My best friend passed away 3 years ago, and for her birthday following the accident, I had a star named for her and sent the certificate to her parents. On her birthday this year, a couple of weeks ago, I got a letter from the International Star Registry advertising a new catalog that is coming out "Your Place in the Cosmos" which will be kept in the Library of Congress. It has her name in bold letters, saying it will be included if I pay. Now, I know this is a complete business, and I am not going to buy the catalog. However, I do find it weird that it arrived on the exact day of her birthday.
It seems as if the letter was mailed because this catalog is new, and they just wanted to inform me about it, and I don't think they sent it because it was her birthday.
What do you think? Do you think they mailed it on purpose on her birthday, or do you think it was a complete coincidence? I am slightly spiritual, so if it is a coincidence, I would think more of it.
2007-12-12 16:13:02 · 6 answers · asked by mrr86 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I posted this in R & S because I wanted to know if you guys thought it was a sign or something, but I guess not, lol.
2007-12-12 16:44:19 · update #1
This is a scam. Only the scientific community can name stars and any other method is meaningless.
A copy of all books are kept at the library of congress as a matter of course. It is not special.
The date of her birthday would be in the public domain so you can bet that they knew it.
2007-12-12 18:01:05 · answer #1 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Random occurance. Do they even know her birthday? Is that part of the registration?
And if they did the letter would be trying to sell a birthday product, and they would have sent it a few weeks before her birthday.
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2007-12-13 00:24:56 · answer #2 · answered by Gatsby216 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it is a coincidence but a marketing tool. They know you are more apt to shell out more money if it is around their birthday than at some other time of the year.
2007-12-13 00:22:35 · answer #3 · answered by going postal 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Who's to say? You tend to think more about the deceased on their birthday.
2007-12-13 00:19:40 · answer #4 · answered by blue chaos soɐɥɔ ǝnlq 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it's coincidence. What else could it be?
2007-12-13 00:17:43 · answer #5 · answered by Petrushka's Ghost 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!!!
coincidence...
2007-12-13 00:24:18 · answer #6 · answered by superpope53 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