Re: Numerology

From: Phlip (phlip_cpp_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:43:14 GMT

Jimmy wrote:

> Does something like that exist?

Yes, numerology exists.

> Are there any evidence?

Yes, there's evidence that the practice of numerology exists.

> Though i am not
> quite sure about the definition but i suppose it means our subconscious
> works by numbers. Or like some say we have a specific vibration. Not
sure..

Now you ask a different question - does it work the way its white papers say
it does? That depends.

The point of non-deterministic processes, such as lithomancy, astrology,
numerology, cartomancy, etc. is to illuminate your own consciousness. So if
a paper claims that a given -mancy is "right" or "wrong" based on this or
that statistical evidence misses the point. There's no way to
deterministically measure whether a non-deterministic process "correctly"
illuminated your consciousness.

For example, I read my horoscope very, very rarely, and usually after the
day it describes. I do that because the cod-damned thing typically describes
my exact day to 4 significant digits. I don't "believe in" astrology, so I
find this effect very tedious, and subtly distressing.

There's a perfectly reasonable explanation for it, though. The horoscope's
author read my mind in advance. You can explain that with ordinary resonance
patterns, without implicating any supernatural process... 

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