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Semeia
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Posted 10/24/2001 7:04 PM (GMT -6)

Here's a cool fibonacci link. It has a great section on fibonacci numbers in nature.

http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fib.html

"The opposite of sin is not virtue, but faith."--Soren Kierkegaard

Semeia
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Posted 10/24/2001 7:11 PM (GMT -6)

I can't believe you just posted that same link! I quit!

I can't take the pressure!

"The opposite of sin is not virtue, but faith."--Soren Kierkegaard

whasssuuuppp
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Posted 10/24/2001 7:11 PM (GMT -6)

Hey faithful, I never even got to hear your cool little thing on here!

Too bad for me, I guess.

From neurology (lesion studies):

Three localization patterns: focal, multifocal, and diffuse

Three onset types: sudden/abrupt/acute, subacute, and insiduous/gradual

Three course types: stationary/stable/static, improving/remitting, and progressive

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Lespwa fe viv.
Hope makes us live.
A Haitian proverb

Springs
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Posted 10/24/2001 7:17 PM (GMT -6)

Hey Wu,
You can still catch the Chris Farley voice
on the Faithful's thread about Herod dying
from worms.

-S

whasssuuuppp
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Posted 10/24/2001 7:29 PM (GMT -6)

Thanks Springs!
(The old Chris Farley skits from SNL are some of my all-time favorites!)

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Lespwa fe viv.
Hope makes us live.
A Haitian proverb

n/a
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Posted 10/24/2001 7:52 PM (GMT -6)

Hey Whasssuuuppp(are the 3a's u's and p's Intentional for the threefoldstructure of reality?

)
I put a chris farley wav file on your sad quote post. Hope it makes the page more livlier

God Bless!

"Evolution is both fact and a theory.It is a fact that evolutionary change took place. And evolution is also a theory that seeks to explain the detailed mechanism behind that change." Kenneth R. Miller

n/a
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Posted 10/24/2001 8:01 PM (GMT -6)

I feel guilty for not posting something 3 related so here is a big scrolling 3.
God Bless
3

"Evolution is both fact and a theory.It is a fact that evolutionary change took place. And evolution is also a theory that seeks to explain the detailed mechanism behind that change." Kenneth R. Miller

Edited by - faithfullservent on 10/25/2001 08:57:57 AM

PotOnWheel
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Posted 10/25/2001 1:56 AM (GMT -6)

3 FIATs
(saying "Yes!)

(by P. Evdokimov, in W.A.T.S.O.T.W., p.212)

The Church offers special veneration to martyrs, seeing martyrdom as "Love put into practice"--and the martyrs: "Wounded by the Bridegroom." It is from the wound of the Virgin ("a sword shall pierce through your own soul" [Luke 2:35]) that the feminine archetype is born of the Spirit and of blood. The Virgin's ministry as a woman begins at the moment of the Annunciation, but archetypically it is rooted in the Cross. The close parallelism of the three fiats in the Gospel asserts itself in the full breadth of its meaning. The night of Gethsemane resounds with the fiat of Christ: "Let your will, not mine, be done" (Mt 26:39). The fiat of the Virgin already contains the sorrowing Mother standing next to the cross, the Stabat Mater Delorosa. The tragic struggle of faith in John the Baptist leads him to undergo the trial by fire, and the words of Christ replying to the disciples of St. John (Mt 11:2-6; Lk 7:18-23) confirm his fiat, fulfilled and sealed by his martyrdom. In these three archetypes, the crucified faith prefigures the life-bearing Cross. The confirmation of the fiat is not a mere announcement, but a shining victory over its potential negation, won in the heart itself, and taking its place in the act of the crucified Bridegroom and of those who have been "wounded by the divine Bridegroom."

PotOnWheel

(ISA 64:8 "Yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.")

Jeffrywith1e
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Posted 10/28/2001 2:14 PM (GMT -6)

I'm pretty new to these boards. I found this thread to be increadibly interesting. The first thing that came to mind was the song from Schoolhouse Rocks. Some of you might remember Schoolhouse Rocks from Saturday morning cartoons. well here's the song for this thread.

