We've all experienced coincidences in our lives. I view the meaningful ones as little winks from the cosmos. I dedicate this thread to amazing coincidences--either personal ones or ones you've heard of. I will probably get personally attacked and insulted for posting this as usual, but I don't care. It's a jolt of life to a forum that's basically on life support. =========================================================== "At 10:10 AM on June 25, 2010 in the Oval Office President Obama heard the news that the Supreme Court had supported the continuation of the Affordable Care Act. He and his staff celebrated. At 10:30 AM photographs by the official staff photographer showed that the clock in the office had stopped at 10:10 AM."===http://coincider.com/blog/obamas-clock/ =========================================================== I stayed at the mansion in Washington State they filmed the movie "Rose Red" in based on Stephen King's novel. I had the movie Rose Red in my room but didn't watch it. When I got back home I turned my TV on. Guess what movie was on? Rose Red! ========================================================== "Dr. Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, the executive director of the Skeptics Society, and a monthly columnist for Scientific American. He wrote in his column on Sept. 16, 2014, about an experience that led him to conclude: “We should not shut the doors of perception when they may be opened to us to marvel in the mysterious.” His fiancé’s belongings were shipped to the United States from Germany, and among them was her grandfather’s 1978 transistor radio. She was very close with her grandfather, who died when she was 16. The radio had been silent for decades, and try as he might Shermer could not get it working again. It continued its silence in the back of a desk drawer in the couple’s bedroom. Three months later (June 2014), they were married. After the ceremony, his wife asked to talk with him alone. She was feeling lonely, missing her family back in Germany and also wishing her grandfather could have been alive to give her away. The couple walked to the back of the house where they heard music playing, a love song. They searched in vain for the source of the music, then his wife “shot me a look I haven’t seen since the supernatural thriller ‘The Exorcist’ startled audiences. ‘That can’t be what I think it is, can it?’ she said.” It was the transistor radio in the drawer. “My grandfather is here with us,” she said, tearfully. “I’m not alone.” Shermer’s daughter had heard music coming from the radio just before the ceremony started, though the couple had been in the room only moments before without hearing any music. The radio continued to work through the wedding night. “Fittingly, it stopped working the next day and has remained silent ever since,” Shermer wrote."===http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1416839-...-skeptics/ ======================================================== "In this video report, Marion Shurtleff tells about how she bought a Bible in a used bookstore. When she got home and opened it, she found inside folded, yellowing sheets of paper. She was astonished when she read what was on them. Immediately she saw her name -- and her own handwriting! It was an essay she wrote 65 years ago when joining the Girl Scouts -- in another city 2,000 miles away!"===http://paranormal.about.com/od/psychicph...-bible.htm ============================================================ "In 1953, television reporter Irv Kupcinet was in London to cover the coronation of Ellizabeth II. In one of the drawers in his room at the Savoy he found found some items that, by their identification, belonged to a man named Harry Hannin. Coincidentally, Harry Hannin -- a basketball star with the famed Harlem Globetrotters -- was a good friend of Kupcinet's. But the story has yet another twist. Just two days later, and before he could tell Hannin of his lucky discovery, Kupcinet received a letter from Hannin. In the letter, Hannin told Kucinet that while staying at the Hotel Meurice in Paris, he found in a drawer a tie -- with Kupcinet's name on it!"=== (Mysteries of the Unexplained) http://paranormal.about.com/od/humanenig...nces_2.htm ============================================================ "Actor Frank Morgan played numerous roles in the iconic film The Wizard of Oz. He was a taxi driver in Emerald City, fortune teller Professor Marvel and the Wizard of Oz himself. For Professor Marvel, MGM's wardrobe department wanted the look of a down-on-his-luck gentleman. So, Frank Morgan and director Victor Fleming went to a second-hand store and bought a nice looking – but tattered – coat. While shooting the film, Morgan turned a pocket of the coat inside out and incredibly saw the name L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wizard of Oz! Both Baum's widow and the coat's tailor confirmed that the jacket originally belonged to Mr. Baum."===http://www.oddee.com/item_99043.aspx ============================================================== When I moved to Austin TX I was looking for an apartment. I drove off the main blvd and chanced upon the intersection of "Prather" and "Victory". Prather is my last name. A few blocks later I come upon this apartment complex that I had dreamed of a few nights earlier. It was very distinctive and enclosed a pool area like a hotel. That's the apartment I got!
