Synchronicity

[yyaldrin]

i was in the park last evening, reading this little book about the mysteries of our history, how we came about, how we evolved and all that. there's an interview in there with french scientist andré langaney who explains how we have our origins in eastern africa and after that the middle east and he goes on and explains how humans traveled to all the continents, etc. there is a bit where he's asked about human races and he explains it's nonsense and that there is no such thing as human races.



as i'm reading this a black woman, either very drunk or on other substances, enters the park and is shouting very loud so that everybody can hear her: "we are all humans", and she repeats this a few times, then she goes on "did you ever see an extra-terrestial, no, right!?", "fuck you", "and fuck you too", "fuck work". well she's just shouting all sorts of things but it was the first thing she shouted that made me feel this was a play of god.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

I've had tons. I ended up working out the probability after it happened over and over again. If it happens once you can write it off as a coincidence. If you have a string of coincidences then you end up starting to 'believe' things. That got me eventually into trouble.

How?

 

[mixed_biscuits]

I've been having tons of these the past year. With hearing songs played in public that comment on what I've just done being the most common. I've heard that giving up alcohol can increase psychic powers so maybe that could be tested; I've given up alcohol and cleaned up my diet considerably and both synchronicities and telepathic successes have been in evidence.

I'm utterly baffled by the mechanism that could be at work behind these.

 

[martin]

Popped into a pub for a pint and Sky Sports flashed up a clip of an F1 car sponsored by Crowdstrike spiralling out of control.

 

[Mr. Tea]

A few weeks ago my mum suffered cardiac arrest while swimming and is very probably still alive thanks to the fact that another woman swimming in her lane happened to be a paramedic and was able to perform poolside CPR until the ambulance arrived. Which was... handy.

 

[thirdform]

has poetix come over to our side? I almost don't want him to. Part of me thinks the universe has a structural need for his sobreity and rationalism to balance my worst excesses. If he turns it could be curtains for everyone.

mr davis will still serve the cause remaining as a horrifying example of individual sensuality in such a passionate traveller, and of that impotence which consists in not knowing how to hold back instincts of a bestial or, rather, sub-bestial type because beasts ignore psychedelics and alcohol, as well as sexual excesses.