I immediately rush to the internet and ask anonymous people to explain it. I usually accept the first explanation offered, and never change my mind.
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How do you react to things you can't explain
- Thread starter slobake
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I still can't explain this:
30 years ago this summer, I was hanging out on my (college)apartment porch (3rd floor), watching a summer storm blow in. For some reason, I felt the need to get away, quick. I turned and took about 2 steps to the door when lightning hit the tree by the steps, ran down it and jumped to the steel railing where I had been leaning moments before. I was knocked off my feet, into the apartment, which ended up filled with little singed pieces of pine bark. And about 1/2 the electrical stuff was fried throughout the building (including light-bulbs). I was unhurt except for skinned knees and elbows.
No clue what inspired me to move. And while it seemed like several seconds it was probably a small fraction of that.
How did I react?? I got REALLY drunk that night. Excessively drunk.
30 years ago this summer, I was hanging out on my (college)apartment porch (3rd floor), watching a summer storm blow in. For some reason, I felt the need to get away, quick. I turned and took about 2 steps to the door when lightning hit the tree by the steps, ran down it and jumped to the steel railing where I had been leaning moments before. I was knocked off my feet, into the apartment, which ended up filled with little singed pieces of pine bark. And about 1/2 the electrical stuff was fried throughout the building (including light-bulbs). I was unhurt except for skinned knees and elbows.
No clue what inspired me to move. And while it seemed like several seconds it was probably a small fraction of that.
How did I react?? I got REALLY drunk that night. Excessively drunk.
OK, if all things can be explained(not gonna argue that one way or the other), can *ALL things* be understood- by mere humans?
I try to use those two things I've been fortunate enough to possess by virtue of being human - logic and reason. 
My ex father in law asked if Id be interested in going to his church with him to attend a healing given by Patrick San Francesco, founder of The Light Movement.
Being with where I was at in my spiritual journey I was interested in going.
Not being someone who was physically sick, I wasnt at first sure of what to say.
When it came my turn to speak with him I simply told him that I was seeking enlightenment.
He did his thing and I left there, honestly, feeling a bit foolish. I let that feeling go, as I was being sincere.
From that day it was probably a week and a half afterwards when I caught my ex cheating on me. It wasnt until a bit more recently that I connected the two events in any way at all.
Being with where I was at in my spiritual journey I was interested in going.
Not being someone who was physically sick, I wasnt at first sure of what to say.
When it came my turn to speak with him I simply told him that I was seeking enlightenment.
He did his thing and I left there, honestly, feeling a bit foolish. I let that feeling go, as I was being sincere.
From that day it was probably a week and a half afterwards when I caught my ex cheating on me. It wasnt until a bit more recently that I connected the two events in any way at all.
I try to use those two things I've been fortunate enough to possess by virtue of being human - logic and reason.
I think there will always be things we don't understand. Everytime we discover something new it brings up more questions. This has probably been driving mankind since before the discovery of fire. There are things that we just don't understand and trying to figure them out is one of the joys of our existence.
No, reality is everything. And perception doesn't determine reality. Just because you drop a hit of acid and see spiders everywhere doesn't mean the spiders ever existed. That doesn't change just because you take away the acid and substitute misunderstanding.
I was on a roof in Iraq lighting up a cigarette when an 88mm mortar dropped three meters from me. I was well inside the kill radius of that round, with no more than shorts and a t-shirt to protect my body. The blast knocked me backwards down the stairs to the roof, with expletives flying from me barely audible over the ringing in my ears. Checking myself to see how bad I was, I soon realized that I didn't have a scratch on me. We went up to do a crater inspect and found shrapnel at 1 inch intervals at chest level in the wall behind where I was standing. Some guys told me it was a miracle I was alive at all, let alone totally uninjured. I told them the truth, it wasn't a miracle, I just got extremely lucky. The shock wave from the round knocked me down the stairs before the shrapnel could catch up to it. There's a logical explanation for everything.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
... I ask a bunch of questions until I either get an answer I can live with or something more interesting turns up and I file it for later.
(That slow timeless clarity is not unusual, it's fairly common in reports of near-death situations. I experienced it once when a handgun was pressed into my stomach. Some folks describe it as your ego getting out of the way so you can figure out how to react better. I dunno ... )
Are we allowed to pick both options and double our chances of good stuff happening?
(That slow timeless clarity is not unusual, it's fairly common in reports of near-death situations. I experienced it once when a handgun was pressed into my stomach. Some folks describe it as your ego getting out of the way so you can figure out how to react better. I dunno ... )
Are we allowed to pick both options and double our chances of good stuff happening?
MatticusMania said:
I don't believe in either. Stuff happens.
I do, however, agree with your stance on perception.
YIKES I am sorry to hear about the gun. I'll bet time slowed down. I am glad you survived.
Same here.
Things were set in motion a long time ago, we play the hands we're dealt, for better or worse.
Absolutely. If you believe so.
Its not my place to tell others what they should or should not believe.
Also, I dont know whether youve ever taken acid or not, but Ive never seen anything that wasnt actually there.
