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> "Sean" blah.com.au> wrote in message
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>> "Miller" chartermi.net> wrote in message
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>>>> 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."

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>>> 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
>>>
>>>

>>
>> Humans are good at noting patterns BE-Cause all of life is constructed on
>> set patterns ... and as definite as any mathematical equation. There is
>> no other way that things happen the way they do.
>>
>> Co-incidences can often be a "heads up" for the individual to recognise
>> such patterns in their own life. These patterns can be changed
>> consciously, but any change will also unfold to another set of patterns.
>> Such is the mystery of life. But once one recognises the cause and
>> effects in their own life from a higher viewpoint than the usual mundane
>> awareness then the mystery is mysterious no more. One outcome being
>> Freedom. Untill then all are locked into a prison of patterns of their
>> own making, no matter who you blame "out there" for making your life how
>> it is. :-)

> Thats EXACTLY what I was going to say........................
>
> :-)
>
> BOfL
>