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agoodmouse · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Location: Anyang

This corresponds roughly to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity.

Synchronicity isn't precipitated by premonitions, but this concept is in the arena of your situation in some ways. The difference, however, is you're somehow receiving new information from a source which you cannot pinpoint. Adventurer, were the two British runners newly arrived ESL teachers? If they were, this could've caused you to have it in the back of your mind they might flee.

When strange coincidences happen, or cause us to meet that "one companion," all that matters is our appreciation of and the degree to which we give merit to these events. I can't remember who said it, but I read a quote somewhere in a newspaper, or heard someone quoted in an NPR interview, as saying "love is the absolute appreciation of the fortuitousness of having actually met."

One evening I was in my room and had an idea I thought was great so went to my sister's room to tell her. I walked in and said "wouldn't it be great..." and she finished my sentence verbatim, saying: "if there was a bed that exactly fit your body underneath." Think of the mattress you've got. Now lie down on the mattress. Everywhere that isn't under your body (i.e. arms, legs, head, torso, shoulders, feet, etc) doesn't exist. Later, she went on to study engineering and I went on to double major in English and philosophy for my degree.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

There's this simple little game I play online at work to take my mind off English. It's kind of a Monopoly knockoff, where you roll dice, go around a board, and buy properties and charge rent to other players. Sometimes when there's one really bad property to land on, I think to myself "Don't roll a 5 don't roll a 5 don't roll a 5." If I roll a 5, I think "I knew it!" but if I don't roll a 5, I quickly forget any feelings of intuition.

By the way, I usually win.

PigeonFart · Joined: 27 Apr 2006

i knew you were going to ask that question.

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

I had a premonition that the two of you would have the urge to write the exact same thing.

agoodmouse · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Location: Anyang

This goes back to David Hume who said people psychologize events by attaching providence (i.e. spiritual or metaphysical significance) to them when such events can never be confirmed as more than things which, although highly unlikely, but if given enough time, are bound to occur. We always think, "what are the chances." But for me, I simply appreciate an event's having happened (e.g. winning the lottery), because you can't make sense of such an event except by logic. You can, however, always change the way you feel about an event or thing. That's the true way of a devoted follower of the Stoics.