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RE: Synchronicity - 1/14/2007 3:56:15 PM

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ORIGINAL: ownedgirlie

It was a good song by the Police.

No time to post today but will come back to this. But now I have that song in my head so I had to share it.

Thanks for making me laugh

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RE: Synchronicity - 11/7/2009 6:26:32 AM

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Synchronicity

A few months ago, after relating several experiences to a co-worker, he brought this subject to my attention.

Last winter, while relocating all of the trash from out of my new house, in Maine, to the campfire, there was a big pile of books inside the house, as many as forty. Almost all of these books were about a true life murder mystery, and even one on "How To Commit Murder." It appeared as if the previous tenants might have entertained ideas of.... Anyway, being unfavorable to burning non-fiction books, the decision was made that these books had to go to the fire as their topic did not justify devoting any of my precious space for keeping. While flicking through the pages of each book in case anything might be hiding in any of them, I found a four leaf clover.

Back here in Los Angeles, today I finally went down stairs from my office to a little bargain store intending to buy a picture frame to keep it in, before the clover dried out too much and crumbled, or became damaged. After at least twenty minutes of humming and hawing over which frame was the least tacky and most fitting, one was chosen. I brought it back to my office and prepared it for the clover leaves. Each corner of this tacky little frame had a tacky little plastic ruby looking gem embedded in it While beginning to use a knife to pry them off, I noticed that each gem was centered in a small four leafed clover! My co-worker exclaimed that it would be difficult enough to find a picture frame with a four leafed clover on it, let alone inadvertently buying one, for a clover found amongst a pile of trash inside an abandoned shack during the dead of a Maine winter.

Enough of these types of circumstances have happened in my life to convince me that fate is indeed real, the trick is getting in touch with the power that controls it.

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RE: Synchronicity - 11/7/2009 6:46:13 AM

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Confirmation bias. A hundred small things could happen in the same day which we ignore, but we only do pay attention to those which link up with what we are concerned with.

But I like the instant karma. I've got a teen who can't do anything wrong without getting caught. Taking cell phone out in school not knowing the principal happens to be standing behind me. Out of pocket and instantly seized. I keep telling him he has really fast karma and needs to learn it's easier to obey the rules than deal with the fall out.

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RE: Synchronicity - 11/7/2009 9:16:26 AM

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s'funny, I was just thinking about starting the very same thread...........

It isnt really synchonicity but it has some of the same aspect of unrelated occurrences coming together in a way, not meaningful necessarily, but damned handily; a client is involved in some legal dispute or other, the other side is being difficult so you plan to send them something based on that which is intended to escalate things so they will back down and become more amenable, but if it doesnt work then things may get even more difficult.

Just then, Friday 1645hrs, the printer goes on the blink, and you cant send the damned thing you intended. You curse and stamp and so on but there's nothing you can do until Monday when the printer will be fixed.

Monday morning the post arrives and the other side has decided of its own accord to accept to be amenable and to settle. If you'd sent the letter you intended, this would have been totally undone and things may have gone very differently.

Did the printer go on the blink accidentally or was there some force at work, knowing what was already in the post to you at 1645hrs Friday, preventing you from cocking things up?

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