Coincidences happen all the time. It's just plain coincidental. Nothing psycho about it at all, or weird and no need for fabricated conspiracies to explain them. That's just the way the ball bounces. eg: A huge cosmological coincidence is apparent when we view Annular eclipes. These happen when the Moon is at apogee. But many millions of years ago, Annular eclipes could never be viewed, as the Moon was a lot closer to Earth....Conversely in a few million years hence, total solar eclipses will be impossible and only Annular will ever be visible. This will happen when the Moon is a lot further from Earth. Part of this dynamic process explains why at this present time, the apparent size of the Moon, is the same as the apparent size of the Sun. At this particular time in the solar systems evolution, the Sun is 400 times further away from Earth than the Moon, and "coincidently" 400 times the diameter of the Moon. :shrug: Coincidences happen....nothing weird, or paranormal about it at all.
"An American writer Anne Parrish and her husband were on holiday in Paris in 1920. They were browsing bookshops and Anne picked up a book that was a particular favourite of hers, “Jack Frost and Other Stories”. Anne told her husband that she had been given a copy as a child by her parents and had wonderful memories of the book. Anne’s husband took the book and opened it. On the inside cover there was a hand written inscription. It said, “Anne Parrish, 209 N Weber Street, Colorado Springs”. The inscription was written in Anne’s handwriting. It was Anne’s very own book from all those years ago! Source – While Rome Burns, by Alexander Woollcott."===https://www.thetreeofawakening.com/blog/amazing-coincidences/
Coincidence for me: About 20 years ago some friends and I rented an airplane and flew to Martha's Vineyard. There we rented some bikes and rode around all day, stopping at beaches and swimming occasionally, finally ending up at a restaurant. We slept under the airplane and flew back the next day. Years later I was at MIT for a reunion and they had an art show, showing off photography from students. One of the winners was a picture of four biked leaned against each other on a deserted beach with clothing piled on each one. I looked more closely - and they were the bikes we had rented on Martha's Vineyard, with our clothing on the back.
There's nothing parapsychological about coincidences. They're just something that happens sometime. Every time someone wins the lottery is because of coincidence.
"On a trip to California, Michael bought three shirts and a pair of shorts from a second-hand store. Months later, he was putting the shorts on when he noticed a label sewn into the waistband. The label was his own last name. And it looked familiar. “When I was 15, I went to sleep-away camp,” Michael explains, “and my mother had sewn those tags into all of my clothing. I recognized the tag immediately because I still had a towel with the same tag.” He compared the tags on the towel and the shorts and they were identical. The thing was, Michael had grown up in New Jersey. “Somehow they made it from New Jersey to Los Angeles so that I could buy them again.” says Michael."===http://www.thisamericanlife.org/page/web-extra-coincidence-photo-stories =========================================================== "About ten years ago, Jon Schmidt — who lives in Philadelphia — took a business trip to Boston, working out of his company’s new Boston office. One day, sitting at his desk, Jon noticed a piece of paper curling out from behind the vertical blinds. “I got up and pulled the blinds closed and then flipped them to the reverse side,” says Jon. “There, cut into strips and pasted to the back of the blinds, was a very large photo of my identical twin.” It turns out that years earlier, the company that Jon’s twin brother, Jeff, worked for had leased the same office space. As a prank, Jeff’s co-workers had planted his photo on the back of the vertical blinds, and no one had removed the picture when the company moved out. Jon was working in his twin brother’s same building, in the same office, at the same desk, with a life-sized picture of his brother on the back of the blinds."====http://www.thisamericanlife.org/page/web-extra-coincidence-photo-stories
"British cavalry officer Major Summerford was fighting in the fields of Flanders in the last year of WWI, a flash of lightning knocked him off his horse and paralysed him from his waist down. He moved to Vancouver, Canada, six years later, whilst out fishing, Major Summerfield was struck by lightning again and the right side of his body became paralysed. After two years of recovery, it was a summers day and he was out in a local park, a summer storm blew up and Major Summerfield was struck by lightning again - permanently paralysing him. He died two years after this incident. However, four years after his death, his stone tomb was destroyed - it was struck by lightning!"===http://www.world-mysteries.com/newgw/10coincidences.htm
I was waiting in a queue to check into a caravan park in the UK, the person in front of me checking in had the same surname as me, there were about 10 other people in the phone book with my name. The chances of being there at the same time, and in the same place, doing the same thing as another Smith would be extremely small to say the least... but being one of perhaps 50 Commanders.. in a population of 60million..? What would the chances be...?
Possibly there are two kinds of coincidence: haphazard meaningful Synchronicity is a concept created by psychiatrist Carl Jung, which holds that events are "meaningful coincidences" if they occur with no apparent causal relationship, yet seem to be meaningfully related.[1] During his career, Jung furnished several slightly different definitions of it.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity
