In 1955, a book was published that contained one million numbers. It was a statistical exercise; all of the numbers were selected at random, yet patterns still emerged. There were sequences such as 12345 and 6666666. If you randomise enough numbers, then you are statistically bound to get seemingly determined combinations like these. But regardless of how neat they may appear, they are still random.
Life is like this. You may sometimes experience coincidences which make you think: ‘Wow, that must mean something. A sequence of events like that could never occur by chance. Maybe some higher entity is trying to tell me something?’ But, unfortunately, this is not the case. It is just coincidence, because coincidences happen within randomness. There is a much, much lower chance of you progressing through life without ever having experienced any extreme coincidences.
Dwell on this concept, it is needed to fight against superstitious demagogues.
Sunday, 21 October 2012
Random Coincidences
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coincidence,
demagogue.,
million random digits,
statistics,
superstition
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