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This is page one
of Ideas Central The ideas listed in Ideas Central are chronological. The most recent ideas listed are near the bottom of this page. Thanks. :) For more ideas go here: FUTURETECH Below are a few direct links to some of my ideas on this page: Frisbee battery chargers. Buy a $50.00 pre pay gasoline card Caller ID Printer for Windows The garden hose alarm system Finger printing guns prior to their sale The Map-o-meter The Dallas Morning News On Disk Blood pressure watches On Line Messenger service that can take dictation Healthy foods Vending Machines Zip Lock Sealed Bread Magazines On Disk 2 Slice bread pack Telephone that prints your phone records and your messages Watch TV, Play DVDs of Cooking Shows, Print Recipes Coke cans with screw off lids Look at weather alerts from television Vote On Line: Instead of voting at the polls Wearable television sets On Line Voting In the November Elections Pre-Pay Gas Cards If I
don't have a patent
so what? Maybe
some of my ideas are
not entirely original, as it has been said before, "Great minds
think alike." I have no worry that if I come up with an original
idea that it may have been thought of by one of over 6 billion
people, but I have one advantage, this web site,
where I can type in all of the ideas that I personally think of as
original to me and upload them to be read by anyone of the now existing
population of the Earth. That is a lot to wrap your head around
don't you agree? I have
not dated some of
my entries over the years since I first began creating personal home
pages,
so some of my ideas on these pages are in fact several years old. For
good
measure, I will from now on, date all new ideas so that I can truly
measure
the success and /or significance of that idea over years ahead.
If I come to realize one of my ideas has already been marketed and made the news media in one form or another, I will try hard to make that fact known to all who read these pages heretofore. Thank
you for taking a look
at this :) Fluorescent glow in the dark labels for video tapes and cassette tapes. Idea 0002. Saturday, December 06, 2003, Central Daylight Savings Time LED (light emitting diodes) lights that line the outer edges of our clothes in bright blue, orange, or yellow or even red, reminds me of that tall tower Downtown Dallas, with it's neon green edges that outline it on the horizon at night, helps us all be safer at night while taking a late night stroll or a job in the park so we will not be ran over by a speeding motorist! Idea 0003. Saturday, December 06, 2003, 1:05 PM Central Daylight Savings Time Glass door knobs shaped like a sphere with a perfect red glass rose or cloth rose inside. Idea 0004. Saturday, December 06, 2003, 1:07 PM Central Daylight Savings Time Door knobs that look like an earth globe or mars or the moon. Idea 0005. Saturday, December 06, 2003, 1:09 PM Central Daylight Savings Time Pen + pill dispenser. Keep a few aspirin or tylenol in a chamber at the top for quick access. Idea 0006. Saturday, December 06, 2003, 1:10 PM Central Daylight Savings Time Pen with dollar bill dispenser. You can roll a few 20 dollar bills and place them in a discreet location for you personal and private access. Who would think to look there for cash? Idea
0007. Saturday, December 06, 2003, 1:29 PM Central Daylight
Savings Time Idea
0008. Saturday, December 06, 2003, 1:34 PM Central Daylight
Savings Time Look at weather
alerts from television even if your set is turned off!
Idea
0009. Saturday, December 06, 2003, 1:40 PM Central Daylight
Savings Time Look at the stranger on
your front porch while watching prime time TV. Ideas Central
Ever
have an idea that came from out of the blue? You never said anything about it and figured they might even laugh at you if you said anything. I don't care. An idea is an idea. And in a list of hundreds of bad ideas there might be a few that just happen to be good and looking closer still, one or two of them might even be great! Think about anything, anything at all. Then try to think of a way to make it a better thing. Faster, Safer, More Attractive, More energy efficient, and so on. Or even try to put two ideas together to see what happens. Does the combination come up with something entirely new and improved or even innovative, ahead of it's own time? It's easy. Watch this. Take an object you are most familiar with in your daily life, then try to picture it being somehow better. Can you do that? I can. Let me begin. A
dining
room table. What could you possibly want to do to improve on that? Hmm.
