Hey lady! Ed's dead.
Coincidences happen all the time. And many studies have been done about "luck" and the things which lead to apparent differences in it.
They do. It's the ones that stand out that make you go "hmmm...". Thinking of an old family friend, and then they call the next day. Then that day, think of another old family friend, and they call the next day. Not mentioning any of this to anyone, totally unrelated individuals.
Then the other day, while running by some horses (I run.. a decent amount), I thought a totally evil thought and they started whinnying and bucking. I stopped thinking the thought, they calmed down but looked spooked. I indulged in the thought again, they started bucking. I noticed and suppressed the thought, the horses calmed down. Maybe tested it again, remember deciding not to think evil thoughts if it seemed that beings were sensitive to my thoughts, not wanting to cause them fear or pain. No chance for pheromone transmission, the wind was the wrong direction, and I was too far away. Of course I considered that it could be an elaborate hallucination orchestrated by my mind.
Or like when you're hanging out by yourself, and people walk up who are talking about what you are thinking about. It could simply be that you have many thought streams going on at once, and certain ones are brought to the surface by the activities going on around you. But it certainly seems like someone walked up who was talking about what you were thinking.
Or the other day, when I was talking with my new roommate about someone specific, and they popped around the corner. It's very possible that they guided the conversation towards me mentioning the person while the person waited to hear their name mentioned, and then they walked around the corner.
It wouldn't be hard to do- that is, use conversation to guide people to certain ideas, and then have them orchestrated to come together in a certain way in reality. It's just the question of the purpose of doing these things- is it for love or power? If it's for love, sure. If it's for power, that basically forces me to drag my feet, make sure I don't work hard, etc. so that the manipulators don't get anything good through their manipulation. And I've always worked hard out of a sense of pride anyway, so that sort of screws that. I simply quit working sometimes when I get too pissed off at the situations I'm in, in which others manipulate and gain while I am at the fucking bottom.
But I really can't tell if you are serious about what you wrote. It seems kind of far-fetched to me.
That all the coincidences occurred? They did. It was just part of a great series of coincidences that have occurred in my life. A large amount of which could be explained by me having some form of delusional thinking, or maybe my mind re-orders events after the fact to create the illusion of the events happening in the order they appeared to have happened. Or maybe people are setting me up to think or do certain things.
So, for example, this herbalist stopped by my friend's shop (my friend who I stayed with when I first arrived back east) and started complaining about someone wanting them to order herbs for them, presumably so they could use them in something the person was going to sell. Well, this reminded me of the first girl I ever asked on a date (wow... was that awkward), who I hadn't seen in about 20 years, and that had been while she worked at her mom's herb shop. So I asked the person if they knew so and so (the girl) because she had worked at this herb shop about 20 years ago, and they said no. Well, that night, I went out with my friends to go to the new brewery that was down the road from their shop. Loh and behold, who was there but the girl I had known some 20 years ago, who I had asked about earlier.
Of course, my friend could have known about these associations, and set me up to be surprised. They had been mentioning going to the new brewery for a while, and they are certainly social enough to have found out my association with the girl and a bit of information about her background, and they are also certainly intelligent enough to use it and knowledge about the both of us to entertain me and make me feel connected- and maybe to trick me into thinking that there is some higher power interacting with me.
You are saying you believe in a malevolent god of coincidences?
Malevolent seems to imply malevolence. I'd say instead, perhaps an opportunistic "God" of coincidences. Or it
is simply individuals trying to control other individuals in order to create power and comfort for themselves.
I'd say, perhaps there is a desire to have conscious individuals take care of shit that powerful individuals want to get out of. So you have to either deceive the conscious entities that you are enlisting to do as you want, or you need to manipulate them in various other more blatant ways.
To build a large powerful system that supports your pleasure and comfort, while various conscious entities are aware of your pleasure and comfort at the cost of
their labor, requires conscious entities that are self sacrificing, stupid, or a combination of the 2. Of course, the ultimate builder of the system must make it look as if they cannot enjoy the fruits of the system they design, and must make it look like being on top of the system is stressful (I have to think about the destruction of the system!! OMG, a war!!! OMG, a fake asteroid!!!).
The very top must have absolutely no empathy for the bottom, in order to enjoy the fruits of the system without any remorse. This being the case, when the bottom learns this, the bottom drops out of the system, and the whole system collapses, but there is an infinite amount of ignorance to be used for the top to enjoy their power. Just have to make sure nobody else ever becomes coordinated or intelligent enough to threaten you, instill a sense of love between those at the bottom, instill a fear of what the collapse of the system will bring, etc.
This shit has all been thought out WAY before the internet was released to the wild. Then again, I've never been able to hear a kid cry, or see someone in a lot of pain and not want to help them out- so I'm genetically predispositioned to serving others in need. Well, and I feel like keeping stuff orderly, clean, in tight shape, etc.
Ohh, yeah, so the other day at a gas station, we saw this hot girl pumping gas. She waved at me and smiled while I looked at her, and I thought she was my one friend's wife (someone from way back in the day), mentioned it to the driver. So, as we were driving back into town, I finally got ahold of my one friend about renting a room from them (had to find one that day, actually). Forgot about mentioning my friends wife til the next day.
That day, I got back home. A friend had been calling about me pissing in a jar so they wouldn't get a hot urine test, which cracked me up. So I did it. Anyway, I decided to take a nap, I was fuckin' tired from moving rocks, etc. People kept on fucking calling me, so I turned my ringer off (not usual to get lots of calls, unless I really want a fucking nap!). Well, this made me miss my friend's call, who needed piss. He went into the office of the apartment building I'm staying at to try and find out which apartment I was in (and they couldn't tell him for various legal reasons- even though one of them knew him...).
So, I finally wake up, see I have 6 missed calls, and apologize to my friend for sleeping on the job. I walk out to hand him the piss. He told me he had talked to my friends wife, who had just got a job at the apartment complex I just moved into the day before. So the girl I thought I saw at the gas station turned out not to be her (my friend's wife), but she did happen to work in the apartment complex I moved into the day I thought I saw her at the gas station. I didn't talk to her for a few more days- looked for her the one day, missed her, and then finally got to say hi to her and ask her how her and my friend are doing.
And then, to keep up with the whole coincidence thing, I had talked to her hot older coworker about some maintenance stuff, and she told me to grab this stuff called "The Works" to dissolve mineral build up. Well, eventually I bought some (not the first time I saw it, but the next time... she told me it would be 99 cents, but it was more- and I'm a stingy spender sometimes).
So, I bought it a few days ago, but it in the toilet to dissolve the mineral buildup and the stuff worked. Totally awesome. I'd used muriatic acid (HCl), nitric, citric acid, etc.. but this stuff just blew the shit away. So, our ex-roommate (yeah, I call them that, although I've only been here 13 days and they just moved out) brought this drunk girl home from the bar that night, and we joked around about the stuff eating away at your skin (which my friends coworker had warned me about- it will dissolve carpet... awesome stuff) and told her to be careful when she used the toilet.
My roommate liked the fact that the stuff we used was recommended by someone with the same name as the drunk girl our other roommate brought home that night. He even asked if it was the stuff that "x" had recommended, and found it entertaining and funny that we warned another female "X" about the stuff the other female named "X" had warned us about.
So, yeah. I really don't see how someone with even a modicum of intelligence couldn't notice these coincidences happening. I mean, they happen all the fucking time.
