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I don´t habitually look at digital electric clocks on walls of houses , but today one caught my eyes:12:22 ! I hardly had time to enjoy the fun of this coincidence (three "2"s! ) because the numbers immediately switched to 11.11. I did not believe my eyes until coming to awareness of the date: 11th of November.
-First I thought this little story would be perhaps more impressive, if the time had been e.g. 22.22 or 11.11. But then I asked myself if it had been more, or less impressive if the clock first had shown, say, 10.00 or 03.33, and I decided: LESS.
- For, as it ACTUALLY happened, the DECLINE from "2"s to "1"s (from the line of three "2" to four "1"s) simultaneously signified an INCREASE in density - a switch to a denser coincidence (first three same numbers, now four same numbers in a line. )
- It is in this "dramatic sense" (decrease= increase ) that I could hardly envisage any other four numbers than 12.22 as a "prelude", "leading note" to 11.11 .
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---This was the "story" that I published on the 11th November. - Today´s surprise ("surprise"): the same clock showed 11.12 at the moment I looked at it (11th of December. )
Date submitted:Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:59:26 +0000Coincidence ID:7327
