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thrww3534 t1_j1ihktf wrote

Reply to comment by RBHubbell58 in [Image] When you replace “why is this happening to me” with “what is this trying to teach me?”, everything shifts. by Butterflies_Books

Huh? It seems to me more like personification, a common literary tool, in this case the personification of experiences, of experiential lessons particularly. But even if we assumed it to mean experiences are forces that literally “try” to do things like allow us to learn, that wouldn’t mean they controlled lives. It would only mean outside forces affect your life, which they do.

It seems to me to just be an artful way of saying to ask ‘what can I learn from this.’ There is no perpetration of fallacy here as far as I can see.

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Gyoziiko t1_j1is9w5 wrote

Reddit hive mind will disagree with you as they think this is hinting at the idea of a higher power or universal force and religious beliefs = bad. Instead of interpreting it as, like you said, an artful personification.

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