Coicidences...or something more?

[fezident]

<p>Lately, it seems as though EXTREMELY bizarre coincidences are happening to me.&nbsp; Things that simply can not be merely shrugged off with a &quot;yeah...that happens&quot; or even a &quot;wow...that's amazing!&quot;.&nbsp; I'm talking crazy-go-nuts happenings.&nbsp; Beyond the type of stuff that happens on LOST.&nbsp; This shit is real.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here is just ONE example of the type of thing that I'm talking aboot.&nbsp; (sorry if this is long) :</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I listen to LOVELINE all the time.&nbsp; I was listening to an old episode from a year or two ago that I'd never heard before.&nbsp; The guest was Reverend Run from Run DMC.&nbsp; He was on the show to promote his (then) new solo record called DISTORTION.&nbsp; I really like the two songs they played so, I decided to buy the disc. </p><p>My friend and I hopped on the subway to go to the store to buy/order that disc.&nbsp; On the way there, we starting talking about our favorite Seinfeld episodes.&nbsp; I mentioned the one with Marlee Matlin and we started talking about Signing and that I love Sign Language.&nbsp; I'm fasicinated by it.&nbsp; I said this: &quot;I don't know anyone who is deaf but, wouldn't it be cool if, one day, I was at a store or something and there was a deaf guy there&nbsp;who needed help and nobody at that store was able to assist him because they didn't Sign.&nbsp; And then, I would step in and translate for him.&nbsp; Wouldn't that be interesting?&quot;</p><p>We thought nothing of it and then changed topics a million times.</p><p>I get to the store and head to the CD section.&nbsp; I see the sales associate a few feet away.&nbsp; He doesn't see me, his back is to me, and he's JUUUUST about to ask another customer if they need help finding anything.</p><p>That customer, as you probably guessed, turns to the employee and proceeds to Sign!!!&nbsp;He can't really communicate verbally, only through Sign Language.&nbsp;Obiviously, I was freaked!&nbsp; The sales guy turns to me (thinking me and the deaf guy were there together) and says &quot;I'm sorry...I don't understand...can YOU translate?&quot;</p><p>I was flipping the fuck out.</p><p>BUT THAT'S NOT THE MOST AMAZING PART!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The deaf guy found his partner/translator, talked to the associate, bought his video game and left.&nbsp; I was next, so the guy offers to help me.&nbsp; I told him, &quot;let's just go to the computer and start doing a special order...you are NEVER gonna have this CD I am looking for.&quot;&nbsp; He says okay, and we walk to the computer.&nbsp; He opens a drawer, and takes out a book he needs to do the order, and closes the drawer.&nbsp; The force of the drawer closing knocked ONE cd off the top of his little computer kiosk.</p><p>DISTORTION by Rev Run.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I was visably shaken.&nbsp; The guy was like, &quot;are you okay?!&quot; and I said &quot;I....don't.... know&quot;. I paid and walked out. </p><p>My buddy was seriously freaked.&nbsp; We were actually silent for a most of the trainride home.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This kinda thing has been happening to me very often lately.&nbsp; It's bizarre and, to be honest, I am not really enjoying it.&nbsp; It really is rather creepy.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Does this kind of thing happen to everyone?&nbsp; And when it does, does it occur in waves, like it is for me right now???</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks for reading my longest post ever.&nbsp; This is really on my mind.&nbsp; </p>

[Furtherman]

<p>Wow, isn't it obvious?</p><p>You are a catwoman.&nbsp; Now, go fight crime... go! go!&nbsp; For the good of the city, go!</p>

[newport king]

<p>what subway line did you take? what time of day was it? what color was the deaf guys shirt? who is the 3rd person rev. run thanks on the cd? holy shit.</p><p>seriously, yeah its a little freaky. </p>

[sr71blackbird]