I know, why not a height adjustment ot make it easier for children to
use
as a drawing table and game table and back up when it's time to serve
the
family meal or go even farther and put in drawers underneath the table
that slide out with forks, knives and spoons and napkins? You see what
I mean? Once you get on a roll you may be going all out. I could take a table and put a huge image cut out to fit exactly over the entire surface and place a thick piece of glass that is the same size also. you would then have a picture perfect table top. One that can be elevated or lowered, with utensil trays underneath and a beautiful image to look at, and if you put this idea forward in time, you're table top might be transformed into a video projection screen that you can eat off of and do your research, or news viewing and not miss your healthy meal while you're at it. I know it sounds just a little bit silly, but this exercise is my way of keeping mentally active and hopefully some day one of my own ideas, my own original ideas will become reality and history will give credit where it is due, not the guy who stole it on the internet either. If you write your ideas down they will download them, so to speak. Ideas Central
The
idea of traffic being controlled by the law enforcement using high
speed
digital cameras to photograph your license plate if you are going over
the speed limit or running a red light sounds more like an ideal. You
might
not know this, but I recently was informed that: There
are counter technologies In effect, the guy who will do as he pleases at any cost will search for ways to out do every sensible effort of the new technology experts and government legislature to create a better and a safer America. This
guy, who ever he might be, in theory, will take every new law passed
and
work his way around it so he can continue to run red lights, speed in
excess
of 35 mph over the speed limit and hack into computers that do not yet
have firewall software that would make it not necessarily impossible
but
more difficult for this guy to do his dirty work. These people are all
over the place. They will always be with us so therefore every new idea
you or I come up with to make America or the world as a whole, a better
place for everyone to live in, there will be counter technology to
defeat
our bold new efforts. So,
why bother? Because fore every counter technology or anti technology
person
out there in the world, there are hopefully many more ambitious persons
working on ways to make their technologies rock solid and invincible to
the guy out there who wants to thwart our efforts. To he who would
challenge
the intrinsically noble and good inventor or ideas person, I say, BRING
IT ON! Ideas Central Sunday, December 08, 2002 6:53 PM, Central Standard Time I have this idea that another person scoffed at. I figured that if the average person would ridicule some of my ideas or inventions then nobody else would want to take credit for it when it became a reality. Hence, this is one of them: Every time I make a pot of coffee, I know it can't stay on too long, waiting for my return for another dose of black death. So, I turn it off, knowing that within up to one hour the coffee left behind in the pot is still drinkable, not tepid. But, what if I go away and return from a trip to the library and return some time later and the coffee is now a cool 50 degrees or room temperature? I usually pour a second cup and heat it up in the kitchen microwave oven for a little over a minute, about 1.20 hundredths of a minute aka one minute, and a fifth or an additional 20% of a minute. Any how, I have to walk the distance and this gets old pretty fast and I don't want to use a timer because I am seldom on time in my daily life, so what then? The coffee machine has a built in microwave oven attached to it at it's side and thanks to this new invention, my own dumb idea at best, you can take the cool cup and mic-a-cup of coffee fast and then have it ready for immediate us! I have been known to drink coffee that has set over night and I didn't even use a Piranha fish filter to lower the water's level of chlorine and fluorine and acidity thus making the coffee a java lover's dream. :) So there you have it. my latest flight of fancy, my flight of ideas that I appreciate that you took out the time to look at it. :) ideas central archives: Below are ideas from the lookat ideas archives. Ideas Central
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and welcome to Ideas Central. Ideas Central
Buy
a $50.00 pre pay gasoline card from one of your favorite gas
stations. What makes this idea sound good is that you can not use the gas card for anything but gas! You can always waste money in cash form and then be short at the end of each month and have to skip that trip to the movies and the cross town friend because we tend to spend up all our cash when it is available at the drop of a hat! With the pre pay card, you already bought the gas, but you can't put $50.00 fifty or a hundred, $100.00 dollars worth of gasoline in your car's tank all at once, so you don't have to fret, the fact is, you already paid for it and you can go get more anytime you run low without spending additional money. That's thinking ahead! In the long run there would be those who would ask for refunds, but refunds on already paid for gas would be kind of the same as a refund for the last 100 pre pay minutes on your phone card, and that would have to be a strict policy enforcement issue. I think
most people would go for it if given a chance so I submit this idea
freely.
