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Fate or Coincidence?
By: JEV Date: April 9, 2013, 10:28 am
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Being a fan of these things, I thought we could create a topic
to discuss the bizarre things that happened/happen in our world.
Do you tend to think these things happened due to fate or are
they just freaky coincidences?
Okay, let's get started with the whole Lincoln/Kennedy
coincidences:
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:-X
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Re: Fate or Coincidence?
By: Waiting for Jackson Date: April 9, 2013, 11:06 am
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Wow! That is seriously weird. :o ???
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Re: Fate or Coincidence?
By: JEV Date: April 9, 2013, 1:24 pm
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Yeah. What about this one?
Cruise History: The sinking of the actual RMS Titanic and the
fictitious sinking of the Titan. Was it coincidence?
Art doesn’t just imitate life — sometimes it anticipates it.
Fourteen years before the RMS Titanic was built, the American
Morgan Robertson wrote a novel called Futility or The Wreck of
the Titan (1898) that prefigured the real ship’s destiny with
remarkable precision.
The Titanic and the Titan were both triple-screwed British
passenger liners with a capacity of 3,000 and a top speed of 24
knots.
Both were deemed unsinkable; both carried too few lifeboats.
And both sank in April in the North Atlantic after colliding
with an iceberg on the forward starboard side.
Futility, 1898 Edition About the Titan
Morgan Robertson’s novel described the ship’s loss. It struck an
iceberg and went down in April.
The Titanic struck an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on April 14, 1912
and sank a little over two hours later at 2.20 a.m. on April 15,
1912. The novel was republished, after the Titanic sank, with
the title Futility and the Wreck of the Titan. Some of the
Titan’s statistics were changed.
John Rowland, Futility’s hero, is a disgraced former Royal Navy
lieutenant, who’s a drunkard. After being dismissed from the
Navy, he’s a deckhand on the Titan. Then ship hits an iceberg
and sinks. There aren’t enough lifeboats. He saves a former
lover’s daughter by jumping onto the iceberg with her. Rowland
finds a lifeboat washed up on the iceberg and they’re rescued by
a passing ship.
Love these things, but it's so freaky.
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Re: Fate or Coincidence?
By: angela Date: April 11, 2013, 4:46 am
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that's so freaky
i believe these kind of things
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here are some i found
5 Creepy Coincidences You Won't Believe Actually Happened
October 23, 2012
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The rational part of our brain tells us that there is nothing
weird about coincidences; when you have all of human history to
work with, you're going to find some spooky "What are the odds?"
situations. But as we've mentioned before, it doesn't change the
fact that some of these are truly and deeply weird. Like ...
#5. The Curse of the Dragon
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Martial-arts legend and enemy-to-shirts-everywhere Bruce Lee
might now be as famous for his "cursed" family as he was for
punching people while screaming. We've written before about how
his final movie coincidentally predicted the freak accident that
would kill his own son Brandon two decades later. To recap:
Lee's character in the movie is killed when a real gun is
substituted for a prop gun, causing him to get shot for real.
Lee's son would later be killed when a prop gun misfired on the
set of The Crow -- not exactly a common cause of death in the
modern world. But the more you learn about the Lee "curse," the
freakier it gets.
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His constant mirror-breaking wasn't doing his family any favors
either.
First, Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940 during the Year
and the Hour of the Dragon. This might explain why Bruce's full
Chinese name translates to "Lee's Little Dragon"; however, his
parents always insisted on calling him Sai Fon (Small Phoenix),
which is technically a girl's name. What seems at first like a
dick move on the part of his parents to emasculate baby Bruce
was actually a common defensive technique against demons in
Chinese culture. Bruce's wife Linda wrote in her biography, The
Bruce Lee Story: "Mr. and Mrs. Lee had lost their first son, and
according to Chinese tradition when future sons are born, they
are often addressed by a girl's name in order to confuse the
spirits who might steal away their souls." Why do we bring all
of this up? Well ...
Where it Gets Really Weird:
Linda Lee approved the making of a movie about Bruce Lee's life
entitled Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. Throughout the movie,
Bruce battles a metaphorical demon that haunts his family, but
during a final confrontation, the monster loses interest in
fighting Bruce and instead goes after his son Brandon.
OK, you say, it's kind of tasteless that they would actually
make a movie that included Brandon's real-life tragic death (and
to blame it on a demon, no less), but what's so spooky about it?
