Post by Marie on Sept 6, 2015 15:05:48 GMT
One might ask, how meaningless is an event that a good population of people have experienced and considered meaningful? Since is not unrealistic to presume that a good majority of people are suffering from apophenia, let’s examine here a couple of mysterious synchronicities.
Have you ever been driving in a car and remembered an event that happened that day or in prior days while driving in your car. All of a sudden your car is in auto-pilot while you recall the event. Abruptly you come to realize that the song on the radio has significance to your event? I can confirm this has happened to me. In reading, “Your Are Probability” I understand that what we feel is “not only unwarranted but borders on the ridiculous.” In reading that, my bubble of belief was burst as I thoroughly found gratification in the connection. So, in order to validate my connection, I decided to poll my family members to counter the “ridiculous” diagnosis. Three out of three members of my family at some point recalled experiencing the same situation with relevance and I am confident you may have, at least once, “conjured up the same relation.” However, random the connection may be, the relevance gives me peace and comfort.
Then there are those who know apophenia is strictly coincidence but engage in a ritual for the mere sake of amusement.
My friend Archie claims he is very lucky in that he can always find a good parking space. Now Archie is an intelligent many who understands probability. However, he has no qualms acknowledging his good fortune when it comes to parking spaces. He has established such a reputation for same that when he has passengers in his car they chant, “Archie, Archie” and miraculously an outstanding parking spot avails itself. Not only does Archie engage in this ritual but now his friends partake in this ritual even when Archie is not in the car. Believe it or not, his friends claim it works every time. Even if it doesn’t work it doesn’t matter and certainly no one counts the number of misses. Everyone is consumed with the entertainment value but like in VooDoo VooDoo has Archie “consciously awaken to nature’s underlying and never ceasing game of roulette?” Archie has the last laugh.
Elliott’s has my support in his endeavor to justify his beliefs in mysterious synchronicities. How negative would the world be if we were all skeptics, or if we were all Spock’s and no Captain Kirk’s, or if we didn’t find meaning in something or purpose. If we didn’t, we might as well be robots. We don’t have to be exaggerated in making something out of everything but it doesn’t hurt to think positively or to have our miracles acknowledged as commonplace. Littlewood’s Law justified our miracles but limits the amount of events. If we are really looking can we come across a miraculous event more than 1 in 35 days? I was a single mother raising two sons, I worked full time and made sure they were active in extracurricular activities. I had so much going on that at times I welcomed coincidences/miracles. My brain was definitely looking for meaning in coincidences, that’s what helped me keep my sanity. If Elliott’s tendencies to see relevance in ACT or in the numbers 496, are abnormal, then we are all flawed as in some point in time we have all wondered, if even for a second, about the significance of random acts.
But then again, no one is perfect.
Have you ever been driving in a car and remembered an event that happened that day or in prior days while driving in your car. All of a sudden your car is in auto-pilot while you recall the event. Abruptly you come to realize that the song on the radio has significance to your event? I can confirm this has happened to me. In reading, “Your Are Probability” I understand that what we feel is “not only unwarranted but borders on the ridiculous.” In reading that, my bubble of belief was burst as I thoroughly found gratification in the connection. So, in order to validate my connection, I decided to poll my family members to counter the “ridiculous” diagnosis. Three out of three members of my family at some point recalled experiencing the same situation with relevance and I am confident you may have, at least once, “conjured up the same relation.” However, random the connection may be, the relevance gives me peace and comfort.
Then there are those who know apophenia is strictly coincidence but engage in a ritual for the mere sake of amusement.
My friend Archie claims he is very lucky in that he can always find a good parking space. Now Archie is an intelligent many who understands probability. However, he has no qualms acknowledging his good fortune when it comes to parking spaces. He has established such a reputation for same that when he has passengers in his car they chant, “Archie, Archie” and miraculously an outstanding parking spot avails itself. Not only does Archie engage in this ritual but now his friends partake in this ritual even when Archie is not in the car. Believe it or not, his friends claim it works every time. Even if it doesn’t work it doesn’t matter and certainly no one counts the number of misses. Everyone is consumed with the entertainment value but like in VooDoo VooDoo has Archie “consciously awaken to nature’s underlying and never ceasing game of roulette?” Archie has the last laugh.
Elliott’s has my support in his endeavor to justify his beliefs in mysterious synchronicities. How negative would the world be if we were all skeptics, or if we were all Spock’s and no Captain Kirk’s, or if we didn’t find meaning in something or purpose. If we didn’t, we might as well be robots. We don’t have to be exaggerated in making something out of everything but it doesn’t hurt to think positively or to have our miracles acknowledged as commonplace. Littlewood’s Law justified our miracles but limits the amount of events. If we are really looking can we come across a miraculous event more than 1 in 35 days? I was a single mother raising two sons, I worked full time and made sure they were active in extracurricular activities. I had so much going on that at times I welcomed coincidences/miracles. My brain was definitely looking for meaning in coincidences, that’s what helped me keep my sanity. If Elliott’s tendencies to see relevance in ACT or in the numbers 496, are abnormal, then we are all flawed as in some point in time we have all wondered, if even for a second, about the significance of random acts.
But then again, no one is perfect.