I don't expect to get royalties from this. I am an ideas guy! I want to
present my ideas on line and watch them become reality in the real
world
over my life time. That would give me a great deal of satisfaction and
reassurance of my value as part of the solution and not of the problem
with America. Ideas Central
Imagine having a plate you are eating your dinner on, while either setting at the sofa or on the patio or in the car on the move and the plate has 2 levels, the bottom half of the plate being the storage compartment for condiments, forks, spoons, straws, knives and napkins and moist toweletts? I came up with this strange idea just a week ago and it seemed to me I've never seen a plate that has this capacity. A movable partition, based on the salt an pepper box concept, would turn to reveal on or more openings that would allow fingers to get out what is needed and to close it back to keep what's left inside, then ultimately you would be able to use this contraption over and over again until you wore it out! You would not have to put the accessories into the container beneath the plate. It would come in a package of say, 4, ready to open up and put down the dinner mac and beans on the plate and service your self in an instant without having to hunt for those added little extras, like salt and pepper, catsup and a fork and knife and a spoon as well of course, the napkins and moist toweletts and straws. If that doesn't sound like a great little idea nothing does! Ideas Central
Idea
number 3. The lid is the slicer and the removable wedge servers that slide just under the pie or cake inside the dispenser and holder, provides instant removal of a single slice of cake or pie after the lid's built in cutting partitions have, in one single stroke, performed exactly identical sized cuts! Then the lid stays on forever, keeping the air off the pie or cake, keeping them fresh longer and all you have to do is pick the slice you want and pull it right out in it's wedge, then replace the wedge to keep the air off the cake. I would have to work on this idea, because I have to analyze the physical properties of the components. There may be some need to revise this concept a bit further, but this is just my basic concept. Ideas Central
Idea
number 4. The
garden hose alarm system for
stray cats and dogs and possums
that come
around the house after midnight. A motion detection devise would trigger an electrical switch that would cause a mechanical valve to open up the water flow and for a few seconds spray a good bit of H20 on the pesky critters and make them run away! The timer would be set to go off about 10 seconds after the motion alarm no longer detected movement. Ideas Central
Idea
number 5. Just slide one page at a time in the page magnifier and it will keep the magnifier sheet flat and at the exact distance to insure concise uniformity from one side of the page to the other. This is better than the sheet you have to hold in your hand that is constantly flopping around and going in and out making for a pretty sizable headache! Either the sheet would slide into it or the magnifier would flip open and then shut. I think the latter idea is better. Another variation of this idea would be to mount a magnifier on to the back binder of the book, then allow a horizontal 3 inch wide and page long magnifier that is stiff enough to maintain a consistent evenness and let the magnifier bar slide up and down and easily be swung back to allow for the next page. Then of course there is the fact of a book having two opposing sides, so it would be required to have one of these devices on both binders, right and left handed so each one could facilitate use on both sides of both pages. Why not just wear reading glasses? From my experience with reading glasses, you can develop a distorted focus of things around you by wearing them too long and that means over an hour and you can and most likely will get a headache from wearing them. Sure, you could always wear glasses or get eye surgery, but I am talking about books who's print is pretty much on the too darned tiny to see side. Instead of all that, why not just take book cover and let the inside flaps be full sized magnifier sheets that can simply lay on top of each page, One for the left side and the other for the right side, simple, sweet, fantastic and wonderful idea. Below are more of my flight of ideas archives. Ideas Central
Idea
number 6. That gun you just bought already is listed with the United States National Ballistics Logistical Center for profiling and identifications. So, even if the gun you buy never kills anyone, it's safe to say, that if it had been used as a murder weapon, the gun's unique signature will already be on record and immediately retrievable from a National Ballistics Database in the files of the CIA, NRA, ATF, CIA and the FBI and the INS, FEMA and the local police, the Department of Defense, the United States Military and Secret Service, and the Postal Services, to be on the look out for the gun that matches the signature profile and the name of it's owner, and his current location to be held for questioning and possible arrest. Also, if anyone is suspect, based on eye witness details, and his or her gun is inspected and found to have a honed out barrel, then that person is so busted! Why? Because a honed out gun barrel or modified barrel is very suspect in a criminal investigation under any circumstances. flight of ideas:
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are some older ideas I had posted on older pages of my web site.
