Monday, October 13, 2008

Coincidence

A coincidence is the occurrence of different things together, in a particular situation that highlights a previously unknown property. It may be dubbed as a highlight of being present.

For instance, if somebody would read this blogpost, it is a coincidence if you consider the odds that it would happen at all. These odds vanish to almost zero if you consider time to be important in this consideration. On the other hand, the odds increase to one if time is an illusion. Then reading this has a purpose, apart from any other considerations - it had to happen.

Numbers are a great tool to illustrate coincidence.
For instance, if somebody has become 39 years of age in the year 2008 (and will remain so until 2009). The coincidence is that

39 = 1*3*13 and
2008+2009 = 4017 = 1*3*13*103.

Adding more coincidence to this fact comes from noting the following:

- ghimmel (ג) is the third (3) letter of the Hebrew Alphabet.
- ghimmel, the name, is written as גמל, i.e. ghimmel-mem-lammed, consisting of three letters. The first (1) is ghimmel; the second is mem (מ), the thirteenth (13) letter of the Hebrew Alphabet; the third letter is lammed (ל), which has value 30.
- 'remaining an age' can be understood as fulfilling the year this age has been reached. This is expressed by the 100 of 103.

Ghimmel, commonly known as representing a camel in Hebrew, is the capability of stirring or changing the physical substance (known as water) into a dynamic action. Doesn't a camel drink water, store it on his back, and walk through deserts with more stamina than any other animal? A camel transforms water into energy.

To become a living letter, one has to make this letter come alive within.

None of these considerations are meant to limit the notion of coincidence.
Many people have the same age all the time. Age, measured in years, is a crude measure of coincidence. But it shows already how many people are part of such a coincidence as sharing the same year, let alone the coincidence that they share everything as they are present...

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