"Coincidence, if traced [back] far enough [back] becomes inevitable." Hineu/Hindu/Sanskrit


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According to various "sources" the quote above exists on a Hindu Temple near New Delhi, India.

Albert Einstein allegedly stated that "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."

Jung was fascinated by it in his mid-twenties.

Coincidence, if traced far enough back, becomes inevitable. – Hineu

If there were no such thing as coincidence, there would be no such word. – Heron Carvic

Coincidences are spiritual puns. – G. K. Chesterton

What is your understanding of coincidence?

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I'm skeptical. "Coincidence" is such a modern term that I have to wonder what word the quote is translating.

My security app warns against following this link, but plenty of others alco attribute it to Huneu (whoever that may be). The ones toward the top of Bing's findings, at any rate, do not give it a detailed citation. Thus I remain unconvinced.

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I'm skeptical. "Coincidence" is such a modern term that I have to wonder what word the quote is translating.

Thus I remain unconvinced.

As do I.

Again, I first ran into the "quote" in that novel.

I cannot find anything on "Huneu" either. It apparently, refers to Hindu/Indus etymology.

As to the "phrase" coincidence, I also sense that this original etching into this Hindu temple in Sanskrit needs a lot of work.

Wish we had Ted Keer[?] back since he was unique in his knowledge of language and their roots.

I am hoping that as everyone weighs in we can refine the term and the concept behind that quote.

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Adam, My take is: An incaluable amount of neural networking going on in our brains - meeting with a vast amount of incidents out in reality - means something has to "match", sometime. As when a friend mentions an old movie star out of nowhere, and you'd been thinking of her minutes before. At least, one believes in retrospect it was "thinking", but it was mostly random images which occur in an unfocused state. We are hard-wired 'pattern seekers', so any coincidence fascinates us. But we don't think of the thousands of times it DOESN't occur; the few times it does, we become fixated upon it, I think. A cognitive bias, I suppose.

Someone told me of suddenly waking up one night and instantly thinking of his brother living in another country, whom, it later turned out, had shortly before been in a bad accident. A psychical connection, he was certain. "Traced back far enough" or, simply wait long enough, and many things will seem to connect.

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Adam, My take is: An incaluable amount of neural networking going on in our brains - meeting with a vast amount of incidents out in reality - means something has to "match", sometime. As when a friend mentions an old movie star out of nowhere, and you'd been thinking of her minutes before. At least, one believes in retrospect it was "thinking", but it was mostly random images which occur in an unfocused state. We are hard-wired 'pattern seekers', so any coincidence fascinates us. But we don't think of the thousands of times it DOESN't occur; the few times it does, we become fixated upon it, I think. A cognitive bias, I suppose.

Someone told me of suddenly waking up one night and instantly thinking of his brother living in another country, whom, it later turned out, had shortly before been in a bad accident. A psychical connection, he was certain. "Traced back far enough" or, simply wait long enough, and many things will seem to connect.

Those examples make sense to me.

Moreover, I completely agree that there are systems operating in our neural nets that we have no conscious clue about. However, it does encourage the coincidental conceptual type of experience that you describe.

Some of my "coincidences" are a way outside of the types you mention.

I am going to see what I can do with a Sanskrit translation site as to "coincidence."

Great points Tony.

A happy belated Passover and as Bob taught me

Chag Somayach!
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