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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 420382" data-attributes="member: 1054">[PLAIN]Re: Re: Re: [OT] Encounters with fate, consequence, destiny and general weird stuff.[/PLAIN]Ah, but weigh that against all the times you felt sad and lonely and WEREN'T standing in an old battlefield.The odds of weird things happening are higher than you think. What are the odds of a random roll of 7d10 coming up to your phone number? The same as the odds of any other number coming up. Yet, if it happened, someone would claim that "it couldn't be coincidence!" Why not? SOME 7 digit number would have been rolled, and any other was just as likely. "Weird crap" happens to me all the time. I get email from people whom I realize I haven't heard from in a while, I often get a hunch as to who is calling before I pick up the phone, I get regular flashes of deja vu where I 'remember' that I had dreamed the event I'm currently experiencing. Utterly mundane, all of it. In the first case, if I haven't heard from someone in a while, the feeling is probably mutual, and the other person just chose to make contact first. In the second, well, there's only so many people who'll call me, and a subconscious pattern matching algorithm quickly winnows the list, and my conscious mind gets a 'hunch'; in the third, it's just the brain's pattern matching working overtime, turning a similar pattern into a 'memory'.The pattern-matching capabilities of the human brain are  marvel of evolution, but, if you don't cross-check them against reality, you're bound to fool yourself.</blockquote>

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