I find it very hard to have emunah with a baby with reflux. Why? Because of course Hashem would want my husband to go to yeshiva, right? However when the baby has been up all night in discomfort and both my husband and I have had no sleep, he misses it and we spend the day taking it in turns to comfort the baby whilst the other sleeps.
My husband says that who knows what would have happened on the bus had he been on it - maybe someone would have seen him and changed what they were going to do, maybe on the chaos level his movement on the bus could have caused a typhoon in India.
We don't know what our actions may cause and right now I have to concentrate on 'osek b'mitzvah, patur m'mitzvah' - if my husband helps preserve shalom bayit by taking the day off to help me with the baby, missing a day's learning is ok. Hmmm, not so sure still.....
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I think that's really true. It's the buterfly effect. What you do or don't do has a massive impact somewhere else.
I think chaos theory is the idea that everything is leading to disorder. which i think is something different. If everything is going towards chaos and positive entropy (complete disorder) then surely you have to do everything you can to keep it in order. or if everything is going to chaos then you should just let it happen and just say oh well everything is getting worse anyway. Should we be trying to stop everything going to disorder or should we just move with the world and chaos theory. everything is going to explode anyway, should we just let it?
What do you think?
The two effects are related. The chaos theory causes the butterfly effect.
Should we be attempting to make a difference? We do by the nature of our existence - and our existence is totally against the so called tendency towards disorder - as we have become more complicated and more 'ordered' as time has gone on, according to the Theory of Evolution. Which theory is incorrect?
Just got confirmation - the tendencty of the universe towards positive entropy is unrelated to the chaos theory.
1. OK a few things: tendency toward entropy is consistent with evolution. The earth is not a closed system (i.e. it is constantly absorbing energy from the sun), so it does not tend to positive entropy. This is a well know phenomenon.
2. Chaos theory is the theory describing chaotic systems, defined as systems in which tiny differences in initial conditions result in huge differences later on. Colloquially, the "butterfly affect," since the weather is a chaotic system.
3. Certainly, "gam zu le'tovah" is a legitimate way to approach things. However, I think things are often more complicated than just saying "well, something bad could have happened if I had gone to yeshiva today". When bad things happen to us, "gam zu letovah" could mean that God is trying to tell us something, or cause us to do teshuva, or put us through an experience that will build our character (in your case, perhaps this experience is teaching you the valuable lesson of sacrifice for your children and shalom bayit. Spiritual sacrifice is also sacrifice.)
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