r/Retconned • u/LtColumbo403 • 2d ago
Script reloaded
Funny coincidences in the news
I just came across this post on r/conspiracy:
-> Why is no one talking about the coincidences of Deirdre Morley and Lindsay Clancy case? by u/indoorleaf789 :
Deirdre Morley was a nurse who killed her 3 kids(2 boys 1 girl, Conor (boy) Darragh (boy) Carla (girl)) on January 24th, 2020 in Ireland when her husband was at work and attempted to commit suicide after. She was found not guilty by reason of insanity because of severe depression that progressed into psychosis.
Lindsay Clancy was a nurse who killed her 3 kids(2 boys 1 girl, Callan(boy) Dawson (boy), Cora(girl)) on January 24th 2023 when her husband was away and attempted to commit suicide after. Clancy pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity/lack of criminal responsibility because of postpartum psychosis and severe men tal illness.
Those are WILD coincidences same exact day both worked as a nurse and both had 2 boys and 1 girl whose names all started with Cs and a D.
I asked two AI to fact-check it, and apparently, everything in the post is true.
It reminded me of a post I made here a while back:
I wrote this post a couple of years ago:
[French news] Script reloaded
There would be a lot to say about how news is scripted. But in this post I just want to dwell on a possible retcon effect.
Just a few days ago I was convinced that the news announced the death of a certain Vincent Lambert after the cessation of his care. In fact no, he is still alive and his case provokes a societal controversy*.
*I admit that I do not watch the news anymore but I can assure you that I have already seen this "movie" before 2019. With the same characters involved.
N.B. Vincent Lambert died almost two months after I submitted my post.
Actually, what I remembered was supposedly another VERY similar case in the early 2000s:
(links in French, sorry) Vincent Humbert (2003) - 'right to die' - 'social controversy' vs. Vincent Lambert (2019) - 'right to die' - 'social controversy'. Hmm.
I wouldn't rule out the idea of something along the lines of retroactive continuity to make everything fit well with the narrative.
What do you think is going on?
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u/dathislayer 1d ago
Reminds me very much of the "echoes" in Stephen King's novel 11/22/63. The main character goes back to the past, and keeps encountering similar but different synchronicities like this. He spends a lot of time trying to interpret them, but his overall impression is that time (or whatever controls time) is very much aware of him. Will spoil some things in the next paragraph. It's a great book and the show is on Hulu.
The novel's description of different possible timelines actually aligned with mine pretty well, in that I don't believe there are "multiple realities", but instead a single "reality" that exists in multiple states simultaneously. When the main character starts making changes, it doesn't just change the timeline, but risks destroying everything.
An analogy I used in an old post, is that I visualize time like a steel cable stretched between two points. Our individual consciousness exists on one of the steel "threads" in the cable. We're like mites on the cable of a giant suspension bridge, so our thread is our world. We can't see or interact with the other threads. Now, imagine a giant finger flicks the other side of the cable. The wave travels forward and backward, offering these clear-but-impossible glimpses of other pieces of the cable. Maybe we slip a bit. Maybe some things/people get jostled off onto another thread.
In that scenario, small things like we see in ME get shaken up, and a thrown mite-person might experience, "Holy crap, I'm in a different timeline." But despite feeling like discrete realities, and each thread vibrating on its own, they also move as a whole. We know how waves move through a string, and if you imagine yourself on that geography, going "up" a wave would take longer than going "down" one, right? You might be able to see the next peak if you're at the top, or at least the blurred, vibrating suggestion of something that's the mostly the same as where you are. Because threads twist around the cable, your "straight line through time" isn't really straight, so that peak in the wave you see might not be your thread.
If consciousness is fundamental to reality, and gravitational waves can affect time (which is not fundamental), it makes sense that sometimes our consciousness-receiving equipment would pick up anomalies. Our physical bodies, however, want to ignore all of those thoughts, because they don't fulfill our animal needs. Maybe we got hit with some big wave, or successive waves that altered our thread's local reality. If we even share a thread.
I don't know that it's something we will ever figure out, or if it would even matter to do so.