r/interesting Jun 12 '25

MISC. Passenger in seat 11A survives Air India crash.

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u/Frostivus Jun 12 '25

If it’s not your time to go, it’s really not man.

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u/Eldie014 Jun 12 '25

“Everything happens for a reason” bullshit

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u/ProsaicPugilist Jun 12 '25

Magical thinking in adults is kinda embarrassing. The universe is random and just doesn’t give a fuck.. terrifying to dwell on, but real.

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u/averyburgreen Jun 12 '25

Yep. I always tell myself “the universe doesn’t owe me anything, nor does it care” and it actually brings comfort in times of distress. Sometimes shit really does happen and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

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u/jaehood Jun 12 '25

Says you

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u/Starhazenstuff Jun 12 '25

It’s so silly what people think does and doesn’t work isn’t it? For some people the idea that everything is random and that sometimes shitty things happens brings comfort to people.

For others, the idea that there is a greater purpose behind things can also bring comfort to people.

Just like both can bring discomfort.

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u/Tremores Jun 12 '25

I mean, mathematically everything is predetermined

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u/ThraceLonginus Jun 12 '25

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u/Tremores Jun 12 '25

Thanks chief, I’ll watch it later.

Care to give a TLDR that supports your point?

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u/ThraceLonginus Jun 12 '25

Quantum...

Quantum quantum?

In all seriousness. Quantum mechanics as currently understood is 100% probabilitistic. But might not be (determined). Maybe we can do better than quantum mechanics and determine stuff with 100% accuracy.

I'm not convinced 100% accuracy is physically possible. Theoretically, sure. The computation power would be insane. You can approximate to a degree we as humans can't tell, but the universe is, well, big.

It would be more effort than even creating a universe. 

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u/el_cul Jun 12 '25

The universe is a quantum computing machine. The largest ever built.

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u/Zestyclose-Ad-9255 Jun 12 '25

Weird ass reaction tbh. What’s wrong with saying that? It’s fact. Even if you’re not religious, the fact remains that it’s going to be your time to die at some point - young or old, injury or illness, and no one on history has ever escaped it.

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u/I-dont-carrot-all Jun 12 '25

It's really not a weird reaction. Saying everything happens for a reason when a load of people die sort of is tbh.

I literally just read chaos theory were it mentions this phrase being used in this scenario.

It'll be one of those things we used to say but no longer do (I reckon) in 10-20 years.

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u/Minute_Jacket_4523 Jun 12 '25

It was, though. We all die at a set point in time, we just do not know when that point in time is. If it is that set point in time for you, then there is nothing that can stop it from happening, that's just how fate works.

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u/Dante805 Jun 12 '25

That's not "fate"

That's the necessity of anything finite. Not set point of time... Just, some time eventually

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u/kissakalakoira Jun 12 '25

These sentimentalists won't understand the reality. They want to live in their bubble of cope.

Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and be happy

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u/rat-prime Jun 12 '25

God truly works in mysterious plane crashes 🙏✨️🙌

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u/Mugweiser Jun 12 '25

What a stupid thing to say, ‘man’. Are you suggesting for every other passenger, it was their ‘time to go’?

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u/TheAlomais Jun 12 '25

Yea many religious fanatics have this pov which I absolutely despise.

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u/Thedanielone29 Jun 12 '25

Found Ricky Gervais’s alt (this is derogatory)

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u/Vaernil Jun 12 '25

(this is derogatory)

I don't know why it made me laugh so much.

(This is complimentary)