I lived in the Florida Keys, met my now-wife on the telephone through business dealings when she lived in Calgary Canada. After three months of a developing telephone relationship, I took a Greyhound bus for $100 from Big Pine Key, Florida to Brooks, Alberta to meet her for the first time. Her brother was leery of me, but lightened up when we discovered we shared the same birthday.
I would presume any two random people had a 1:365 chance of sharing the same birthday (maybe that's not right but it sounds right to someone who never took sadistics in college)... BUT....
Is it even POSSIBLE to calculate the stastical probability of this kind of thing happening, calculating in the chance that someone from Calgary would be interested in coming to work for a non-profit in Key West, and the romance developing, and the birthday thing?
I'm ALSO just trying to figure out if it's more likely that this was a random thing, or if it is more likely to have a Larger Intelligence behind it.
2006-07-22
05:53:48
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