> On Jan 22, 11:48 am, "Miller"
chartermi.net> wrote:>>> 24 hours in a day . . . 24 cans in a case . . . coinkydink? I think
>>> not!
>>
>>> "* In 1975, a man riding a moped in Bermuda was accidentally struck
>>> and killed by a taxi. One year later, the man's brother, riding the
>>> very same moped, was killed in the very same way by the very same taxi
>>> driven by the very same driver -- and carrying the very same
>>> passenger.
>>
>>> * Twin brothers Jim Lewis and Jim Springer were separated at birth
>>> and adopted by different families. Unknown to each other, both were
>>> named James, both owned a dog named Toy, both married women named
>>> Linda, both had a son they names James Alan, and both eventually
>>> divorced and got remarried to a woman named Betty.
>>
>>> * Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, and John
>>> Adams helped to edit and hone it. The Continental Congress approved
>>> the document on July 4, 1776. Both Jefferson and Adams died on July 4,
>>> 1826 -- exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of
>>> Independence.
>>
>>> * A German mother who photographed her infant son in 1914 left the
>>> film to be developed at a store in Strasbourg, but was unable to
>>> collect the film picture when World War I broke out. Two years later
>>> she bought a film plate in Frankfurt, over 100 miles away, and took a
>>> picture of her newborn daughter -- only to find, when developed, the
>>> picture of her daughter superimposed on the earlier picture of her
>>> son. The original film, never developed, had been mistakenly labeled
>>> as unused and resold.
>>
>>> * In 1858, Robert Fallon was shot dead by fellow poker players who
>>> accused him of cheating to win a $600 pot. None of the other players
>>> were willing to take the now unlucky $600, so they found a new player
>>> to take Fallon's place, who turned the $600 into $2,200 in winnings.
>>> At that point, the police arrived and demanded that the original $600
>>> be given to Fallon's next of kin -- only to discover that the new
>>> player was Fallon's son, who had not seen his father in seven years.
>>
>>> * In the 19th century, the famous horror writer Egdar Allan Poe
>>> wrote a book called 'The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.' It was about
>>> four survivors of a shipwreck who were in an open boat for many days
>>> before they decided to kill and eat the cabin boy whose name was
>>> Richard Parker. Some years later, in 1884, the yawl, Mignonette,
>>> foundered, with only four survivors, who were in an open boat for many
>>> days. Eventually the three senior members of the crew killed and ate
>>> the cabin boy. The name of the cabin boy was Richard Parker.
>>
>>> * In 1930s Detroit, a man named Joseph Figlock was to become an
>>> amazing figure in a young (and, apparently, incredibly careless)
>>> mother's life. As Figlock was walking down the street, the mother's
>>> baby fell from a high window onto Figlock. The baby's fall was broken
>>> and Figlock and the baby were unharmed. A year later, the same baby
>>> fell from the same window, again falling onto Mr. Figlock as he was
>>> passing beneath. Once again, both of them survived the event.
>>
>>> * In 1973, actor Anthony Hopkins agreed to appear in "The Girl
>>> From Petrovka", based on a novel by George Feifer. Unable to find a
>>> copy of the book anywhere in London, Hopkins was surprised to discover
>>> one lying on a bench in a train station. It turned out to be George
>>> Feifer's own annotated (personal) copy, which Feifer had lent to a
>>> friend, and which had been stolen from his friend's car.
>>
>>> * In Monza, Italy, King Umberto I went to a small restaurant for
>>> dinner, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, General Emilio Ponzia-Vaglia.
>>> When the owner took King Umberto's order, the King noticed that he and
>>> the restaurant owner were virtual doubles, in face and in build. Both
>>> men began discussing the striking resemblance between each other and
>>> found many more similarities.
>>
>>> 1. Both men were born on the same day, of the same year (March 14,
>>> 1844).
>>> 2. Both men had been born in the same town.
>>> 3. Both men married a woman with same name, Margherita.
>>> 4. The restaurateur opened his restaurant on the same day that King
>>> Umberto was crowned King of Italy.
>>> 5. On the 29th July 1900, King Umberto was informed that the
>>> restaurateur had died that day in a mysterious shooting accident, and
>>> as he expressed his regret, an anarchist in the crowd then
>>> assassinated him.
>>
>>> * While American novelist Anne Parrish was browsing bookstores in
>>> Paris in the 1920s, she came upon a book that was one of her childhood
>>> favorites -- Jack Frost and Other Stories. She picked up the old book
>>> and showed it to her husband, telling him of the book she fondly
>>> remembered as a child. Her husband took the book, opened it, and on
>>> the flyleaf found the inscription: "Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street,
>>> Colorado Springs." It was Anne's very own book."
>>
>> But there are over 6 billion people in the world now, and billions more
>> have
>> lived and died in the past. I do not think it at all unlikely that some
>> of
>> these juxtapositions should occur. In fact, if there were no
>> coincidences
>> at all, then I would definitely begin to wonder is something was up!
>>
>> I tend to think of coincidence as a consciousness of an unusual
>> relationship. Humans are good at noting patterns, and it seems we cannot
>> help but be a little agog at those published occurrences such as you have
>> cited in this thread.
>>
>> Regards, Scott
>
> It's up to us to assign meaning to things. Those that view the world
> as hostile and meaningless tend to see new events in that light. Those
> that see order and intelligence in the universe tend to see things as
> having a purpose.
True, but the ones who "havnt yet developed the eyes top see" get bombarded
with an excess evidence , that it becomes very painful.
BOfL