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no. 39 But taken a step further, you can imagine the benefits of using them to keep track of your children, and pets and each other and so on. A beeper is the closest thing to a transponder in that it beeps when a signal is directed toward the beeper from a satelight, but the opposite is true when your digital cellular phone transmits to another telephone unit via a base station and a series of satelights in orbit. Idea
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no. 52 lookat has a great idea: A self adjusting bathroom basin that can lift for taller people and be lowered for shorter people, even children, then make it so it's faucet can be raised or lowered to make it easier to shampoo your hair. Flexible water lines and hydraulic adjusters would make this idea possible, even feasible for the average household. Idea
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playful people are ideal for tree lovers who just want to express their love for nature, and at the same time: Keep those pesky birds away from your fruit and rodents away from your nut bearing trees, or just to create a little bit of campy fun to your landscape! You can change their outfits to suit any season, machine washable, almost life size and very soft and colorful, another nifty idea from lookat. Idea
no. 57 For instance, imagine that you have several hundred pages of poetry or short stories that you can't get published anywhere, but you think someone might like to read. In an environment like this one, hundreds of thousands of personal manuscripts, printed on word processors and home PCs with ink jet printers, stapled together or bound into a 3 hole punch binder or an IBICO type binder. People could freely read and share their material with the local community. You couldn't take anything home, but you could spend 12 hours a day 7 days a week, reading whatever you can get your hands on, inside the home grown community library. I think it's the best idea I had since I graduated high school back in 1975! :) Idea
no. 58 Well,
take this concept to a higher level with huge wall size sandscapes and
let your mind get lost in the abstract world of sandscapes,
landscapes made of colored sand. :) Idea
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no. 60 And how about this idea: DNA altered grass, that can be color altered to over a million different solid colors with the stroke of a computer key. Idea
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no. 63 First came 'Survivors 2000' in the form of REALITY TV, Then came 'Big Brother 2000' including: Pug Hunt 2000. How about 'Hotel 2007' ? 20 occupants, for one year, inside a building that they can't go outside of for 365 days, equipped with the most modern high tech living environment, covered live on a specific cable network with over 500 cameras and microphones. To win: You must be the one in 20 considered the most well adapted. The reward: $10,000,000.00 ten million American dollars. Idea
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no. 66 It would revolutionize the way we send mail. For many of us, the tedium of composing a letter, folding it up neatly and hand stamping an envelope is as tedious as waiting for the chance reply to an unscheduled e-mail that could easily be deleted in a system full of junk emails. Wouldn't it be nicer if you could just talk into your pc voice mail system and compose an instant letter, and then design the type of stationery and postage as per first class or priority mail and realize that the person who is going to receive the letter will get it right out of their home or office mail box. I like this idea. It came to me while having coffee on this Monday, October 16, 2000 at 11:26 AM. Imagine that! Idea
