[OT] Encounters with fate, consequence, destiny and general weird stuff.

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

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Hey Umbran,

Still looking for those critters we talked about in the other thread. It's difficult because using the words 'passive" and "homeostasis" in the same search tend to yield about a billion articles that aren't remotely related to what we were talking about.

I'm about ready to go find the professor who ran that seminar and make him give me his sources. I'm not giving up yet.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled, increasingly OT thread...
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[Speaker]

I'll always remember learning in grade seven home school that to end World War 2, America (this is a direct quote) "taught the Japanese how to live in peace."

Fortunately, my parents were quick to jump on that statement, and I did not grow up believing that the word nuke was another word for love.

We Canadians are completely objective, of course .

But I better chip in with my opinion of the supernatural.

I enjoy coincidences. I absolutely love them. I take them as personal little messages, telling me to enjoy life.

Here's a two moments I'll bother to write down.

1. Reading a thread on The Princess Bride on these very boards an hour after reading the book.

2. Went to a performance by a mystic here in Indonesia. He did some things that are flat out impossible, as far as anything I've seen. He made a watch change time while it was held tightly in my hand, bent spoons held in the hands of others, a bunch of lovely card tricks on the same note, and the finale was simply unexplainable--He got my sister to go to the front of the room, told her to think of a guy, and then gave his exact name. No tricks in that last. I can explain the others--magnets, mirrors, and whatelse... but that one was lovely. Any skeptics care to explain it for me?

I enjoy mystery, and as much as humanly possible (since we are all creatures of order at our core) I seek uncertainty. And love it when I find it.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

I thought I would share another strange occurence. Actually, it happens often. It seems I can "sense" electricity. No idea how I do it, but I can about 75% of the time.

Example:

I remember coming home from school one day. I walked in the door and "felt" like my tv was on in my room. I walked to the other end of the house, where my room is, and looked in. My tv was off, but the little red light on my Nintendo was on. Someone had turned the TV off, but not the Nintendo. That was what I was sensing.

This happens all the time. I can be in the shower and sense when my wife turns on the TV.

I know I'm not hearing it, because of the Nintendo example above. I really can't think of a logical explanation.

Speaker-> I don't know about the rest of them, but changing the time on a watch was explained on a magic show I watched a week or so ago. The performance I seen was done with the magician using this little wand thing on his wrist that mated with the watch dial and turned it back. Pretty neat.

Another cool one was:

Think of a number less than 50.
It has to have double digits.
Both digits must be odd.
Neither digit can be the same.
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What did you choose?
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Was it.....
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37?

 

[kenjib]

Think of a number less than 50.
It has to have double digits.
Both digits must be odd.
Neither digit can be the same.
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What did you choose?
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Was it.....
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37?

I don't get it. I thought of 19. Did I do something wrong?

 

[wolff96]

Yeah, mine was 39.

Of course, I never have the "correct" response to those "you should be thinking this" puzzles. There's one with a country, a color, and something else. The answer is something along the lines of "But there aren't any blue elephants in (some country)."

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Anyway...

The two weirdest things for me: I have never, ever flubbed a roll when I look at the d20 and say "I need an xx," before rolling. Ever. It's kind of weird.

The other is the deja vu flashes. I generally dream in color. Every once in a while, though, I get a black and white flash -- just a snapshot. Those pictures generally come true within a couple of weeks. The creepiest one of those was when I saw a "snapshot" of myself approaching a coffin. My grandfather died of a massive (and totally unexpected) heart attack two days later. That one STILL creeps me out.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

According to the show I watched, 75% of people will choose the number 37. No idea why.