Living the Dream: A Coincidence Diary

On September 9 2007 I was chatting with Andy Kitchlew on the Internet Chess Cub http://www.chessclub.com/  whilst I used the handle Parsifal and he his real name. I mentioned something very peculiar which had happened to me on the ICC at least five years earlier. There were over 20,000 registered handles at the club. One evening, in a distracted manner, I began typing in random small letter sequences just to see if any happened to be real registered handles of any ICC members. To find out any information which members might have chosen to reveal about themselves you typed in "Finger so-and-so", e.g. http://www.chessclub.com/finger/Parsifal Almost all drew blanks. But then to my astonishment I found that typing in the computer command " Finger dmmg "  not only hit upon a real handle but the accompanying note said that it was that of Andy Kitchlew! ...   ...   ... On September 9th 2007 I at long last got around to asking Kitchlew the explanation of this mystery. He e

V At 10:46 a.m. on September 25th 2007 I contributed, as Parsifal , to a thread entitled CHANGE + ADAPT OR BECOME EXTINCT at the General Chat section of the torrevieja.co.uk forum. imyaman Posted: Sep 25, 2007 7:34 am Recently, I saw a discussion prog on TV, relating so called global warming to consumption. Thats the fart of a cow contained more CO2 than your cars emission for one day not to mention all nuclear explosions & wat effect they've had etc. That these new criteria were being put down to consumption by an ever increasing population world wide demanding more from a finite resourse, there was something that came to mind viz our animal kingdom. That is survival. Races, species, plants etc all become extinct if they dont adapt & have new species or survival of those that can adapt to new environmental conditions. If this were the case, why get involved in other countries problems who have failed to adapt? Should we be sending missionaries etc or leavce to their

On May 31st 2007, this Guardian blog went up - The science of belief by Inayat Bunglawala Believers and scientists have moved on: now the debate has turned to an exploration of how faith and science can be compatible with each other . It continues ... Bill Clinton spoke ... concerning... decoding of the human genome: "... more than just an epoch-making triumph of science and reason... when Galileo discovered he could use... mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt... that he had learned the language in which God created the universe. Today we are learning the language in which God created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God's most divine and sacred gift." But was Clinton wrong... to refer to God?... Francis S Collins - who headed the Human Genome Project... believes... Clinton was right. In The Language of God , Collins seeks to reconcile the findings of science with fait

V On May 18th 2007 I, at long last, received in the mail from Dr Roderick Main a copy of his new book, Revelations of Chance , which is subtitled Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience . (See Entry 192). An accompanying card was dated May 1st - Here it is at last! The discussions of your coincidences occupy a large part of the whole - so thanks again for making them available to me... On May 23rd 2007 I e mailed Roderick that his book had arrived "... with attendant coincidences", and, in response to his inquiry, outlined them - "... there were two involving people reading my book Coincidences and my name. The first, outlined here by GM Simon Williams was sent to me at the Internet Chess Club where my handle is Parsifal  - Psycho-Cowboy ( 06.17 16 May -07 EDT ) was reaing your book on the train looked up and was passing "J Plaskett roofing and scaffolding in London" ... I read that on May 18th (possibly the 17th). Later Williams said that it was either prec