An Interesting Cosmic Coincidence

[Uncle Joe]

The other evening I watched the movie "An Enemy of The State" it was a good movie and basically it was about a corrupt rogue National Security Chief and Big Brother style illegal wiretapping. Will Smith plays the protagonist victim, who unwittingly has a disc recording of the murder of Jason Robards character; a Congressman opposed to illegal wiretapping. I believe it was Jon Voight playing the evil National Security Chief; who murdered Robards and does what he can to ruin Smith's life.

Smith eventually gets help from Gene Hackman's character a computer guru and former CIA agent. Smith doesn't know for a while who's behind trying to kill him but with Hackman's help they find out about Voight's character being behind it.

Here is the kicker, the Voight character's birthday on the computer screen showed up as 9/11/40 and this movie was made in 1998.

Things that make you go hmmmm.

[seemslikeadream]

1. Ceck out this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=190140&mesg_id=190140

[Uncle Joe]

2. Thanks for the link, seemslikeadream,

I wish I could read French.

Wasn't it 9/11 that Condi Rice said nobody could possibly for see?

[seemslikeadream]

5. Speaking of the French did you see this coincidence the other day?

Two shopping area explosions

One in Lyon, France, 12:30 PM GMT. in a shopping area. There'd been a gas leak

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL28648448

Other in a mall at Waukegan, Illinois, believed to be a gas explosion, 6:30 PM GMT.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-waukegan-explosion-webfeb29,0,7829128.story

Half past the hour, shopping area, believed to be gas.



Lyon

41.23 N latitude, former hill fort

Lyon was founded as a Roman colony in 43 BCE by Munatius Plancus, a lieutenant of Caesar, on the site of a Gaulish hill-fort settlement called Lugdunon—from the Celtic sun god Lugus ('Light', cognate with Old Irish Lugh, Modern Irish Lú) and dúnon (hill-fort). Lyon was first named Lugdunum meaning the "hill of lights" or "the hill of crows". Lug was equated by the Romans to Mercury.

Lyon is the préfecture (capital) of the Rhône département, and also the capital of the Rhône-Alpes région.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon

Waukegan

42.22 N. latitude, former fort

Waukegan, first visited by Pere Marquette in 1673, is one of the oldest communities in Illinois. The city started as a French trading post and Potawatomi Indian settlement known as "Little Fort". Records dating back to 1829 tell of a treaty signed by the Potawatomis in which they ceded all of their land in this area to the Federal Government.

Little Fort became the County Seat of Government in 1841 by virture of its population, replacing Libertyville

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukegan

Latitude, fort, center of area government



Face on Mars 41.11 N. Latitude

[SDuderstadt]

3. Ummm, Uncle Joe...

this is an example of nothing more than something called "found significance". It's a kind of post hoc rationalization such as when someone plays the lottery using some combination of numbers derived from a love one's birthdate, an anniversary, etc. Even though the winner feels that their special numbers matched for "cosmic reasons", in reality, it is just another example of being fooled by randomness, i.e., their combination of numbers had no more nor no less chance than being chosen than anyone else's numbers, regardless of how they were picked.

My mom is a dear sweet lady, but she's always pointing out to me that someone won the lottery and "they just knew in advance that they were going to win". The problem with her thinking is that she's ignoring the millions of people who "just knew they were going to win" and, in fact, didn't. Of course, she also thinks that the chances of winning the lottery are 50/50. When I asked her why she thinks that, she replied, "Well, either you're going to win or you're not!" (okay, so I made that up. You get my point).

[jberryhill]

4. I always call it....

The 999,999 one-in-a-million things that didn't happen today.

[Make7]

6. 'Enemy of the State' trivia

 

Reynolds [played by Jon Voight], the antagonist and foremost proponent of the anti-privacy bill, was born on September 11, 1940 which was the date Bell Labs researcher, George Stibitz, demonstrated the first remote operation (i.e. over a phone line) of a computer machine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film)

Perhaps predicting the past is more likely than foreseeing the future...

- Make7