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Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951
Wonder how much that we categorize as "supernatural" would fall under similar worldy statistical explanation.
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Great post, but I wanted to comment on this. I think the answer is exactly what you surmise. Sometimes things are just coincidences. It might seem highly unlikely to some observer, but it is what it is.
I actually made up a "law". My law states that whenever you are driving and slowing down because the light up ahead is red, as soon as you come to a complete stop, the light will turn green. Of course this happens every once in awhile, but if you really looked at the statistics, it's probably rare. The thing of it is, the human mind doesn't see it this way. It remembers the few times that this does occur and dismisses all the times it doesn't. I did a little experiment and told a co-worker about my "law" and he told me months later that I was right! It happens all the time!!!
As I mentioned previously, the human brain has all kinds of ways of tricking itself. People don't have "psychic " powers, for instance. They are playing the game of statistics and coincidence. In fact, with the internet now, "psychics" and mediums are actually googling Facebook data on people and then using this data to make it look like they have psychic powers. I always thought this was interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_Challenge