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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 63476 01-17-2012 05:15 AM

Funny how small things and and seemingly insignificant decisions can sometimes make a big difference in saving lives, averting danger (or not), etc. Like unplanned stops, turning right instead of left, what you have in your pocket, etc.

I read today the article below with some examples of this type thing that saved the lives of famous people or likely changed the outcome of a war.

For Roger Ebert, it was the decision to listen to a song in his hospital room after his discharge instead of leaving right away. For Senator Daniel Inouye it was 2 silver dollars in his shirt pocket that stopped a bullet in WWII. For the Thirty Years War it was horse s**t. For Apollo 11 crew it was a non-metallic felt tip pen after Aldrin stepped on and destoyed the lever needed to get them home. For Ronald Regan, a movie he made influenced a young boy to grow up to be the secret service agent that pushed him into the safety of the limo when Hinkley shot at him.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19627_5-m...lives.html

Anyone have experiences like this happen to you or some you've heard of?

**Full Circle**

Interesting stuff to think about isn't it?

I don't know if this counts but a few years ago when I was living in another city I was on my way here to visit my mom. As soon as I got on the highway a voice in my head said "get off".

I ignored it for a bit, but it kept getting stronger each time I went past a road that would take me off it. I started to get nervous wondering what the hell was going on. lol

It got so bad "Get off!" Get off! GET OFF! that I couldn't ignore it any more and took the last road I could to get off. (within 5 minutes of getting on the hwy). As soon as I did. It stopped.

I still don't know what to make of it to this day. It was over-powering. I checked to see if there were any accidents the next day but there wasn't. Who's to say if there might have been had I stayed on it though. I will never know, and I will never forget that feeling and that voice.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 63476 01-17-2012 05:47 AM

Full Circle Wrote:

Interesting stuff to think about isn't it?

I don't know if this counts but a few years ago when I was living in another city I was on my way here to visit my mom. As soon as I got on the highway a voice in my head said "get off".

I ignored it for a bit, but it kept getting stronger each time I went past a road that would take me off it. I started to get nervous wondering what the hell was going on. lol

It got so bad "Get off!" Get off! GET OFF! that I couldn't ignore it any more and took the last road I could to get off. (within 5 minutes of getting on the hwy). As soon as I did. It stopped.

I still don't know what to make of it to this day. It was over-powering. I checked to see if there were any accidents the next day but there wasn't. Who's to say if there might have been had I stayed on it though. I will never know, and I will never forget that feeling and that voice.

Yes so true, very interesting to think about.

Sounds like you were being warned. Mysterious.

**The Ghost of David Carradine**

A bread crumb dropped by a pigeon on the super-collider in Europe...

**ThreshingSword**

This reminds me of that movie "Sliding Doors." Have you seen it, OP? I highly recommend it if not. What a difference a few seconds make.

**ThreshingSword**

Full Circle Wrote:

Interesting stuff to think about isn't it?

I don't know if this counts but a few years ago when I was living in another city I was on my way here to visit my mom. As soon as I got on the highway a voice in my head said "get off".

I ignored it for a bit, but it kept getting stronger each time I went past a road that would take me off it. I started to get nervous wondering what the hell was going on. lol

It got so bad "Get off!" Get off! GET OFF! that I couldn't ignore it any more and took the last road I could to get off. (within 5 minutes of getting on the hwy). As soon as I did. It stopped.

I still don't know what to make of it to this day. It was over-powering. I checked to see if there were any accidents the next day but there wasn't. Who's to say if there might have been had I stayed on it though. I will never know, and I will never forget that feeling and that voice.

I love stories like that. You probably won't know the reason till you cross over. Then It will be explained to you. Good thing you listened!

**happily married** lop guest User ID: 48475 01-17-2012 05:57 AM

I once blocked someone on my facebook and averted an old flame thinking he could seduce me. does that count? (actually I've blocked a few old flames...)

Heartflowers

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 63476 01-17-2012 06:06 AM

ThreshingSword Wrote:

This reminds me of that movie "Sliding Doors." Have you seen it, OP? I highly recommend it if not. What a difference a few seconds make.

Yes, thanks for the suggestion ThreshingSword. I did see that movie back when it came out and loved it. Makes you wonder. Heartflowers

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 63476 01-17-2012 06:10 AM

happily married Wrote:

I once blocked someone on my facebook and averted an old flame thinking he could seduce me. does that count? (actually I've blocked a few old flames...)

