u/humanoid_42

I'm very used to synchronicities, they happen all throughout the day for me, but this one that happened just a few minutes ago truly takes the cake. I'm sitting at my desk playing a puzzle game on Xbox when my phone rings. My phone rarely rings these days and I get very few spam calls now, so if I don't recognize a number I'll sometimes answer it. The first thing I notice is that the area code and first 3 numbers is identical to my number, I don't want to dox myself here, so I'll just say it's a repeating pattern that inverts (example 101-010). Not a common number, and I've only seen it with my own, so I answer it curious as to who is calling from a number so similar to my own. I say "Hello" and the person says "Hello" so I say "how can I help you" and he says "how can I help you." Now I'm speechless for a moment because I'm not sure if someone is prank calling me.

I should mention here that the sound of the man's voice is immediately familiar. Not that I know this person personally, but he sounds EXACTLY like a recent guest on a Joe Rogan podcast I had been listening to for the past couple hours while working. So the voice is still fresh in my mind. The guest is a physicist and researcher of consciousness, which are 2 things I'm deeply interested in and so was actively listening to the interview.

Back to the phone call. We talk for a couple more minutes, while we try to figure out why the other person called. Both of our phones rang without either of us initiating a call. This man was 100% sincere and I could tell was not making his part of the story up. He claimed that I called him, absolutely perplexed when I explained that I haven't touched my phone in almost an hour, and that he must have called me. He said he normally doesn't answer his phone for numbers he doesn't recognize because he gets several spam calls a day, and was genuinely wondering why I "called" him.

I thought to myself wow this is a level above my usually helping of synchronicities and figured I tell him he sounds just like someone I had been listening to on a podcast today, he then let out the heartfelt chuckle and explained that he is 90 years old and it was refreshing to hear from someone that wasn't a spam caller. Neither of us really knew what to make of it.

Worth noting that I paused the 2:47:02 long podcast at 1:33:55, which is around the same time the guest was really going deep into explaining to Joe about simulation theory.

It's episode #2541 featuring Thomas Campbell if anyone is interested.

TLDR: something unexplainable orchestrated a phone call between 2 strangers by ringing both phones at the same time. The voice on the other end was identical to the voice of a consciousness reseacher one of the parties (myself) had been listening to while working.

I have a $916 debt in collections for an ambulance ride from a few years ago. It's the only thing currently holding my credit score back. I'm finally in a position to satisfy the debt. My question is how can I be sure I'm contacting the legitimate agency that is currently holding the debt?

I text messages every few months from what seems to be the debt collector, but I've read somewhere never respond or use the links in a text message. I know there's a LOT of scammers out there these days. It's the only reason I'm hesitant on sending a payment anywhere. I looked up the info on my credit report and the contact info is different there than it is on the BBB site. Which number should I call first and how do I verify that it's the correct place to send the money?

I really want to avoid any issues that would result in me sending this payment more than once. I read somewhere to send a hand written letter to the address on the BBB site and ask for some form of proof of the debt. Even then I found more than one address. Is this the best way or is there a simpler way?

Should I stop overthinking this and just call the number in the credit report next to the debt?

Thanks

This movie from 1969 is a perfect metaphor for reality being a simulation. It's wild to think that someone thought of and created this before computers were powerful enough to run even basic simulations. I think this just goes to show that the concept pre-dates modern thinking, and is in a way its own kind of proof that simulation theory exists outside the construct of time.