Tuesday, May 12, 2009

c o i n c i d e n c e

Coincidence = Kebetulan

Hal yang umum dan mungkin sering terjadi dalam hidup kita. Entah itu suatu kebetulan yang membawa keberuntungan atau kebetulan yang membawa musibah.

Nasib kita banyak sekali ditentukan sama kabetulan-kebetulan (*hahaha sotoy nih gua). Tapi beneran loh! Namun kadang saya bingung apakah yang udah terjadi itu termasuk kebetulan atau nggak.. Apakah yang terjadi itu memang ada maksud-maksud tertentu. Apa emang sengaja dibuat kayak gitu.

Sebenarnya, saat ini saya sedang mengalami DILEMA tentang sesuatu apakah itu tuh kebetulan doang atau nggak. Akhirnya membawa saya untuk melihat-lihat lewat Google apa sih sebenernya coincidence itu? adakah penjelasannya secara ilmiah (*ceilah macem-macem aja dah)

Banyak banget yang ngebahas tentang coincidence. Dari mulai artikel sampai video. Ada juga sumber yang menghitung jumlah sekumpulan orang minimum yang memungkinkan terjadinya kesamaan tanggal lahir. Jadi dihitung berdasarkan peluang-peluang seseorang memiliki hari ulang tahun yang unik.. dst.. (*gak asyik dieperbincangkan di sini haha). Hasilnya adalah jumlah kumpulan orang dengan peluang diatas 50% yang memiliki hari ulang tahun yang sama adalah 23. Hmmm.... ini cuma peluang sih, jadi gak pasti juga.

Setelah itu, yang menarik dan yang dorong saya buat nulis di blog adalah cerita-cerita dunia mengenai "coincidence" ini salah satu cerita yang menurut saya sangat menarik.

Twin Boys, twin lives

The stories of identical twins' nearly identical lives are often astonishing, but perhaps none more so than those of identical twins born in Ohio. The twin boys were separated at birth, being adopted by different families. Unknown to each other, both families named the boys James. And here the coincidences just begin. Both James grew up not even knowing of the other, yet both sought law-enforcement training, both had abilities in mechanical drawing and carpentry, and each had married women named Linda. They both had sons whom one named James Alan and the other named James Allan. The twin brothers also divorced their wives and married other women - both named Betty. And they both owned dogs which they named Toy. Forty years after their childhood separation, the two men were reunited to share their amazingly similar lives. (Source: Reader's Digest, January 1980)

NOTE: our reader Linus wrote us after reading local newspaper Helsingin Sanomat: "Your story about the Finnish twins is missing some details: The first brother was killed by a lorry while riding his bike and crossing highway 8. He apparently didn't notice the lorry in the snow blizzard. The second brother was killed by a lorry only two hours later while riding his bike and crossing highway 8. The second brother couldn't have been aware of the first brother's death, as the police was still trying to identify the victim."

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20 Most Amazing Coincidences

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