Or maybe is doesn't. Considering the 43% that don't. Or maybe your friend just found it ubercreepy that you thought you had sooper-dooper powers. Or maybe like the rest of humanity you're misremembering things, filling in the blanks, you know, exhibiting the same cognitive biases/errors that are commonly observed in these anecdotes.
John Edward - psychic or what?
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Or maybe is doesn't. Considering the 43% that don't. Or maybe your friend just found it ubercreepy that you thought you had sooper-dooper powers. Or maybe like the rest of humanity you're misremembering things, filling in the blanks, you know, exhibiting the same cognitive biases/errors that are commonly observed in these anecdotes.
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Why would the dear departed think a book about Sarah Palin would be help anyone on their 'path here on Earth'?
Is this the sort of anecdote Robin will start telling prospective clients to convince them she reely reely communicates with the dead?
Resume, What it means depends on how you look at it. Here are possible explanations:
1) a patron at the library ( I verified request originated at that particular library where we never worked or lived) with a similar last name as my Dad wanted that book but forgot his library card. Asked the clerk to look up his name on computer...clerk got the name in an alphabetical list and patron's name was close to my Dad's on the list (diff't libraries linked with patron names) And by mistake (my Dad impressed thought) the clerk linked the other patron's reserve for the Palin book to my Dad's record.
2) Someone trying to play a cruel joke on us who knew either my Mother or me (but we can't think of anyone) worked in that library and we didn't know it and put the reserve in
under my Dad's name. Or that person knew someone who worked in that library and asked them to do it.
3) Someone who knew my Mom or me and was trying to be "helpful" in giving us a sign from my Dad worked in that library and put the reserve in under my dad's name. But we don't know anyone who worked there. So in that case it would have to be someone we knew who liked us and was trying to "help" who knew someone who worked in that libray and asked them to do it.
The 3rd situation is similar to Remie's possible explanation of the reading in Las Vegas where the man's wife (who was not with him if I remember correctly and so had to call) gave John Edward information about her husband to impress him. In that case she would also have to send John a picture of her husband so John could attempt to spot him in the crowd and so know where the reading should be directed. Although , I find that kind of thinking more convoluted than Remie thinks mine is : )
Anyway, I already know which option you all will think it is. Just sharing the story.
Oops sorry forgot one...it could be explanation number 1 but my Dad didn't impress the idea on the clerk . It was all simply a coincidence : )
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So far, so good...
Fast Eddie B,
Add angels to your belief system, please:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57347634/poll-nearly-8-in-10-americans-believe-in-angels/
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I think you forgot one...
...that the entire story has morphed somewhat from its original form, "enhancing" it, as it were.
Here's my "library" story, as sent to "The Odds Must Be Crazy":
In the early 1970’s, I read a book called “The Act of Creation” by Arthur Koestler and found it interesting.
In the early 1980’s I went to the Coconut Grove Library to see if I could find a copy to revisit. I went to the card catalog to search by author, and found a gap where “Koestler” should have been found. I searched by title and found the shelf where I should have been able to find Koestler’s works.
Oddly, the shelf was devoid of any books by Arthur Koestler. But then I noticed a fellow standing there with an armful of books, and noticed they were all by Koestler! I said something to him, and he said he was doing a paper on Arthur Koestler, but there was at least one book he probably didn’t need, and handed it to me.
The title of the book? “The Roots Of Coincidence” by Arthur Koestler.
Anyway, I found it very odd at the time, and still do!
That's how I remember it. But after 30 years, who knows exactly how it happened at the time - I sure don't!
...that the entire story has morphed somewhat from its original form, "enhancing" it, as it were.
Here's my "library" story, as sent to "The Odds Must Be Crazy":
In the early 1970’s, I read a book called “The Act of Creation” by Arthur Koestler and found it interesting.
In the early 1980’s I went to the Coconut Grove Library to see if I could find a copy to revisit. I went to the card catalog to search by author, and found a gap where “Koestler” should have been found. I searched by title and found the shelf where I should have been able to find Koestler’s works.
Oddly, the shelf was devoid of any books by Arthur Koestler. But then I noticed a fellow standing there with an armful of books, and noticed they were all by Koestler! I said something to him, and he said he was doing a paper on Arthur Koestler, but there was at least one book he probably didn’t need, and handed it to me.
The title of the book? “The Roots Of Coincidence” by Arthur Koestler.
Anyway, I found it very odd at the time, and still do!
That's how I remember it. But after 30 years, who knows exactly how it happened at the time - I sure don't!
Fast Eddie, your possible explanation of the story having over time morphed to enhance it does not apply here. My Mom saved the actual notice that came in the mail. So no question as to where the notice came from, it being sent to my Dad or the title of the book or the date etc. The possible explanations are based on the "evidence" which is the actual physical notice and will never change.
No, there's another: the anecdote is fabricated.
Resume, agreed , yes that is always a possibility. Recently I figured out (my gut told me and I then verified it) what I thought were 34 nasty people on my blog posting comments was actually 1 person with 34 aliases! 1 alias also claimed to know someone personally who worked for John Edward as a spy. Another alias claimed to be a believer until she deliberately tried to trick John by planting fake stories and then he used them. So , yes , liars are out there. Beware.
But I am not one of them.
Exactly right.
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I'd be really interested to find out exactly how you verified that 34 nasty people were all the same person.
Or is this just more... errrr... I hesitate to call it bullpoo... but for want of a better word.
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But your gut has been poisoned with stolen Big Macs and free Piña Colada.
Stray Cat, if you really want to know how I found out you'll find the answer in my comments (it begins with...34 ALIASES???!!!)and you'll see the back and forth after that proving it. And by nasty I in no way mean just disagreeing with me. Intentionally hurtful...you'll see.
http://yorktown-somers.patch.com/blog_posts/proof-of-life-after-death
In other words, Robin's analysis of this evidence is on par with her other analyses. Rivertowns is another NY "patch.com" site that links with the "yorktown-somers" patch site that Robin posted on. If you go to the sites, you can see that there would be cross-traffic from those locations.
Carlitos, there is cross traffic but the original person who posts must sign up before posting and can sign up from anywhere!!!! All 34 supposedly different people signed up from EXACTLY the same spot. And obviously you didn't scroll down and see where the fake keeps doing the same thing with more new names and verifies that he is a fake through the back and forth.
Most of us have been advising the same for you.
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So what? Apart from the fact that I find it hard to believe that anybody could looooooooooooooooove an eejit like Sarah Palin.
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Something spooky and paranormal, no doubt. A guy reserves a library book and and then gets a message saying that the book is available. Amazing, that can't be just a coincidence. Such a thing has never happened before. I've reserved many books from libraries over the years and never received a card telling me that the book was available. This is definitely a case of influences from beyond the grave.
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Just to throw it out there - my story of God and pizza on The Odds Must Be Crazy.
http://www.theoddsmustbecrazy.com/2012/06/19/god-pizza-in-vermont/
http://www.theoddsmustbecrazy.com/2012/06/19/god-pizza-in-vermont/