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no. 70 Hammer, there are over 6 thousand brands of hammer for sale in the current market. The claw hammer, first invented by an ancient Greek Fisherman, named Hammer Head, used a large stone, with a flat end, tied to a foot long piece of wood, used to hammer out hooks for fishing. The world's smallest hammer is half an inch long. It is used to keep time in a kaleidoscope machine, that is on display at the Smithsonian Institute. The metal used to forge a hammer head was largely made of a soft heated iron, when cooled, maintained it's shape and lasted for a lifetime. The hammers made today are made largely of a bonded metallic alloy or alloys that are 80 percent tempered aluminum and 20 percent iron, and in many cases a hardened outer casing of stainless steel. The Ball peam hammer and the claw hammer are very similar to the hammers used in the dark ages, and even today haven't changed all that much. Many ancient hammers, although, the handles are missing, are made of hard rocks and stone, and were used by the oldest civilizations in recorded history that date back millions of years ago. The retail cost of a hammer can be as little as $4.00, and can range into the area of $30.00, depending on size, type, and construction as well as manufacture, as well as the retailer, who's prices vary state by state and country by country over the world. The above is false information, used as an example for this particular idea. no. 70. You can see, there really are lots of facts about hammers, and to have them under one heading, rather than several thousands of key word groups and locations, would enable the explorer of the facts about the hammer, to read several pages or perhaps volumes in a single reference to it. Idea
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no. 73 Isn't
this neat! You could have a printer connected to your digital tv and
play
a DVD of your favorite cooking shows that you buy at a local
supermarket.
Then as you watch in amazement thinking, Gosh, I wish I hadn't been
talking
during the Chicken Tetrazzini presentation so I could keep that recipe.
I only wanted that particular recipe, not an entire book for $50.00
dollars.
Now I can go to menu, select from list, and of the 14 dishes they
masterfully
cook before your hungry eyes, you pick Chicken Tetrazzini, Item no. 6.
Idea
no. 74 Cool. You could watch a DVD of your favorite movie or mute the background effects, that is, sound effects and just listen to the dialog, or listen to the sound effects without watching the visuals, that is, the actors and the action, or read the dialog in text format either in silence or with the background effects, that is, the noise to go along with it. Idea
no. 75 Is this even feasible? I can't really say. But it would be interesting if a television had 2 sides to every story. You could really catch the action on the football field. This would require 2 constant opposite camera angles fixed on a given area in order to make this possible. The way the media presents itself with modern technology and the 3 second block thing, every 1, 2 or 3 seconds there is a different camera angle, a different view and a different zoom. The
idea of using front and back viewing technology would be simple You
could see who was playing with their
cell phone while apparently interested in what their host was
presenting
in conversation. Example: The McLaughlin Group, but you
know in
retrospect,
it is satisfactory to watch that show from one single
angle,
because
nobody on that show has time to light a cigarette between issues
presented
much less engage in off camera gum chewing. Idea
no. 76 It's the junk mail and the credit card ads and political paraphernalia that we really hate. Bills are a whole other matter :) But,
if there were a place the mail man could just put all that unwanted
mail
it would likely be a shredder or an incinerator. My idea is this, Make the post office take back whatever we leave in the out box or junk mail box every day they return with more mail so they will be so tired of doing this they will simply tell the companies sending them the junk to return to sender and address nunya. How about this idea? what if Nobody throws away old newspapers or magazines, but goes to the neighborhood recreation center and donates them to the facilitator there, or take them to the old folks homes in the area or the homeless shelters to give them something to read to perhaps take their mind off the drudgery of the day? Don't
drive anywhere at all one day out of the week to save on gas and
help Call your local retail chain that you frequently shop, and tell the store manager what a good job his associates are doing. This will help boost morale to a degree that might reflect on your treatment as a customer in the future, provided you are anonymous about it. Positive feedback is good for business and good for you! Let someone do all the talking when you meet a stranger. A good listener is hard to come by these days and you'll avoid an argument. Set
in on a City Council meeting when you have the chance, if possible.
