Synchronicity

[What 23]

Nothing is not connected in some way, though. There are multiple languages. There is reason. No doubt I probably jumped on you prematurely. It just seems like any time I post anything, you talk about, relatively, random things, as if they are the same. I attempt to put thought into things, on what I reflect/observe, that has resonance/meaning. I try to make sense of what one would assume is just chaos and non order, but what I've seen is something else.

Anyways, once again, I'm reminded that every time I post here, alasdair will not be too far behind, challenging me to connect something like bouillabaisse and post office, with whatever, without any context, and assuming that just because I detail certain events as resonant that that somehow means I am precluding other resonance(s) from existing-- I am not.

I do apologize.

And thank you for the 3 and 9 observation.

 

[swilow]

Obviously I am very sceptical about synchronicity but I am willing to entertain the idea. I've never heard of a plausible explanation describing either its mechanism of action or function. I just cannot see how most of the experiences I read about are meaningful in any way; they often just seem completely random and free of context until the observer either finds or creates it. If the universe is speaking through such events, why is it talking bullshit? :D

I would be interested to hear some reasons or speculative thought about how it functions if it is real in the sense people say...

 

[What 23]

At this point I think some people are just blind.

Granted my relaying of experience may not perfect, and perhaps I should watch my judgment, but how hard is it to see I was focused on something (name meaning of hostage), and then it came to light in good form? That I was researching my name and then a girl came to me with meanings "to tie firmly" (often what is done to a person held hostage in some way or another)? She wasn't just some girl. I 'hit' on few. And meet few. I found out my name meant Odin, by a way, in the phase of her, right after first contact, right before meeting her in person-- She said she was studying him, in class at that time, when she saw my Facebook page had Odin, and then when we met she said her Ex-husband was an Odinist, Who hung himself-- her name also means "Noose", along with "tied, captivating, etc.", I found after focusing on a root of my name meaning quite possibly "Hostage", again. I don't see what there is to be a sarcastic ass about unless you want to test my name, which leads back to "The Furious One"- haha.

Just for context, I am not always studying Norse mythology, and I did not find out my name meant Odin or Hostage or whatever last year while I was dating a Mexican Transexual (or something), and did not connect it 'randomly' to now with no try to weight the connection. I found it out as I was talking to a girl whose ex husband, an Odinist, a sort of rare breed, hung himself. A girl whose name meant to tie firmly... How many fucking repeats do people need to drill this in? It was not connected, but it was.

Odds are, you aren't meant to get it. Fuck.

I don't know. Don't know how to say it. It seems many who read what I write DON'T WANT to even understand at all, so why in the fuck do you even respond?



I don't know the mechanism because I don't know what caused a singularity to "expand" (or whatever happened).

Life moves in waves. Vibrations. Resonances. Patterns. Many we wee humans won't understand or see all of right off. But we might witness. This is what I do, and what I try to share, and am blasted for it by fucking idiots.

 

[rickolasnice]

It's the architect writing it into the matrix coding because.. well.. why not?

 

[rickolasnice]

Skip to 25 seconds in.

 

[kaya_9]

It's the architect writing it into the matrix coding because.. well.. why not?

Oddly enough, I believe this on some level...I'd probably capitalize 'Architect'..

I've had times in my life where I lived in complete synchronicity for months...thought I was going crazy...and maybe it's b/c I am...If that's so, much rather be crazy than sane

It was the last time I had it happen for a while that I would get-in my mind's eye...a picture of code running down...and suddenly a visualization of space with a 3D grid...I felt like shit was downloading in my brain..haha

 

[kaya_9]

Life moves in waves. Vibrations. Resonances. Patterns. Many we wee humans won't understand or see all of right off. But we might witness. This is what I do, and what I try to share, and am blasted for it by fucking idiots.

And hey..some people cannot believe what they haven't experienced...but ironically, won't experience it until they are willing to..

Don't let it stop you from sharing yours. Some others have had them too.

 

[swilow]

At this point I think some people are just blind.

Granted my relaying of experience may not perfect, and perhaps I should watch my judgment, but how hard is it to see I was focused on something (name meaning of hostage), and then it came to light in good form?

This is exactly what I am saying. You are saying that the causal element is your focus on these subjects. Thats the whole point, that your focus and bias leads you to perceive the existence of things, as external and objective, that may not exist in that way at all, such as connections and patterns between disparate, random objects or events, because your brain is literally designed to do that to rapidly disover either danger or food/reward in any given situation where time is of the essence. Yes, it could be magic but there actually is a functionality of the mind that could cause this, so resorting to supernatural thinking is a conceit and over-complication.

That I was researching my name and then a girl came to me with meanings "to tie firmly" (often what is done to a person held hostage in some way or another)? She wasn't just some girl. I 'hit' on few. And meet few. I found out my name meant Odin, by a way, in the phase of her, right after first contact, right before meeting her in person-- She said she was studying him, in class at that time, when she saw my Facebook page had Odin, and then when we met she said her Ex-husband was an Odinist, Who hung himself-- her name also means "Noose", along with "tied, captivating, etc.", I found after focusing on a root of my name meaning quite possibly "Hostage", again. I don't see what there is to be a sarcastic ass about unless you want to test my name, which leads back to "The Furious One"- haha.

