29th June 2009, 11:07 PM
Quote:There's also some bullshit about a Kennedy clan curse and about parallels between the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations, mostly dealing with the number of letters in people's names or some other superficial bullshit, but I won't get into those right now.
The list of similarities is kind of strange, really... it is all just a coincidence, I'm sure, but it is a lot of coincidences. Kind of odd. :)
(Though some of those lists include things that aren't real, so you need to be careful with it... but even considering that, there are more similarities than you'd expect. Those things happen with probability...)
Quote:However, the fact that there are exceptions to the curse, which is already selective enough in which presidents will die in office, proves that this curse is just a crock of shit, and the fact that half (debatably three quarters if you think Taylor and Harding were deliberately poisoned) of the presidents who died in office were assassinated shows that there was no cosmic alignment of the planets dictating that they would die, but rather that these ill-fated men were the victims of premeditated acts of murder. Furthermore, the odds of a president being elected in a 0-year are at least one in five, even greater if the president is reelected (four times in FDR's case, so the odds of him dying in office were very high).
Still, it is strange that of all the presidents who died in office, only one, Zachary Taylor (President 1848-1850), was not a part of that 20-year thing. All the other presidents who have died are on that list.
Of course technology matters a lot there, though. For instance, without modern technology Reagan would almost certainly have died; on the other hand, with it, Garfield would almost certainly have lived. Perhaps McKinley too? Not sure about that one, but Garfield for sure. So the curse was broken by modern medical technology, saving Reagan from certain death... :D
(Seriously though, it is much easier to save someone now, and it makes things like assassination harder for sure...)
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