Coincidence?
Byrnzie
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So, I thought about someone this morning who I used to work with about 8 years ago. I don't know why. I've not seen him in eight years. And I can say that I've not thought of him in at least the past 3 or 4 years.
Anyway, I check my Facebook inbox this evening and there's a message from him.
Anyway, I check my Facebook inbox this evening and there's a message from him.
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Dusseldorf 21/06/07, Manchester 17/08/09, London 18/08/09, LA 06/10/09, LA 07/10/09.
Ain't gonna be any middle anymore.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
It's freaky/weird/ and strange.
Whenever I get visions for numbers though, I never win the lotto :thumbdown:
Serendipity?
Edit: Actually, I just double-checked and that's not the right word.
strange strange strange............
The best expression of Love is Time.
The best time to Love is Now.
I'm never as good as when you're there.........
deja vu?
well, kinda sorta.
freaky none the less.
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
London, ON - Sep 12, 2005
Toronto, ON - Aug 21, 2009
Toronto, ON- Sep 11 2011
Hamilton, ON- Sep 15 2011
London, ON- Jul 16 2013
Buffalo, NY- Oct 12 2013
Wish you were here...
♥~RIP Dad
syncronicity
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
With one breath, with one flow
You will know
Synchronicity
A sleep trance, a dream dance
A shared romance
Synchronicity
A connecting principle
Linked to the invisible
Almost imperceptible
Something inexpressible
Science insusceptible
Logic so inflexible
Causally connectible
Yet nothing is invincible
If we share this nightmare
Then we can dream
Spiritus mundi
If you act, as you think
The missing link
Synchronicity
We know you, they know me
Extrasensory
Synchronicity
A star fall, a phone call
It joins all
Synchronicity
It's so deep, it's so wide
Your inside
Synchronicity
Effect without a cause
Sub-atomic laws, scientific pause
Synchronicity...
Part 2
Another suburban family morning
Grandmother screaming at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our Rice Crispies
We can't hear anything at all
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we know all her suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so much more that he can take
Many miles away
Something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake
Another industrial ugly morning
The factory belches filth into the sky
He walks unhindered through the picket lines today
He doesn't think to wonder why
The secretaries pout and preen like
cheap tarts in a red light street
But all he ever thinks to do is watch
And every single meeting with his so-called superior
Is a humiliating kick in the crotch
Many miles away
Something crawls to the surface
Of a dark Scottish lake
Another working day has ended
Only the rush hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now looming in the headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away
There's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake
Many miles away, many miles away
That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive
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*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
Whatever you are, be a good one --Lincoln
Why are you wearing short-sleeves on a day like today?
mwahahaha!!
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
:thumbup:
kudos bathy!
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
Last night I was reading a book by an American writer called Peter Hessler called 'Oracle Bones'. In it he interviews an American archeologist who makes a passing reference to the 'New Yorkers view of the world map'. This refers to a map produced by the New Yorker magazine which depicts the world as consisting mainly of Manhattan. I'd never heard of this before.
Anyway, I was just watching Series 3 Episode 12 of Northern Exposure and Joel Flashman makes a comment about the 'New Yorkers view of the world map' stuck up on the wall behind his desk in his doctors surgery.
That's it.
yep...it IS called synchronicity...
my mom and i always used to argue which was the correct term for it...cause she always calling it 'telepathy' so finally one time i went and got the big dictionary to show her that i was right by calling it sychronicity...
but she kept right on calling it telepathy...oh well :wtf:
angels share laughter
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/de ... on.society
'...This is probably a book best dipped into: a bathroom book, although one with real guts. Many tales turn on coincidence, which doubtless reflects Auster's original request for stories 'that defied our expectations about the world, anecdotes that revealed the mysterious and unknowable forces at work in our lives', as well as his own prejudices (he is, after all, the author of a novel called The Music of Chance).'
I've lived here two years and I've never heard about this before, then I hear about it twice in the same day from two completely different sources.
Your subconscious mind was aware that your friend was contacting you; therefore you thought of him...when you checked your Facebook, you then became consciously aware of this, as there was a message from your friend.
