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88 No. 88
Freaky shit, /psy/.

When I was a teenager I spent a huge amount of time on the web. I had 3 friends I was in close contact with for years on the net, from I'd say 14-18. I hated school and just stopped showing up in the 9th grade.

I pulled my shit together though and went back ang got a Bachelor in Accounting and an MBA. Passed the CPA exam, but realized the accounting industry sucks, and dropped out of that. Now I am becoming a Ph.D. in Technology.

Fast forward to tonight. I got nostalgic listening to some Mellon Collie, and decided to facebook/linkedin stalk Melissa, Mike and David. I found that Melissa is a CPA, Mike is an engineer and David is a Professor. I honestly don't know what to say about this weird coincidence. Are our lives all planned out for us before were born as part of the grand equation?

Athiest, but open minded, after this shit really open minded.

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I'll take a stab at this. People of like interests and mindsets tend to seek each other out and stick together. Social Networks, in fact, capitalize on this by suggesting people to you that your profile and trackable activities indicate you would be interested in. If anything what you described probably happens more often now than when you were 14-18 because various online services want you to keep running into like-minded people.

Your coincidence is extreme, but not supernatural. Just my take, of course.
>> No. 90
>>89

I am inclined to agree with you, but it isn't like we ever talked about accounting, engineering or anything like that. Basically just wrestling, rock music, sex and how much we hated other kids our age.
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>>90
That might matter, but it might not. You were friends with these people because you were operating on the same wavelength. Also, you mentioned you were close in spite of the fact that you communicated over the Internet. The four of you had a strong bond with each other, and therefore influenced each other's psychology and perception of the world.

There's a book called "The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expressions". Somewhere in the middle of the book it explains that people who live together for a long time develop similar facial features and expression styles. This is because given a strong enough bond and enough time, people bleed into each other. If you were all really close, then it's possible you developed similar interests without expressing them directly.

Keeping in mind, of course, that I'm sort of playing armchair shrink for all of the this. I'm sure someone with a PhD would be able to point to an explanation with case studies.
>> No. 92
Interesting post, but not /psy/. OP is a fagg0t for posting on the wrong board.

>>>/id/
>> No. 112
>>91
Completely unrelated but I wish my house looked like that
>> No. 113
>>112
Fuck yeah. I made it my bg when whoever answered my OP post with it.


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