do coincidences have a meaning(reason)?

Question

..........I been told that coincidences don't exit...that everything has a meaning....i.e..you see your friend you haven't seen in 1 yrs...could there be a meaning??/any experiences that had a meaning

Answer 1

Law of Attraction means there are no coincidences.

Answer 2

"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, third time is enemy action." James Bond

Of course coincidences exist. The laws of probability suggest that sometimes things will come up in remarkable correlations. But when you figure the odds, remember to look and see whether there might be an explanation which imparts meaning to the correlation, not just off-the-wall odds.

I read Tarot cards, have done so for many years. As you may know, there are 78 cards in the deck. What are the odds that the same card would come up in the same position in a reading three times in a row? (The cards have been properly shuffled and cut.) Yet it has happened to me quite a few times. I call it a coincidence the second time it shows up, but the third time I say, "What is this trying to tell me that I have missed the first two times?"

Answer 3

I was browsing in a jewelry store in Cancun on a one day layover on my way to the Dominican Republic for a vacation. I was attracted to a blue stone I had never seen before (my family has a history of rockhounds, and stone merchants). I started talking to the salesperson and discovered that is was mined in only one square kilometer of the world and that it came from the Dominican Republic. Coincidence? When I got the D.R. I hired a taxi and over the course of my vacation the topic of Larimar came up. He happened to know a man who owned a mine. Coincidence? Add to this the fact that my wife and are looking to become active in stone trading (we had just purchases a large quantity of amber in Mexico) and that for the first time in my life I actually had money. Had I not wandered into that particular jewelry store. Had I not hired that particular Taxi driver, which is an odd thing in and of itself, as most people use many taxis while on vacation and I had decided to hire one for the duration. Had I not happened to mention Larimar to him. Had I not had $2000 to make the purchase. Had a million little things not gone exactly as they had, I would have had no clue what Larimar even was. And yet, they did. Coincidence? Who Cares?

Is there a meaning to it? Yes. This experience had profound meaning for me. By the way, when I did buy the Larimar, my taxi driver picked up the dealer and brought him to my motel, then he drove us both to the bank, where we exchanged money for stones, then dropped us off. Round trip, 20 minutes. Couldn't have been easier unless I had found a bag of Larimar laying on the side of the road. Something I wanted, not just an idle desire, this was something I really wanted to do with my life practically fell in my lap. It demonstrated to me that if I put my desires out to the universe they would be fulfulled.

I think the important thing to realize about coincendence is that it is what you make of it. If you see your friend that you haven't seen for a year do you hide your face in a magazine and hope they don't see you, or do you go and talk to them (thereby making it an incidence). It has the meaning you give it.

Answer 4

The human brain is hard-wired to look for patterns. It's how we try to make sense of the world. But this also means that when we see some unlikely event occurring, that we want to attach significance to it.

For example, in the movie "About Schmidt", the man looks up into the stars and asks for a sign from his wife who passed away. He sees a shooting star. Now mystics will claim that this "proves" something. On the other hand many atheists will say that this is just a meaningless coincidence. However, I would say that this event was meaningful, but only to the INDIVIDUAL. I don't see the harm in "seeing" symbology like this in life. It keeps life entertaining, so long as you don't start basing reality off of subjective experiences.

Answer 5

Nah, the definition of a coincidence is something that happens for no reason, but is remakable for fitting into context.
Coincidences don't have a meaning, there is no supreme plan, that removes the idea of free will.

Answer 6

Wohhhhh, I was JUST going to ask that very same question. What a coincidence!! Does that mean anything??

Answer 7

Coincidences could be unknown forces working for the better good giving treats to those who do good. Like the coincidence fairy.

Answer 8

There aren't any coincidences-we are all creaters of our own lives. There is a reason for everything. Sometimes we realize down the road, sometimes not but I believe (and I am not alone) that it is all meant to be.

Answer 9

Coincidence is just what it is...a coincidence.

Answer 10

No matter what people say, they are coincidence. Chance. Good luck.