Just for context, I am not always studying Norse mythology

Its either a coincidence that these apparently similar aspects of life are arising spontaneously or it could be that your focus and study of these things is creating an inherent bias in your perception to take note of them? Its either a by-product of your own focused thoughts or it is the Universe altering its very structure to transmit meaningless messages to you only. It seems so unlikely to be the latter when the former doesn't not require universe-wide reshaping; that's appealing to me.

I don't know. Don't know how to say it. It seems many who read what I write DON'T WANT to even understand at all, so why in the fuck do you even respond?

Who is this "many" that you refer to right now? Only Alasdair has responded to you this time, apart from me, and my post was entirely civil. It seems that you also see hidden critics.

I respond because I am interested in the human brain and discussing it. This isn't a place where we are required to just agree and suck each other off...

Life moves in waves. Vibrations. Resonances. Patterns. Many we wee humans won't understand or see all of right off. But we might witness. This is what I do, and what I try to share, and am blasted for it by fucking idiots.

Again, besides Alasdair, no-one has blasted you recently here, and his post (though I didn't neccesarily think it was all that needed) wasn't even especially hostile. Calling all these invisible critics "fucking idiots" is like a drunk guy trying to punch the fuck out of his own shadow.

Personally, whilst I do not believe that what is happening has a supernatural catalyst, I am more then willing to discuss it, in a civil and mature tone. I get that it is frustrating when people disbelieve you and it can feel like a personal attack but do remember, you are the only one here calling people fucking idiots for no reason. Don't criticise the input of others if that is the best that you have got.

How does life moving in waves explain anything? Don't take that as an attack (which you will as past evidence affirms), but as a genuine question.

ps. I hope you do not think that I am just trying to crush or destroy something important to you; I am only interested in discussing this because- to be honest- I really WANT this stuff to exist. I want the universe to have a semi-accesible hidden nature.

 

[What 23]

I don't know. I mean that with respect.

 

[alasdairm]

Hey man, just because you don't like me doesn't mean you need to attack me every chance you get.

you have over 2300 posts. i have responded directly to, maybe, around 2% of them? i would not characterise that as attacking you every chance i get.

i don't dislike you at all. i don't know you. i do disagree with a lot of what you say and have a difference of opinion regarding some of the points you make but that's not the same as disliking you and it's interesting that's how you feel about it. very interesting.

it's also very interesting that you choose to characterise somebody responding to your observations and, certainly, often disagreeing with them and inviting you to consider an alternative explanation as "attacking you". it hints at some issues which, to me, inform your participation style.

You really have no idea...

maybe you really have no idea?

...and its funny how arrogant you are.

you're the one insulting people, swearing at them and telling them they have no idea when they simply disagree with you. and i'm the arrogant one? ok.

Closed minded...

maybe you're close-minded? i've said it many times here and elsewhere and i'll say it again because you're obviously having trouble hearing it.

you might be right and i might be wrong.
i might be right and you might be wrong.
we might both be wrong.

where is the close-minded, arrogance in that? you're the one who seems to have trouble accepting that there may be another simpler, less mystical explanation for what you're seeing.

...this is merely frustration with your need to respond to everything I post...

again, when you have to exaggerate to this extent, it demonstrates very clearly that your point has no standing.

alasdair

 

[alasdairm]

...challenging me to connect something like bouillabaisse and post office, with whatever, without any context, and assuming that just because I detail certain events as resonant that that somehow means I am precluding other resonance(s) from existing-- I am not.

my example was deliberately silly.

my point (for the, what, 15 time?) is that the connections to which you are giving mystical weight, only gain that weight when you're required to ignore the staggering number of mundane incidents and occurrences which have 'no meaning' whatsoever.

it's similar, i believe, to confirmation bias. you buy a new car. it's silver. you drive home. it seems like lots of other people are driving silver cars. how curious! except it's not at all because if you measured it, you'd find that on average you drove past the same number of silver and non-silver cars as you do every single day. you just notice them now because you are in 'silver car' mode.

i believe you are guilty of the same kind of thinking. i'm not attacking you. i'm not criticising you personally. i'm saying that some of the things you says lead me to believe you're incapable of seeing that there might be another, more mundane explanation for what you're seeing.

but you don't see it. because you don't want to...

the irony of your telling others they are blind and that they just don't want to understand is obviously totally lost on you

alasdair

 

[alasdairm]

...am blasted for it by fucking idiots.

if you think this is a blasting , you really need to get out more.

why am i a fucking idiot? if you only choose to answer one of my questions, answer this one please.

alasdair

 

[ebola?]

