Hi Fernando,
"After an unusual series of many "co-incidences" on a particular Sunday, my friend and I ended up at the door of someone who had been praying to God for someone to be sent to him, and who was expecting us." The first obvious thing is you and your friend were at the house of a random stranger was because you were at the time one of Jehovah's Witnesses and going to door-to-door is a feature of that faith. The likely reason the person was praying is most people on earth are religious and believe prayer can be heard and acted upon by a superbeing most people call God (or Christ, Alla, Shiva, Mother Mary, etc.) Another part of the puzzle is how these two events got connected. Since both are rooted in religious feelings it makes sense a person of faith motivated to preach door-to-door, would be a good audience for the person saying the prayer. The seemingly profound nature of this event would help insure it gets remembered and repeated.
"I am still convinced it was by divine intervention, but cannot understand why a prayer is answered by sending representatives of an apostate organisation."
This strikes me as a possible, even subconsious thought, you may have that Jehovah's Witnesses in some way are connected to a divine work. Even when we can logically process aspects of the faith and label them corrupt, dishonest and evil, there may still be a lingering warmth for some aspects of the faith. Indeed, not everything about the faith was awful, right? Thus part of leaving the faith is trying to arrive at a rational view that encompasses the lying and dishonesty with true acts of human kindness and honest faith towards God we may have also witnessed.
"Also when taking up residence in a foreign country, under very difficult circumstances, I twice ended up "inadvertently" moving in to homes just around the corner from the KH. On one occasion it was about a 15 metre walk from my front door right into my seat in the KH!"
If you moved to a small area, it may be that most houses you could have moved to would be close to the Kingdom Hall. But there may have also been more subtle environmental aspects we might not be consciously aware of. For example, if you were a Witness at the time of this move, it would be natural to ask fellow Witnesses about a possible place to move. If the local Witness you talked to knew of two places one close and another further away, the local Witness might direct you to the closer one. Kingdom Halls also tend to reflect the economic status of nearby Witnesses. Hence as a general rule, Kingdom Halls are more often than not nearby homes where Witnesses would live.
"Have you had similar experiences? How would you interpret these or similar events?"
Actually the opposite. For several years, even going back to the events surrounding my father's death in 1991 I have been trying to keep track of feelings and events that wind up in negative hits. Conversely looking for environmental clues I did not pick up on, but probably should have. So... after I started this I've discovered that when the phone rings, probably about once or twice every two or three months I will have a feeling of dread come over me. Usually assuming my mother in her 80s may have died or have been hospitalized. Of course real events never align, but I tried to keep track of these false hits.
When my father moved to Falkland BC, we stopped in Kamloops and walked a bit in the mall. He was soon out of breath and had to sit down. When he helped me unload, likewise he was soon winded and had to lie down. Two big clues he was having heart issues -- but I totally missed it. Most freaky of all is the day he died, the environment was ripe with clues and I missed them all. Not only had he called me the night before to directly tell me, the doctor wanted to keep him in the hospital because of heart concerns, but when he died the next day, my wife called me at work, and told me that she has some important news but would wait until I got home. She didn't want me driving right after being told of my father's death. Again... nothing, I had no clue and was completely surprised by the news.
In regards to my father, one of the inputs was his constant references to his death. "If I make it till spring..." was one of his refrains. Since he was 49 when I was born and always in poor health, I believe my mind was primed to be dimissive of the latest health issue he was reporting.
In the end we're faced with a stark choice in regards to a interactive superbeing who is undetectable and acts in random ways. If such a being exists, then we can know nothing, not even in principal. What we know we do know, because of our ability to measure and trust that a future measurement will yield the same results for the same dataset. When we live by the principal of "I believe what I can measure" to an extent we must then accept a fair bit of not knowing -- because many things can be hard to measure. This includes an accounting of all the inputs that resulted in your two experiences.
Cheers,
-Randy
