Telling me something?

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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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This series of happenings took place in roughly a 12 hour span...beginning in the evening and ending the next morning. It was October of 2000 in Virginia when my then girlfriend gave me 2 books for my B-day. One was titled The Celestine Prophecy and the other was The new Rolling Stone encyclopedia of rock and roll. I opened the latter around 9pm that evening and started to read about Bob Marley...a favorite artist of mine. I then put the book down and turned on the tv. I surfed some channels until I landed on a PBS program about..who else..Bob Marley, his music, and Jamaica politics. I thought how weird that was as I was reading about him. I watched for a while then headed to bed. In bed I opened the other book and read some of the first chapter and browsed other aspects of the book. I recall where at one point it talks about coincidences and possible meanings. Again..I was thinking how weird was that! I then hit the hay. The following morning at around 10am I went for a run around a man made lake in Burke Va...I drove there. I walked down toward the trail and began to stretch on the ground. As I was stretching something shinny from the suns rays in the grass, caught my eye. I went over there and couldn’t believe my eyes! It was a $5 dollar Jamaican coin!! Really?? Here??Come on!! What’s all this trying to tell me? And no..I have never been to Jamaica. I still have the coin and books..but not the girl.
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Date submitted:Fri, 19 Apr 2019 01:55:46 +0000Coincidence ID:10241