<p>Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.<br />John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. <br /><br />Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.<br />John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. <br /><br />The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters. <br /><br />Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. <br /><br />Both of their wives lost their children while living in the White House. <br /><br />Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. <br /><br />Both were shot in the head. <br /><br />Both were shot with one bullet. <br /><br />Both were rumored to be killed in a conspiracy.<br />Neither was confirmed to be a conspiracy. <br /><br />Lincoln was shot in the Ford Theater.<br />Kennedy was shot in a car made by the Ford Motor Company (a Lincoln no less) <br /><br />Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.<br />Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln. <br /><br />Both were assassinated by Southerners. <br /><br />Both were succeeded by Southerners. <br /><br />Both successors were named Johnson. <br /><br />Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.<br />Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.<br />Their first names both contain six letters. <br /><br />John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.<br />Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.<br />Both assassins were known by their three names.<br />Both names comprise fifteen letters. <br /><br />Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.<br />Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater. <br /><br />Both assassins were assassinated before their trials. <br /><br />The only complete filming of Kennedy's assasination was shot by Abraham Zapruder.<br />The only complete account of Lincoln's assasination was written by John Zelfindorfer. <br /><br />A week before Lincoln was shot, he was with friends in Monroe, Maryland.<br />A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with his friend Marilyn Monroe. </p><p>Lincoln's last child, Tad, had his funeral held on July 16, 1871.<br />Later he was exhumed and moved to a different grave site.<br />Kennedy's son JFK Jr. was lost at sea on July 16, 1999.<br />Later he was found, brought up, and then re-burried at sea.</p><p>After Lincoln was shot, he was moved while wounded across the street to a boarding house for actors in Ford theater.&nbsp; He was placed on a bed while doctors attended to him and he eventually died on that bed. The last person to sleep on that bed?&nbsp; John Wilkes Booth!</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by sr71blackbird on 2-22-06 @ 5:45 PM</span>

[GwEnYpOo]

fuckin creepy

[mikeyboy]

<strong>sr71blackbird</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.<br />John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. <br /><br />Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.<br />John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. <br /><br />The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters. <br /><br />Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. <br /><br />Both of their wives lost their children while living in the White House. <br /><br />Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. <br /><br />Both were shot in the head. <br /><br />Both were shot with one bullet. <br /><br />Both were rumored to be killed in a conspiracy.<br />Neither was confirmed to be a conspiracy. <br /><br />Lincoln was shot in the Ford Theater.<br />Kennedy was shot in a car made by the Ford Motor Company (a Lincoln no less) <br /><br />Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.<br />Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln. <br /><br />Both were assassinated by Southerners. <br /><br />Both were succeeded by Southerners. <br /><br />Both successors were named Johnson. <br /><br />Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.<br />Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.<br />Their first names both contain six letters. <br /><br />John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.<br />Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.<br />Both assassins were known by their three names.<br />Both names comprise fifteen letters. <br /><br />Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.<br />Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater. <br /><br />Both assassins were assassinated before their trials. <br /><br />The only complete filming of Kennedy's assasination was shot by Abraham Zapruder.<br />The only complete account of Lincoln's assasination was written by John Zelfindorfer. <br /><br />A week before Lincoln was shot, he was with friends in Monroe, Maryland.<br />A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with his friend Marilyn Monroe. </p><p>Lincoln's last child, Tad, had his funeral held on July 16, 1871.<br />Later he was exhumed and moved to a different grave site.<br />Kennedy's son JFK Jr. was lost at sea on July 16, 1999.<br />Later he was found, brought up, and then re-burried at sea.</p><p>After Lincoln was shot, he was moved while wounded across the street to a boarding house for actors in Ford theater.&nbsp; He was placed on a bed while doctors attended to him and he eventually died on that bed. The last person to sleep on that bed?&nbsp; John Wilkes Booth!</p><span class="post_edited">This message was edited by sr71blackbird on 2-22-06 @ 5:45 PM</span> <p><a href="http://www.snopes.com/history/american/linckenn.htm" target="_self">Snopes discounts most of thi</a>s</p>

[sr71blackbird]

mikeboy hates me

[torker]

<p>You lost me at &quot;<em>I listen to LOVELINE all the time.&quot;</em></p>

[FUNKMAN]

<p>start thinking about winning the lottery...</p><p>i'm not sure if it's coincidence but one night i'll catch 10 minutes of an original Star Trek rerun that i caught by changing channels.&nbsp; 6 months later i'll be flipping channels and catch the exact same 10 minutes of the exact same episode. inbetween that 6 months i don't ever catch any episode of the show...</p><p>this has happened to me on many occassions with various shows...</p>

[sr71blackbird]

There has been many occasions when I will find an old&nbsp;cassette that I know has music on it in a&nbsp;drawer and I'll pop it in and it is exactly at the song I was thinking about.<br /><br />One time my father, who lives 2o miles away was walking down a busy street in his town that I rarely walk on, when he saw a Costco card laying face down on the sidewalk.&nbsp; <br />He picked it up and it WAS MINE!&nbsp; I hadnt even known I lost it, and hadnt been on that street in 6 months!

