If you say, “Congratulations, all your hard work paid off!” for instance, *what* hard work are you referring to? Bettering oneself? Learning to exploit those opportunities? Making your skill set or personality appealing to the right people at the right time? You could probably make arguments for many of those. There’s probably a certain amount of luck involved, if you believe in such a thing, so you might argue that point, as well. But while “everything aligned,” is one way of describing things, “the universe was trying to tell you something,” requires some examination. What was it? To what end? Why would one choose to describe something in such vague and imprecise language? Do they mean the universe as a sentient entity? Do they mean as an aggregate of all the interactions the universe has undergone, this is its current state, and the culmination of all that has come before? Once you get to, “It’s a sign from God!” then the immediate question becomes, “What is God? Why is he giving you a sign? What does that *mean*?”

And if you can’t quantify it, examine it, discuss it, at what point do you say, this viewpoint doesn’t pass the test?

I’m not saying, “It’s a sign from God!” *doesn’t* necessarily pass the test, but the question, once you get to the point where you say, “I might not understand everything,” is what metric do you use to test whether you’re on the right track or not?