This Visit
the web site of America's Most Wanted to keep informed about law
Make a back yard bench using the following elements: 6 -
8x8x16 hollow building blocks & 2 - 4 feet long landscaping
timbers,
treated. Got
a lot of stuff? Nowhere to put it? Clutter got you down?
Go to your church once a week, preferably on Sunday. It will do you good! Mix your genuine drip coffee with equal parts decaffeinated to help cut back on your coffee shakes for goodness sakes! Tell someone you love" I love you" It can only do good for both of you! Learn something new on the internet: at http://www.learn.com Earn money for your wise and informed opinions: at http://www.epinions.com Make money by placing an E ads on your web site: at http://www.eads.com A self adjusting bathroom basin that can lift for taller people and be lowered for shorter people, even children, then make it so it's faucet can be raised or lowered to make it easier to shampoo your hair. Flexible water lines and hydraulic adjusters would make this idea possible, even feasible for the average household. A soap sculpture that will last a month that looks like a Pokemon, or dinosaur or a mountain ridge. Just set it on the far side of the tub and the entire family can have fun. What if you could create a lot of very large round glass ornaments that are about record size or larger that have a 3-D Holographic image of a loved one or a beautiful flower or something abstract like a Fractal? Just make them and hang them from chain in a corner of a room or against a dark empty corridor or against the window so it will mesmerize you a night under the glow of moon light. Take a large rectangular shaped piece of black velvet or similar smooth black fabric and mount it on a wall. Print Several butterflies on card stock white paper, then cut out the shapes and use 2 sided foam tape or straight pins to attach them. I plan to work on this project myself in the very near future. I like to use fractals as texture to a blank black silhouette of a butterfly or flower or a bird. Try it out yourself using Corel Photo paint. The software has real potential for abstract computer generated art. Tree Huggers....... These
playful people are ideal for tree lovers who just want to express their
love for nature, and at the same time: Monitor your weight, blood pressure, ekg, eeg, respiration and more while setting in front of your home PC! Using a windows based software program and a basic input device attached to several attachments that connect to your computer arm chair, you could if this thing really existed, keep track of your essential vital signs at home, while under strict advice of your physician. Already there are programs that enable doctors to monitor patients eeg on line through a popular program already on the market. Imagine just setting at your computer, and while waiting for a download, you could check your weight anytime you felt like it or your blood pressure, just the basics, or for advanced purposes, monitor your alpha brain waves to determine your stress levels while on line or doing work on your PC. The immediate feedback would be available for immediate printout, or save to disk or send to your doctor to keep your medical records up to date. Use your mailbox outside as a cold storage space for at least 4 to 6 12 ounce beverages. On
a cold night just place six colas or brewskys in your empty mail
box
and by morning you will have cold beverages at your immediate grasp.
