How do you explain?

Question

I'm talking to someone on instant messenger who lives 1000 miles away. I've never met this person in real life.

I smelled peanut butter. There is no peanut butter around me.

I asked this person if they were eating peanut butter.

This person said yes.

I'm just this guy, I don't believe in God, I don't take this as evidence of God, but I do take it as a possible evidence of a supernatural realm.

If the natural explanation is this person's brain wave was able to naturally trigger something in my brain, I wonder how that is possible.

Is it just a coincidence? Like maybe this person told me yesterday that they were going shopping, and one of the products people buy is peanut butter, and its natural to assume that from time to time people eat peanut butter?

Answer 1

I know this is hard to fathom for people like yourself, but sometimes it's better when there isn't an explanation for a given event.

Answer 2

Well, I smell feet and as*s and piles and piles of bundled up old newspapers stacked high up to the ceiling to where there is a little path around furniture and appliances. NEATLY, mind you... neatly...

Sound familiar?

You people will do anything and say anything rather than (at this point in the game) admit that the intelligence in the universe that trumps your random happenstance and eons of evolution, is and always has been and will be God. (I SAID... the possibility of.) I respect your curiosity, I respect your thought and reasoning, but your denial I can't respect! It just doesn't make sense.

You are admitting the possibilities of everything BUT God... that is not right to do with anything in life, let alone The most important thing being "Did an intelligence create the universe?"
Science has been "Looking" for this intelligence for the duration of it's history, no one WANTS It to be God. That would mean accountability beyond just cause and effect would have to come into the equation. What scientific mind wants that? No cloning, no stem cell fetus research, no playing God, no hitler type, experimental scientific surgery in the round... none of it would be morally acceptable if Science merged with God.

Science requires objectivity and rational, apart from personal jaded experiences with everything BUT either condition.
WHY?
Deductive reasoning can break that simple fact down to a grudge against the very thing you just don't want to believe in. It does not compute! I don't understand.

Answer 3

Some people believe in the sixth sense some don't. Scientists do not even know much about it and will admit they don't know how the entire brain works either because we humans use relatively little of it in comparison to what we are given. Some postulate that those who have what we call sixth sense have merely learned to use more of that unexplored region of the brain.

No one really knows one way or the other, like many subjects out there, but that doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't happen. And, yes, given our culture it's perfectly natural to assume one may be eating peanut butter.

Answer 4

It's a strong connection. I have it with one of my best friends. I'll give you an example.

I was living in Oklahoma, 1500 miles from my homestate, Washington, which is where my best friend was. Anyway, I was talking to him on the phone, in a windowless room, with the door closed. He asked me what I was wearing (it was a joke between us, don't ask), so I told him to guess.
He told me EVERYTHING I was wearing, right down to my under-clothes, even though he'd never seen the pants or shirt I had on. From 1500 miles away.
It happens all the time. My mom had the same thing. I was...well, long story, but I was writing something with soap (don't ask, as I said, long story), and my mom recognized the smell of the soap I was using. I'm in Germany. She's back in Washington.
So you see, people just sometimes have a connection to each other. Think of your brain as a radio. Sometimes the stations come in, sometimes they don't. Sometimes, when a station DOES come in, someone else is on the same frequency. Make sense? I hope so. I'm not very good at explaining things like this.

Answer 5

I believe that you aligned your thought processes with the person you were talking to simply by thinking of that person. Although you didn't know who it was. Simply thinking of that awareness which existed helped aligned you a little better. Usually people get along with others that they're more mentally aligned with, like it's easier for identical twins for family minds to be more aligned to the same wavelength so to speak. I don't believe anything is a coincidence. Everything is cause and effect. "All chaos, harmony misunderstood" It has to do with subconscious thought processes, unrealized by your unless you're in an extreme state of calm, but people access it on a regular basis at other times.

Answer 6

Sounds like you have something going there. I think you have fallen down and cracked your nut.

You may even think that this may be some kind of weird science, but this morning, I took this little girl out that I was babysitting and while we were waiting for our food, I broke open the single serving of peanut butter and we sampled them. They were made by two different companies. Now this nut factor is getting widespread.

Answer 7

I didn't know that Europeans are used to eating peanut butter.

Peanut butter is very rare in France, where I live. Maybe not in the UK & Ireland, dunno.

I enjoy noticing synchronicities.
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Answer 8

You've been here too long JD. The irrationality is wearing off on you.

Take a break, have some peanut butter on toast. It's better if you add jam as well.

Answer 9

If you accept that everything is energy in one form or another, then human thought is a form of energy as well. This is the basis for prayer and distant healing. That being the case, your instant messaging partner's thoughts might have impacted your thoughts.

Answer 10

Coincidence.