Pyrotex Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 How timely was your post yesterday, Pyrotex. About 30 minutes after reading it, I was in my car going out for lunch when they stated this exact quote on NPR. Were you perhaps listening, and I just heard a re-airing of the story? Or is this some example of synchronicity?It must be that you live in Synchroni City, because I haven't heard NPR all day. Really. My car radio is tuned into it usually, but yesterday and today I've been listening to classical rock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagnetMan Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 It must be that you live in Synchroni City, because I haven't heard NPR all day. Really. My car radio is tuned into it usually, but yesterday and today I've been listening to classical rock. Is there any scientific explanation for this - beyond the banal responce of co-incidence? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteNow Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 Is there any scientific explanation for this - beyond the banal responce of co-incidence?I always appreciated the approach Carl Jung took in describing such events... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 Is there any scientific explanation for this - beyond the banal responce of co-incidence?The human mind has always been fascinated by, and deeply bothered by the nature of chance and probability. Look at our attraction to gambling. And look at the pan-cultural distrust of or even contempt for arguments based on "probability" and "coincidence". The reason for this lies in our neural wiring. The human mind has, at its core, two principal functions: pattern recognizer and meaning generator. Nature does not "abhor a vaccuum" since Nature does not have a mind. But the human mind does abhor a lack (or vaccuum) of meaning in the world. At every level, from the atomic to the street to the astronomical vastness, we are obsessed with finding patterns and supplying meaning, or "scientific explanations". The problem is, the Cosmos does not care about our neural wiring and is not obligated to provide us "patterns" or compelled to perform in a strictly cause-effect manner for our convenience. We often "see" patterns that are not there; our own neural wiring tricks us, and then proceeds to generate a meaning for the illusion of pattern, which of course, reconfirms to us the "reality" of the pattern we thought we saw. In certain intellectual circles, it has become de rigeour to insist that "there are NO coincidences" in the world. But there are. They happen all the time. Billion-to-One coincidences happen 6 times a day on Earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldsoftwaresteve Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 perhaps the radio airing of the story was triggered from here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 The purpose of life? Hmmm... We are just a semi-efficient tool to distribute energy. A slave to entrophy, if you like....My purpose in life was to marry a lovely woman who would be efficient at helping me distribute my energy. And I DID!! Does that mean she is ... an entrophy wife??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteNow Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 perhaps the radio airing of the story was triggered from here?Intersting too was the nature of the discussion they were having... involved oil, economics, Africa, Australia... parelleling topics here on Hypo. It happens all of the time... (whatever that is) :wave: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteNow Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 Does that mean she is ... an entrophy wife???Oh... tell me you didn't just go there. :wave: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panjandrum Posted March 25, 2006 Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 Is there any scientific explanation for this - beyond the banal responce of co-incidence? There's nothing banal about co-incidence. It has always been imbued with supernatural significance. Its really only banal once you understand probability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racoon Posted March 25, 2006 Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 Lifes a *****, and then You Die... :hyper: That's why we get High :eek_big: 'Cuz you never know, when you're gonna' Go! :hyper: Poetically, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagnetMan Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 Plato said it is to Know Thyself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 Plato said it is to Know ThyselfAnd why not? Despite "evolution" and "the big bang" and "black holes" the biggest mysteries are within ourselves. To fully understand who we are and what we are is to understand half the Cosmos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteNow Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 Ever seen the (yes, I know, don't crusify me...) reality show on E!, Girls Next Door? It's some playboy girls who are Hef's girlfriends... One of them asked in an episode, "So... in the bible, it says to 'know thyself.' Does that mean we should masturbate?" I love hot dumb chicks sometimes... too bad they start to annoy me the following morning and I have to kick them out permanently. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queso Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 ugh how can you watch SH!T like that???? turning on the television (at friends houses, since i dont have one) gives me a headache,all of the information they get paid to try to cram into your headas much and as fast as possible. Whenever I TRIP I go thru this phase in my trip where I start to recite all of the BS i've heard on the radio or television throughout my entire life and it's insanely amusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteNow Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 ugh how can you watch SH!T like that????Sometimes, as crazy as my life is with two jobs, buying a house, fixing problems with said house... it's just nice to sit back and subtract myself from it all for an hour by watching some mindless nonsense on the tube. My dad, a really bright guy (yeah, I'm biased, but he had a lot on the ball) used to purposely rent the dumbest movie he could find after a horribly difficult week at work, and relax with what he called a "no brainer." To each his own. I suspect you're too busy enjoying your life right now as it stands without too much need to get away from it for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 ...One of them asked in an episode, "So... in the bible, it says to 'know thyself.' Does that mean we should masturbate?"...:)Okay, you win. That's the way to understand the other half of the Cosmos. :ebaskbal: :singer: :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagnetMan Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 And why not? Despite "evolution" and "the big bang" and "black holes" the biggest mysteries are within ourselves. To fully understand who we are and what we are is to understand half the Cosmos.How about all of it? The microcosm duplicates the macrocosm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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