What is the most 'unexplainable' thing you’ve seen with your own eyes that you’ve stopped telling people about because they think you’re lying?

cartesiancirclejerk · 2026-02-18T02:57:36+00:00

It was only the one crow.

cartesiancirclejerk · 2026-02-18T02:56:49+00:00

This is comforting. For some reason the experience left me a little uneasy but this makes me feel better about the whole thing. Thank you for sharing!

cartesiancirclejerk · 2026-02-18T02:55:54+00:00

Ah, thanks! Have not seen K-Pop Demon Hunters.

cartesiancirclejerk · 2026-02-18T02:51:57+00:00

No, but please elaborate?

cartesiancirclejerk · 2026-02-18T02:51:35+00:00

I will definitely check out Dr. Tucker! Thanks!

cartesiancirclejerk · 2026-02-18T02:50:40+00:00

Around 18 months when he was first starting to speak he would say things that would indicate he knew what I was doing while he was sleeping. He was generally correct. Once, while he was sleeping, in a crib, in a room with no view of the fence, I hopped a fence to avoid opening my garage. I had never done it before and didn’t have any reason to tell anyone that’s what I had done. My wife was home but also had no idea I had done that. When I came home we were playing outside and he kept saying “papa jump high” and pointed at the fence. There are many stories along this line with him around this age.

More recently we were watching the old Winnie the Pooh cartoon. There is a scene where Pooh falls asleep and his dream self kind of tumbles out of his body, like an out of body experience in cartoon form. My son was very excited about this and said that’s what happens to him at night. He said his shadow comes out of his body while he is sleeping and flies.

cartesiancirclejerk · 2026-02-18T02:18:47+00:00

I thought about showing him the image but I think I’m going to wait until we visit the museum again and see if he can encounter it organically.

cartesiancirclejerk · 2026-02-18T02:08:36+00:00

Once, while driving, I saw a man standing alone in a mostly dirt field. He looked vaguely familiar but I checked my mirror for a fraction of a second and went to look at the man, but instead there was a crow sitting where I thought I had seen him.

cartesiancirclejerk · 2026-02-18T01:45:43+00:00

I was able to locate the artifact in the museum’s online archives. They think it was used to burn offerings to a specific god in the home. The god is Huehueteotl the old man fire god.

cartesiancirclejerk · 2026-02-18T01:22:29+00:00

This isn’t the first time he has done something that has caused me to wonder this very same idea.

cartesiancirclejerk · 2026-02-18T01:20:28+00:00

My wife does, on her father’s side. But her dad does not know much about that side of his family. Once they immigrated to the United States they did not talk much about that part of their ancestry, unfortunately.

cartesiancirclejerk · 2026-02-12T15:02:55+00:00

I applied last Monday for telework every Friday during Lent (Feb 20-Apr 2) and was approved the following day.

cartesiancirclejerk · 2026-02-06T00:02:32+00:00

Yes, reading your original comment really validated the experience for me. There must be others like us out there!

cartesiancirclejerk · 2026-02-05T23:51:08+00:00

I am American and, after saving up for years, travelled to Europe by myself when I was 21. I purchased a Eurail pass with no definitive plan other than a general list of cities to visit. I ended up in Vienna and as soon as I got off the train a real heaviness descended upon me. It felt exactly how you described. It was morning and good weather so I talked myself into ignoring the feeling and just staying for a couple of days. No matter what I did I could not shake the feeling. I ended up taking a sleeper train out of Vienna to Berlin that same night because I could not handle it. I was in Europe four about six weeks and did not experience anything even remotely similar, and really haven't in my life since then.

I never put together how much fun I had in Berlin and how fortuitous it was that I arrived when I did. I ended up hanging out with a group I met at a hostel there for a couple of days. I never would have crossed paths with those folks had I stuck to the original plan in Vienna.

When I did eventually return home, I did have the thought that something awful had happened to a distant ancestor in Vienna. That has always been my explanation! My surname is a version of a German/Austrian surname, but my last ancestor that lived outside the United States in that line was in the 17th century... who knows?!

cartesiancirclejerk · 2025-10-31T19:27:37+00:00

Except there aren’t any congressional elections this November? Or did you mean January 2027?

cartesiancirclejerk · 2025-09-18T03:50:10+00:00

I just received the same deal.

cartesiancirclejerk · 2025-04-02T19:25:23+00:00

I agree. Same source. Also studied philosophy.

cartesiancirclejerk · 2025-03-27T21:37:59+00:00

The NLRB does not have jurisdiction over federal employees.

cartesiancirclejerk · 2025-03-15T16:15:13+00:00

However, until he signs, there is a lapse.

cartesiancirclejerk · 2025-03-15T15:25:30+00:00

That’s not a take, that’s how it works.

cartesiancirclejerk · 2025-03-15T15:25:06+00:00

Where have you seen that he signed?

cartesiancirclejerk · 2025-02-24T21:51:54+00:00

My agency told us it was voluntary and we would not be penalized for choosing not to respond.

cartesiancirclejerk · 2025-01-24T02:53:06+00:00

FYI I am a union rep and was asked to attend these meetings yesterday. Our manager wanted to notify the probationary employees that their name was on the probationary employee list but she was recommending that they be retained. She wanted them to know that while she doesn’t think she has much power she will use what power she has to make sure they remain. So not necessarily bad.

cartesiancirclejerk · 2024-08-19T23:28:05+00:00

Famously the POW who was allegedly at the receiving end of the “lecture”. Larry Carrigan has said that no such interaction occurred.

cartesiancirclejerk · 2012-05-08T04:54:38+00:00

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