What 23:

we allow open criticism of others' views on here; in fact, fruitful discussion depends on it. Now, while Ali's mocking tone was likely unnecessary, he had a point, and he didn't resort to insulting you as a person.

ebola

 

[What 23]

While trying to write something other than "I don't know", in my previous post, I was playing Halo 4.

I hadn't died yet, having 18 kills (I'm not attaching anything to this number right now), and then I decided to stop and try to think of something to say.

I finally died, while being idle there for a time- trying to say something on a forum in a thread about synchroncity.

A player on my team with the call sign DEAD came into view- was the one there when I died, the word clear to be seen at my death.

He avenged my death, which was perpetrated by a guy with the call sign DR. DEAD's gamertag is Dead2bAlive. DR's is DR256.

Looking further, I had been idle in the beginning of the match as well, trying to write something. I began to move, to go on to get my streak, just as in my view, DEAD had died- my cross hair was roughly on his death marker and roughly equidistant (in 2 dimensions, as the call signs for team-mates direction-locations show up on screen) between his respawn location and a guy with the callsign GRIM (Name is something-Shadow44- I'll need to find it).

When I stopped, and became idle, to write, DEAD (Dead2bAlive) had just died off in the distance, in front of me.

Anyways, I'm just saying what happened, as I may relay it, as I saw it/see it fall.

I died after having a killstreak of 18, when I began moving with DEAD dead in front of me, started to idle at DEAD dead in front of me, and DEAD was there when I died. I was trying to post about synchroncity. I could try to get more detailed... Such as the guy with my initials (JRT) as his call sign being an actor, in this movement together. But I need some work on organizing experience/thought here.

But this is what I'll say: I think it moves together. I think sometimes I may be an actor in someone else's life. And sometimes people act as special actors in mine. I don't think consciousness is something that is just nothing in the universe- not backed by it. I believe in "God". I like order and reason. Meaning. I'm not sure what to think about free will, or precisely, true control/choice. But I act as if I have it. I don't know. I think it moves together. I wonder if we are "slaves". I wonder if I am used (I hope). If my thoughts (and focus) are "mine" (and who and what am I? Maybe its all "mine"). I have a lot of questions.

Faith. ?

Ah: The main thing I took notice of while in game was my first death, with DEAD coming then as I was trying to think of what to write in this thread, where I ended up writing "I don't know...". Then I reviewed the match.

 

[Tranced]

I've had some weird synchronicities which were just plain odd, and certainly seemed more than just random coincidence, due to way that the chances of them happening were just far too low.

The first thing that comes to mind was that once I'd been on 2c-b and doing ketamine at a friends house. I went back to my flat and was sitting watching the television whilst I waited for a chinese takeaway.

I was suddenly struck by just how weird television seemed. I was watching the news when I had the thought "Fucking hell I feel like I could be starting to go mad, I wouldn't be surprised if the television just suddenly mentioned my name and started communicating with me".

Next thing you know the news anchor changes the subject and mentioned my fucking name. My full name. They were doing an article about a notorious american serial killer who was being locked away for life.

It freaked me out, and then I had the idea that the next article would probably be weird too.

It was about new evidence claiming that ketamine could cause psychosis. I was on ketamine and felt like I was going mad.

I didn't imagine it either. I had no idea there was a serial killer with my name, or that there was new evidence claiming ketamine caused psychosis, but both articles were trending on the BBC website when I checked the next day.

(Just to say, thankfully the serial killer is on a totally different continent, so I don't have to deal with the awkwardness of sharing the same name)

 

[alasdairm]

halo's a first person shooter. wouldn't you expect to see a disproportionately high number of references to death?

i'm interested in answers to the questions i asked you.

alasdair

 

[What 23]

Possibly, but that's the first time I've seen DEAD that I can remember.

 

[alasdairm]

that you can remember...

why am i a fucking idiot, what 23?

alasdair

 

[What 23]

Here is the player list. The reason I felt comfortable to stop moving was because their team quit- most of them.

Unless you count GRIM as a direct reference to death, it is pretty slim. There was one out of 16 here. Not so common. People try to be creative...

Why are you a fucking idiot? I'm two weeks fighting an infection and my temper is short. And you seem to miss things, such as context- you don't even try to consider it even if my telling isn't perfect. The least you could do is ask respectful questions, instead of just assuming my perception is invalid. Much of what you say is just so far off... It is like you miss anything I've tried to say. Maybe, again, that is my fault for not being a great communicator.

It may take a few to formulate a better answer, but be confident that I've called myself a fucking idiot a lot, and I'm pretty sure we are all idiots at times. Most people don't get my stories or how I feel things connect, probably because they don't have the whole build up and personal experience. It can be frustrating relaying these things to people who don't live similarly. Or people at all. They are just seemingly on another wavelength, and just... Don't get it.

Idiot may be the wrong word. Again. I have a short temper lately, and your post, even if just "silly", came off the wrong way if you wanted to start anything respectfully.

 

[What 23]

Being totally honest it would be a cop-out to blame my short fuse on the illness, probably. I have no real evidence that my temper is effected by infection. Then again maybe. I don't know.