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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

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My birthday is January 27th making me Aquarius in zodiac sign. My address is 27 Waterman i.e. auf deutsch Wasserman = Aquarius. I have a Grand cross in my natal chart, and after many years of association with the church of Saint John the Baptist i.e. a Waterman/Aquarius figure, I discovered and interpreted a monument there with four figurines which correspond in their esoteric symbolism to the Fixed Cross of astrology. After the shock of a immersion heater exploding i sat down to read 'David Copperfield' the chapter was entitled 'I take part in an explosion'. Once, when sitting in a woods with a girlfriend i said, 'I wish i had something to give you', my hand then slipped into some ivy at the base of a tree and pulled out a paste-diamond hair-clip. Sat down on a fallen tree in a woods to open a book and read the words, 'A fallen tree lays where it fell'. Gave a big paperback book of CD reviews to a friend, a few days later a neighbour visited with a present he had acquired for me from a charity shop, the very same book. While cycling through Norfolk one summer listened to a cassette, at the exact moment the song 'Strawberry Fields' began I cycled past a field full of strawberry-pickers. Again, while cycling through Norfolk listening to Beethoven's 'Pastoral' symphony. on a sunny, hot day, 20+ minutes into symphony a thunderstorm occurred at the exact time a thunderstorm is depicted in the music. Schopenhauer stated that coincidence is usually only meaningful to those who they occur to, and scientists often dislike coincidence because they seem to refute known laws of space and time. C. G. Jung who was interested in such phenomena and coined the termed 'synchronicity', believed coincidence occurs when the archetypes are activated. They do tend to come in clusters, but never underestimate the human capacity to 'identify' pattern/meaningfulness/coincidence when they may not exist except in the imagination. Only if able to make the connection can one identify a coincidence, although many occur and people are simple unconscious of coincidence, there does seem to be a strong association with the unconscious psyche also.
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Date submitted:Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:47:07 +0000Coincidence ID:7217