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The JFK Assassination - Discussion & Debate / Re: I've talked with several homicide cops. They don't believe in coincidence
« Last post by Lance Payette on Today at 01:57:48 AM »The title of this thread might be too broad..,
More coincidences ?
Oh, OK, if the topic is the broader one of coincidences, I would agree that the JFKA is full of weird twists and turns and "seven degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon"-type coincidences. It sometimes almost seems like a Cosmic Whodunnit written by the Great Mystery Writer in the Sky - as though all of this surely couldn't have "just happened."
I like to use myself as an example. Before becoming involved in the JFKA, I attached no significance whatsoever to the fact that my grandmother knew the Dulles family or that one of my relatives - whose last name is my middle name (which was my parents' nod to my grandmother) - was Lorenzo Dow Baker, one of the founders of the the United Fruit Company. I also have in my study a completely innocent photo of me with William Webster, former director of both the CIA and FBI (FBI when the photo was taken). My wife "just happens" to be from Minsk, and her sister and late brother-in-law worked at the radio and TV factory at the same time as Oswald. Holy cow, how suspicious is all THAT? And yet, the reality is that it has pretty much nothing to do with anything.
This seems to be part of the conspiracy mentality - put everything under a microscope until nothing looks real anymore and poor old Ruth Paine becomes a major player in the JFKA.
I've had so many startling incidents of synchronicity - "meaningful coincidence" - that I started writing them down many years ago. I shared this one on Duncan's new weirdness forum. I happen to believe it was more than mere coincidence - but even if someone wants to argue it was "just a coincidence," it's still exceedingly weird and unlikely. Unlike the homicide cops, I definitely do believe in coincidences because I've lived them.
Complex incidents of synchronicity - "meaningful coincidence" or what Jung called an "acausal connecting principle" - absolutely fascinate me. In 2007, I was a widower awaiting the arrival of my fiance from Belarus. I had ordered from art.com some eight pieces of art to freshen up the house. I was online looking at them. I asked my paralegal across the hall, named Vicki, if she'd ever seen the site. Looking over my shoulder, she asked "Do they have anything by Gustav Klimt?" I brought up what they had, and Vicki said "Oh, my God, 'The Kiss' - that's my favorite painting!" OK, whatever. A week later, I was awaiting the arrival of the final piece - a droll Victorian print of Mama Cat teaching her studious-looking children how to catch mice. It arrived. I looked at the shipping invoice - yep, here it was. I opened the box and pulled out "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt. What??? I just about fainted. I got back online to make sure I hadn't gone into some sort of trance and ordered "The Kiss." Nope. I contacted art.com. "Eh, mistakes sometimes happen at the warehouse. Send it back." I asked Vicki if she wanted it, but $300 was too much for her. Fast-forward some five years. I had retired (working from home) and Vicki had died. Some good friends from out of town were visiting to go to lunch. My wife was still getting ready. We were standing right in front of the print of Mama Cat, so I told them my "The Kiss" story. We drove to the restaurant at an historic hotel down the road. They have a gift shop and a little book nook where they sell books on local history and whatnot. While the others were in the gift shop, I stuck my head in the book nook. There was a little table with exactly one book sitting upright on it: a metallic gold dustjacket with "GUSTAV KLIMT" in big red letters. I have no idea what a book on Klimt would have been doing there. I just about fainted again and of course bought it. Weird.
