“I don’t believe that things happen for a reason. Fistly, events aren’t things, they are relations. Secondly, around 97% of the time, our relations with and use of language comprise a deception-based nightmare. Thirdly, reasons are actually things made up after-the-fact to explain events in some way that is consonant with our unacknowledged desires that led us to making shit up. So no, things don’t happen for a reason. What happens is that we invent reasons in order to assure ourselves that hardship or benefit is founded in some ‘universal order’ which we, apparently, are neither familiar with or actually aware of…”

— an anonymous informant