Wierd or what?
rjo__
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You probably have your own story... but this is mine:)
I have been a little under the weather and spent the day pretty much watching the history channel and feeling like a baby. I finally got up and started looking at stuff on the web.... found myself looking at the 2015 CES meeting when the inspiration hit me. Maybe a nice shower would relieve my funk. It did. I felt so good that I determined to do the dishes... we have a dishwasher but the latch is hit or miss and I'm always afraid that if I hit it one more time, I'm going to break it. So... I'm washing this spaghetti pot, which has the Velcro coming off the bottom... did I say "Velcro?"...;l meant to say ... "Teflon" and was wondering about the carcinogenic potential of tiny Teflon particles ... when Libby called to remind me that she needed to return some stuff to QVC and could I do it right now...
Well, of course I could. So after that I got back to my computer and on the page that was sitting there the title was...
"misconceptions about cleaning pots and pans"..; no joke. I have no electronic devices in my kitchen and although I had mentioned the issue of the Teflon to Libby... that would be some real-time spookage if that is what it is.
You?
I have been a little under the weather and spent the day pretty much watching the history channel and feeling like a baby. I finally got up and started looking at stuff on the web.... found myself looking at the 2015 CES meeting when the inspiration hit me. Maybe a nice shower would relieve my funk. It did. I felt so good that I determined to do the dishes... we have a dishwasher but the latch is hit or miss and I'm always afraid that if I hit it one more time, I'm going to break it. So... I'm washing this spaghetti pot, which has the Velcro coming off the bottom... did I say "Velcro?"...;l meant to say ... "Teflon" and was wondering about the carcinogenic potential of tiny Teflon particles ... when Libby called to remind me that she needed to return some stuff to QVC and could I do it right now...
Well, of course I could. So after that I got back to my computer and on the page that was sitting there the title was...
"misconceptions about cleaning pots and pans"..; no joke. I have no electronic devices in my kitchen and although I had mentioned the issue of the Teflon to Libby... that would be some real-time spookage if that is what it is.
You?
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The web-page thing ? spooky, very spooky.
I'll tell you one not very related tale:
I read some years ago a book about reincarnation. They say (in the book) that small kids tell about their previous life. I used to think maybe there is something to this... I don't think anymore but there you have my 3 years old tells me "when I was papa I use to drive and smoke". If I'd believe such things (what he says) I'd try to get as much of his tale as possible. If I listen enough of it, it doesn't make any sense. His tale changes. But how was that he started talking about that ? about driving a being a father of two ?... I think that they play mother-father-kids with the others, and they are still unable to tell when what happened and what is real and what was just a game and imagination. Quite spooky after reading such a book...
Sometimes some things happen by chance, I don't think that there is a very deep connection or inner working. But just believing that there is something else makes the question of "why are we here and now" a bit more friendly. I think. Maybe there is but the proof eludes us at every corner ! (Hope, lots of it)
-Phil
about the reincarnation issue. I am absolutely convinced based on my own experience...
not of having a passed life here... but of coming here:) I am reluctant to talk about it because it makes me sound like either a liar or a lunatic. But it is a story that I have repeated to my family any time the existence of God comes into question. I am thinking about a starting an anonymous site to give the testimony. I once shared it with a good friend... and physical chemist Bob Clarkson (whose mentor was John Deutch) at the U of I ... Bob is now gone or I would have called him about this. Anyway after listening, he gave me a whole list of people that had nearly the same experience.
The problem is that human memory is rather open and maleable... so to actually do anything based upon such memories or beliefs is not a very good idea.
rjo__ does your experience involve a "chase" ? ... we might have a similar story
much more.
I had a friend in Cleveland married to a resident in a different program who was friends with my wife. Super rational lady. Her hubby had repeated instances of knowing what was going to happen next in geo-politics. Completely random things that couldn't be predicted by prior knowledge... specific incidents. She didn't know what to think about it, absolutely swore that it was true and just shook her head when he started talking about it.
