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Synchronicity - When Animals Attack

Thursday, 29. October 2009, 10:54:14

Synchronicity is a tricky concept to define without getting all technical and, as a concept of perception it's pretty hard to prove or disprove. At it's core is the idea that everything in the world fits together in a logical pattern if you can see the connections. Other descriptions say that coincidental events in harmony with each other define synchronicity. Yeah, tricky subject. The only real way to show synchronicity is to show the unconnected events all around us and point out the connections, but that way eventually leads to wearing tinfoil hats and communicating with the Dark Masters. As one of the Dark Masters it would be unseemly for me to follow that path of madness so instead I'll just show you the news stories that have caught my interest this week and let you draw your own conclusions.

"We're not talking about a lot of little bites here, she was filleted."
Gretchen Whitted was in her house in Polk County when she noticed five raccoons in her back yard. Having had trouble with animals messing the place up before she decided to chase them away, but soon wished she hadn't. The raccoons surrounded the 74 year old and attacked, causing her to fall to the ground, where they continued their attack. A neighbour, witnessing the event, called for help.

Gretchen was taken to hospital with extensive cuts from her neck to her legs and treated for rabies. Later on, local fire crews flooded nearby drains in a failed attempt to drive the animals out. Animal Control has said they're hoping to catch the raccoons by using cat food and sardines as bait.

A disabled 52 year old man in Essex said he suffered cuts all over after a vicious gang of cats attacked him while he was walking his dog. "I've seen these cats before but I've never seen them act like this. At first all I heard was a whining and spitting sound, then they all emerged from underneath a car. I did nothing to provoke them and my dog was terrified, but they just kept jumping at us and clawing our legs."

The entire town of Pitsea has become increasingly aware of their cat problem since that incident in September. Locals say the screeching of wild cats are keeping them up at night, and some have even had to keep their children from playing outside as the cat attacks increase in frequency. The cats have begun vandalising fences and garden sheds as part of their reign of terror, and group together in gangs of five or more to jump off walls and attack passers-by.

Mary Garcia, 70, was left in critical condition after two neighbourhood dogs attacked her on her doorstep. Animal Control says that a boxer-mix and a pit bull broke out of a neighbours yard and went straight for her. Neighbours never even heard her scream as the dogs leapt up on their hind legs and started trying to tear at her face. While covered in bites and scratches, it was the stress of the attack that hospitalised Mary as the ordeal caused a heart attack.

Witnesses heard what they thought sounded like dogs fighting and, upon investigating went straight to her defence, but it took four men armed with sticks and brooms to chase the dogs off. Even then they came back until one neighbour managed to see them off by chasing them down with a shovel to defend himself. Mary's 3 year old grandson witnessed the event and is said to be traumatised by it. He kept repeating "The dogs ate grandma." in between sobs.

There have been many more events like this of course, but I've only got limited space here. It seems like animals are going crazy this past month eh, although the cats don't really surprise me to be honest. That's synchronicity for you.

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Dacotah 29. October 2009, 12:08

:frown:

KYren 29. October 2009, 14:54

Carol what lessons god wants teach us from these incidents?

Furie 29. October 2009, 15:54

How about "What goes around, comes around"?

Dacotah 29. October 2009, 16:26

Kiran, I am not an expert about God. Please talk to someone else about your questions about God.

Furie 29. October 2009, 16:28

I've seen that but it's not relevant to this post. The argument for and against the reality of a living deity has been presented here many times, and my atheistic views on the matter are well know, but it has no place on this post so I'm going to make this quick with no need for discussion.

Those that try to prove God exists are just as bad as those that try to prove God doesn't exist. You can't prove anything either way, you can only have your own ideas. Questioning the possible motives of a deity for things is futile when the whole system works on the premise of humanity having free will - literally "the ability to choose their own destiny outside of God's plan". Having said that, a narrow view of the events in that gang rape will seem horrific especially with people standing by and watching, while a four dimensional view might show the news reaching more people all around the world and influencing them to stop events they might otherwise have ignored if they hadn't heard this story. In the cosmic balance one person's torture may be just what is needed to make a thousand people work towards making the world a better place. Hell, one person in the right place who is influenced to do some good in the world may even be worth it. It takes a much wider view with a mind towards four dimensional space to see how these things will play out for the greater good.

Dacotah 29. October 2009, 16:37

Sorry Mik.

KYren 29. October 2009, 18:08

The 3 year old grandson will have the free will to forget this when he grows up. Anyways I also want to stop now coz I myself have to contemplate this before I make any conclusions, sorry Carol and Mik.

gdare 29. October 2009, 18:41

Once I`ve seen two cats chasing stray dog all along the street, poor dog almost lost his life that night. I think the reason for it was that cats were mating and the dog scared them :left:

Furie 29. October 2009, 18:53

Poor pooch. awww Cats can be evil with barely any provocation. :mad:

qlue 29. October 2009, 20:36

In a layman's guide to Chaos Theory, we would call this the plum pudding effect. although, when mixing a plum pudding in a bowl, the plums are distributed relatively evenly, in the final cooked pudding, the plums are found in groups and not evenly distributed throughout the pudding. (cherries in a fruit cake do the same thing).
In short, coincidence is a mathematical certainty. Strange things will always tend to happen in groups rather than in isolated incidents. So we would expect that, after reading one such story, that we would shortly hear/read many more such stories. That's normal statistical behaviour in Chaos Theory. :whistle:.
Some say that this proves that there is no God, others say that this is proof that God exists. And I say that this is maths, not Bible study so get a grip bro'! p:.

clean 29. October 2009, 20:39

Is it wrong that I laughed at some of these ... ? :whistle:

qlue 29. October 2009, 20:40

P.S: no slights were intended in that comment, so please don't take it personally! :left:.

Zaphira 29. October 2009, 20:58

Originally posted by Mik:

Locals say the screeching of wild cats are keeping them up at night

At first I read it as "Lolcats say that screeching..."
I spend too much time online. :left:

Originally posted by Furie:

Cats can be evil with barely any provocation. :mad:

...but they are usually quiet and peaceful cute animals. :happy:

clean 29. October 2009, 21:05

:lol: I did the lolcat thing, too! :lol:

Furie 30. October 2009, 01:30

Coincidences are indeed everywhere. The original version of this post had the turkey episode I linked to as part of the post instead of the dogs, and i focussed on the fact that these events were not only reported at the same time but each had groups of five animals doing the attacking. However, there's an old saying amongst atheists that "A coincidence is remarkable, but two coincidences is a religion." (first said by a handsome genius with a massive ego and a pathological hatred of fruit flavoured phones) so I changed last story and only linked to the turkeys in an attempt to avoid a religious debate.

Yes David it's very wrong. Very wrong indeed. Welcome home. :D.

Kitten, you may be right about that.
*puts down a bowl of finely cooked steak with a cheese drizzle, mushrooms, scrambled egg and cajun spiced fries, and scratches behind the kitty's ear*

rose-marie 30. October 2009, 09:37

Wow... they're just like us humans p:.

theoddbod 17. November 2009, 07:58

Ah, The Raccoons :D I used to watch that every Saturday morning :D

Furie 17. November 2009, 12:57

Me too. :D

theoddbod 17. November 2009, 13:37

I still have no idea what Cyril and Cedric Sneer were supposed to be careful :confused: But it was a great cartoon :up:

Furie 17. November 2009, 13:55

Wiki says Aardvarks, but I think they're anorexic elephants. :up:

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