Coincidences or manifestation?

[Meeksauce]

Do you ever have a thought, and then as soon as you zone back into reality you have the exact word or idea you thought repeated back to you? To me this is evidence of God and a mental reality, not schizophrenia. Only God doesn't come out to you full stop because he always wants to remain slippery and difficult to find at a base state of consciousness. Also, Leo, have you ever considered adding a like button to topics or replies? Obviously there are group think dangers with that but also benefits.

[theleelajoker]

24 minutes ago, Meeksauce said:

Do you ever have a thought, and then as soon as you zone back into reality you have the exact word or idea you thought repeated back to you? 

Many many times. 

25 minutes ago, Meeksauce said:

 To me this is evidence of God and a mental reality, not schizophrenia. Only God doesn't come out to you full stop because he always wants to remain slippery and difficult to find at a base state of consciousness. 

You can see it like that. Or as something like universal mind. Or something else.

You can see it also like that: It's simply an event happening. How I interpret it doesn't tell me anything else then what I project on reality, what I want to see.

Most neutral description I can come up spontaneously: "There is the observation of a (silent) combination of words that carry a learned meaning and then a experience that seems in some way to reflects this combination of words in an event"

[Meeksauce]

1 minute ago, theleelajoker said:

Many many times. 

You can see it like that. Or as something like universal mind. Or something else.

You can see it also like that: It's simply an event happening. How I interpret it doesn't tell me anything else then what I project on reality, what I want to see.

Most neutral description I can come up spontaneously: "There is the observation of a (silent) combination of words that carry a learned meaning and then a experience that seems in some way to reflects this combination of words in an event"

I think we have a lot of common ground - I would further your argument by saying there is a logos and understandability to reality - and that is one of the deepest existential topics you can contemplate - as Einstein said, "The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible."

[theleelajoker]

1 hour ago, Meeksauce said:

I think we have a lot of common ground - I would further your argument by saying there is a logos and understandability to reality - and that is one of the deepest existential topics you can contemplate - as Einstein said, "The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible."

Yeah, I see the common ground.

What about accepting your quote above but ADDING a second one"The most comprehensible thing about the universe is that it is INcomprehensible"

In language terms, it's either one state or the other. Or in other words, one quote is true or the other - is comprehensible, or it is not.

I tend toward "it's both". My perspective on it is now 

1) language is binary but the universe is not and 2) you can gain understanding,  but there's constant change. So as soon as you understand something, you change and thus your way of perceiving and acting in reality, and that interconnexion causes changes that again are to be understood, but because of ....and  so on.

[Meeksauce]

1 hour ago, theleelajoker said:

Yeah, I see the common ground.

What about accepting your quote above but ADDING a second one"The most comprehensible thing about the universe is that it is INcomprehensible"

In language terms, it's either one state or the other. Or in other words, one quote is true or the other - is comprehensible, or it is not.

I tend toward "it's both". My perspective on it is now 

1) language is binary but the universe is not and 2) you can gain understanding,  but there's constant change. So as soon as you understand something, you change and thus your way of perceiving and acting in reality, and that interconnexion causes changes that again are to be understood, but because of ....and  so on.

Things tend to be paradoxically "both and neither". And yes language is a construction, but it not required for understanding. When you truly know a thing it is underneath the level of language. The fact that we can find meaning and homeostasis, things that work at the time, even at lower levels of evolution, show that reality is not completely arbitrary. There is meaning and understanding at the subjective level and not-knowing at the absolute level.