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<blockquote data-quote="Speaker" data-source="post: 420814" data-attributes="member: 6571">I'll always remember learning in grade seven home school that to end World War 2, America (this is a direct quote) &quot;taught the Japanese how to live in peace.&quot;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 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.But I better chip in with my opinion of the supernatural.I enjoy coincidences.&nbsp; I absolutely love them.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; He did some things that are flat out impossible, as far as anything I've seen.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; No tricks in that last.&nbsp; I can explain the others--magnets, mirrors, and whatelse...&nbsp; but that one was lovely.&nbsp; 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.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Speaker, post: 420814, member: 6571"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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