Yes it counts. You stopped all kinds of hurt and broken hearts. Heartflowers

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 63476 01-17-2012 06:12 AM

David Wrote:

A bread crumb dropped by a pigeon on the super-collider in Europe...

David, what did the bread crumb change? Please forgive my ignorance.

**account deleted** lop guest User ID: 48475 01-17-2012 06:20 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

happily married Wrote:
I once blocked someone on my facebook and averted an old flame thinking he could seduce me. does that count? (actually I've blocked a few old flames...)

Yes it counts. You stopped all kinds of hurt and broken hearts.

I feel great about now too - a total sense of control and serenity. At first I was flattered and liked the thought of the attention, but after looking back, I realize how much of a total loser that would have made me and how once you act on those types of fleeting emotions from past love interests, its a never-ending revolving door of pain. And for what? If you are in love with your spouse/significant other, how could you ever hurt them like that? I sleep well at night too, no guilty conscious keeping me up Heartflowers

**account deleted** lop guest User ID: 48475 01-17-2012 06:21 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

David Wrote:
A bread crumb dropped by a pigeon on the super-collider in Europe...

David, what did the bread crumb change? Please forgive my ignorance.

it echoed in the chamber...

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 63476 01-17-2012 06:50 AM

chief daisy strongbow Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
happily married Wrote:
I once blocked someone on my facebook and averted an old flame thinking he could seduce me. does that count? (actually I've blocked a few old flames...)

Yes it counts. You stopped all kinds of hurt and broken hearts.

I feel great about now too - a total sense of control and serenity. At first I was flattered and liked the thought of the attention, but after looking back, I realize how much of a total loser that would have made me and how once you act on those types of fleeting emotions from past love interests, its a never-ending revolving door of pain. And for what? If you are in love with your spouse/significant other, how could you ever hurt them like that? I sleep well at night too, no guilty conscious keeping me up

Some people do not have this kind of foresight, maturity, wisdom and love even when old. Their ego takes over and they can only think about feeding that. Self respect is precious. Best wishes to you Heartflowers

**account deleted** lop guest User ID: 48475 01-17-2012 07:01 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

chief daisy strongbow Wrote:
LoP Guest Wrote:
Yes it counts. You stopped all kinds of hurt and broken hearts.

I feel great about now too - a total sense of control and serenity. At first I was flattered and liked the thought of the attention, but after looking back, I realize how much of a total loser that would have made me and how once you act on those types of fleeting emotions from past love interests, its a never-ending revolving door of pain. And for what? If you are in love with your spouse/significant other, how could you ever hurt them like that? I sleep well at night too, no guilty conscious keeping me up

Some people do not have this kind of foresight, maturity, wisdom and love even when old. Their ego takes over and they can only think about feeding that. Self respect is precious. Best wishes to you

thank you

I had to check myself and my ego... the love and adoration of one man is all I need or desire - and I get that love from my husband.

Seen one too many friends end their marriages after getting involved in those 'fleeting' old flames that arrive in their facebook world (or at the office), only to find themselves single again after the 'affair' fizzled out and the flame found another 'old flame' in that pit called facebook. Now they are divorced or separated and heart-broken with a lot of broken pieces to put back together. No thank you. I don't need my ego anyway, it gets in the way of where I'm destined to be Heartflowers

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 63476 01-17-2012 07:22 AM

ThreshingSword Wrote:

This reminds me of that movie "Sliding Doors." Have you seen it, OP? I highly recommend it if not. What a difference a few seconds make.

Fittingly, Gweneth Paltrow, who starred in that movie, was involved in a real life chance meeting with and a total stranger, Lara Lundstrom Clarke, on Sept 11 2001 and probably saved Clarke. Both had been exercising that morning, Paltrow taking in an early yoga class, Clarke rollerblading along the Hudson. While Clarke was crossing in the middle of a West Village street in New York, Paltrow was driving in her silver Mercedes SUV. Suddenly, Clarke looked over and realized who was in the SUV. Clarke and Paltrow each stopped and the two of them exchanged greetings. This small delay made Clarke miss her train to the World Trade Center building 2, where she worked on the 77th floor. At the time Clarke recalled being excited to tell her coworkers who she had just seen. She caught the next train and stepped off the platform just in time to see the first plane fly into Tower One. “If I had made that train I would have been at my desk on the 77th floor of 2 World Trade Center,” Clarke said.