You felt a slight fear about stadiums and then several weeks later one collapses? No, that isn’t a coincidence or weird. And it isn’t the first time a stadium has collapsed, either.
There is really no point in trying to convince someone in this state of mind of the irrationality of their thoughts. It’s just going to be one more coincidence after another to him. He is either full of shit or in true need of some psychiatric help.
Well I can never remember a big stadium collapsing before.
So all these things have happened in the last couple of weeks or so, and your saying that it isn’t a bit weird:
A stadium collapses just a few weeks after me getting a flight fear of stadiums.
I started using twitter like the exact same day as someone I know and am following signs up for it.
The only xbox gamer name in lie the past 100 that I thought was scary, is the only one that has a future date on, that I could be scared about.
Me going to the toilet at like the exact same time as someone, when it is only the 2nd time i have slept at their house.
There not been a post on this thread for like an hour, and then me and other guy end up posting in like the same minute (and it wasn’t because the thread was brought up, as he wrote an posted his while I was writing mine).
Little things like this that seem to be happening day in day out, and your telling me that theres like nothing weird there?
Well I would say the latter of the too because i’m not full of shit, I’m just telling you what i have been noticing recently.
Weird stuff happens all the time, really.
Now that you’ve started paying attention to coincidences, you’ll probably start noticing even more, and more layered stuff (and you’ll realize that the stuff you’ve noticed so far is small potatoes). It can be exciting and fun, or sometimes scary, because there are patterns and clumpings and trends to events that appear to be pretty amazing at first.
But you get used to it.
You’ll become familiar with confirmation bias and pareidolia, and with the interesting ways the more intuitive, non-linear parts of our brains can sometimes bring our attention to different connections.
Some people can get caught up in it, though, and attribute too much value to stuff that is cool and interesting but otherwise of no great meaning. Some of the advice in this thread is useful for when and if you find yourself getting caught up in it yourself: stop, take a breath, take a walk. Engage in regular old conversation with some regular old friends (or new ones).
Places like The Straight Dope or www.skepdic.com can be great touchstones to keep yourself grounded, and can help you understand some of the things that seem so weird at first. And, as has been mentioned, a good psychologist can also help you sort through this stuff, and can provide guidance if there are mental health issues involved.
It’s a weird world sometimes. Relax, and enjoy the ride.
Ok thank you.
Here’s one.
Here are some more: stadium collapse - Google Search
Not really weird, no. How old are you? You sound like you’re about 13-14ish to me. When you’ve lived a little more you’ll start to realize that this is just how normal life works.
I’m 16.
EDIT: Also, i’m in Europe, and by the sounds of the others stadiums, like the names of the teams and stadiums, they sound American, so thats probably why I haven’t heard of them before.
EDIT: Though actually, I think that I do remember one of them.
Yet another coincidence just happened to me. I had my laptop on the ‘in my humble opinion’ homepage page while I went for my shower, and, when I just came back, before refreshing the page, I looked, and this thread had 67 replies, so then I refreshed it, and immediately looked at number of replies, and there was a thread with 68, so I clicked on it, thinking that it was mine, with another post, and it turned out to be a totally new thread.
This is like one of the first times i’ve looked at the number of posts a thread has before refreshing the page, and plz don’t just say that i’m looking for coincidences, because i’m not, but these stupid things just seem to keep happening.
That is correct.
A friend of mine has her birthday a few days before mine, her eldest daughter’s birthday is a few days before my daughter’s birthday. My grandfather died on my birthday, also his wife, who died on my birthday but five years before I was born.
Weird, huh?
Of course, all these events are also spread out over 38 years, but if you ignore that, and all the friends with different birthdays to mine, and all the relatives who died at other times of year, then the woowoo is strong.
You’re *looking *for connections. There are hundreds of threads on this board, most of them will have one or two pages, something in the 60’s would be common. How many threads are there that don’t have around 60 posts? Count all of them on the page you’re currently browsing.
Spend 10 minutes looking for differences and variety, you’ll find that just as easily if that’s what you’re looking for.
Thanks!
42 has been one of my fave numbers, since high school. Oh no…scary coincidence! :eek:
funny!
Do you do meth coolguy?
OMG… My phone # is 613-289-1267* and I’m also a “cool guy.” What does this meeeeeean?
*Almost. Each digit of my number is only + or - 9 numbers away from this one. EERIE!!!
Think of all the billions and billions of things happening in your life every day, both the big things and the things that are so small that you don’t even notice. Among those billions of things, there are bound to be coincidences. You notice these coincidences, but you don’t give any thought to all the billions of things that DON’T coincide.
Our cosmic connection in synchronicity brought us together so I could urge you to correct your thinking, and if you can’t, get some therapy.
I’m not sure if this is against the rules so I didn’t want to say it but I think you may be onto something.
CoolGuy6132891267 I’m not accusing you of anything, but if it just so happens that you have been using pot, alcohol or any non-prescribed drugs please take a break. You honestly sound like my brother after smoking pot for 3 days straight.
It sounds like you have some sort of obsessive compulsive disorder. You’re fixating on useless shit all the time. You sound like I did when I was a teenager, you need mental help.
in order small kids, pregnant women, regular women then finally guys …
Mainly because small kids wait until the last possible minute to go pee, pregnant women have babby bouncing on their poor bladders, and women before men just to be polite, and men can always pee in the kitchen sink on the sly …