-Three is a Magic Number-

"Three is a magic number
ya it is, it's a magic number
Somewhere in that ancient mystic trinity
You'll get three
As a magic number
The past, the present, the future,
Faith, and hope, and charity,
the heart, the brain, the body,
will give you three,
it's a magic number
It takes three legs to make a tripod or to make a table stand,
and it takes three wheels to make a vehicle called a tricycle
And every triangle has three corners,
every triangle has three sides,
no more, no less,
you don't have to guess
that it's three
can't you see?
it's a magic number
A man and a woman had a little baby
yeah they did
and there were three in the family
and that's a magic number
3, 6, 9,
12, 15, 18,
21, 24, 27,
30
Now multiply backwards from 3x10
3x10 is 30
3x9 is 27
3x8 is 24
3x7 is 21
3x6 is 18
3x5 is 15
3x4 is 12
and 3x3 is 9
and 3x2 is 6
and 3x1 is 3 of course
(Now dig the pattern once more!)
3, 6, 9,
12, 15, 18
Oh yeah
3x10 is 30
3x9 is 27
3x8 is 24
3x7 is 21
3x6 is 18
3x5 is 15
3x4 is 12
and 3x3 is 9
and 3x2 is 6
and 3x1
What is it?
3
A man and a woman had a little baby
there were three in the family
and that's a magic number"

too bad I can't post the actual song, its quite catchy.

Jeffry

PotOnWheel
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Posted 10/28/2001 2:45 PM (GMT -6)

Thank you, Jeffry. I was waiting for someone to go get that one since this thread was in single digits. (Will it make three digits?)

...............Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you......Thank you, thank you, thank you.
...............Thank you, thank you, thank you.

(Four sets of three "thank you-s in the form of a cross of twelve thank you-s. Very visual, and cerebral.)

trosie
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Posted 10/28/2001 6:10 PM (GMT -6)

Last night I'm shopping at Target, NOT thinking about the THREENESS thread at all, when I happen upon the TRIBOND game --a game about the THREEZERS.

Now tonight I happen upon some THREE's found in Matthew 25 while reading my bible. Jesus is teaching about the parable of the talents. It's interesting to note that Jesus uses THREE servants in this parable? The master gives out THREE different size talents? And the reward for the servant with the five talents is THREE things:
AFFIRMATION: "Well done, good and faithful servant!"
PROMOTION: "I will put you in charge of many things."
CELEBRATION: "Come and share in your master's happiness!"

YIKES! YIKES! YIKES! I can't seem to get free from seeing THREE'S. I find THREE's when I shop and when I read! Modes, HELP!

trosie

whasssuuuppp
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Posted 10/28/2001 6:41 PM (GMT -6)

Forget it Trosie, Modes ain't got no help for you!

Stick with us crazies here for moral support.

Now my stuff, from Psychiatry:
Three criteria for the diagnosis of schizophrenia:
1. "A period of at least one month in which the patient prominently demonstrates at least two of the following: delusions, hallucinations, incoherent speech, disorganized behavior (such as catatonia), and the presence of negative symptoms"
2. Significant functional impairment in activities
3. Total duration of illness=at least 6 months

Mental retardation has three cardinal features:
1. (significant) sub-average intelligence
2. Onset at or before 18 y.o.
3. Impariments in adaptive functioning

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Lespwa fe viv.
Hope makes us live.
A Haitian proverb

whasssuuuppp
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Posted 10/28/2001 6:45 PM (GMT -6)

Hey, we're on page 35 now!

Trosie, did you buy the Tribond game? If you did you should post some of the best ones here (or TCTBU should, I noticed she posted some on another thread)

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Lespwa fe viv.
Hope makes us live.
A Haitian proverb

trosie
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Posted 10/28/2001 11:33 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
Trosie, did you buy the Tribond game? If you did you should post some of the best ones here (or TCTBU should, I noticed she posted some on another thread

No, I haven't yet bought the game so I am moving TCTBU's questions over here. I am stumped on answering two of these with certainty so I am hoping someone else answers them first!

quote:
TCTBU writes: Here's 3 for you.
What do these three things have in common?

