Is coincidence just that?

What about déjà vu?

If you say "I don't believe in it", then how do you explain an instant dislike of a person on meeting without ever having spoken to them before?

There are things for which I don't have explanations, but that doesn't make me invent some ridiculous explanation, I just say "I don't know" instead of saying "yes I know it's the dead people soul... blah, blah, blah"

As for disliking somebody instantly what's so strange about it? It's all in the brain... nothing extraordinary.

*grin*

I will just leave it at the grin

i believe there is a reason for everything...which means also, that i do not believe in coincidences, as a rule. if i keep running into a person, thing or circumstance that is outside my average experience, i think there is a meaning in it.
i try to be somewhat balanced about it though...i'm not thinking that there's a big meaning to finding a penny in the driveway...and another outside the doctor's office...and another in front of the grocer's...and wow, another one outside my mum's house! what could it mean? *gasp*

i do happen to be one of those people who finds it strange to dislike someone else immediately. or it least i did. my grammy and mum influenced me to like and trust people until i had a reason not to and for years, whenever i disliked someone instantly, i would wonder what is wrong with me and think that i was mean or prejudiced somehow. many, many, many painful lessons later, i've learned from experience and hindsight that there was a reason for that feeling and that i'd have been better off paying attention to that warning, instead of looking inward and wondering what was wrong with me. it wasn't about what was wrong with me, it was about what was wrong with them! when i get that feeling now, i listen to it! i don't care if i can slap a label on the feeling, that isn't what's important.

I also believe things happen for a reason.
Though not guided, you create your own learning path in (this) life by the choices you make and coming from that you meet certain situations/people etc.

I have a lot of deja vu's, when you know what someone will say next, or a strong feeling this has happened before.
Very strange.
I believe in reincarnation untill you have learned all your lifelessons so to speak.
Maybe that has something to do with it, having been in a simular situation "before" (not necessarily exactly the same).

I also experienced that deep feeling of "it is like I have know you for ages...." when in this reality I only just met the person.
Never had it the other way around though, that someone triggers a very negative feeling in me as if I've know that person before and I should be aware.

Eresh.. were you my sister in a past life or something?? (read below why I think this)

I agree with you

Same here!

YES I believe this strongly and I feel that I KNOW that is why my mother passed on right after a big one.

Hmm yeah.. you're on to something there.

Yep!

Ah I have. More than once actually. I listen to it religiously these days!