Why do bad things hap­pen? More­over, why do bad things hap­pen to good peo­ple? Is it just bad luck?

As a mean­ing-seek­ing species, we are not sat­is­fied with ran­dom­ness. We tend to process events in terms of what they mean to us. Our brains have a nat­ur­al pro­cliv­i­ty for coher­ent stories—grand nar­ra­tives with an over­ar­ch­ing point and a sat­is­fy­ing end.

It sim­ply makes no sense that bad things hap­pen ran­dom­ly with­out a cause or a rea­son, espe­cial­ly when in the grand scheme of things, every­thing in nature and the uni­verse seems to oper­ate with per­fect pre­ci­sion and har­mo­ny. There­fore, things must hap­pen for spe­cif­ic rea­sons, they must have a point.

At this Open Din­er, we’ll talk about why bad things hap­pen. Join us for a fun meal on zoom with great dis­cus­sion, live music, and more.

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Open Din­er is a com­mon vir­tu­al space where peo­ple like you and I, from all around the globe, can come togeth­er for a host­ed meal with music, toasts, dis­cus­sion, and more, while stay­ing safe­ly at home.

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