There’s a reason you feel that way and at some point along your life’s journey it will become clear to you…
If you believe, you can achieve.
Actually the best answer is for opposing counsel to object on the grounds of speculation.
Yes, it means: “To say that X is possible is irrelevant. So don’t pose a negative question to me regarding that proposition. I refuse to answer it.”
And I don’t think this kind of negative question actually gets posed often in trials. Judges see them as a waste of time. They’re essentially hypotheticals.
So just stop watching so much TV, ThelmaLou, and this kind of thing won’t bother you. In fact, if you had to sit in a typical courtroom the whole day and pay attention to everything that was said, you’d be be so bored you’d be begging to get back to Law and Order, and “anything’s possible” would hardly bother you so much anymore.
“Possible” is really many meanings crammed into a single word. There are things that are logically possible, but physically impossible. There are things that are physically possible, but psychologically and/or sociologically impossible. (For example, there’s nothing in the laws of physics that prevents communism from working. The way humans work, however, means that communism doesn’t work outside of small groups, at best.)
And sometimes, “possible” is a measure of knowledge. That is, if you don’t know that something is impossible, then you say that it’s possible, even though you haven’t actually shown that it’s possible. You’re really saying, “We haven’t ruled out the possibility.”
The natural ambiguity of language is fertile grounds for confusion, deliberate or accidental.
Why must everything happen for a reason?
Because what fucking goes around, fucking comes around.
That’s the one I hate.
Heard a guy say “this is an outrage!”, in the post office the other day. I liked to have shit trying to keep from laughing.
Sorry for the mini-hijack, but some phrases are just really stupid.
Q
A: “Well, in the ludicrous sense that --”
B: “Just answer the question.”
A: “-- magic pixies could have done it --”
B: “YES OR NO. I remind the witness that he is under oath. Once again, YES or NO, is it POSSIBLE?!”
A: “-- yes, it’s possible”
B: “Let the record show the witness acknowledged it was possible. Thank you, you may step down.”
A: “-- but–”
B: “NO FURTHER QUESTIONS. The witness may STEP DOWN. Thank you.”
Chill Winston, it’s just a saying… speech shorthand.
Do you wish for me to break my oath? I cannot tell the whole truth with your interruptions.
And the opposing counsel should be objecting their head off during this anyway.
Seriously. I’ve always wondered if there’s some sort of law against witnesses telling attorneys like this to shut their yaps so they can actually answer the damn question, because every single TV witness I’ve ever seen has just sort of allowed themselves to be interrupted. Being interrupted is absolutely one of my pet peeves, and somehow I don’t think I should have to put up with it in the court room.
What is wrong with this?
Thanks for the nuances. 
Of course my script above was unrealistic TV drama hyperbole; on the other hand, if you take too much time with your elaborations and clauses I’m guessing at some point it’s the judge who’s going to cut you off and demand a simple answer. My cousin, who works as an expert witness, tells about a time a judge more or less did this to him. Except hizzoner didn’t even demand an answer: he just said “that’s all you’ve got? Step down. Now.” and my cousin didn’t even have a chance to give his view at all.
Try flying to the moon in a cessna.
The best answer I can think of to “Isn’t it possible that flying monkeys planted the evidence?” would be a simple “Not reasonably, no.”
QFT.
So the small child getting a horrible painful disease and dying in agony happened for a reason?
So when a serial killer abducts people, tortures them to death and no one ever knows what happened to them, that happened for a reason? That happened because the victim deserved it?
So if I take this knife and stab it into your throat, it happened for a reason that has nothing to do with me being an asshole and everything to do with you deserving it? COOL. Let’s try it out.
Come on guys, relax, you can be anything you want to be.
Also, I think “everything happens for a reason” is a gateway assertion into mystical woo.
It can be done. But it would require extensive modification. 
FWIW, my Sherlock Holmes quote was not meant to be taken as something I believe, nor to be taken seriously. I didn’t think a smiley was warranted.
Actually it just requires two treadmills running in reverse. One on the Earth and one on the Moon.
I’ve always been partial to my own personal corallary to “Anythings Possible” in the accomplishment sense.
“Nothing is easy”
Nothing. Not even easy shit. Its a lie.
Somehow, I was picturing a giant rubber band powered launcher of some kind on a jules verne(vernian?) scale