A. Council President of Jamestown, Captured by Powhatan Warriors, and Saved by Pocahontas

B. Baseball in the Early 1900's, Boxing in the Early 1980's, and An Ear of Corn

C. The People at Nerf, A Cappucino Bar, and A Rabid Dog

There ye be. I'll give people a chance to answer and come back w/ the answers in a day or so.

Come on "sort by sameness" people let's come up with the answers to TCTBU's questions please because I am stumped!

trosie

pia†desideria
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Posted 10/29/2001 2:28 AM (GMT -6)

More threes from Julian: “Suddenly the Trinity filled my heart full of the greatest joy, and I understood that it will be so in heaven without end to all who will come there. For the Trinity is God, God is the Trinity. The Trinity is our maker, the Trinity is our protector, the Trinity is out everlasting lover, the Trinity is our endless joy and bliss, by our Lord Jesus Christ and in out Lord Jesus Christ” Julian of Norwich (Showings, Paulist Press, 1978, p. 181).

This excerpt is from one of Julian’s most famous showings: “And in this he showed me something small, no bigger than a hazlenut, lying in the palm of my hand…In this little thing I saw three properties. The first is that God made it, the second is that God loves it, the third is that God preserves it. But what did I see in it? It is that God is the Creator and the protector and the lover” (Showings, Paulist Press, 1978, p. 183).

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If I have ventured wrongly, well, then life helps me by punishing me. But if I have not ventured at all who helps me then? § Søren

whasssuuuppp
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Posted 10/30/2001 11:49 AM (GMT -6)

Another "classic triad" of symptoms, seen in meningitis:
1. Headache
2. Fever
3. Photophobia

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Lespwa fe viv.
Hope makes us live.
A Haitian proverb

pia†desideria
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Posted 10/30/2001 12:59 PM (GMT -6)

Thomas Aquinas held that Jesus Christ had three kinds of special human knowledge: 1) beatific vision, 2) infused knowledge, 3) experimental knowledge.

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If I have ventured wrongly, well, then life helps me by punishing me. But if I have not ventured at all who helps me then? § Søren

Wendi Warner
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Posted 11/1/2001 6:53 AM (GMT -6)

Testing, Testing, 1 2 3 Testing.

This is my second attempt to post so before I get too wordy I want to be sure I don't lose my comments again!

WW

I don't know how to do an electronic signature -(please advise!)

whasssuuuppp
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Posted 11/1/2001 7:41 AM (GMT -6)

Hi Wendy,
To have an e-signature, go to your "profile" and just enter one in where it says "signature."

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Lespwa fe viv.
Hope makes us live.
A Haitian proverb

Wendi Warner
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Posted 11/1/2001 8:15 AM (GMT -6)

Okay - got the signature thing figured out

I just completed reading all 35 pages of this thread and you all have pretty much covered everything I was going to say!

- but seriously, this is fascinating stuff!

I am intrigued by the Fibonacci/Pascal patterns - have yet to check out the websites.

My contributions to this collective consciousness are not especially scientific. Forgive me if I repeat anything that has already been posted - I read the 35 pages to try and avoid that!

Automobile Emblems:

Mercedes, Mitsubishi and Buick have emblems configured in three distinctions - or by thirds

Bands:

3 Dog Night
Crosby, Stills and Nash
Peter, Paul and Mary
(possible repeats - sorry)

Superstition:

Third time's a charm
Good things happen in threes
Bad things happen in threes

Miscellaneous:

Friends, Romans, Countrymen
Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato
3 meals a day ( a personal favorite!)

Then there is God's wrath-by-thirds strategy that we see in Revelation 8:7-13 and 9:18.

Not being a language expert, I am wondering if anyone knows whether there is a "3ness" found in the root meaning of the following (seemingly unrelated) words:

TRIBE
TRIBULATION
TRIBUTE
TRIUMPH
TRIVIA

Also - for Doc ... the movie that referred to the Gospel of Thomas was "Stigmata "

Personal note - I was born in March,I'm the oldest of three girls, I live in unit #3 of my building and I drink triple cappucinos - Coincidence? I think not!

