TMI) and I read the other day that 1 of the foremost doctors working on it recently said that they've pretty much come to the conclusion, even with all the most recent research, that some poor people are just born with terrible digestive tracts and there's really nothing that can be done about it other than the sufferers should only eat small amounts of food (like 2 or 3 bites!) at a time and wait several hours before they eat again. (It used to be that I could get relief by going 24 hours without eating; now I'm old, it takes 36 hours and I just can't go that long without eating anymore.)

And at first that depressed me but then I thought, "Finally! Someone who realizes that there are some of us who've tried so hard and done everything right but still suffer. Instead of everybody else who's always saying, "You must not be eating the right food!" or "You're eating the wrong food." or "You're eating at the wrong time." or "You're not taking the right supplements." or "You're not drinking enough water!" or "You are letting yourself get too stressed out." It's always "You", "You", "You"! "This is all your own fault!" When it turns out that the only thing a lot of us with this are doing wrong is we picked the wrong parents to be born to.
 
officerripley said:
I agree. In fact, I read an article a few years ago about the head bartender in a big fancy cocktail lounge inside a big fancy hotel in New York city that hosted a lot of conventions. One convention held there every year was the American Psychiatric Association's.

This bartender said every year, he overheard at least a couple of therapists from that convention--and they hadn't had that much to drink either--bemoaning the fact that they were therapists and wondering if they'd gone into the wrong line of work since they felt like if they were really honest with their patients the only way they could help them was to tell them to get in a time machine, go back and choose different parents to be born to. The bartender said he heard that every year.
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That's misleading journalism on the part of whoever wrote that article. The American Psychiatric Association does not hold its annual convention in the same place every year. The 2025 convention, for example, will be in Los Angeles. The 2023 convention was in San Francisco. The 2024 convention was in fact held in NYC. It changes every year.
 

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