For a long time, I believed the foreshadowing references and connections we see in "predictive programming" were all by human design. Little jokes written into the stories indicating foreknowledge of fake future events. Often with an artistic, symbolic twist.

But something was amiss. The sheer scope and complexity of these references seemed too big for a group of human writers. Could a higher intelligence be involved? AI and supercomputers programmed by humans? Or maybe something like synchronicity creeping into the stories?

I knew from my own life that personal synchronicity was a very real thing. And it often felt as if I was the author of my own syncs. That my focus and attention somehow created them in the moment. Strangely, something similar happened when I investigated suspicious stories.

A big turning point was inspired by a video from @JohnleBon123 on his website http://johnlebon.com . He referenced what most would describe as an example of "predictive programming" in the "Marge vs. the Monorail" episode of The Simpsons. But instead he called it a "sync."

In a moment leading up to a monorail accident, we see a couple of paintings on a wall (separated by purple curtains). One of the Hindenburg disaster and the other showing what looks suspiciously like a smoking WTC Twin Tower. At 0:26 in this video.

Here are some screenshots pointing out the comparison. Quite an eerie bit of foreshadowing considering the episode originally aired in 1993, eight years before 9/11. I looked further into this scene to see if I could find any additional layers of meaning.

The character we see toasting glasses with Kent Brockman in front of the Hindenburg painting is Kyle Darren, star of Springfield Heights, 90210. He's based on actor Luke Perry with the running joke that he's far too old to be playing a teenager.

Incidentally, Perry just happened to allegedly die in real life from a stroke just 25 days before JLB posted his video. In an interesting mirroring of the Kyle Darren gag, every article about Perry's death expressed the sentiment that he was far too young to die of a stroke.

In explaining Perry's stroke, many articles also mentioned the medical use of stents to remove the blood clots caused by them. Looking for sync connections, I searched the words "monorail" and "stroke." What I found #shookmetothedepthsofmymiserablesoul

The very first result was an article from a medical journal written in 2006, the exact midpoint year between the Simpsons episode in 1993 and Perry's death in 2019, entitled "A Potential Pitfall in the Use of the Monorail System for Carotid Stenting." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3354607/

In the last two sentences of the introduction explaining the use of stents in stroke prevention, we are met with a bewildering collection of absurdly precise syncs!

Not only are "monorail systems" mentioned but also "a disaster due to balloon retrieval failure" which more or less describes the Hindenburg event word for word! A large helium balloon that was attempting to dock caught fire in a spectacular disaster.

As if this weren't enough, let's next focus on the authors of the article: E. Pereira and L. Birnbaum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pereira_(surname)

"Many Portuguese immigrants to the United States, especially Massachusetts, chose to Americanize their surname (Pereira) to Perry."

The name also literally means "pear tree" in Portuguese. And in a bizarre twist, the name of the article's co-author, Birnbaum, also means "pear tree!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birnbaum_(surname)

A very "pear-y" pair of authors for this supremely syncy medical case report.

So what exactly is going on here? Is this a set-up? Did someone create a fake medical article to sync up with Luke Perry's appearance in front of the Hindenburg painting in the Simpsons' Monorail episode? Or is it the work of some AI entity programmed to create syncs?

OR, as crazy as it may sound, did my act of investigating these connections somehow manifest this article into reality just for me to find it? Because as far as I know, I'm the only person in the universe has who noticed it. And most likely, ever would!

So WTF is this crazy reality then? I'm open to suggestions, including my being a moronic nutcase who's making a big deal about a random collection of meaningless coincidences.

OK, I hope you were able to follow this overly long megathread and got something out of it.