[MD] Just coincidence?

[David Harding]

Heather Perella wrote:
>      Yeah, just last night somebody posted about
> people who worked for Pullman.  Not even 30 minutes
> before I read that post I was talking to somebody who
> was mentioning how he worked for Pullman before it
> shut down or something, my landlord.  Does anybody
> think coincidence is an agreement?  By agreement I
> mean a relative similar pattern of thinking - static
> quality.  What do other people think about coincidence
> and its' possibly mirror relation or not - static
> quality, or maybe these have nothing to do with each
> other at all?
> 
> SA

Hi SA,

I think that a coincidence is either a one-off or the starting formation of a pattern.  The mind works by forming patterns.  If you see/hear/think one thing, then see/hear/think another which is of 
the same type, then that could be called a coincidence[one-off occurrence], or it could be called a pattern[infinite lasting]. The fact that a coincidence is usually composed of only two things and it 
takes three or more things to happen for someone to go, "hey there's a pattern here", creates this distinction between the two.

For example, if I see Bob at the start of the day, then at the end of the day I see him somewhere else, it would be like "Wow, we saw each other twice in the same day, what a coincidence!".  But then 
if we both woke up the next day and again saw each other at the same two places, it would no longer be a coincidece, it would be a pattern because most likely our timetables were in a pattern for us 
to meet.  I think this distinction helps our understanding when they're seen as two peas of the same pod, thus to answer your question; they are related.

Cheers,

-David.