I don't expect you take me at my word. What I am wondering is if you allow for the possibility. My wife? She said "That's weird", which expressed both our sentiments. This wasn't a premonition in any sense, no "feelings", just a vivid dream with "vivid" being the notable thing. I would have forgotten it entirely.
Take your word on what? That you encountered something I'd call a coincidence?
In my old house, one night I woke up hearing a strange clicking sound. Got up to look around, discovered that the metronome on our piano was shifting back and forth. We have no pets. I looked around and couldn't find any rodents or other animals. We never had animals in that house except a caged bird.
To this day I have no idea what caused that event. I could assume it was poltergeists, aliens and George Soros all haunting us at the same time. Or that there is a perfectly reasonable explanation and I just don't happen to know what it is.
You would call it a coincidence and be unable to begin to calculate the odds of it happening. I'm sure that in 10^123905414857102897419287349871278344760970288834 years it could happen again or more. If there's no basis for the event I have witnessed a once in the lifetime of the universe thing.
I believe there is some unknown process that allowed it to happen and unless you knew in advance what the physical state of something in the future you have no comparison. Sorry, but you nor I know the "hows" of some things but reality doesn't care and that would be the science of the matter. So how did it happen? I have no idea, but I have no reason to believe divinity had to be involved as much as our understanding of things is unable to account for it at this time.
You mean seeing a certain type of bird sitting on a pond in a dream then seeing something similar IRL? Nah, it wasn't a once in a lifetime of the universe thing. More like a once in a lifetime of you thing.
Lots of people talk about the one strange thing that happened to them. If longshot coincidences never happened, that would be truly strange because they absolutely should.
You don't want to get the full story. The kitchen, the window, the pond, the Great Blue and the Red River Valley. You don't do science the science but this coincidence is fundamentally unsolvable when all the taken into account. You don't even seem to understand the issues with your statement from a scientific perspective. This coincidence would have to reproduce every known physical process that is causally related to the event and some of those are chaotic, not deterministic. Try giving a solution for the future wave state of causally related matter and energy. You might get it right it would be a hell of a coincidence as any physicist could tell you.
Did you miss my question in post 49?You don't want to get the full story. The kitchen, the window, the pond, the Great Blue and the Red River Valley. You don't do science the science but this coincidence is fundamentally unsolvable when all the taken into account. You don't even seem to understand the issues with your statement from a scientific perspective. This coincidence would have to reproduce every known physical process that is causally related to the event and some of those are chaotic, not deterministic. Try giving a solution for the future wave state of causally related matter and energy. You might get it right it would be a hell of a coincidence as any physicist could tell you.
I highly doubt you could remember that level of detail from a dream. More likely you saw something similar to what was in the dream and your mind used the details surrounding what you saw to fill in the details in the dream. Why is that explanation better than yours? Because it's an actual explanation. You don't have one.
That, or it was Soros all along.
I didn't say I had an explanation. I do say that I have a pretty good idea of what "coincidence" looks like. Now you "highly doubt" and that's reasonable but recall I explained in great detail what I had dreamed before the event. But without any basis for belief, you draw a conclusion and say it's superior but making an assumption like that is worse than saying "I don't know". Soros? Does inquiry frighten you? What your faith tells you is what I have said cannot be without one shred of data, nothing. There's nothing but an accurate dream that defies known science. Unknown does not mean supernatural, it does not mean unknowable, but that somehow disturbs you.
Parents who are overly obsessed with their kid's sex life are the ultimate level of creepy. Something really wrong in the head there.
My best friend in college dated a girl with a mom like that. She was a local girl who had homeschooled her entire life. According to him her mom would follow them around constantly.
Well if I had a preteen child who was having sex I would be very concerned even if they only were having relations with other kids their age.Parents who are overly obsessed with their kid's sex life are the ultimate level of creepy. Something really wrong in the head there.
My best friend in college dated a girl with a mom like that. She was a local girl who had homeschooled her entire life. According to him her mom would follow them around constantly.
Well if I had a preteen child who was having sex I would be very concerned even if they only were having relations with other kids their age.
Well if I had a preteen child who was having sex I would be very concerned even if they only were having relations with other kids their age.
If you think they aren’t that rare then you don’t know what I am talking about.They aren't that rare it is just that real Christians are quiet while fake Christians are loud.
Did you actually read his post? There’s a lot more there than a bird in a pond.You mean seeing a certain type of bird sitting on a pond in a dream then seeing something similar IRL? Nah, it wasn't a once in a lifetime of the universe thing. More like a once in a lifetime of you thing.
Lots of people talk about the one strange thing that happened to them. If longshot coincidences never happened, that would be truly strange because they absolutely should.
Did you actually read his post? There’s a lot more there than a bird in a pond.
To reiterate: the thing that religion and philosophy can’t explain is the existence of evil. In a God created world why would God create evil.
It it more likely that "God" doesn't exist in the first place or that matter just how did people determine that" God" is actually even Good to begin with?What we call god is both omnipotent and fragmented. The only thing the pieces agreed on is not to break the playpen we call spacetime, and aside from that we can do whatever the hell we want. Because we are all equally part of god. This is an experiment to discover ourselves. To discover morality and whether we perish or thrive in a future of our own making.
We are all created in god's image. But we are all equally its image. Evil exists because we do not agree. We are the fragments of a splintered mind that decided to play god with an entire universe. Do we put the pieces together and escape our playpen, or do we shatter and become lost unto ourselves? Time will tell.
I second that hunch. Some other family members interviewed.
Very religious (Catholic) family.
This is what happens when your brain OD's on religion.
No faith on my end. I base my conclusions on facts and logic. And since there is no logical explanation for what you describe other than what I suggested then that is what I'm going with unless or until the known facts change. A error in memory, particularly where dreams are involved, is quite possible. Nothing strange about it, really. When weighing that against...nothing...I'll take that.
Did you actually read his post? There’s a lot more there than a bird in a pond.
I have found that awareness can lead to the miraculous in all kinds of ways including the sense of being at cause.I don't need to have an answer, I need awareness.