Well, that's the thing: Brandon was still alive and well when
they shot the movie. The whole "Lee family demon is coming for
Brandon next" was written and shot before he had his freak
accident.
In fact, Brandon's death happened less than two months before
the release of Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. The filmmakers
dedicated the movie to him, and when asked about the bizarre
coincidence director Rob Cohen commented: "I believe in some
forms of higher power, like Fate and sometimes, I'm embarrassed
to say it, God." Yes, it's so much more comforting to believe in
a god who carries out elaborate murder vendettas against random
families.
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"Guess I'll just go after Bill Hicks now.
#4. The Vast, Left-Handed Conspiracy
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By now we've cycled through enough American presidents that
we've got a big enough sample-set to start pulling out patterns.
For instance, it turns out we really like blue- and green-eyed
leaders, since we've only elected 5 presidents with brown eyes
ever, in the history of the United States. To be fair though,
blue or hazel eyes among white men aren't that uncommon, and
we've historically been pretty gung-ho about electing white men.
They're not nearly as rare as, say, being left-handed.
While only 10 percent of the U.S. population is left-handed,
you'd never know it just by looking at American presidents. It
turns out that over half of the last 14 presidents were all
lefties, and recently, five of the last seven presidents were
left-handed. Keep in mind that up until the 1970s, kids were
still forced to become right-handed in school, so it took a
special kind of stubbornness to remain a southpaw into
adulthood.
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The scissors situation is enough to break most children.
Where it Gets Really Weird:
In fact, in most recent elections you really didn't have a
choice, since over the past two decades, nearly every
presidential candidate has been left-handed. In 2008, both
Barack Obama and John McCain were left-handed. In 1992, all
three candidates for president were lefties: Bill Clinton,
George H. W. Bush, and dear old Ross Perot.
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We have some more pictures of Clinton using his left hand, but
none of them are work-safe.
What are the odds? They're so long that the nation would never
see something like that again until ... the very next election.
As you may remember, 1996 Republican presidential candidate Bob
Dole was left-handed, running against the incumbent, Ole' Leftie
Bill. What the hell? It's not like there's some cultural bias
toward left-handers -- we bet most of you had no idea any of
these people were even left-handed at all, until we told you.
So what's the only other answer if not bizarre coincidence? That
left-handers are secretly a superior race who are naturally born
to rule the other 90 percent of society?
#3. John F. Kennedy's Eerily Accurate Assassination Theory
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The JFK assassination has made Encyclopedia Browns and Nancy
Drews out of more conspiracy theorists than you can shake a
second rifle at. That said, if you are expecting some big
conspiracy-salad of government agencies and secret societies
here, then you will be sorely disappointed. This coincidence
comes from the lips of John F. Kennedy himself, just hours
before his assassination.
According to "Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye," by White House aides
Kenneth P. O'Donnell and David F. Powers, when the Kennedys
arrived in Dallas in 1963, they opened up the local Dallas
Morning News and found a full-page anti-Kennedy advertisement
"bordered in black, like a funeral notice."
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P.S. That was an ironic "welcome."
Sounds like pretty poor taste for any occasion, never mind for
the arrival of a president, right? Well, it turns out nobody
knew what kind of hostile territory they were entering better
than the president himself.
Where it Gets Really Weird:
The ad rattled Jacqueline Kennedy more than the president. In
fact, he tried to calmly reassure the First Lady that everything
would be fine with these ominously prophetic words: "We're
entering nut country today. But, Jackie, if somebody wants to
shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it, so why
worry about it?" Apparently, he was a Mad fan.
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That exchange took place on the morning of November 22, 1963. As
you probably know, Kennedy was assassinated that afternoon by a
rifle fired from the window of the Texas School Book Depository.
And if you're thinking, "Well, duh, how else would you
assassinate a world leader?" The answer is, "basically any other
way but that." Seriously, here's a huge list of prominent
assassination attempts over the centuries. It's always a nut
charging the guy with a pistol or knife (see: Lincoln) or some
convoluted plot involving a bomb that never works (see: Hitler).
As far as we can tell, the number of prominent human beings who
have been shot "from a window with a rifle" can be counted on
one hand. It's simply not done that way. And if he simply meant,
"We have protection against every possible assassination method
except if some nuts shoots me from a window with a rifle, in
which case we're utterly screwed!" then it seems like that's the
sort of thing he should have shared with his Secret Service
detail.
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"Thanks for making us look bad."
