on many occasions, my wife will say something directly after i have that same thought. i would just consider it coincidence if i hadn’t read xenocide, but could our philotes actually be connected...if philotes even existed? i told her jokingly we should try telepathy sometime. she thinks im crazy.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
So far, philotes themselves are pretty much mythical. But there's no evidence against such a belief, if you find it sensible and/or comforting; certainly, particles do seem to relate to each other at a quantum level.
Posted by Fleche (Member # 7089) on :
While, as Tom said above, there's no evidence for philotic twinning per se, there are a number of other non-coincidental explanations from other sources:
Hinduism or Buddhism might explain it as some sort of past life business.
Certain existential, post-modern and other philosophers (perhaps Buddhists, too; I'm not sure) might hold that everything is connected, but in a way we might not necessarily be able to see. Thus, you and your wife could be seen as connected in some metaphysical manner.
Science would say that you've simply been around each other so long you've begun to think like each other, or that you were attracted to each other because you think along similar lines, or some combination of the two. Not as cool as the others, but Occam's Razor tends to do that.
I also vaguely recall something about photons and quantam physics that made me think of philotes and such, but I can't remember anything specific.
Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :
I've heard a radio commercial about overseas adoption. The idea is that in China, when two people are destined to be part of each other's lives, they are connected by an invisible thread. I have to admit, I thought of the Ender books when I heard it.
Posted by jjmelberg (Member # 7099) on :
Speaking of Buddhism, what about all those monks and chinese dudes that sit around and medidate. Don't they communicate with each other just by thinking? Maybe that would be considered more of a spiritual thing rather than a physical connection?
Posted by Goldenstar (Member # 6990) on :
if you've read homecoming you know that nothing is ever a coincedence and that a coicedence is just what we say when we dotn know what happned and we arent going to find out
Posted by jjmelberg (Member # 7099) on :
is it ok if i dont always believe something happnes for a reason? what does that have to do with philotes?
Posted by Jason Foote (Member # 7111) on :
oops opposites attract unlike particles. then a new universe is born... when two branes connect.
super symmetry.
strings m theory..... ... .,.,., ., .,.,., ,..,,
Posted by Aequitas (Member # 7159) on :
well it is common knowledge that everything is made up of the same type of particles. so maybe knowing what your wife if going to say (in a sense) could be because you two were actually meant to be and you were made to be connected in a sense.
says the man who has no god
Posted by ArCHeR (Member # 6616) on :
Use the force luke.
Posted by jjmelberg (Member # 7099) on :
exactly
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
quote: i told her jokingly we should try telepathy sometime. she thinks im crazy.
Whoa! You did it!! It works!!!
Posted by jjmelberg (Member # 7099) on :