Intentional Coincidence

When Arthur suggested the line between coincidence and intentional activity as a topic we should explore, it seemed to me we'd been over this question thousands of times in The Story of Nine Eleven, even if only in our own minds, so thoroughly that by now we should be on the other side where coincidence is one of the many hoped-for results of intentional activity.

This is not exactly an essay about 9/11. This is one of my usual word studies leading into the deeper recesses of thought under Deep Thoughts, the levels where seemingly innocuous statements turn into the heebeejeebies of bitter truth. There are no examples offered because any example I might supply can be better supplied by your own.

Blogging and surfing actually lessen our capacity to retain information due to the sheer volume of material being presented. After a while it becomes just more TV, another passive activity where you are fed words and images all the while thinking you are improving your intelligence and enjoying yourself in the process. We've learned that TV is utter nonsense, but we haven't yet figured out the true nature of the web. Yes, I know, we think we have, but the day will come generations of the future will scoff at what the Internet did to their civilization.

Watching 9/11 on TV and watching the 9/11 investigative commission unfold, sending off for your very own copy of the findings-in-full and watching mainstream news, you could form your own opinions without the assistance of the Internet. That's why its lame to legislate against the web, the web is just another tool in the larger bag of Satan's tricks. You'll notice he never runs out. You also might have noticed every trick leaves you in doubt - as if something other than what your mind tells you happened is taking place. What is really going on here, anyway? Taking stock - pause now to take stock - the amount of doubt currently being served to ALL OF LIFE IN GENERAL is equal to the garbage strewn acreage of every landfill dump in every major city worldwide. This makes it unanimous, humans refuse to trust their own judgment at almost every turn. What I am saying is: Coincidence is extremely rare, if it exists at all. We know, but we don't want to know what we know. We will stretch for explanations and sift tirelessly through the universe of pretense partnering with expectation, rather than take it for granted our hearts know best.

How did we get this way? We know that, too, don't we? Come now, from the time of the cave dwellers there has always been someone who wanted a story to fly for various reasons, the first is to place him/herself in the category of being more intelligent than someone else. Another reason of equal priority is manufacturing a pretext for action lest that action betray a scornful lack of integrity. The impressionable mind of the watching listener subject to these "reasons" will more often accept a story at face value rather than do the mental labor of asking questions. Thus the popularity of the student-teacher matrix in which some get away with murder and the others look on in amazement. Amazement is actually just a cover for avoiding the conflict that will naturally arise from disagreeing with the official story and always leads to pain and/or loss. Pain and loss are to be avoided at all costs, or so that story goes, according to the teachers who in reality are grocery clerks fulfilling the agenda of the other side of all that is humane, right, real, compassionate, healing and spiritually enlightening.

Our minds are not very talented in exploring the depths of personal existence. Mostly, we flow through our days unaware. We do whatever we are doing with the comfortable idea that if we don't see it, it isn't there. When things happen, we like to put them off to coincidence because we don't understand how something came to be and we don't understand because we fail to perform the mental labor connecting unknowns to darker unknowns. When we finally get around to doing the heavy work, we are confronted with things we already suspected were taking place and find verification for our suspicions. Then we can say we know what happened with certainty, even though we already knew. We did not like what we would find which makes the work even harder. Its like a grisly job in a dangerous business and you want to get out as fast as possible. It seems that the faster you can return to perusing the glossy brochure of Coincidence the better off you will be since everyone else says its much more enjoyable there.

To travel with Coincidence Vacation Tours, you'll need steamer trunks of expensive stuff like your benzodiazepines, a wardrobe stylist and an image consultant, Jocko's personal physician and Angelo Mozilo's bible for better living. That could possibly deter the average unemployed, credit-riddled, pro-life citizen, however it has never been a real obstacle as the powerful masters of fictional realities know. They know beyond the shadows of doubt or coincidence you will get exactly what you deserve. They create fables out of thin air knowing some people will do anything to avoid the pain of mental labor and worse, damnation from their peers. Coincidence is an intentional avoidance mechanism. Many things are done with just that end in mind. Sometimes the detective work is easy and the criminal confesses, other times coincidence shields a death match.

Of course, there is plenty of coincidence in between those stark contrasts. Its the everyday coincidence that makes huge coincidence possible. Before you know it, everybody is doing it and getting away with it. Have you made a coincidence today? Hurry, its happening now in real time.

Verification word: humancause

As if we needed verification.