A Study of the Threes Phenomena
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Note: the following collection comes from an old poster (entitled Buckland's Third Revolution) I had printed back in 1987. I did make some changes and added a very few other examples that came to mind as I briefly reviewed the content. The Poster had eight columns, four on each side:
3rd planet on which Life is positively known to exist: Earth3 "7s" defined by ancient star gazers which contributed to the influence of "7" being adopted as a sacred number:
- 7 stars of the Big Dipper
- Seen during the 2 Solstices and 2 Equinoxes, the Big Dipper becomes the Swastika
- 7 stars of the Pleiades (also called the seven sisters)
- 7 planets ("wanderers") visible without a telescope: Mercury, Venus, Moon, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
***Earth's shape is a triaxial ellipsoid
333,000 times that of the Earth: The Sun's "approximate" Mass
3 degrees: Temperature of Outer Space (middle point between 2.5 to 3.5 range)
3 atmospheric gas content constants on Earth: 78% Nitrogen~ 21% Oxygen~ 1% all other gases
3 theories concerning form of Universe: Flat ~ Spherical ~ Saddle Shaped (Linear~ Circular~ Triangular)
3 phenomena of Big Bang theorists: Helium abundance~ Microwave background~ Hubble expansion
333 miles per hour: Earth's "approximate" rate of spin
3 variations to Earth's rotation:
Secular (Friction from Earth's tidal bulge) ~
Periodic (Seasonal changes & regular events) ~
Irregular (Turbulent core/mantle interactions)
3 (23.5°) measurements of Earth:
- The Earth's axis sweeps out a cone of 23.5° half angle in 26,000 years
- Summer solstice from equator
- Winter solstice from equator
***There are 3 families of fundamental particles
3 parts of an atom: Neutrons~ Protons~ Electrons
3 basic parts to fundamental parts of atoms: 3 Quarks and 3 Anti-Quarks
3 content percentages of Gunpowder: 75% Potassium nitrate~ 15% Charcoal~ 10% Sulfur
3 basic components to nitroglycerine: Glycerol~ Nitric acid~ Sulfuric acid
3-lettered explosive (TNT) Tri-nitrotoluene, is a standard by which all other explosives are measured for 1) cost, 2) transport, and 3) flexibility of use.
3 processes of nuclear energy: Fission ~ Fusion ~ Combination(?)
3 Big Bangs:
- The "original" Big Bang of the Universe
- Mammoth explosion of a nearby massive star
- 65 million year old "Dinosaur killer" rock that caused a nuclear winter
***Triple alpha process occurring in the interior of stars at 100 million degrees is responsible for the nuclear formation of carbon
3 classical origin of Moon hypothesis:
- Binary planet or "sister" hypothesis~
- Rotational fission or "daughter" hypothesis~
- Capture or "wife" hypothesis
3 major (Moon) rock types: Potassium-rich basalt~ Anorthosite~ An Iron, Titanium-rich basalt
3 Universe Cosmology of J.R. Gott III: Our Universe~ Antimatter Universe~ Tachyon Universe
3 basic forms of Matter: Solids-Liquids-Gases3 basic Rock forms: Igneous~ Metamorphic~ Sedimentary
3 forms of Carbon: Diamonds~ Graphite~ Fullerene
3 forms of Atomic radiation: Alpha-Beta-Gamma
3 general laws of Thermodynamics
3 laws of Planetary Motion (Johannes Kepler)
3 laws of motion (Isaac Newton)
3 basic Hydrodynamic laws
3 Magnetism "laws": Opposites attract~ Likes repel~ Inverse square
3 basic materials used in magnets: Iron~ Cobalt~ Nickel
3 millimeters thick is considered a typical magnet by some standards
3 magnetic materials: Hard~ Soft~ Semi-hard (recording materials)
***Triplets are the most commonly found phosphorescing states
3 major wavelengths of sunlight: Visible~ Ultraviolet~ Infrared
3 ultraviolet radiation divisions:
- Near (4,000- 3,000 Å) ~
- Middle (3,000- 2,000 Å) ~
- Long (2,000- 100 Å)
3 fundamental forces of nature: Gravitational~ Nuclear~ Electromagnetic
3 "ideal gas" laws: Robert Boyle's~ J. Charles or J. Lussac's~ Avogadro's
(These 3 explain {in a 3 to 1 ratio way} how Pressure~ Temperature~ Volume + number of particles in a container of gas are related.)
RNA~ DNA~ Proteins RNA: --- Predominantly single stranded 3 main types: Messenger (mRNA)- Ribosomal (rRNA)- Transfer (tRNA) 3 triplets terminate protein synthesis: UAG- UAA- UGA 3-site tRNA model is well established, 2-site model is dead DNA --- Predominantly double-stranded (Double Helix) 3 main types: A- D- Z 3 polymerases (enzymes): DNA Polymerase I- II- III 3-patterned (triplet) codon system Proteins: --- Predominant triple conformation structure 3 single polypeptide forms: Primary~ Secondary~ Tertiary 3 secondary structure regions: Alpha helix~ Beta sheet~ Looped 3 tertiary structure domains: Alpha helix~ Beta sheet~ Combination of both (1 multiple polypeptide structure called Quaternary, is a composite) |
3-stranded Collagen is considered most abundant protein in our body (Triple Helix)
3 component nucleotide: Nitrogenous base~ Pentose sugar~ Phosphate group
***Tribonucleic acid (TNA), consisting of a hemiactal backbone of surface-anchored phosophotrioses, has been proposed as a hypothetical precursor to RNA and DNA, by G. Wachtershauser, 1988.
