Quote Originally Posted by Waterknight View Post
Well what im trying to say is that I am in some kind of middle ground. It just seems extreme to say that everything happens because of something before it including the most random thoughts that randomly pop into your head.
You get a high-paying job because you got a degree. You develop the Bean Catapult 9000 because a "random" thought told you it was a good idea. In some instances, we may not be able to always predict the future (i.e. quantum mechanics (I think) states there are infinitely many outcomes during an interaction between particles with varying probabilities of each outcome (I think, don't blast me, I'm just stating an interesting hypothesis)), but regardless, the events ultimately achieved are still the result of past interactions.