Topic: Synchronicities
Ok, I found the following on a web page and have also read some of
these in a book a few years back when I was reading alot of
coincidences, but I after reading these I wanted to add my own from
my own family which isn't as big as some of the below but has left
some of us in the family scratching our heads a little. My brother
was killed when he went across a railroad crossing in a nearby town
in his car about 14 years ago. A few years ago my father and I were
researching our family history and my father was working on my great
grandfather. He came over to my house and he said "You are never
going to believe what I found out" , he sat me down and told me
that , my great grandfather was killed one block away from where my
brother was killed......he was hit by a train..and my brothers car
was pushed almost to the same place where my great grandfather was
said to have been hit..
family curse?
ok..heres the ones from the webpage:
ABOUT FACTS NET
Strange
Coincidence
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines coincidence the
following way:
1 : the act or condition of coinciding : CORRESPONDENCE
2 : the occurrence of events that happen at the same time by accident
but seem to have some connection; also : any of these occurrences
Coincidence is a strange thing indeed. Sometimes things are so
coincidental that it seems uncanny. Other times explanations of
coincidence are carried out to such an extreme it seems that someone
is trying to force you to think that something that was not a
coincidence was coincidental In an article in the Skeptical Inquirer
magazine called 'Coincidences:Remarkable or Random?' by Bruce Martin,
Mr. Martin states that we tend to overlook the many improbable events
that occur to other people.
Lets look at some coincidences.
The attack of 9/11 finds the number 11 in many places. The first
plane to hit the towers was American Airlines flight 11. 911 is the
police emergency telephone number. The call letter for the flight
were AA11. Since A is the first letter of the alphabet A-1, so
AA11=11 11. The flight had 11 crew members. New York City has 11
letters. Manhattan was discovered on September 11. The two World
Trade Towers look like the number 11. The death toll was 2801,
2+8+0+1=11. We find the number 11 in many more places like the length
of Saudi Arabia, George W. Bush, Afghanistan. There are at least
fifty other instances which I haven't mentioned where one might try
and make a case for the number 11 appearing.
A person could argue that everything that happens to one during his
lifetime is a coincidence. Meeting one's husband or wife for the
first time means that you were at the same place at the same time or
you wouldn't have met. I called these ordinary coincidences, they are
the type of coincidences that happen to all of us. If you didn't
apply for a certain job at a certain time you may never have got it
so here we have another ordinary coincidence. If you didn't live in a
certain area at a certain time you may never have met your best
friend. I think you can see from these examples what I mean by
ordinary coincidences. But it the odd coincidences that are hard to
explain, especially those coincidences that require many unusual
things to happen that cause these odd coincidences. I saw this quote
the other day, "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous".
US Navy memo reporting sinking of the Titanic
Photo Source: US Navy
In 1892 William T. Steed published a book about a cruise ship that
hit an iceberg and sank. In 1912 he was a passenger on the Titanic
and went down with the ship. The Titanic itself was full of
coincidences. A woman, Mrs. Marshall on seeing the Titanic got a
terrible premonition and grabbing her husband's arm screamed that the
ship was going to sink. No one listened and unfortunately her mother
had booked passage on the Titanic and she didn't know it. So far
about 20 people have been discovered who didn't board the Titanic
because they felt something terrible was going to happen. When the
Titanic sank it had been carrying many cursed Egyptian artifacts and
mummies.
In 1939 a ship was in the general area of where the Titanic sunk, the
ships name was the Titanian. A helmsman had a terrible premonition
and stopped the ship which then hit an iceberg, damaging the ship but
not sinking it because of the reduced speed.
I remember a coincidence that happened to a fellow worker. He took
his wife on a vacation to Indonesia and went to the island Java. On
Java he decided to get a drink so he and his wife went into one of
the bars on the island. They sat down and ordered a drink then they
noticed something they couldn't believe, in the bar was someone he
worked with.
President Lincoln had a dream that he was going to be assassinated
Three days later at the Ford Theater he was shot and killed by John
Wilkes Booth
There is a story about a man who was killed on a moped in Bermuda. He
had been struck by a taxi. His brother was killed a year later in the
same place. He was ridding the same moped. He was hit by the same
taxi, driven by the same driver and the passenger was the same
passenger that was in the taxi when his brother was killed.
Picture Source: Lincoln Papers US Government
The Lincoln Kennedy coincidences:
Lincoln was elected as President in 1850
Kennedy was elected as President in 1960
Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846
Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946
Both Lincoln and Kennedy were shot in the head
Both Lincoln and Kennedy died on Friday
Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy
Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln
Both Lincoln and Kennedy had seven letters in their names
Both Lincoln and Kennedy were succeeded by southerners
Both of the successors were named Johnson
Andrew Johnson who succeeded Lincoln was born in 1808
Lyndon Johnson who succeeded Kennedy was born in 1908.
Lincoln was shot in a theatre built by Ford
Kennedy was shot in a car built by Ford
Both assassins had three word names, Lee Harvey Oswald and John
Wilkes Booth
Both assassins had fifteen letters in their names
Neither assassin made it to trial
The funny thing about coincidences is that if you look hard enough
you are sure to find some and not everyone will agree on what is a
coincidence or not. If one person is born in 1909 and does something
and another is born in 2009 and does something, is that ever a
coincidence? If you look at the above coincidences you may not agree
that they are all coincidences and who could blame you? But it doe
make interesting reading, doesn't it?
Posted by Tracy
at 6:08 PM EDT
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