This
is recommended when you simply have no room in the refrigerator or you
don't want anyone else in the house to know you are storing your
favorite drinks in a secret hiding place coincidence theory:
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN THE MIDDLE OF A CONVERSATION AND BOTH OF YOU SAID THE EXACT SAME THING AT THE EXACT SAME TIME? OR, HAVE YOU EVER SAID TO YOURSELF, I THINK I'D LIKE TO HAVE A BARBECUE SANDWICH WITH FRIES, BECAUSE I HAVEN'T HAD ONE IN QUITE A WHILE, THEN WHILE YOU JUST FINISHED EATING, THE BARBECUE SAND, THAT IS, YOU SEE A COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENT ON TV AND IT'S ABOUT, AND YOU CAN JUST GUESS.... BARBECUE SANDS BEING SOLD 2 FOR 1 AT THE LOCAL PIT STOP BAR AND GRILL AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU'VE SEEN THIS COMMERCIAL BEFORE. THERE ARE MANY SUCH COINCIDENCES IN OUR LIVES. ON THIS PAGE I TRY TO DOCUMENT A FEW OF MY OWN AS TIME GOES BY AND AS TIME GOES BY I WILL TRY TO ADD MORE TO IT AND FURTHER EXPAND ON THE NATURE OF COINCIDENCE THEORY. OH THAT'S FUNNY YOU THOUGHT ABOUT DOING THE SAME THING YOURSELF? GOOD FOR YOU! THAT'S CALLED A COINCIDENCE, TWO IDENTICAL EXPERIENCES TAKING PLACE THAT ARE NOT THE CAUSE OF OR THE EFFECT OF THE OTHER EXPERIENCE TAKING PLACE AT PRACTICALLY THE EXACT TIME. NOW THAT IS A DOUBLE COINCIDENCE. MOST OF THE TIME WE DEAL WITH THE MERE FAMILIAR AND SAY I CAN RELATE TO THAT BECAUSE I HAVE EXPERIENCED A SIMILAR EVENT IN MY OWN LIFE. BUT IN THE CASE OF SIMULTANEITY, THAT IS, TWO PEOPLE OR TWO EVENTS OF AN EXACT NATURE CO-EXISTING AND SOMETIMES CONCURRING IN THE SAME EXACT FRAME OF TIME BUT NOT NECESSARILY SPACE, AND THAT SPACE THING WOULD MAKE SUCH A COINCIDENCE A COINCIDENCE OF TIME, EVENT, AND PLACE. CORRECT? The world is chock full of coincidences. Many have already been recorded and I wish I had a book by my side to reference some of them, but, since I am talking about coincidences in my own personal life, I feel that it would be needlessly redundant to refer to anything already in print. Don't you sometimes wake up and wonder what day of the week it is, and think it's Friday and drive half way to work, only to later recall it was actually Saturday, your day off and drove back home with a sigh of relief and embarrassment? I call this particular type of coincidence the familiar paradox, because the situation of forgetting the correct day of the week is a peculiar thing to happen to one personally but, the fact that this event, although odd, has occurred to more than one person in our current society. As a matter of fact, it is something others can relate to in general conversation. Another type of coincidence is you haven't watched MASH in over a year, and the last episode you recall having watched was when they painted them rocks with gold spray paint. The funny thing is, you decide just for the hell of it to turn on the set, because you're bored, and it's raining outside, and you just want to see what's on. You turn on the set, then you flip through a channel, and wait for the dumb commercial to get over with, then there it is, staring you right in the face. The episode about the gold spray painted rocks! I call this particular type of coincidence the dejavoux paradox, because its as if you went back and relived your past in a single instant of total recall. Perhaps this never happened to you and therefore you don't relate to it. In that case, just hang around long enough and in due course, such a dejavoux paradox of one kind or another might just take place. Some people think that it's a coincidence to win the LOTTO. Well, the odds are generally several hundred millions to one that you will win, if you in fact only buy one dollar lotto ticket, not a million dollars worth! That's not the point I want to make. I once liked to play the lottery, and I was certain that if I used the exact same numbers forever, there would be somewhat of a greater chance that I might come up a winner. Most people share this same exact belief. I call this coincidence of familiar thinking the obsessive fixation of numbers paradox. Paradox
meaning that logical reason can contradict itself and also be an
absolute
truth, or two ideas can both mean one thing and also exactly the
opposite.
1. By sticking with your favorite 6 numbers over and over and over and
over again, forever, so to speak, you are certainly likely to see
some or even most of your favorite numbers come up at each and every
lotto
drawing, yet on the other hand: 2. You will fail to ever realize
any other possible combination of numbers which actually is a greater
probability
to come up in the lotto drawing in a given period of time, than
sticking
to the same six numbers, because there are now 54 numbers in the game!
