Can you say a bit more about that? I dislike disturbing other's basic concepts of world-understanding without good reason, but my basic categories are simply threefold: it seems basic to me that events can be caused, chosen, or random.
(An aside: this sort of view is common in the free will dialectic - it is an incompatibilist theory, probably of the non-causal type. Jack's objection is a standard one, and for good reason, I believe.)
A monthly thread for posting rationality-related quotes you've seen recently (or had stored in your quotesfile for ages).
ETA: It would seem that rationality quotes are no longer desired. After several days this thread stands voted into the negatives. Wolud whoever chose to to downvote this below 0 would care to express their disapproval of the regular quotes tradition more explicitly? Or perhaps they may like to browse around for some alternative posts that they could downvote instead of this one? Or, since we're in the business of quotation, they could "come on if they think they're hard enough!"