So I got in trouble

[Angrboda]

One of the most profound examples of this was a preacher/ministry was teaching apart of a long series in the OT, and that day i asked God a question and the message that was aired directly spoke to my problem. It has nothing to do with the series they were on, and the next day they said the message was mislabled.. I know what a coincidence is. coincidence is a one or two time thing. i get 5 to 10 of these things aday.

Did you compare that to the number of times you were thinking of a problem and didn't receive an answer?

No you didn't. Because you're not smart enough to realize that counting the hits alone is a worthless procedure. That's confirmation bias, and you're showing exactly why it's not reliable.

You've counted the hits, but you didn't count the misses; that means you skewed the results to the positive, not because they in fact are positive, but purely as a side effect of your method of counting.

That's confirmation bias. The God isn't in the "coincidences." The God is in the person who isn't smart enough to count both the hits and misses, which is you.

You created the effect of impressive hits by only counting the hits. You created your own God out of the nothing of random events.

(This is also a form of apophenia, of seeing meaningful patterns where none is present. People who are schizotypal, one trait of which is being fantasy prone, are uniquely vulnerable to this phenomena. So someone who is fantasy prone will likely see these "connections" more readily than one who is not. But note the important point here that nothing in the person's life is different, there are just as many patterns to be seen in the schizotypal person's world as in the world of others; the difference is in the person themselves being prone to make this mistake more readily. So, if one applies this to you, it isn't that an unusual presence of God is causing more of these events in your life, it's not; the difference is in your mind's "readiness" to see what isn't there. On a personal note, when I'm hypomanic my mind is in a sense "smarter" and I am able to see connections between things that I ordinarily wouldn't see. I can create puns and word play involving these connections that I normally would not. Is this a sign that God is more present during my hypomania, or that my mind sees more patterns when I'm hypomanic? Surely even you can understand that the difference which causes me to see more patterns during hypomania is all in me, not in the patterns themselves. Do you believe something special is happening "in the world" that I am able to see more patterns when hypomanic? Tell me you're not dumb enough to think that?)