[angelinad128]

<p>that's really creepy. Is that what they call deja vu? Or maybe you have just been lucky lately and been at the right place at the right time</p>

[torker]

<p>you're already dead</p><p><img height="350" src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y201/torker1313/feziddd.jpg" width="242" border="0" /></p>

[sr71blackbird]

I think deja vu is more like feeling like you did the exact same thing before and your living through it again.

[Mike Teacher]

<p><img src="http://members.aol.com/miketeachr/mag1" border="0" /></p><p>This Happens... This is Something that Happens...</p><p><img src="http://members.aol.com/miketeachr/mag2" border="0" /></p>

[Hottub]

<p><strong>Boniface:</strong> Good evening. Tonight on 'It's the Mind', we examine the phenomenon of d‚j&agrave; vu. That strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived through something before, that what is happening now has already happened. Tonight on 'It's the Mind' we examine the phenomenon of d‚j&agrave; vu, that strange feeling we sometimes get that we've ... (looks puzzled fir a moment) Anyway, tonight on 'It's the Mind' we examine the phenomenon of d‚j&agrave; vu, that strange... </p><p><em>(Cut to opening title sequence with montage of psychiatric photos and the two captions and music over. Cut back to Mr Boniface at desk, shaken. Caption on screen: 'IT'S THE MIND')</em> </p><p><strong>Boniface:</strong> Good evening. Tonight on 'It's the Mind' we examine the phenomenon of d‚j&agrave; vu, that strange feeling we someti... mes get ... that ... we've lived through something... </p><p><em>(Cut to opening titles again. Back then to Boniface, now very shaken. Caption on screen: 'IT'S THE MIND')</em> </p><p><strong>Boniface:</strong> Good ... good evening. Tonight on 'It's the Mind' we examine the phenomenon of ddddddddddd‚j&agrave; vvvvvvvvuu, that extraordinary feeling... quite extraordinary... <em>(he tails off, goes quiet, the phone rings, he picks it up)</em> No, fine thanks, fine. <em>(he rings off, a man comes in on the right and hands him glass of water and leaves)</em> Oh, thank you. That strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived through something before. <em>(phone rings again; he picks it up)</em> No, fine thank you. Fine. <em>(he rings off a man comes in from right and hands him a glass of water; he jumps)</em> ... Thank you. That strange feeling ... <em>(phone rings; he answers)</em> No. Fine, thank you. Fine, <em>(ring off; a man enters and gives him glass of water)</em> thank you. <em>(he screams with fear)</em> Look, something's happening to me. I - I - urn, I think I'd better go and see someone. Goodnight. </p><p><em>(Phone rings again. He leaps from desk and runs out of shot. He runs out of building into street and chases after passing milk float and leaps aboard.)</em> </p><p><strong>Milkman:</strong> Oi, haven't I seen you somewhere before? </p><p><strong>Boniface:</strong> No, doctor, no. Something very funny's happening to me. </p><p><em>(Caption on the screen: 'IT'S THE MIND -- A WEEKLY MAGAZINE OF THINGS PSYCHIATRIC' Cut to montage of photographs again with captions and music. Cut to Boniface at desk. Boniface screams and runs out of shot. Cut to same piece of film as just previously, when he chases float, leaps on and the milkman says:)</em> </p><p><strong>Milkman:</strong> Oi, haven't I seen you somewhere before? </p><p><strong>Boniface:</strong> No, doctor, no. Something very funny's happening to me. The milk float goes past in the background with the milkman and Boniface on it. We see the float go along the country lane past the clearing, past the bishop... </p><p><strong>Bishop:</strong> <em>(camp)</em> 'Oh, Mr Belpit, your legs are so swollen'. </p><p><em>(.. and the secretary at her desk, past a sign saying 'to the zoo' where explosions are heard, and stops outside Dr Cream's building... Boniface runs into building and enters Dr Cream's office.)</em> </p><p><strong>Dr Cream:</strong> Ah, come in. Now what seems to be the matter? </p><p><strong>Boniface:</strong> I have this terrible feeling of d‚j&agrave; vu. </p><p><em>((Repeat same clip from Boniface entering.)</em> </p><p><strong>Dr Cream:</strong> Ah, come in. Now what seems to be the matter? </p><p><strong>Boniface:</strong> I have this terrible feeling of d‚j&agrave; vu.. </p><p><em>(Repeat clip again. Superimposed Credits)</em> </p><p><strong>Dr Cream:</strong> Ah, come in. Now what seems to be the matter? </p><p><strong>Boniface:</strong> I have this terrible feeling of d‚j&agrave; vu.. </p><p><em>(Clip starts to repeat again as the programme ends.)</em></p>

