93 Million Miles
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93,
The imperial measure foot was based on the supposed length of the feet of one of the English Plantagenet kings - Edward III, if I recall correctly. He was a very rare size for his day and age. Nobody else even today, other than a few basketball players, has 12-inch feet.
So, it is quite an arbitrary measure, and one not matched in non-European cultures.
93 93/93,
EM
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@nderabloodredsky said
"Actually, feet are not arbitrary, it is based on the human foot. I once read in a book about the fibonacci code that there is all this coincidence in nature. "Coincidence" does not equal "arbitrary". I think there is some other significance to the mile-I don't remember now. Anyone elso know?"
I was always under the impression that the Fibonacci pattern was a predictable sequence, even in regards to its manifestations in nature, and thus would be the opposite of coincidence, as I understand the word anyways: a phenomenon which occurs without apparent causation (that's the superficial meaning anyways, Mr. Eshelman's definition is much "deeper"). Alright, I painted the bulls-eye target, fire away.
Namaste
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Co-incidence=same point; therefor anything that happens at the same point/same place is "coincidental", roughly speaking.
The modern English word, "coincidental" is one of these words that has false assumptions , i.e. non-truths built into it. The way the term is loosely defined is, "two things that happen to occur at the point, either in time or space with no causal relationship."
I believe that both theories of Quabalah and quantum mechanics negate that assumption. Every thing has a cause, and there is no such thing as space or time, only time-space.
Just some food for thought.
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@Aum418 said
"Anyone who says otherwise is most likely full of hot air-superstition. Feel free to pontificate otherwise.
IAO131"
T-shirt material, this.
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Yay! An amazingly incredible synchronicity!
No. It's just apophenia.
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They are opposite interpretations rooted in personal opinion.
One will shoot you up into space, cadet. The other will chain you to matter.
Try not to get carried away too far by either one.
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For me, a really cool synchronicity.
There, I have pontificated otherwise.
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@Hermitas said
"Yay! An amazingly incredible synchronicity!
No. It's just apophenia.
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They are opposite interpretations rooted in personal opinion.
One will shoot you up into space, cadet. The other will chain you to matter.
Try not to get carried away too far by either one.
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For me, a really cool synchronicity.
There, I have pontificated otherwise."
To what end?
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I don’t know.
I guess as a balance to abusive, one-sided thinking.
It irks me.
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@Hermitas said
"I don’t know.
I guess as a balance to abusive, one-sided thinking.
It irks me."
From me? C'mon, spill it! Now!
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I'm kidding, Hermitas. I like you.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fND_Y6OgsD -
Nah... The guy you quoted.
I don't mind strict materialists until they start calling me fruitcakes.
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I mean, I think it's a cool synchronicity. It's just damn cool.
But it's not even really 93 million. It's 92.96 million.
But whatever.
I'm not ready to pick up the sword about it anymore.
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@Hermitas said
"I'm not ready to pick up the sword about it anymore."
"The mind by its thought makes a mountain of a particle, then thinks itself a lord with its little trifle."
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Nice fruitcakes y'got there.
Makes me want to kwinky dink
(wink wink).
It's all a matter of time.
Give it time.
It's bound to rhyme,
I think. -
I like that one.