--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Holy Death in Threes and What To Do With These February 15, 2008 by cadeveo > > I remember it said, by various people, of no more authority or wisdom than I, that people die in threes. Usually, I've heard that sort of thing out of the mouth of someone I worked with round about the end of the year after the death of a celebrity of some stripe. And usually, or so it appears, the person's magical summation regarding the triple-bucket-kick phenomenon has been borne out, at least to the best of hir satisfaction. A bit of confirmation bias, perhaps? That ol' "What you look for is just what you'll fine?" as true when looking for "the bull" and finding "the horns" as when looking for three consecutively croaking famous people. > Just a thought, though: > Has anyone yet been firing up their confirmation-biased radar for the third "holy man" to join this party? > > Mormon President/Prophet, Gordon Hinckley, Jr.-Died January 27, 2007. > > The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Founder of Transcendental Meditation- Died Feb. 5, 2007. > *** Perhaps... Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) a hero's farewell yesterday, lauding him, in the words of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, as "a champion of our common humanity."
Lantos Praised as 'Champion of Our Common Humanity' Memorial Service for Rep. Tom Lantos The Hungarian-born Lantos, who died of cancer Monday at age 80, was the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in Congress. His youth as a resistance fighter in Nazi-occupied Budapest, where he lost most of his family, lent authority to his pursuit of humanitarian causes and his support for U.S. military intervention in the name of democracy. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/AR2008021403461.html