#2. Joan of Arc and the Maid of Lorraine Prophecy
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Old-time historians weren't above sexing up their accounts with
a little bit of what experts call "bullshit." Legend becomes
fact, real accomplishments get exaggerated for propaganda
purposes (no, George Washington never chopped down that cherry
tree.) But when it comes to Joan of Arc, the parts of her life
that historians all agree on are so remarkable that it doesn't
seem to need all that much exaggeration. She won over her chief
critic at Orleans through a sudden gust of wind on the
battlefield, for instance, and one way or the other she reversed
nearly a century of French defeats in one year despite no
military training whatsoever.
So given all that she was accomplishing, it doesn't seem that
strange that a prophecy started gaining traction around France
stating, "As France had been lost by a woman, it would be saved
by a woman." What is strange, however, is that the prophecy was
already hugely popular in France long before Joan of Arc ever
wandered off into the woods and started taking requests from
angels to set English armies on fire.
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There was always some asshole angel in the back who would
request Free Bird.
The background on that is that when Joan was 8 years old,
France's Queen Isabeau of Bavaria signed a treaty with England
that essentially handed the French throne to the English king.
Naturally, French citizens were less than excited about gifting
their country to the same people who had been stabbing their
ancestors to death for decades, and so they started to cling to
this prophecy claiming that a woman would save them.
Where it Gets Really Weird:
After Joan of Arc's track record of reunifying France, that
prediction couldn't sound any more made-up in hindsight. But
guess who most historians attribute it to?
That would be Merlin the wizard, from Arthurian Legend.
Attributing anything to a fictional wizard sounds like an
open-and-shut case that it probably didn't exist, but the
prophecy is mentioned repeatedly through the transcripts of Joan
of Arc's trial and in a ballad written by Christine de Pisan
while Joan of Arc was still alive. Each mentions Merlin's
prophecy as if it was something everybody already knew about.
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"Seriously. One more person yells 'Free Bird' and I'm gonna
start cutting until I run out of faces."
Okay, you might think, maybe Joan just heard the prophecy as a
child and tried to fulfill it. You'd be wrong. Joan of Arc
claimed a lot of seemingly preposterous things during her
trials, but she always dismissed the idea that she was the woman
from the prophecy. So we're left with a strikingly prescient
divination from a fictional English wizard foretelling the
downfall of England, and the only person who doesn't believe it
is the girl making it all happen.
#1. The Apocalypse of Constantinople
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The fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453 is widely
considered one of the most consequential moments in world
history. In fact, most historians credit that moment as the end
of the Middle Ages. Like a bunch of lushes getting kicked out of
a bar late at night, all the Byzantines fled the city after it
fell and wandered to other European hotspots before sobering up
and getting to work on the Renaissance. Suffice it to say, the
collapse of Constantinople helped shape the rest of history.
Naturally, that kind of colossal event deserves some fanfare on
a biblical level, so it is fitting that the fall of the city
coincided perfectly with a partial lunar eclipse. While this may
not sound that exciting, it was kind of a big deal for everyone
who saw it because of a long-standing prophecy that said,
"Constantinople would always endure provided that the moon, in
its full circle, did not give a sign in the sky."
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"I'm telling you, I think it's trying to tell us something."
Since the moon was an important symbol of Constantinople going
back to its founding a whopping 1,123 years earlier, seeing it
disappear during the most important siege of the century was a
pretty terrifying coincidence for everyone who lived inside its
walls. And yet even with a blacked-out moon, the Byzantines
fended off the incoming attackers for a little while. It took
the hand of God to sweep through the city to really let everyone
know that prophecy wasn't fucking around.
Where it Gets Really Weird:
According to the terrified accounts of what happened after the
eclipse, the skies opened up and, for the next week, the city
was besieged with "whirlwinds and terrible storms," "thunder and
lightning with clouds, and a violent rain with severe hail," and
"drops huge and red, similar in size and appearance to a bull's
eye, fell as tears."
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They must have cut that verse.
What sounds more like hyperbole than a detailed account actually
has some credibility behind it. According to the California
Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory , these
made-up-sounding phenomena may have been the result of a massive
volcano -- one so huge that, even though it happened in the
South Pacific, it caused apocalyptic weather-weirdness halfway
around the globe. So what at first seems like a staggering
coincidence feels a little more like God saying, "Alright,
everyone get the hell out before I drop an asteroid on this
nonsense."
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