Deaths in Threes

[Archer 007]

Ive heard this silly supersitition for years, and I would like my fellow CFCers to give their thoughts on it. Also, does it break any rules of logic (I think it does)?

 

[cgannon64]

Don't know what you mean.

But I do beleive that elderly couples die right after each other.

 

[Archer 007]

For example, when one celebrity dies, two die shortly after. The same thing I want to know is which rule of logic does it break.

 

[sourboy]

Yeah, deaths in threes, births in threes (or I guess in this day of abortions, pregnancies in threes).

I think it's just something you don't notice or think much about until it happens (in either case), but when it finally does - you tend to 'wake up' and notice other ones around you. Maybe it's for lack of knowledge on the issues? One isn't sure how to act or what to do, or they have a major emotional change - and one way or another they find others around them in the same boat. They pay closer to these others & their situations as a learning tool, and even if they don't know them well, they remember them because of that bond. The number "3" is just coincidence. When you think you will find things in sets of 3 you begin to notice "3" in everything you do.

Just my 3 cents.

 

[silver 2039]

It's nothing but meainingless superstition.

 

[stratego]

If that is true then all celebrities should be dead. It would be a domino effect. One dies, then two more then two more for each of the two that die as a result of the first one.

 

[sourboy]

No stratego. The idea is everything happens in 3's, not that '2' others suffer the same fate as the first '1' did.

 

[Civrules]

I don't know about deaths but there was a time a few years ago where our car was hit three times in one month. That was not pretty and none of these times was it our fault.

>>>Even when we told the cop (the third time) he said that things happen in 3s and no more. I don't know if he was serious though.

 

[Perfection]

Pfft. Things happen in threes all the time, but so do things in two, one four, six, ten, and five!

 

[stratego]

Originally posted by sourboy
No stratego. The idea is everything happens in 3's, not that '2' others suffer the same fate as the first '1' did.

Now that you mention it, it does make sense.
-Three Amigos
-Three Wise Men
-Three Blind Mice
-Being in the top 3%
-I just started my list with 3 three's in a row
-Three tenors
-The Big Three
-Three dollars off beef tritips
-Archer's name contains three numbers
- <-- this guys eyes grow three times before it shuts.
- <--this guy goes through three steps of scanning
- If you stare at this guy long enough it starts to look like he is laughing at succession of three.
-13 original colonies
-Three wishes from the genie
-Three countries in North America.
The list is endless (but I'm going to end it)

 

[Pontiuth Pilate]

George Bush is our forty-THIRD president!

 

[sourboy]

Giving an honest answer to an honest question if fine, but the sarcasm of 3's has become a way to mock after the first example.

 

[Achinz]

Like The Holy Trinity and three being the most stable configuration for legs, and the red white and blue (tricolour) for flags ?

But we don't have three eyes, three hands, three legs (although that would be more stable), three fingers.

As for relationships three is a crowd although kinky ones thing menage a trois (threesomes) add spice to life.

 

[sourboy]

Originally posted by Achinz
As for relationships three is a crowd although kinky ones thing menage a trois (threesomes) add spice to life.

 

[KaNick]

Is this anything like the rule of threes featured in the American Pie movie? .

 

[Turner]

Don't know about that, GMN, but I've noticed that things tend to happen in threes.

And like Perf-boy said, things happen in 2s and 5s, as well.

But I think the human psyche likes the grouping of threes, and we tend to notice those more.

Now if I can only with the three largest lotto jackpots. . .

 

[cgannon64]

Originally posted by stratego
Now that you mention it, it does make sense.
-Three Amigos
-Three Wise Men
-Three Blind Mice
-Being in the top 3%
-I just started my list with 3 three's in a row
-Three tenors
-The Big Three
-Three dollars off beef tritips
-Archer's name contains three numbers
- <-- this guys eyes grow three times before it shuts.
- <--this guy goes through three steps of scanning
- If you stare at this guy long enough it starts to look like he is laughing at succession of three.
-13 original colonies
-Three wishes from the genie
-Three countries in North America.
The list is endless (but I'm going to end it)

Well, yeah, 3 is a famously symbolic number, so people use it in alot of things. People made up the Big Three because people like the number Three, etc.

But I mean look at this song:

The big three killed my baby
no money in my hand again
the big three killed my baby
nobody's coming home again

Their ideas made me want to spit
a hundred dollars goes down the pit
30,000 wheels are rollin'
and my stick shift hands are swollen
everything involved is shady
the big three killed my baby

The big three killed my baby
no money in my hand again
the big three killed my baby
nobody's coming home again

Why dont you take the day off and try to repair
a billion others dont seem to care
better ideas are stuck in the mud
the motors runnin' on tuckers blood
dont let them tell you the future's electric
cause gasolines not measured in metric
30,000 wheels are spinnin'
and oil company faces are grinnin'
now my hands are turnin' red
and i found out my baby is dead

The big three killed my baby
no money in my hand again
the big three killed my baby
nobody's coming home again

Well i've said it now, nothings changed
people are burnin for pocket change
and creative minds are lazy
and the big three killed my baby
And my baby's my common sense
so dont feed me planned obsolescence
yeah my baby's my common sense
so dont feed my planned obsolescence
im about to have another blowout
im about to have another blowout

My God, there are three verses, three choruses, and the song opens with three chords!!! Run for the hills!!!

And don't even get me started on the 3:21 countdown in Radiohead songs!!! Guesss how many there are??? THREE OF THEM!!!

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Originally posted by Archer 007
For example, when one celebrity dies, two die shortly after. The same thing I want to know is which rule of logic does it break.

The rules of probability, in that the events should be unrelated.

I don't know