I think some of these kinds of things can be traced back to the development of the cyclotron and in the early studies about regulating radio signals and power lines. I spent a very interesting period of my life trying to figure out why this kind of knowledge couldn't find it's way into medical use. I think I figured it out... but it took me a while:) I even held a meeting in Venezuela to explore the idea that possibly MRI could be a target technology to implement some of it. I invited Damadian to come, but he couldn't. He did however issue a press release supporting the idea. It was followed up by an impressive study in Canada, which showed broad applications, but wasn't exactly based on fundamental knowledge.
I guess the idea was voted down:)
To me that sounds like you shared a soul. I think that is why love makes us crazy.
True love... not the pheromone stuff. It really isn't like anything else is it?.
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Voice-to-text is fairly mature technology. Apps to recognize songs are old news. Now, NBC Universal admits that they used Symphony Advanced Media to estimate Netflix viewership - they "listen" to content from any source.
We are past the point of opting-in for invasive tracking; it is outrageously difficult to opt-out or block it. Don't get me wrong. I do believe that there are weird coincidences. When it comes to digital content, though, I am increasingly skeptical.
I have always been a HUGE David Bowie fan and so is my 29 year old son (not surprising as he heard it all the time, growing up).
January 10th was my birthday and I had a busy work-day planned but I felt this overwhelming depression and couldn't get motivated (no, I hadn't been celebrating the night before). I pretty much moped around the house all day and eventually picked up my guitar and spent hours playing David Bowie songs, exclusively. The next morning, I received a WhatsApp message from my son, "RIP David Bowie". Followed by "dad, the weird thing is that I wore my Bowie sweater yesterday for the first time in years".
Bowie died on my birthday while I was playing his songs.....Bizarre, no?
-Phil
Fast forward a couple weeks and I was driving from one obscure part of Alaska to another obscure part, on an equally obscure road, when I saw an old white pickup truck on the side of the road and an elderly man and woman standing by it, not doing much of anything. I turned off the road about 200' before them, parked, and walked towards them.
They told me that they'd recently had new wheels with deeply recessed rims put on the back of their truck, and hadn't thought to get a new lug wrench to accommodate them - and now they had a flat. Nobody had been by forever. The prospects were equally dim for the future. They wondered what, if anything, I could do for them. I smiled brightly and told them I thought I could help!
I walked back to the car and grabbed the oddball wrench. As I drew near them again they were shaking their heads and looking depressed and disgusted. The man proclaimed that a puny Toyota wrench was not going to work on their big truck. I told them a bit abruptly that, "Of course it won't!" And proceeded to remove his lug nuts with my big socket wrench. The extension shaft was barely long enough at first but the socket fit perfectly.
After the wheel was swapped out and they were good to go, they were still shaking their heads in amazement. As I walked away, so was I.
"...calling it quits" does deflect the needle on the "spookage" meter. Queue the theme for "The Twilight Zone"!
I drove my daughter to school when she was younger and she was always volunteering me to pick up other girls ... so being the noodle I am I agreed. One of the girls lived somewhat out of town but she was a hoot to drive around so it made for a nice morning. I eventually met this girl's father who was a security director(head?) at the local nuclear plant. We were having just this kind of conversation, when he related that for weeks prior to the event... the number 911 kept popping up on his microwave. It bothered him... although he originally thought it had something to do with a Porshe. Then it happened and the meaning suddenly became obvious to him. It was some time after that I met him, but he was still very rattled by it.
I've had a few very interesting experiences like this but in my experience they are rare and Phil's view is always most probable and should always be considered the leading hypothesis before considering other explanations.
I have always wondered if that whole remote viewing episode wasn't really a program to test a technology... bio-effects stuff.
Rich
Now don't nobody go back and edit their posts...
Some of my Bots are wired weird.
Edit: More on this breaking news: http://avko.org/free/reference/i-before-e-rule.html
I wonder who the guy in the turban was; Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld? :-D
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