Both
1 and 2 of the argument are logical and make some degree of common
sense. Do you like chocolate? Well, so do I, so I guess that's a bit of a coincidence. Do you like the color blue? that's interesting, because blue also my favorite color. Where I'm going with this is there are degrees of coincidence between people, especially in the argument of the identical twins, separated at birth, reunited after 50 years of separation, only to discover that they have a list of exact personal and incidental likes, dislikes and particulars in common as to astonish even the most ridged minded scientific mind. The thing about this is there are more of these particular event paradoxes with identical twins than any other pair of individuals on this earth, on modern record, of course! But, just for the sake of argument, if identical twins can have so much in common is there a celestial influence, or a genetic one, or even both that somehow govern each and every human being and the rest of life, for that matter on the planet? I raise this question only to open a window of possibility to future theories that regard the issue of cause and effect, versus divine intervention, versus pure coincidence? and where do we draw the line between any of these 3 interestingly compelling arguments of possibility? If
we lookat coincidence as an excuse for failing to observe actual
underlying
causes and effects, or more indirect influences then we may eventually
rule out the theory that anything that takes place in the universe is a
coincidence, but merely an act of parallel events reality as seen by
the
observer as unlikely in lieu of man's narrow field of observation in
his
every day life. Cause and effect are the hallmarks of the scientific
method
of reason. But, If we fail to look beyond our little circle of
cognition,
that is, our own personal experiences as humans on this world, then we
are like a fish swimming in circles In order to factor into consideration that the theory of coincidence has it's origins in ancient philosophy, metaphysics, and science, it would be easy to guess that out of all things scientific, first came as hunches, theories, beliefs, or the collective unconscience of a culture or an era in history. That means that even the theory of coincidence has evolved from a lesser form to a higher form though out recorded history as has all other schools of thought. Of course, I want to get back to the more basic and simply the fun part of this subject that is my own experiences with coincidence in the past 43 years of my life. I had
a dream and it was of people running up and down the streets of the
city
helter skelter like all over the place. I approached a man and asked
him
why everyone was acting so wildly? He just jerked himself away from me
and ran away. Everyone was running from one place to the other and it
was
all outside in the early hours of morning. When I went to work that
following
Monday, I told a co-worker that I feared there might be some kind
of terrible war and I was certain my dream was some kind of omen. I was
not on my medication at that time. heh! :) It turned out, that on television that same week, the news announced an eminent war in the Middle East involving Saddam Insane would lead to America's active involvement in a war, and it was called Desert Storm! I call that form of coincidence a personal vision or premonition of the near future. Now, I've read many books including parts of Nostradamus, and of course I've read about Peter Hurkos, and Edgar Cayce, forgive me if I misspell the names. I will go for the thesaurus, that now extinct dinosaur of books in my library later, to fix the spelling while I continue to add more to this. How many times have you yourself had a vivid dream and within days or perhaps just within 24 hours of your dream discover that some of the content of your dream had come to pass, like you dreamed of a death in the family and you received notice of a death in the family in just a day or 2. Well, I had that experience 2 times in my life. The first time was the recurrent dreams of the death of my father, only to learn that in just a month from that week of lucid night mare dreams, not my father, but, rather, my mother passed away from heart failure and lung failure. Well, that isn't all. I had a dream over a month ago, in mid July, that I shook Johnny Clyde's hand and he told me that everything was going to be all right. He was pleasant with me and I didn't consider the dream that significant, except that a week or two later we received a call from one of his children and they told us Johnny Clyde had fallen down 3 flights of stairs at his apartment and was in a coma and on life support. In a matter of a few weeks, on Wednesday, July 11th, the Dallas Police in 2 squad cars came knocking at our front door and told us that Johnny Clyde had passed away, then on that friday, the 13th, he was buried. We paid our last respects at the Brown Funeral Home in Grand Prairie Texas. Well, long before both my mother's death and Johnny Clyde's' in the year 1995, in the month of February, I was Bi-Polar and not aware of it. You see, I have been Bi-Polar my entire life. When I started to have a break down from learning about my own bout with cancer, a pleomorphic adenoma of the right Parotid Gland, I went through a first surgery to re |
