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Everything happens for a reason some people believe. Do you believe that everything that happens to you happens for a reason? I believe this statement that everything does happen for a reason because if you were to change something that was already planned by fate your future would change from what was already planned for you, maybe for the better or maybe even for the worse. I believe that everything happens for a reason even if it is a bad thing just to get you ready for the future when the good things actually happen. But no one really can predict what is going to happen or how it will turn out with the decisions they make until they make them, so you never really know which is your fate or not until its too late. Do you think we can predict the outcome of your decisions? I along with William James believe that no one is able to do that. I believe when we are first born we already have the fate and future of our lives already planned out for us completely, but its like a puzzle to get to what is already planned for us we are the ones who have to make the right decisions at the right time and place to get to the fate that is planned for us.
William James, the American philosopher and psychologist, was born January 11th, 1842 in the Astor House in New York City to the wealthy parents Lucy (Walsh) James and Henry James. His father was a writer of literary and religion. Their father introduced William and his four other siblings to the features of the European culture. William was very sheltered as he grew up. His father had enough money that him and his siblings were finically stable which meant they were carefree. William was not prepared for when he got older because he was always sheltered and his fathers’ money had always hel...

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...ing to drink and have fun but you’re underage so you can either drink like you want to and risk putting yourself in jail for drinking underage and having that little but of fun or not do it and erase that risk and find something else that is fun to do. It’s the decisions at that moment in time that decides your fate for how your future will be. William James in pragmatism major themes of his writings are everything happens for a reason and truth is based on reality. He also relates “cash value” with pragmatism. His believes that belief guides us through life and he relates that “cash value” with honesty. An example of what he is doing here is relating those because the cash value of honest would lead us to trust others. That “cash value” can relate to time also because if you use your time cleverly and make the right judgments it will lead you to the right results.

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