#5605222 - 04/16/12 05:54 PM
Re: I had an epiphany...
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bronzilla
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Its lost over there. Bunch of cretins.  Toads.
Its allready close to falling off the first page, I dont think they know what to make of it.
Sad.
Hell even the apes had the intellectual curiosity to revere the monolith in 2001
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#5605236 - 04/16/12 05:59 PM
Re: I had an epiphany...
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Wow! who knows? If you follow the big Bang theory as some do I suppose you could extrapolate and come up with a finite size.
I suppose not really finite as it would be ever expanding.
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#6156876 - 11/17/12 08:28 PM
Re: I had an epiphany...
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Got a neat story to share. This happened to me when I was in New Orleans in January. I've only shared it with a few people but feel like sharing it here.
I want to preface that I don't think I'm special or better or worse than anyone. For whatever reason, stuff like this happens all the time. I genuinely believe that if you look for it, it opens itself up to you. For whatever reason I've actually had people get violently upset with me when I share stuff like this (my own sister and ex were pissed at me once for sharing one of these stories with them) but honestly, there's not much I can do about it. It just happens.
I genuinely believe there's a spiritual world out there that we can't see but can feel and interact with on some level if you're open to it.
So I'm in NOLA for the Wizard show in January and I decide to spend the evening walking up and down Bourbon St. checking out live music. On my way back (it's late now - probably around 2AM) I'm walking down Canal St. back to my hotel and for whatever reason I hear this voice...only it's not really a voice, it's almost like your conscience talking to you - more like an urge than a voice, and it tells me to cross the street at a certain point where there are no crossing lights.
I double check with the "voice". 
"Are you sure...really?" I kind of ask myself. I get an affirmative reply. The reply was more of an peaceful affirmation that this is the "right" thing to do than it was a voice. Again, an urge.
So I cross and I realize that I'm crossing right where the huge Marriott hotel is because I see it as I am crossing.
For those of you that don't know Canal St., it's very wide with a boulevard and train/trolley tracks running down the centre. It's actually quite an ordeal to cross without an intersection.
So as I approach the other side I hop onto the sidewalk and continue walking in the same direction and I hear this voice behind me ask a question. This time it was a real voice.
"Sir, do you mind if I ask you a question? I'm doing a survey for college."
I turn around and there is this tall 21-something, decent looking guy standing there in front of his hotel.
I pause. The thought "sure" crosses my mind. I also brace myself for a fight because the thought crosses my mind that it could be a mugging. The streets were not very full at 2AM.
"Sure..." I answer, "if I can ask you the same question" I quickly improvise. I love hearing the "why answers" so I figure it would only be fair for me to ask him as well.
He agrees, so he fires his question at me.
"Do you believe in god and why?"
Amazing. It all comes together in my mind like watching one of those fast rushing storms filmed in time lapse. Boom!
So we discuss the details, he gives me his answer.
So I go on to explain to him what I believe, why I believe it and how I crossed the road randomly to bump straight into him after something told me to do it.
It turns out that he didn't really...or better stated, was unsure about it all...and I definitely did. He was raised in a very religious family but did not really make his mind up on the matter.
Our 20 minute conversation ends with a peaceful feeling of contentment for both of us. It was strange. He was really thankful for me taking the time to talk to him and mentioned to me more than once how he felt it to be a very positive experience for him.
Two strangers, bromancing in the night and then parting ways.
We went on our merry ways and never saw each other again.
Disclosure: I don't do any drugs and I did have a few drinks during my walk on Bourbon St.
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#6156954 - 11/17/12 08:56 PM
Re: I had an epiphany...
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goldust40
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You're gregarious, the voices in your head momentarily became extrinsic to yourself (through the need for wish-fulfillment) to the extent that you then conflated them with destiny, and you are always looking, or rather striving, for quasi-epiphanic moments such as that one.
All that transpired was a self-fulfilling prophecy - you were in the process of relating a random event to yourself as something pivotal, and something did occur - a chance meeting with someone perhaps of the same mindset, perhaps not.
Either way it was just a coincidence. And coincidences happen all the time. What you make of them is the story. It may seem significant, but ultimately that notion is entirely subjective.
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#6156984 - 11/17/12 09:07 PM
Re: I had an epiphany...
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VintageComics
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You're gregarious, the voices in your head momentarily became extrinsic to yourself (through the need for wish-fulfillment) to the extent that you then conflated them with destiny, and you are always looking, or rather striving, for quasi-epiphanic moments such as that one.
All that transpired was a self-fulfilling prophecy - you were in the process of relating a random event to yourself as something pivotal, and something did occur - a chance meeting with someone perhaps of the same mindset, perhaps not.
Either way it was just a coincidence. And coincidences happen all the time. What you make of them is the story. It may seem significant, but ultimately that notion is entirely subjective.
That's your perspective of it but let me give a little more detail: whenever this happens (and it happens a lot) it happens without me even realizing what was going to happen or that I am even having this discussion with myself.
When I hear the "voice", I generally don't realize it's a voice at the time (when it's happening). Like I said, it's more like an urge.
You know when you're walking and decide to stop or turn left or right in a mall or walk into a store? Sometimes you don't even know why you did it. You just felt like it at the time but that feeling is so insignificant and small at the time that you don't even remember having it...and if nothing backs your mind up and reminds you of it you'd never remember it again. It just fades away.
That's what this voice is like. By the time I was starting to cross the street I had already forgotten that I'd chosen to cross the street and was just walking, thinking about comics (or the red light district I walked through on Bourbon St.) or whatever.
It's when the guy had called me out (and I didn't even realize he was standing there - he was tucked behind a wall in the doorway so I hadn't seen him when I was on the other side) that my mind remembered me taking the steps to cross the street in the first place.
And really, stuff like this happens all the time with me. It's out of my control, it usually has other people involved so I couldn't have planned or self fulfilled it and it's usually an interaction that centres around the topic of the supernatural.
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#6156995 - 11/17/12 09:13 PM
Re: I had an epiphany...
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goldust40
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If incidents like that one happened on a regular basis (with the proviso that each time a virtually identical scenario took place) then you might be onto something.
However if you're looking for something badly enough, you'll find it, regardless of whether it's real or not.
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