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A few weeks after my mom passed, I was reading a book winding down for the night. I set the book down in the middle of a very large coffee table and went to bed. Maybe 20 mins after laying down I heard a loud bang in the living room. I shot outta bed and grabbed a bat and went to investigate. In the living room, on the floor about 5 feet from the table, was the book I was reading. There were no animals or other people in the house and all the doors and windows were locked. This was a heavy hardcover book, so I don’t think wind or something like that picked it up and threw it. Im skeptical by nature but I still can’t come up with an explanation for that one.
As kids we had a few “must have been ghosts” experiences.
Me and my brother both woke up at the same time because we heard our mom shout on us from downstairs. We got up to see what she wanted but she wasn’t there. Went back upstairs into her bedroom and she was asleep.
Our bedroom TV once turned itself on in the night, loud static channel. It was unplugged before we went to bed and didn’t have a remote control.
“Must have been aliens” one. Was watching an airplanes blinking light in the sky flying along. It stopped moving and kept blinking for about 5 seconds. Then shone really bright and shot towards the horizon in about a second. This was about 15 years ago and nobody believes me. I still don’t have an explanation for it. I assumed it was brand new military tech but I still haven’t heard of anything that can move that fast.
I wonder if it was actually a satellite rather than a plane? If, rather than speeding away, it actually halted its orbit, then what you saw was the earth’s rotation spinning away from it
My whole life, also it is hard for me to explain my emotions and feelings.
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One time on a summer day as a teenager I went to the grocery store with my Mom.
We parallel parked the car a ways away from other cars. We secured the car as normal and went on a short shopping trip.
When we came back out after maybe 15 minutes, all of the cars windows were rolled down completely.
We both know for a fact all the windows were rolled up when we left, and even if we had them down, there would have been no reason to have the back windows down.
Nothing was stolen, no one was around, everything appeared untouched.
This was a Nissan Murano if I recall correctly - it did have power windows, but at the time there was no fancy stuff to remote control car features outside of having a remote starter installed, which we did not have.
There was only one set of keys.
We still have absolutely no explanation for this to this day.
This happened to me a couple of weeks ago; neighbor texted me to say all my car windows were open. I had to put the key in to wind them back up. Neighbor said he once had a car that kept doing that - some controller unit had somehow gotten water/moisture in, so he had the part replaced and that fixed it.
Yeah. Precognitive dreams mostly. Nothing I expect anyone else to believe, but I myself know because I documented them when I dreamed them, then the events occurred and it was such random, little detailed things that I could not possibly have predicted based on knowledge. Maybe everyone dreams the future and just forgets their dreams?
Some synchronicity things too, stepping into exactly the right place at the right time, wishing for something then having it immediately drop into my lap. Those I am minded to chalk up to random chance, but some are so comically obvious, things just appearing where they were not, right when I need them.
Yup, same. I would get this sense of deja vu except instead of feeling like I’ve been somewhere before it was feeling like I had previously dreamed the events that were about to happen. And yeah it was always minor stuff, a conversation, mom coming home angry about having dropped something expensive at work, the solution to some coding problem a friend was about to tell me, etc. I tried playing with it, and if I changed anything (‘Oh, I know what you’re about to say’, etc) it would disrupt it and not happen, but otherwise it happened the way I dreamed it every time. Sadly it got more and more uncommon as I got older, and now it’s been probably 10-15 years since the last time I remember.
Yeah. This fantastic woman married me. I have no idea why.
Also, I really don’t understand rockets at more than a superficial level, but I saw one launch once.
I’m quite uncertain about jet airplanes, especially when you’re, like, driving in the same direction and there’s a strong headwind, and it almost looks like you’re going faster than them? They’re just hanging there, god knows how many tons of metal and 300 people. It’s creepy.
And I really think economics is proof that we’re in the Matrix, because the more I think about it, the less (functional, not ethical) sense capitalism makes, and everybody who talks like they know about it just sounds like stringing together a bunch of buzzwords. Also, there’s that truism that if you ask four economists a question, you’ll get five opinions. Plus nobody can reliably predict the stock market; weather - a highly chaotic system - is more predictable than the stock market. It’s like the programmers put it in, but when it got to the point where they had to make it explainable, they couldn’t without introducing recursive conflicting rules, so it’s just hand-waving, and people pretending or misleading themselves that they know how it all works.
The stock market is chaos, driven by bias and a bunch of unknown and unknowable variables.
A simple example with 3 players.
- P1 thinks stock A is a good buy (for whatever reason) at $1/unit. P1 decides to buy putting upward pressure on the price.
- P2 has been holding a bunch of A for a while and has a number ($1) in mind to sell at, P1 can’t know this information. This sale puts downward pressure on the price.
- If P1 & P2 have the same number of shares, the pressures are equal, and the price doesn’t move. If they don’t the price moves either up or down.
- P3 has been watching A, sees that it moves and decides that this is a good time to buy, (going down its a bargain, going up its on the rise get in early), putting further upward pressure on the stock.
Each action by the different players causes something to happen to the price, no-one can know all the internal thought patterns of all the other interested parties, and thus can never have perfect information. And even with perfect information, it may not be possible to predict, as some stocks interact in non-predictable ways.
e.g. Nvidia goes up, TSMC usually goes up, but not always. TSMC going down can be caused by Nvidia, but also thousands of other things also.
Conclusion: can the stock market be predicted? General trends - Yes, specific stock movements - No!
Wait until you learn about passive indexes where the logic is you give me money = buy and then factor in the volume of assets under management in that cycle. Then take a look at retirement age and global average age trending closer towards retirement age lol do the math on that one
See‽ It’s a glitch in the matrix. They added the feature, but failed to work it out in advance and coded themselves into a corner.
I think what happened is that they spent all the budget up front, really nailing stuff like Physics and Evolution, and then came to a crunch and Management said, “just throw something in there! We’ll polish it later,” only it’s so self contradicting, they can’t.
lol! Alpha state late stage capitalism upgrade to beta after the next reset!
