Ever wonder about coincidences? What are they, why are they, and what do they mean, if anything. Now there is more than one way to look at coincidences, and it all depends on your perspective, your general outlook on life I guess. The average paranoid person does not even believe in coincidences. Nothing is by accident, somebody is behind it, has to be. Them. Ever hear them mention coincidences on the X-Files? Not with out a heavy dose of sarcasm. Everything is a conspiracy. You think that your windshield wipers wore out on their own? Think again Bonzo, somebody is out to get you. So one possible synonym for coincidence is conspiracy... remember that. Of course there are the Christian types who believe coincidence is blasphemy, anything remotely related to a coincidence must be divine intervention. It wasn't a coincidence you stopped to pick up a quarter off the sidewalk just as that safe fell from the 14th floor….it was divine intervention, i.e., predestination. You were destined for that meeting from the 13th second of the big bang. So another synonym for coincidence is blasphemy, or was it predestination, we'll decide later…. (Btw, I always thought predestination was knowing you were going to stop at the bar on the way home from work.) So, where were we? Oh yeah, I suppose there are those that argue coincidences are nothing more than random chance occurrences that human's attribute overblown significance to. You know the type, impossible to convince of any abstract concept, they answer all your rhetorical questions with readers digest quotes. So another synonym could be boring. Then there is what some may call coincidence, but they are really just too spaced out to grasp reality fully. Like, wow, what a coincidence. When there is none. Then there are actually people who study statistics. Now here is a twisted science…... Get a life, it's no coincidence that statisticians are total losers. Never trust anyone who got a B or higher in statistics. They have serious personality flaws, and I can show you the statistics. So another synonym for coincidence is loser. But getting back to the reality of coincidences. Are our lives so circular that we don't see when things sneak up behind us that we knew were there all along? The result of processes so basic we just can't see them until they bite us in the ass. (Synonym….ass-bite). What would really be a coincidence is if I got on a bus, drove 50 hours to South Dakota, got off, walked a random distance, (12-16 miles) in a random straight line closed my eyes and sat down….and there was a chair. Now that would be a coincidence, or a waste of 50 hours and a walk into the unfinished furniture capital of the northwest. So have we made any progress here? No, and it no coincidence that I am a Boring Ass-bite Loser with an Overblown Blasphemy Conspiracy theory.