Farewell all you Three-oples!

Wendi

Acquire wisdom; And with all your acquiring, get understanding. Prov.4:7

Edited by - Wendi Warner on 11/01/2001 1:19:04 PM

whasssuuuppp
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Posted 11/2/2001 7:14 PM (GMT -6)

Hey, this thread's been going for
3
months now!

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Lespwa fe viv.
Hope makes us live.
A Haitian proverb

n/a
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Posted 11/2/2001 8:06 PM (GMT -6)

And to celebrate here is a wav!I'm good enough,
I'm smart enough,
and doggonit people like me!

That is 3 words.WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP
PPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!

Shut up you stupid body, you're dead! (Mike Cantrell)

Edited by - faithfullservent on 11/03/2001 1:28:52 PM

whasssuuuppp
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Posted 11/2/2001 8:13 PM (GMT -6)

Hey faithful,
LOVE IT! Thanks

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Lespwa fe viv.
Hope makes us live.
A Haitian proverb

n/a
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Posted 11/3/2001 4:39 AM (GMT -6)

thank you ~~Jen~~ I mean whasssuuuuppp

thank you ~~Jen~~ I mean whasssuuuppp

Whenever anybody gets tired of that, please tell me!

God Bless!

Shut up stupid body; you're dead! Mike Cantrell

Springs
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Posted 11/3/2001 5:25 AM (GMT -6)

quote:

Doc said:
I'm also wondering how all this relates to fractals, since one of the interesting things about Pascal's Triangle is its fractal quality (a fractal is basically a micro-structure that replicates the macro-structure its a part of. We're finding this quality permeates everything).

In 1949, when LIFE Magazine asked if Jackson Pollock was "The greatest living painter in the United States," the resulting outcry voiced nearly half a century of popular frustration with abstract art. Some said their splatter boards were better than Pollock's work. Others said that a trained chimpanzee could do just as well. A Pollock painting, one critic complained, is like "a mop of tangled hair I have an irresistable urge to comb out."

Yet Pollock's reputation has outlived his detractors. A retrospective of his works several years ago at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City drew lines around the block, and an award-winning film of his life and art was released at the end of 2000. Apparently "Jack the Dripper" captured some aesthetic dimension - some abiding logic in human perception - beyond the scope of his critics. That logic, says physicist and art historian Richard Taylor, lies not in art but in mathmatics - specifically, in chaos theory and its offspring, factal geometry.

Fractals may seem haphazard at first glance, yet each one is composed of a single geometric pattern repeated thousands of times at different magnifications, like Russian dolls nested within one another. They are often the visible remains of chaotic systems - systems that obey internal rules of organization but are so sensitive to slight changes that their long term behavior is difficult to predict. If a hurrican is a chaotic system, then the wreckage strewn in its path is its fractal pattern.

Some fractal pattern exist on in mathematical theory, but other provide useful models for the irregular yet patterned shapes found in nature - the branchings of river and trees, for instance. Mathematicians ten to rank fractal dimensions on a series of scales between 0 and 3.

Pysicist Richard Taylor was on sabbatical in England six years ago when he realized the same analysis could be applied to Pollock's work. The fractal dimensions of Pollock's earlier drip paintings, Taylor concluded, correspond closely to those found in nature. The later the painting, the richer and more complex its patterns, and the higher its fractal dimension. Blue Poles, one of Pollock's last drip paintings, now valued at more than $30 million, was painted over a period of six months and boasts the highest fractal dimension of any Pollock painting Taylor tested...Pollock was apparently testing the limits of what the human eye would find aesthetically pleasing.

Artists, architects, writers, and musicians may instinctively appeal to their audiences by mimicking the fractal patterns found in nature. ...generating fractal patterns is much harder than it looks, Taylor says, "It's not an inevitable consequence of the process. (of drip painting) It was the Pollock dripped that made it fractal." He (Pollock) wasn't merely imitating nature, he was adopting its mechanism: chaos dynamics.

Taylor says, "If someone asked, 'Can I have nature put onto a piece of canvas?' the best example there has ever been is 1948's Number 14.

Springs

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