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This morning on the train I saw a reference to the book 'Silent Spring' in one of the books I'm currently reading. (Silent Spring is from 1962 and it's about environmental poisons such as DDT.)

I had never heard about this book before, I think. (As I'm writing this, I wonder if it was mentioned in 'The Moth in the Iron Lung', which i read years ago.)

Now fast forward to this evening, watching the first episode of 'Three Body Problem'. My head almost exploded when at the 35 minute mark a guy holds up, not even kidding, that very book from 1962.

You never see something your entire life, then twice in less than 24 hours. Fucking weird.

This morning on the train I saw a reference to the book 'Silent Spring' in one of the books I'm currently reading. (Silent Spring is from 1962 and it's about environmental poisons such as DDT.) I had never heard about this book before, I think. (As I'm writing this, I wonder if it was mentioned in 'The Moth in the Iron Lung', which i read years ago.) Now fast forward to this evening, watching the first episode of 'Three Body Problem'. My head almost exploded when at the 35 minute mark a guy holds up, not even kidding, that very book from 1962. You never see something your entire life, then twice in less than 24 hours. Fucking weird.

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Yesterday I was going to get my morning dunkn at the train station when the person taking my order sort of fucked up taking the payment.

It really wasn't a big deal, just a minor annoyance, but it made me remember the only other time they had fucked up my payment.

A few months ago, one lady was taking orders during a massive morning rush, operating two cash registers at once. I paid, and this little mousy girl wearing a mask just started staring at me with the biggest bug-eyes I have ever seen. She just stared, didn't say a thing. It kind of freaked me out, because I didn't know why she was staring at me. It turned out I had accidentally paid for her order in the chaos. But I just remembered how unsettling her silent gaze was. Mind you, it was crowded, so he head was not more than a foot or two away from my face.

Regardless, as I was recollecting this odd, but ultimately meaningless memory, I turned around, and lo and behold, the bug-eyed girl wearing the mask was standing right behind me.

That felt weird. Like I had accidentally summoned her with my thoughts.

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So did you bang her or not?

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She wasn't bad looking, she just had such disconcerting eyes, like a mouse that had lost it's fear of humans and decided to stare at you all night long while you slept. And even when you woke up and noticed the mouse staring at you, and looked it right in the eyes, it just kept staring.

Unnatural, really.

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She's been assigned to follow you daily for your surveillance, and she was freaking out because she's not supposed to make contact. They had her follow close to try to make the other time feel normal.

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Wow, that would've freaked me out a little. Thanks for the story!

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Very Campbellian in a Jungian kind of way. Signs and wonders appear to let us know that we're on the correct path. Collective unconcious - predestination - kismet - coincidence - entrainment - synchronicity - serendipity. A rose by any other name...

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Spooky

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Right? A similarly weird thing happened to me a couple months ago but I didn't bother to post. Might write that up some other day.

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From what I've seen and read in the last couple of years, DDT being toxic might be complete horseshit and it might even be a cure for cancer.

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Not sure about that, it is a pesticide which means it kills stuff.

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In all fairness, water kills stuff as well.

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Only if you breathe it.

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Obviously you are a proponent of atomic weaponry as relatively harmless. DDT is an endocrine disruptor and fucks you over for decades.

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Interesting. Got a few pointers?

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Those books are great. Going to watch the series as well.

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I encounter synchronicities all the time. Usually minor, but a few good ones I forget to jot down over the years

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https://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon/

You may have heard about Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon before. In fact, you probably learned about it for the first time quite recently. If not, then you just might hear about it again very soon. Baader-Meinhof is the phenomenon where one stumbles upon some obscure piece of information⁠—often an unfamiliar word or name⁠—and soon afterwards encounters the same subject again, often repeatedly. Anytime the phrase “That’s so weird, I just heard about that yesterday” would be appropriate, the utterer is hip-deep in Baader-Meinhof.

Most people seem to have experienced the phenomenon at least a few times in their lives, and many people encounter it with such regularity that they anticipate it upon the introduction of new information. But what is the underlying cause? Is there some hidden meaning behind Baader-Meinhof events?

The phenomenon bears some similarity to synchronicity, which is the experience of having a highly meaningful coincidence, such as having someone telephone you while you are thinking about them. Both phenomena invoke a feeling of mild surprise, and cause one to ponder the odds of such an intersection. Both smack of destiny, as though the events were supposed to occur in just that arrangement… as though we’re witnessing yet another domino tip over in a chain of dominoes beyond our reckoning. ...