Am I imagining things? (Non BDSM)

[JMohegan]

I'd rather be mysterious any day, than just shitty.

It's the unknown we're talking about, not you. Or me.

 

[DVS]

It's the unknown we're talking about, not you. Or me.

Oh, I know. I was just trying to be humorous, is all.

 

[JMohegan]

Oh, I know. I was just trying to be humorous, is all.

Ah. Good to know.

 

[intothewoods]

The problem with the guardian angel theory is that it becomes extremely difficult to explain why bad things happen to good people.

If there is a sentient Being controlling the universe in this fashion, then He/She/It is a capricious and evil fuck.

Yep. I had that guardian angel view of God when I was about 12, before any tradgedy had occured in my life.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Hmm. I don't recall having had the walk-under-SLI phenomenon happen to me. But then again, I don't - and never did - do a lot of walking.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

The problem with the guardian angel theory is that it becomes extremely difficult to explain why bad things happen to good people.

If there is a sentient Being controlling the universe in this fashion, then He/She/It is a capricious and evil fuck.

Yep. I had that guardian angel view of God when I was about 12, before any tragedy had occurred in my life.

I don't recall when I came upon that view - capricious, evil, sardonic, cynical - but it was a long, loooooooonnnnnggggg time ago.

 

[LilyBart]

Dr. Richard Wiseman wrote a book called, The Luck Factor, that tries to quantify luck scientifically. I haven't read it but I have read some blurbs about it. Basically he suggests that lucky people have four psychological traits that unlucky people do not. These are: the ability to maximize chance opportunities, to listen to "gut feelings," to expect good fortune and to see the bright side of bad luck.

I consider myself a very lucky person but when I look back on my life, objectively, I can see that I've had just as much tragedy and disaster as the people I know who consider themselves quite unlucky. I suppose I tend to focus on the good, therefore I "feel" lucky.

I have to (in my gut) agree with this idea.

I think I have had a very lucky/happy life in many ways, but the fact is that I have had a lot of not so nice things happen as well. Things well beyond my control.

Also, I probably shouldn't have lived beyond the age of 25 based on my actions. However, I also think I am a "glass half-full" sort of person. And I really do think, based on my not-so-scientific observations, that attitude and outlook are pretty significant predictors of life experience.

We can't control everything. But we can can control how we react.

My meager two cents.

~LB

 

[the_pet]

I had it happen to me enough times that I asked a City of Tampa Street Department engineer what the deal was. He said their "best guess" (because they'd been asked about it before) was that some cars' headlights had just enough "bleedover" at the right angle to hit the streetlights' automatic sensors and fool them into thinking it was dawn. He couldn't explain why it seemed to happen to me no matter what car I drove.

....the lightbulbs in street lights are special bulbs that cut on and off intermittently to prevent overheating and catching on fire.

 

[Homburg]

Hmm. I don't recall having had the walk-under-SLI phenomenon happen to me. But then again, I don't - and never did - do a lot of walking.

Well, the walking thing only happened twice that I recall. I do remember one evening riding my bike, and the sun dropped faster than I expected. I had a streak of three lights go out as, or just before, I rode under them.

Yeah, I made good time getting off that street.

 

[FurryFury]

The streetlight thing happens to me ALL the damn time!

 

[rida]

I can think of many similar cases as DVS when I was a kid, such as falling while hanging on a rail and ending up hanged by my tee-shirt, with the pointy metal thing sticking out in front of my face through the neck of my shirt (it should have run through my chin ...)

But it is when my younger daughter did not get her skull crushed under a falling drawer that hit the ground only few cm from her head (older daughter pulled it out too fast and it was an antique piece without the run stops) that I truly felt that "something" protected her.

I think that children do have guardian angels looking after them.
So how to explain the bad things that happens to many children? A mixture of karma and souls that are just coming to teach a lesson.



As for the street light thing?
I'm more of the thought as unpredictablebijou that some people's energy emits stronger than others, thus interfering with electric and electronic devises.

 

[graceanne]

Well, I've never noticed the street light thing (which is good, it would have really freaked me out) but I can guarantee at least 50% of the times I get in line at the store (any of them) that the computer system will either go down or be slow.

I don't have this problem with my computer. I tell people it's cause of my magnetic personality.