Joe Corn Mo Member since Aug 29th 2010 15139 posts
Mon Feb-02-15 01:06 PM
1. "because your brain understands things in clusters. " In response to In response to 0 Mon Feb-02-15 01:15 PM by Joe Corn Mo
it's an evolutionary throwback. humans that took too much time figuring out exactly how many sabertooths were attacking them got eaten by sabertooths.
humans don't examine things closely. they group the ideas into chunks that are easy to remember.
that why we group things together in twos (or threes). day and night made good metaphors for good and evil, Life and death, etc. so that worked its way into our mythology.
humans also tend to cling to patterns, so we tend to read more significance into these paterns than necessary.
the reoccurring theme of the number 2 is not a glimpse into an unseen universe... it's an example of your human brain trying to read order into a mostly chaotic universe and focusing on the number 2 because it's round and easy to remember.
ppl also do this with the number 3, 5, and 7, and occasionally 12 or 13, which is coincidentally about the same number of things the human brain can comfortably keep track of at the same time. (humans can remember 5 plus or minus 3 things in short or long term memory. that's why phone numbers are broken into 3 and 4 digit chunks to help us remember a 10 digit number.)
which is what I suspect you are doing right now. I can recognize it because I used to do the same thing.
btw, birth is opposite of death. life has no opposite.