Rinse & rePeat
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"In the 1950s a group called “Synectics” was formed to study the creative process. They found that having an expert in the group could be useful, but it could also often stifle the group's ability to find a good solution to a problem. W.J.J. Gordon described their method as "trusting things that are alien, and alienating things that are trusted." They used metaphorical thinking to help them to see the complexity and potentiality of a situation, and to go beyond the existing understanding. Professors and physicians too often present themselves as having “definitive knowledge” about a subject. For people who already have “definitive knowledge” about something, anomalous facts (if they are perceived at all) will simply remain anomalous and will be quickly forgotten. The things they produce will be extensions of what already exists. For others, things that aren't easily explained have special interest, and cause them to ask new questions. New perspectives can lead to new possibilities and new realities."-Ray Peat
I have pondered much about luck and it's randomness and other unexplainable things. I think when you see things from a self position, of how things can serve your own purpose, it ends up narrowing the possibilities. Animals become "just food" and there are not too many questions left to ask. I personally see the world as having endless questions and wonder what my purpose is. When all of the questions are answered what purpose is left except self gain? If those who have gone before us had that attitude, of "self" being the purpose, would they have ever found that the world isn't flat or have have taken those steps on the moon. I am sure there were more impossible minds back then than now, discouraging their ideas, so why when the impossible is constantly coming to fruition do those impossible minds still think there are no more questions to answer?
Last year I bought two dozen eggs from the grocery store and got 13 double yolks between them, 3 in one dozen and 10 in the second dozen, and took pictures of every one! Here is are the odds of that...
"So it is no surprise that when the Daily Mail reported yesterday that a woman in Cumbria discovered a box containing six double-yolked eggs, it got the nation talking.
For the calculated odds of such an event happening are one quintillion to one against. (A quintillion is a million million million.)
How do we come to this figure? Because only one in every 1,000 eggs produced in this country is double-yolked, so the chances against getting six in a row are 1,000 to the power of six - or one quintillion."
On two occasions I found four leaf clovers. The first time I was looking for one and found seven. The second time I was nervously plucking grass without looking, while trying to break up with my boyfriend. After twirling a piece of , what I thought was grass, for awhile I looked at it and it was a four leaf clover. My boyfriend said he was gonna take it as a sign to not take no for an answer, and we have been married 25 years now.
"So what are your odds of "looking over a four-leafed clover," as the song goes? Approximately one in 10,000 clover stems will have a four-leafed mutation."
Six years ago I was looking out my window at the ominous weather when i saw a rainbow, so I took a pic. I went to get my son and his friend to come and take a look, but the rainbow was gone, and at that moment a large owl landed on the top of a cypress tree, so I took that pic. Moments later it hailed so hard and when the hail subsided I looked out the window again to see if the owl was still there and saw an AN UNBELIEVABLE amount of owls on the same cypress tree! What are the odds of that?....
"Ancient Greece, owls were a symbol of higher wisdom and associated with Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, and Strategy. And while there are no set numbers for what determines a parliament of owls, since these birds rarely congregate in large groups, smaller numbers are considered special and would be referred to as a parliament or congress."
These are seemingly impossible odds. The impossible mind would say I need to buy some lottery tickets, while the mind of unimaginable possibilities says, "what am I suppose to think about all this? Is someone trying to tell me something?" It brings to mind a verse in the Bible, John 3:12 which reads, "If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?" So is it that they don't believe or they are afraid to believe, that there is more out there, waiting to be discovered and how that would impact their life, and where THEY want it to go, a bit like
the saying "Ignorance is bliss"?
For the minds of unimaginable possibilities we know that “History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.” – Kurt Vonnegut
I have pondered much about luck and it's randomness and other unexplainable things. I think when you see things from a self position, of how things can serve your own purpose, it ends up narrowing the possibilities. Animals become "just food" and there are not too many questions left to ask. I personally see the world as having endless questions and wonder what my purpose is. When all of the questions are answered what purpose is left except self gain? If those who have gone before us had that attitude, of "self" being the purpose, would they have ever found that the world isn't flat or have have taken those steps on the moon. I am sure there were more impossible minds back then than now, discouraging their ideas, so why when the impossible is constantly coming to fruition do those impossible minds still think there are no more questions to answer?
Last year I bought two dozen eggs from the grocery store and got 13 double yolks between them, 3 in one dozen and 10 in the second dozen, and took pictures of every one! Here is are the odds of that...
"So it is no surprise that when the Daily Mail reported yesterday that a woman in Cumbria discovered a box containing six double-yolked eggs, it got the nation talking.
For the calculated odds of such an event happening are one quintillion to one against. (A quintillion is a million million million.)
How do we come to this figure? Because only one in every 1,000 eggs produced in this country is double-yolked, so the chances against getting six in a row are 1,000 to the power of six - or one quintillion."
On two occasions I found four leaf clovers. The first time I was looking for one and found seven. The second time I was nervously plucking grass without looking, while trying to break up with my boyfriend. After twirling a piece of , what I thought was grass, for awhile I looked at it and it was a four leaf clover. My boyfriend said he was gonna take it as a sign to not take no for an answer, and we have been married 25 years now.
"So what are your odds of "looking over a four-leafed clover," as the song goes? Approximately one in 10,000 clover stems will have a four-leafed mutation."
Six years ago I was looking out my window at the ominous weather when i saw a rainbow, so I took a pic. I went to get my son and his friend to come and take a look, but the rainbow was gone, and at that moment a large owl landed on the top of a cypress tree, so I took that pic. Moments later it hailed so hard and when the hail subsided I looked out the window again to see if the owl was still there and saw an AN UNBELIEVABLE amount of owls on the same cypress tree! What are the odds of that?....
"Ancient Greece, owls were a symbol of higher wisdom and associated with Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, and Strategy. And while there are no set numbers for what determines a parliament of owls, since these birds rarely congregate in large groups, smaller numbers are considered special and would be referred to as a parliament or congress."
These are seemingly impossible odds. The impossible mind would say I need to buy some lottery tickets, while the mind of unimaginable possibilities says, "what am I suppose to think about all this? Is someone trying to tell me something?" It brings to mind a verse in the Bible, John 3:12 which reads, "If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?" So is it that they don't believe or they are afraid to believe, that there is more out there, waiting to be discovered and how that would impact their life, and where THEY want it to go, a bit like
the saying "Ignorance is bliss"?
For the minds of unimaginable possibilities we know that “History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.” – Kurt Vonnegut
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