[Gvac]

<p>Eerie coincidences like the one you described happen to me more
often than would seem possible, fezident.&nbsp;&nbsp; I'll think of a
song I haven't heard in 10 years, turn on the radio, and there it
is.&nbsp; Or I'll think of an old friend I haven't spoken to in a while
and the phone will ring with them on the line.&nbsp; It's downright
creepy.<br />
</p><p>I'm not sure I believe in the paranormal or anything like that,
but when those things occur I do start wondering if there's anything to
the &quot;collective consciousness&quot; school of thought. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

[SatCam]

I think you're thining too much of it. If you think about how many times something wasn't a coincidence, it's many more. The guy who worked there didn't live in the apartment next to you, your friend wasn't thinking about buying the same CD at the same time and you didn't happen to see Reverend Run on your way to the store.

Then again, those are some pretty weird things to be happening to you. You might want to carry a bible with you at all times

[Tall_James]

It is simply a glitch in the Matrix.

[fezident]

<p>SatCam,</p><p>Somebody else said something similar to what you said (about all the things that AREN'T coincedental that happen every day) and, I wonder...</p><p>Doesn't that make what happened to me even MORE amazing?!&nbsp; I mean, you're right...things like this DON'T happen all the time.&nbsp; Therefore, when the inexplicable DOES happen, it carries just a little more weight. No?</p>

[Mike Teacher]

<p>I mean, you're right...things like this DON'T happen all the time.&nbsp; Therefore, when the inexplicable DOES happen, it carries just a little more weight. No?</p><p>=</p><p>Oh man this is the best Q Ive sen in a long time, for me. I started studying coincedences when I ran across article after article on game theory, probability, the nature of randomness, and why weird shit happens. Or is it weird that weird shit happens?</p><p>Someone started studying sports runs, streaks; whether it ba a career, or part of a single game. They compared it to random events of the same probability, and often, what seem like a fantastic run is actually not only possible, or probable, but expected. For most; some streaks [DiMaggio's consecutive hitting record of, oh man please let it be 56] lie so far outside, so many standard deviations from the norm, they defy explanation.</p><p>Stop myself. OK, cant. So which are the random Heads or Tails scenarios?</p><p>HTHHTHTHTTHTHHTTHTHTH</p><p>TTTTHTHTHHTHTHTHHHHHT</p><p>They find that pure randomness has its patterns. The bottom one is, in many ways, more random then the top, because nature, in a 50/50 Heads/Tails scenario; doesnt give you a nice 'alternating every other time' as often as it give you runs of 4, 5, 6 even more Heads or Tails in a row. The longer the run, the less likely, but given a huge number of trials, runs occur. The casinos study this stuff ad nauseum.</p><p>Or this; how many people do you need in a group such that there is a 50/50 chance that two of them share the same birthday? With 365 days to choose from [ignoring leap stuff] one might think it ranges somewhere midway to that number, but the answer is, statistically, only 23 peeps.</p><p>Sorry for the long diatribe and I'm not shitting on what happened to you. I squarely sit in the 'weird unexplainable shit happens' camp. Just showing that it's a weird world of probability.</p>

[ShelleBink]

For me, things like that happen to me all the time.&nbsp; It gets to the point where for short periods of time I can predict insignificant things before they happen.&nbsp; I think it happens to a lot of people, its just a matter of noticing signs.&nbsp; I noticed that if I have a lot of distractions or deadlines ((for instance, when I'm in school)) it doesn't happen as much.&nbsp; <br />

[GregoryJoseph]

Very few things are pure "coincidence."