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Crazy Coincidences

DebunkThisPls

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So yesterday I was watching the Office, as I do most days, and it was an episode where Dwight was wearing a Cornell Sweatshirt as he wanted to apply there. Later when i went to the store, I saw a kid with a Cornell Sweatshirt on. Then, the same day, I was watching another episode where Michael quits, and as he was telling the story I saw a meme on my phone from the Wolf of Wall Street where he says: "I'm not ******* leaving", which was pretty much what happened in the office episode. Then this morning I see an episode of Friends where Rachel quits. I've been noticing a lot of these coincidences lately too

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Confirmation bias.

Also, what are we supposed to debunk, here? You're experiencing coincidences. It happens. Nobody here questions that.

Are we supposed to tell you that you didn't see two different Cornell sweatshirts on the same day? Are we supposed to tell you that it really is a coincidence, and not something else?

What else would it be? Aliens? A Russian troll farm? A Nigerian Prince?
 
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I forgot to add I live in Texas, not NY
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People come to Cornell from all over the world, and go all over the world after graduating from Cornell.

Are you seriously proposing that this is not a coincidence, but that you are experiencing some sort of paranormal event? What's your theory? Ghosts are messing with you for some reason?
 
You want to talk about crazy coincidences, back in the 1980s I was a Big Brother to a young man who had a biological younger brother who also had a Big Brother. So one day I'm flying home for Christmas and as I'm boarding the plane I see the other Big Brother. So we say hello and remark on the wild coincidence and he asks me where I was sitting. I look down at my boarding pass and realized with a start that I was assigned the seat next to him.
 
I do not believe it's anything more than a coincidence, I was correcting the original comment that said it's time to move from Cornell
 
I know it's stupid, it just seems crazy that I had all these coincidences. The sweatshirt I can get around, but then today I saw BuckNELL, a kid at my high school had a HopewELL sweatshirt (which is another high school 3 hours away from us), then the Office episode I watched tonight Andy talked about rumors started at Cornell and how he wondered if it was more than a coincidence. He also did the same thing as me were he assured himself it was just chance but was still really scared by it
 
When you think about how many people there are in the world, it's not that hard to realise that weird coincidences happen all the time. Sometimes they happen in clusters, to one person. That is the nature of randomness. Me, I don't recall ever having experienced a noteworthy coincidence. That's not to say that they haven't happened, just that I have never paid them any attention beyond "huh - that's a coincidence".
 
It just seems so crazy that it kinda makes me wonder, I don't know. Like just now, an account i follow was shouted out by really big account, which I've never seen happen before. It's also an account that I never see post that I saw a post of earlier today. I also found an eyeliner on the street, and then i see another account, an NBA one much less, talk about someone who looked like they were wearing eyeliner
 
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My odd one: when I was teaching a night course at my university, one evening the chairman of a different department dropped by my office. He had been an undergraduate in the same college with me and taught in the same field that my roommate studied. The three of us went our separate ways in Grad school, and about ten years had passed.

That evening Ted, the chairman, asked, "Are you still in touch with Marc?"

"My former roommate? He's teaching at a New Jersey junior college and I have a phone number for him at home. I can get it for you tomrrow--"

My office phone rang. It was Marc, whom I hadn't spoken to in three or four years, calling because he'd seen a review of my first book. So I handed the phone to Ted.

No, it wasn't a prank. Ted offered Marc a summer teaching job, but he didn't want to come all the way to Georgia for a ten-week gig.
 
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Plus I even forgot the whole I'm not ******* leaving along in sync with Michael quitting and watching a different show with the same quitting plot. It's not like this is a one time thing, I've been noticing tons of these coincidences. Like both on the same day? If it was one on the day I wouldve believed it wasn't too bad but on the same day? Two of them? Like just this minute someone on TV talked about anomalies which is what my other post was about

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My first ex had my older brother's name, both first and middle names.
My second (last) ex had my younger brother's name both first and middle.

Here's a fun one:
Hitchhiked with a boyfriend from Eugene, OR to Canada, headed to Banff and back.

Trying to hitchhike back there were lots of people hitching out of Banff so we decided to start walking in hopes someone who passed on the group would pick us up. Not too far down the road one of my shoes fell completely apart. But right there (or close) to where it happened, there was a wonderful pair of Puma tennies, fit perfectly, could not have come at a better time. They were my favorite shoes for years.

We also found a baggie of weed on the side of the road someone probably tossed from their car. That was nice given we didn't take any across the border.

And we did eventually get a ride.

I have twice run into people I knew in places states away from where I knew them.
 
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It just seems so crazy that it kinda makes me wonder, I don't know.
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Makes you wonder what, exactly? Makes you wonder if they're not really coincidences?

Like just now, an account i follow was shouted out by really big account, which I've never seen happen before. It's also an account that I never see post that I saw a post of earlier today.
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What does this make you wonder? If someone is tracking your online activity, and coordinating really big social media accounts to feed you coincidences?

Because I agree that would be a pretty crazy thing to wonder.

I also found an eyeliner on the street, and then i see another account, an NBA one much less, talk about someone who looked like they were wearing eyeliner
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This one is easy: Eyeliner is commonplace. It's not strange at all to encounter multiple references to it.

Earlier I linked to the Wikipedia page on Confirmation Bias. Have you read that page? There's a non-crazy explanation for the coincidences you're noticing.
 
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My odd one: when I was teaching a night course at my university, one evening the chairman of a different department dropped by my office. He had been an undergraduate in the same college with me and taught in the same field that my roommate studied. The three of us went our separate ways in Grad school, and about ten years had passed.

That evening Ted, the chairman, asked, "Are you still in touch with Marc?"

"My former roommate? He's teaching at a New Jersey junior college and I have a phone number for him at home. I can get it for you tomrrow--"

My office phone rang. It was Marc, whom I hadn't spoken to in three or four years, calling because he'd seen a review of my first book. So I handed the phone to Ted.

No, it wasn't a prank. Ted offered Marc a summer teaching job, but he didn't want to come all the way to Georgia for a ten-week gig.
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That one is so cool, I think it wins the prize!
 
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Plus I even forgot the whole I'm not ******* leaving along in sync with Michael quitting and watching a different show with the same quitting plot. It's not like this is a one time thing, I've been noticing tons of these coincidences. Like both on the same day? If it was one on the day I wouldve believed it wasn't too bad but on the same day? Two of them? Like just this minute someone on TV talked about anomalies which is what my other post was about
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So what do you think is really happening? Someone is scheduling job-quitting episodes across Netflix and HBO Max, and also tracking your viewing choices and sending you memes to match?

Who sent you the meme? Was it a friend of yours? Some rando in your Facebook feed? Are they in on it? Is Facebook in on it? Why on earth would a conspiracy that encompasses both HBO and Facebook be wasting time feeding you mundane coincidences?
 
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I know all about confirmation bias. Basically the last probably 8 or 9 months of my life have been hell because of simulation theory and once I got off of what was making me seriously depressed I started noticing all these crazy coincidences. I also had an experience where my mom asked me to pick something up off the printer and i noticed that there was one piece that didn't print all the way. So I remember waiting for it but when it didn't go out all the way I kinda forgot what happened next. My first instinct would normally be I went back and picked it up but I had NO memory of this, none, and I also wouldve had to walk from the kitchen back to my room, which I also have no memory of. It's creepy and it scares me and i kinda hate life right now. I'm sorry I'm wasting your time, I am this is just why I do this crap
 
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