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How to not kill your brain thinking about coincidences? How to not kill your brain thinking about coincidences?

11-14-2016 , 01:24 AM
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Originally Posted by FoldnDark
Did you pick it up?

If it remains, your pound will stay above $.25. But if you left it, at least the muslims won't get you!
Didn't pick it up, opportunity cost.
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11-14-2016 , 03:07 AM
Well, he got everything else right.
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11-14-2016 , 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by tirtep
Nineteenth century French occultist and astronomer Camille Flammarion was writing a chapter about wind in his book on the atmosphere, when a gust blew through his window, lifted the loose pages he'd just written from his desk, and sucked them back out of the window and out of sight. Flammarion was disheartened over the loss of his work. Days later he received a routine parcel of his latest proofs from his publisher containing transcripts of the very pages that had gone missing. He was more than startled. How could this be? The porter, who acted as a regular messenger for Flammarion, solved the mystery. He had been passing the house by chance, saw the pages in the street, collected them up and took them to the publisher in the normal way. Gone with the wind...in the right place?
Rational. Was Flamm that lazy he didn't bother to look for himself? Flammarion getting flamed itt.

That porter should be ported? Not realizing the master usually doesn't deliver things that way, but maybe the master couldn't be bothered with some piece of information? Brian could teach him/them some psychology about basic behavior.



I read a book named "Stella" by Flammarion as a youth. They looked together at the beauties seen by the telescope. I couldn't escape the feeling it was about ****ing, never been free from it. Maybe it was, in a time you couldn't talk about it straight out?

"Those beautiful vibrant clouds...they stayed up all night, taking in it all..." or something in that style. WP, Flamm.

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11-14-2016 , 11:22 AM
I appreciate the relationships of meaning such as creativity, information, connection that synchronicity experience represents.

I can barely believe people who claim to have an understanding of it would intentionally misrepresent it, but it's understandable to unintentionally mistake it for bias and superstition or out of bias and inflexible thinking.
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11-14-2016 , 11:26 AM
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Originally Posted by spanktehbadwookie
I appreciate the relationships of meaning such as creativity, information, connection that synchronicity experience represents.
Agree it can be something to work with. We may find something relevant in 1:100-1:1000 of the cases, and that could be the next big thing.
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11-14-2016 , 12:01 PM
According to John Locke "Men do not easily believe, upon testimony of others, things which to them seem improbable or impossible, but the reason is not because the thing itself admits of no evidence, but because the hearer's preconceived opinion outweighs the credit of the reporter, and make his veracity to be called into question".

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11-14-2016 , 12:14 PM
But you have to agree there is a lot of shyte around?

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11-14-2016 , 01:21 PM
Of course, no question about it but I still think there is something on the air and so far as Wolfgang Pauli said: " Coincidences are visible traces of untraceable principles".
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11-14-2016 , 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by plaaynde
But you have to agree there is a lot of shyte around?


Yeah, but we are looking at a particular flower and it's like you are pointing at other plants. It's reasonable to deal with those plants as those plants and this plant as this plant.
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12-08-2016 , 09:28 PM
"Herschel found heat where he could not see it. Some coincidences may be like thermometers placed in the darkness, showing us a form of light we cannot see. We need to develop a science to test them".
Bernard D. Beitman, MD, Professor of Psychiatry

I don't know but I like his take.
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