It makes sense, I mean think about it....you haven't seen the guy in 8 years....or thought about him in 4 years...why the hell would you just randomly think of him? You wouldn't...so, it isn't random, it is synchronicity but it's also your all-knowing subsconscious mind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_Enigma
23 Enigma
The 23 Enigma refers to the belief that most incidents and events are directly connected to the number 23, some permutation of the number 23, or a number related to the number 23.
Origins
Robert Anton Wilson cites William S. Burroughs as being the first person to believe in the 23 enigma:[1][2][3] Wilson, in an article in Fortean Times, related the following story:
I first heard of the 23 enigma from William S Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, Nova Express, etc. According to Burroughs, he had known a certain Captain Clark, around 1960 in Tangier, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day, Clark’s ship had an accident that killed him and everybody else aboard. Furthermore, while Burroughs was thinking about this crude example of the irony of the gods that evening, a bulletin on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Florida, USA. The pilot was another captain Clark and the flight was Flight 23.[4]
Discordianism
The Principia Discordia states that "All things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropritate to 5"[5]—this is referred to as the Law of Fives. The 23 Enigma is regarded as a corollary of this law. It can be seen in Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's The Illuminatus! Trilogy (therein called the "23/17 phenomenon"), Wilson's Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (therein called "The Law of fives" and "The 23 Enigma"), Arthur Koestler's Challenge of Chance, as well as the Principia Discordia. In these works, 23 is considered lucky, unlucky, sinister, strange, or sacred to the goddess Eris or to the unholy gods of the Cthulhu Mythos.
As with most numerological claims, the enigma can be viewed as an example of apophenia, selection bias, and confirmation bias. In interviews, Wilson acknowledged the self-fulfilling nature of the enigma, implying that the real value of the Laws of Fives and Twenty-threes lies in their demonstration of the mind's power to perceive "truth" in nearly anything.
When you start looking for something you tend to find it. This wouldn't be like Simon Newcomb, the great astronomer, who wrote a mathematical proof that heavier than air flight was impossible and published it a day before the Wright brothers took off. I'm talking about people who found a pattern in nature and wrote several scientific articles and got it accepted by a large part of the scientific community before it was generally agreed that there was no such pattern, it was all just selective perception."[6]
In the Illuminatus! Trilogy, he expresses the same view: that one can find a numerological significance to anything, provided "sufficient cleverness."
http://www.studio23.com/cms/index.php?o ... &Itemid=32
TheSynchronicity of 23:
Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes.
The earth rotates completely every 23 hours, 56 minutes.
The axis of the plane Earth is 23.5 degrees.
The human Biorhythm cycle is 23 days.
The pattern of DNA shows irregular connections at every 23rd section.
Humans have 23 vertebra running down the main part of their spines.
Blood circulates the body on average every 23 seconds.
There are 23 letters in the Latin alphabet.
The number of joints in the human arm is 23.
23 is the first prime number in which both digits are prime and add up to another prime.
On average, every 23rd wave crashing to shore is twice as large as the average wave.
The Harmonic Convergence occurs every 23,000 years.
Geosynchronous orbit occurs at 23,000 miles above Earth's surface.
September 23rd is the Fall equinox.
Standard TCP/IP port for Telnet is 23.
The number 23, written in base 3, is 212 (2+1+2=5)
23+23+23=WWW, the World Wide Web.
great song but they're called Lochs in Scotland.
this is why Sting is banned from coming here... :thumbup:
The first couple of times I thought it was coincidence. After this many times, I'm starting to believe I'm a genius. Also, almost everytime I look at my watch, the digital part is on 00 seconds. Just randomly looking at my watch, it might be 12:17 pm 00 seconds. Several times through the day I do that.
My brain is in sync with the earth.
Very interesting. I have done stuff like this a lot too. For example, my birthday is July 22nd or 7/22 and often throughout the day I will glance at the time and it will be 7:22. Another one is 11:11, I have heard that specific time has spiritual connotation and I notice that time a lot.
Also, I will watch a movie from my dvd collection and then like within a day or two it will play on one of the movie channels on tv.
These are just two examples, there are lots more.
I believe human beings are all-knowing and all one, and we all have the ability to be in tune with the universe, etc. You just have to believe it and feel it.
That's it. When we let things happen naturally, we're capable of a lot of interesting things. When we force it is when we fuck it all up.