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Originally Posted by GypsyGoth
I think maybe we just remember some events more than others, I wonder if you so easily recall all the times you lost while betting on a horse's name you felt somehow connected to.
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Truthfully, this has
never happened to me. I have - obviously - lost many times when punting, but that's been due to poor selecting or following poor tipsters. The couple of examples I relate in my post have been two of four 'stand out' moments. I have never experienced any other times of pure synchronicity involving gambling - just four which couldn't be ignored and which led to me winning - once which really answered my prayers in the weirdest way when I was in financial trouble .
There have, however, been other examples in my life.
I know the cynics and sceptics say that it's 'coincidence', and that once we are 'alerted' to a name or number or phrase, then we (subconsciously, perhaps) look out for the same, but I'm not referring to what someone else on here referred to as 'bog standard' coincidence. Though I'd like a definition of just what 'coincidence' actually means?
I am known amongst those close to me for my 'intuition'. I cannot explain just what it is, or why it happens, but sometimes, I experience what can only be called ESP. If only I could summon it at will or control it, but I can't. The fact remains that it is real and cannot be explained away by a glib term like 'coincidence'.
A few years ago, I was at a party and surrounded by six girls who I had never met before. One of my friends told them I was 'spooky' and that I could 'read palms' (which I cannot - except in a BS way for making a girl's acquaintance as part of the 'chatting up' process or flirting) and these girls
all thrust out their hands. I went into my 'routine' and the first girl was suitably impressed because I managed to hit certain 'targets' with my educated 'guesswork' BS reading. The next girl was an attractive 30 year old and from the moment I took her hand the weirdest thing happened; a film flashed into my mind - 'The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone'; a 1960's film starring Warren Beatty and Vivien Leigh. A scene from the film has Leigh undecided whether to embark on an affair with a younger man or not, and her mother cautions her that; "If you have an affair with him you'll regret it, and if you don't have an affair with him you'll regret it" or words to that effect. Anyway, this phrase kept repeating itself in my mind.
l ended up asking this complete stranger whether she wanted the truth or not, and she said 'yes'. I told her that she had been tormenting herself for a "long time" over whether she should or shouldn't do something highly personal, left it at that, then made an excuse that I was going get a top up drink and left the room with my friend. She followed with one of her friends and asked me what I had meant. Her demeanour had changed but she insisted, so I told her the 'impressions' I had experienced. I said that she was married, and that for some time her husband's best friend had been making advances to her. I added that she wanted to have an affair with him but that she hadn't yet. She was visibly shocked by this and accused her friend of "telling" me - quite an illogical statement considering how I'd never met any of them before; as her friend, who denied "telling me", explained to her. Anyway, this woman ended up confiding in me - a total stranger - that I was 100% correct, and that she couldn't resist her husband's friend, but had not gone all the way yet because she didn't want to hurt her husband who was a "kind caring husband". I told her to watch the Vivien Leigh film.
Could I explain the above incident? - No. Had it happened before? - Yes, but in a different way.
Some people can simply accept that 'life' is accidental, and that there is neither meaning to it, nor purpose, and that death is final. I respect their views but do not agree.