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whileyouweregone: aja: noquedanblogs.com The specifics of this are lost on me, but it did make me get a little philosophical about time and how we relate to it. I think you mean the 7th of August. Quite. Also, “such a consecutive sequence will never happen again”? What about 05:06:07 08/09/10 then? And why is this sequence any more significant than any other datetime chosen at random? It isn’t. It feels significant for the same reason coincidences do: as humans we seek out patterns even where there are none. Once, this skill allowed us to pick out the sounds of an approaching predator over the background noise of the environment, or deduce that crops grow better when they are irrigated. Now, they mostly just make people believe in horoscopes and other Forer Effect peddled nonsense.

whileyouweregone:

aja:

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The specifics of this are lost on me, but it did make me get a little philosophical about time and how we relate to it.

I think you mean the 7th of August.

Quite.

Also, “such a consecutive sequence will never happen again”? What about 05:06:07 08/09/10 then? And why is this sequence any more significant than any other datetime chosen at random? It isn’t. It feels significant for the same reason coincidences do: as humans we seek out patterns even where there are none.

Once, this skill allowed us to pick out the sounds of an approaching predator over the background noise of the environment, or deduce that crops grow better when they are irrigated. Now, they mostly just make people believe in horoscopes and other Forer Effect peddled nonsense.

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    05:06:07 08/09/10
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    Quite. Also, “such a consecutive sequence will never happen again”? What about 05:06:07 08/09/10 then? And why is this...
  6. whileyouweregone reblogged this from aja and added:
    I think you mean the 7th
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    Interesting, LIOVR
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    Except that in France, this event will take place on the 7th of august, because we write the day before the month… So,...
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    won’t it happen at 4PM? and what about in the year 3009, 4009, 5009, etc? haha.
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    ohhh okay, now i get it.
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    It’ll happen on the 7th of August, not the 8th of July!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also something equally cool will...
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    Actually, this will happen again every 100 years, innit. 07/08/(21)09
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