Synchronicity
Byrnzie
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So, I just read a NYT review of a documentary on the life of the Buddha, and the writer mentioned that the director of the documentary had also made some docs on people such as Lincoln, the two Roosevelt's, Napoleon, Freud, e.t.c, and It occurred to me that I didn't know there were two Roosevelt's, and so tried to think who they were. I could only think of Teddy Roosevelt.
Anyway, I then decided to watch a Ken Burns documentary called 'Horatio's drive' about the first cross-country automobile journey in the United States, and the first thing the narrator says in this doc is this:
"On the evening of May 19th, 1903, in the oak-paneled game room of the exclusive University club in San Francisco a group of well-to-do men were sharing drinks, and conversation. The talk centered on Theodore Roosevelt's political fortunes, and the chances that the Boston pilgrims might take the pennant in the brand new American league."
Anyone else have any examples of synchronicity?
Anyway, I then decided to watch a Ken Burns documentary called 'Horatio's drive' about the first cross-country automobile journey in the United States, and the first thing the narrator says in this doc is this:
"On the evening of May 19th, 1903, in the oak-paneled game room of the exclusive University club in San Francisco a group of well-to-do men were sharing drinks, and conversation. The talk centered on Theodore Roosevelt's political fortunes, and the chances that the Boston pilgrims might take the pennant in the brand new American league."
Anyone else have any examples of synchronicity?
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"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Yeah. I Googled it in the end. I've heard of them both, but for some reason It never occurred to me there were two Roosevelt's.
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
My dad died in September 2008. A few months after, I was going through some old cards and letters I've stashed away over the years - they're so precious to me. I came upon a letter from my father, written on the same date as his death, but seven years prior; written at 5:30am, the time I was born. It was about his thoughts on 9/11, which happened not even two weeks prior, and his thoughts on life and death. Reconciling.
Yeah. I like synchronicity.
Do you think it's just what it is - coincidence?
I'm not sure I believe in "meant to be", but sometimes it seems like we get a little nudge, from...something.
Hmm...good topic, anyway.
ps....Jeanwah, isn't PJ's "Pilate" based on that book?
Yeah, I heard that Jeff wrote Pilate after reading this book. I was in the middle of a chapter when I started reading a few lyrics from Sympathy for the Devil by The Stones. So I assume that Mick Jagger wrote that song after reading the book too.
Have you read The Celestine Prophecy? It talks about how there are no coincidences; that everything that poses as coincidences in our lives are supposed to happen, and that there's greater meaning and something bigger behind all those "nudges" we experience.
Perhaps that's how we live our lives - some odd combination of synchronicity, and...chance, happenstance?
And awareness of the difference between the two.
Easily. FDR completely expanded the office and changed the country with his New Deals. Pretty remarkable dude.
thats cool !
Godfather.
in their small venue awesome place for a concert and when we got home a kid in BMX we watched grow up called and his girl friend won some tickets for the Kansas show on the radieo and asked if we wanted them...of course I said yes.
Godfather.
I got half way through the book & became quite frustrated with the style of writing and have not picked it up since. Been a month or so. Russian novels...grrrrrr
1998: Barrie
2000: Montreal, Toronto, Auburn Hills
2003: Cleveland, Buffalo, Toronto, Montreal
2004: Boston X2, Grand Rapids
2005: Kitchener, London, Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto
2006: Toronto X2
2009: Toronto
2011: PJ20, Montreal, Toronto X2, Hamilton
2012: Manchester X2, Amsterdam X2, Prague, Berlin X2, Philadelphia, Missoula
2013: Pittsburg, Buffalo
2014: Milan, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin, Stockholm, Oslo, Detroit
2016: Ottawa, Toronto X2
2018: Padova, Rome, Prague, Krakow, Berlin, Barcelona
2023: Chicago X2
2024: New York X2
Later I was reading some info on chalk, as I heard someone say yesterday that chalk is bad for you. I read that many vegetables contain large amounts of calcium, such as Brussel sprouts...and asparagus.
Then just now I was reading my book - William S. Burroughs 'The Place of Dead Roads'- and the main character, Kim Carsons, was described sitting in a restaurant and eating a meal...that included asparagus.
It can only mean one thing...your pee stinks.
Also, cincy - my cousin says that asparagus doesn't make one's pee smell, but rather affects the olfactory sense related to one's pee post-eating-asparagus
I heard that it makes everyone's pee smell but some people didn't have the ability to smell it.
I am merely an experimental biologist attempting to unravel the mystery of the asparagus conundrum.
I'm sure this doesn't apply to all instances of synchronicity, but in general I'd say very few of us are as observant and intellectually honest with ourselves as we'd like to think.
A Paradigm shift?
Weird. :crazy:
I definitely think that this is sometimes a part of it to the point that I often make a game of it. I'll decide that every time I see a reference to bowling it's a kind of inside joke between me and the universe. Then, bam!, I see bowling pins in the most random of places and I smile. I'm easily entertained.
On the other hand...
Sometimes things feel like too much of a coincidence. Like when...
I was talking to a friend one summer and she was telling me about how she and a former used to give each other four leaf clovers whenever they found them, which was, apparently, often. I was skeptical. I had occasionally searched for four leaf clovers ever since a scavenger hunt I took part in when I was nine. I had yet to find one.
A few days later, I was walking over to my friend's house and wondering how the heck she had found several four leaf clovers, but I had never found one. And, right when I was thinking about it, I looked down and at my foot was a freakin' four leaf clover! I wasn't even looking for it. I was just walking.
Later that summer, I was on a different walk thinking about the whole four leaf clover coincidence and, once again, I spotted another four leaf clover just off the path.
Crazy.
Send some of that my way... minus the asparagus
:P
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
Yes and I love it.
I have a friend with whom this kind of stuff happens all the time.
We talk on the phone alot and oftentimes we'll get on a stream of making up goofy bullshit stories--94% total nonsense.
One time one of us put out there "Ace Frehley" and then we both at the exact same time said "and his jacket....." :wtf:
what
what?
did you just say jacket,
what?
I do... But I do not wish to share with you.
Fruit Loops. We always agreed. Now u disagree with everything I post. WTF , makes you think I want to share a thread with you?
JK... but really. WE agree about we agree on NOTHING.
Christmas sux... I know you share that thought. Synch it...
Staysea, I don't know what you're on about here. Do you think it's possible to keep personal/private shit personal/private?
Give it a whirl!