What is your take on coincidences? Do you think it's merely that..a coincidence?..or is there something more to them? are they the universes way of telling us something .. or our subconscious telling us something that we consciously don't pick up on? Just curious..what's your thoughts? |
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" If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you"
"He who fights with monsters, might he take care lest he thereby become a monster"
I only believe in coincidences when the coincidences in question don't appear in the religious, business, social, or political world. I would like to believe in them, but the paranoid person that was raised by someone who does investigations for a living won't allow me not to question them. |
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Of course coincidences are just coincidences. |
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We're only aware of a fraction of the chains of events we set in motion from moment to moment, and the interweaving networks of cause and effect in which we operate. Coincidences can indicate patterns we didn't know we were part of, or things we set in motion individually or mutually without realizing. At the very least, keeping an eye out for synchronicities can keep us alert to opportunities. |
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If you have a sense of caring for others, you will manifest a kind of inner strength in spite of your own difficulties and problems. With this strength, your own problems will seem less significant and bothersome to you. By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm.Dalai Lama
Asking if you actually believe in the definition of a word is kind of stupid. Language loses all meaning otherwise. |
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Coincidence is nothing but a word stupid people use to hide their stupidity. They label everything with coincidence so that they no longer need to think about the underlying chain of cause and effect. |
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"Reject common sense to make the impossible possible." -Kamina
Okay...so maybe I worded it wrong..I'm saying is there any possibility that they could be more than just cause and effect? I know coincidences happen every day, all the time and most people don't even notice or recognize them.. but i mean the bigger ones, the ones that are harder to just explain away..If you've heard about the 'Celestian Prophecies' you might know what I'm talking about. |
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Last edited by * Diamond Eyes *; 12-09-2009 at 04:54 PM.
" If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you"
"He who fights with monsters, might he take care lest he thereby become a monster"
Even really insane coincidences have an extremely high probability of happening at some point. The probability that they will never happen is virtually zero. If you go through your whole life without coming across several really weird coincidences, something funny is going on. |
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How do you know you are not dreaming right now?
Sorry (as in not really) to always be taking the middle road, but restating the assurance that coincidences will happen is no less inane than asking if they are God whispering in your ear. They're a compelling feature of human experience which can yield value or distraction; isn't it more profitable to consider how to use them well? |
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If you have a sense of caring for others, you will manifest a kind of inner strength in spite of your own difficulties and problems. With this strength, your own problems will seem less significant and bothersome to you. By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm.Dalai Lama
It is all in what effect it has on you. The subconscious is part of the universe so either way, if you notice a coincidence, or as I call them: synchronicity, it affects you. It makes you stop or pause and do a double-take. It is like a dreamsign signaling you to do a reality check. A reality check about what? What is the synchronicity about? Is there an apparent message or is it random. Does it stimulate a deja vu feeling? Is it related to a recent dream? If so this is what I call dreambridging. A synchronicity between a recent dream and a current synchronicity in waking life is an auspicious sign that your subconscious is aligning with your conscious as your dreams reflect waking life and waking life reflects dreams. We all know that waking life affects dreaming but when dreaming seems to reflect waking life synchronicities abound, at least subjectively. Whether or not why or if it just because you are looking for it is not important. But just because you experience it and it affects your psyche. Following the path of coincidences can lead to prophetic dream experiences, which if that does not agree with your worldview you can label it a coincidence and be done with it. |
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If you have a sense of caring for others, you will manifest a kind of inner strength in spite of your own difficulties and problems. With this strength, your own problems will seem less significant and bothersome to you. By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm.Dalai Lama
How? And why can't you do both? |
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How do you know you are not dreaming right now?
If you have a sense of caring for others, you will manifest a kind of inner strength in spite of your own difficulties and problems. With this strength, your own problems will seem less significant and bothersome to you. By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm.Dalai Lama
Like there might be deeper patterns running behind the scenes that to express themselves in seemingly unrelated events but might not refer to anything or have any meaning other than what you give to it. These patterns might show up in the flight of a bumblebee, the orbit of the moon, the growth of a snail shell and the coldness of the winter. |
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No. Why would it? DNA is efficient because it aids the duplication of said DNA. No such principle applies to the universe? |
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So you're saying that we've gotten to the bottom of the universe's mysteries? that there's no way possible at all that that could be true? See it's thinkers like us (the ones with the wild ideas) that said "the world might not be flat" and "what if we could go to the moon" and "the earth might not be the center of the universe/galaxy".... and so on and so on and so on .... you first have to imagine to find out if it can or cannot be done/ is or isn't that way....... every scientist knows this to be the most important rule... |
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"MementoMori, the lucid machine"
"There's nothing better than knowing what it's like to fly like superman. Being fully aware of the air whipping by you, controlling every movement of every single atom in your body with a single thought. It's real freedom, and there's not a word good enough to describe it, so I'll just call it dreamy for now."
I asked him to explain his reasoning. He hasn't yet. What's wrong with that? If you make a claim, you have justify it somehow if you want me to believe it. People had a point when they said there was no evidence that the Earth should be flat, but it didn't become a fact until they actually did experiments affirm it. |
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"MementoMori, the lucid machine"
"There's nothing better than knowing what it's like to fly like superman. Being fully aware of the air whipping by you, controlling every movement of every single atom in your body with a single thought. It's real freedom, and there's not a word good enough to describe it, so I'll just call it dreamy for now."
Of course I'm not offended. |
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backing down now |
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"MementoMori, the lucid machine"
"There's nothing better than knowing what it's like to fly like superman. Being fully aware of the air whipping by you, controlling every movement of every single atom in your body with a single thought. It's real freedom, and there's not a word good enough to describe it, so I'll just call it dreamy for now."
That still doesn't invalidate Emerson's statement. I believe that it means something along the lines of how science portrays itself as rigid and purely based on facts, forgetting the imagination [the scientists] put into creating it in the first place. You have to admit that any creative aspect about science is very much downplayed. |
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That is not how science portrays itself; that is how the media portray science. |
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