Do you believe in coincidences

[Cops]

[Sleepy Weasel]

I'm pretty sure the car and lightning thing is BS.

For one thing in order for the guy to be thrown out of his car... well, first of all he's definitely not going to be thrown thru his windshield, not to mention that if the lightning bolt can't hit in such a fashion thru a car which is afterall a Faraday cage (charge can't get into the interior).

The only way I can think of setting this up is that his window is wide open and a lightning bolt somehow came thru it and for some reason the guy goes flying in the direction the lightning bolt comes from. Etc.

maybe it was a convertible? Which he was driving in the rain. Well maybe.

[King Missile]

You're usually funnier than this Sleepy

[Cops]

the one liner pallie dropped a half-liner, edit that post quick time.

[Credit Account]

After reading this thread I looked out of the window and saw a man in a trenchcoat walking up a ramp to the trainstation and he briefly tripped over something and continued walking.

Now what were the odds of me seeing extactly THAT man walking up the ramp to the trainstation as I looked out the window? What are the odds of him tripping over just as I looked? What are the odds that that man would be wearing a trenchcoat. The odds of these things coming together (me looking, man tripping, trenchoat) are INCREDIBLY INCREDIBLY small. I could have looked the other way, leaving his house he could have stepped slightly to the left altering his trajectory to the train station by 2mm to the left leading him to never trip at all. He could have bought a different coat, or have been run over by a tram ages ago and never lived to buy the coat at all. It really is mindblowing .

Our human mind has an amazing capacity for letting the incredible seem mundane, for grouping unique events into categories. When all these incredibly unlikley things happen every day it's hardly surprising that the (very entertaining) things mentioned in Crv's post occur. Not trying ruin the thread or anything just adding a different perspective :P

[bloodzombie]

Our human mind has an amazing capacity for letting the incredible seem mundane,

Or maybe by taking a bunch of insignificant pieces and putting them together into an unlikely whole, we're making the mundane seem incredible.


interesting post crv, I wonder how much is true.

Also:

co·in·ci·dence ( P ) Pronunciation Key (k-ns-dns, -dns)
n.
The state or fact of occupying the same relative position or area in space.
A sequence of events that although accidental seems to have been planned or arranged.


you can't really deny that they exist.

[jeem]

just because it's in the dictionary doesn't make it real

see: fairies
see also: unicorns
see also: jesus

[Verthanthi]

All of which exist.

[DoTheFandango]

Except the first two.

[StackOverflow]

Wtf is a "jesus"?

[Cops]

if you're ever in doubt remmeber how unlikely your birth was.

[Bioture]

MY BDAY IS JUNE 6... I just called my mom and she said I was born around 6 or 7 in the morning!

666! Number of the Beast!
or
667! Neighbor of the Beast!

JESUS SAVE ME!;asldfja;kjf

[apt]

im sure faeries and unicorns have a better chance of existing than jesus

[Cops]

MY BDAY IS JUNE 6... I just called my mom and she said I was born around 6 or 7 in the morning!

666! Number of the Beast!
or
667! Neighbor of the Beast!

JESUS SAVE ME!;asldfja;kjf

repent :fear:

[bloodzombie]

just because it's in the dictionary doesn't make it real

see: fairies
see also: unicorns
see also: jesus

I wasn't arguing that it exists because it's in the dictionary. did you read the definition, or are you just being argumentative?