Jeopardy answer coincidence?

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Zinjanthropos Offline
(Jun 28, 2025 02:10 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: Or something more?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BesQv984Xqg

AI:
Quote: Knowing an answer can be a coincidence, especially when dealing with random events or situations. However, if the knowledge is the result of effort, learning, or a reliable source, it's not a coincidence. Coincidences are generally defined as the unexpected occurrence of related events that appear meaningful but lack a clear causal connection.

Personally I don’t know anything about a great great great aunt of mine.

If someone else not related, viewer or contestant also had the correct answer then is that a coincidence too? I wonder if any correct answer to a question is coincidental because it still has to be learned. I understand there are wild and educated guesses. So maybe or maybe not rule out wild guesses. Perhaps then that does make the coincidence here the blood relation to the subject matter of the answer, that’s it.

What about the actual question?
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Syne Offline
If things are meant to happen, who do you think means them to happen?
Can fate supply meaning, or would it take a consciousness to intend meaning?
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Magical Realist Offline
(Jun 28, 2025 07:59 PM)Syne Wrote: If things are meant to happen, who do you think means them to happen?
Can fate supply meaning, or would it take a consciousness to intend meaning?

Nobody makes or means things to happen. It's just that everything in your life happens FOR you. It is meant only for you. You are the center of your life. It's the "we are all contained in our own private bubbles" part of the mystery.
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Syne Offline
(Jun 28, 2025 08:19 PM)Magical Realist Wrote:
(Jun 28, 2025 07:59 PM)Syne Wrote: If things are meant to happen, who do you think means them to happen?
Can fate supply meaning, or would it take a consciousness to intend meaning?

Nobody makes or means things to happen. It's just that everything in your life happens FOR you. It is meant only for you. You are the center of your life. It's the "we are all contained in our own private bubbles" part of the mystery.

Who or what makes it "meant for you?" Can things be meant without any intentionality?

mean
1. intend to convey, indicate, or refer to (a particular thing or notion); signify.
2. intend (something) to occur or be the case.


Or are you just taking about solipsistic narcissism?
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Magical Realist Offline
"In essence, "meant to be" expresses a belief in a predetermined or suitable outcome, whether that outcome is a result of destiny or a reflection of inherent qualities and intentions."

Meant for you would mean suitable for you. Like your soulmate would be meant for you. It doesn't entail any magic man in the sky making it so.
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Syne Offline
So solipsistic narcissism.
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Magical Realist Offline
(Jun 29, 2025 01:26 AM)Syne Wrote: So solipsistic narcissism.

I've never heard of that. What is the definition?
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Syne Offline
solipsism - the quality of being very self-centered or selfish.
narcissism - a mental health condition in which people have an unreasonably high sense of their own importance
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