3 Billion base pairs: common reference to the human genome
***1 trillion~ More than a trillion~ 100 trillion: 3 common references to quantity of cells in the human body
3 cell membrane theories: (1st) Monolayer~ (2nd) Bi-lipid layer~ (3rd) Trilaminar
***Stanley Miller's 3 (gases) to 1 (water) ratio for Chemical Evolution: Methane~ Hydrogen~ Ammonia + water
3 distinct Cytoskeleton components: Microtubules~ Actin Filaments~ Intermediate Filament
3 primary cellular energy molecules: AMP~ ADP~ ATP (ATP is primary energy source)3 groups of basic cells: Eubacteria~ Archaebacteria~ Eukaryotes
3 germinal layers: Endoderm~ Mesoderm~ Ectoderm
3 sequenced organism development: "Monoploblastic"~ Diploblastic~ Triploblastic
3 ionized forms of amino acids: Nonpolar~ Polar~ Electrically charged
3-lettered abbreviations used for amino acids
3 types of molecular bond: Covalent~ Ionic~ Polar covalent
3 isomerism types:
- Structural (Ethyl alcohol)~
- Geometric (Maleic acid)~
- Optical (L-Lactic acid
3 hydrocarbon chain types: Straight (Propane)~ Branched (Isobutane)~ Circular (Cyclopropane)
3 main fatty acid categories: Saturated~ Monounsaturated~ Polyunsaturated
*** Omega-3 family of Essential Fatty Acids is said to be needed for optimum health
3 basic chemical reaction substances: Acids~ Bases~ Salts
3 layers of Arteries, Capillaries, Veins: Connective tissue~ Muscle~ Endothelium
(Tunica intima~ Tunica media~ Tunica adventia)
3 dietary monosaccharides well absorbed: Glucose~ Galactose~ Fructose
3-patterned general formula for carbohydrates: Cx(H20)y
3 metabolized for energy needs: Carbohydrates~ Fats~ Proteins
Triglycerides are the main storage forms of fatty acids
3 flow pattern types of Pulmonary Circulation:
- Zone A (Alveolar pressure exceeds intravascular pressure)~
- Zone B (Alveolar pressure intermediate between arteriolar and venular pressures)~
- Zone C (Intravascular pressure exceeds alveolar pressure)
3 classes of Amines (ammonia compounds):
- Primary, NH2R ~
- Secondary, NHR2 ~
- Tertiary, NR3
3 classes of Neurons: Motor (Monopolar)~ Sensory (Bipolar)~ lnter (Multipolar)
3 main cellular components of Blood: Red blood cells~ White blood cells~ Platelets
3 blood plasma protein groups: Globulin~ Albumin~ Fibrinogen
3 white blood cell (leucocyte) groups: Granulocyte~ Lymphocyte~ Monocyte
3rd corpuscle: (alternate name for platelets)
*** Band 3 protein is complex molecule in red blood cell (erythrocyte) membranes
3 letters (and combinations thereof) used for blood typing: (A~ B~ 0)
3 main blood channels: Veins~ Arteries~ Capillaries
3 interferon types: (White blood cells)~ (Fibroblasts-connective tissue)~ (Lymphocytes)
3 gastrointestinal tract wall layers: Epithelium~ Lamina propria~ Muscularis mucosae
3 gastric mucosa regions: Cardiac glandular~ Oxynti glandular~ Pyloric glandular
3 parts of the small intestine: Duodenum~ Jejunum~ Ileum
3 types of (digestive tract) epithelial cell junctions: Tight~ Desmosome~ Gap
3 carbon-to-carbon bonds:
- Single (Ethene)
- Double(Ethylene)
- Triple (Acetylene)
3 genotypes: AA (homozygous dominant)~ aa (homozygous recessive)~ Aa (heterozygous)
*** Since the fertile life of the human egg cell lasts at most one day and that of the human sperm at most two days, there is a period of about three days during which copulation can result in conception (the day when the egg is fertile and the two preceding days).
*** Generally speaking, the egg traverses the fallopian tube in about 3 days; Sperm can travel at a rate of 3 inches per hour; A spermagonium gives rise to 3 active cells and 1 resting cell.
3 trimester divisions in pregnancy
3 bones of the pelvic girdle: Ilium~ Pubis~ Ischium
3 stages of labor: Dilation of the cervix~ Delivery of the baby~ Delivery of the placenta
3 days after birth is a baby's customary first check-up
3 months old is when most babies begin shedding tears.
3 stages to ovarian follicle development
3 layers to female uterus: Perimetrium ~ Myometrium ~ Endometrium
3 embryonic somites: Dermatomes ~ Myotomes ~ Sclerotomes
3 membranes surround embryo: Amnion~ Chorion~ Allantois
3 expansions of neural tube produce: Forebrain ~ Midbrain ~ Hindbrain
3 successive brain divisions: Hind/Midbrain ~ Limbic system ~ Cerebral cortex
3 brain and spinal cord layers: Pia Mater~ Dura Mater~ Arachnoid process
3 Spinal Cord white-matter columns:
- Dorsal Funiculus ~
- Lateral Funiculus ~
- Ventral Funiculus
3 pounds: common reference to the weight of the human brain
3 pints: common reference to the capacity of the human brain
3 stages of brain development: Reptilian ~ Mammalian ~ Neomammalian
3 lobes on each Cerebellum hemisphere: Blocculondodular ~ Anterior ~ Posterior
3 divisions of autonomic neurons: Sympathetic ~ Parasympathetic ~ Enteric
3 major classes of endogenous opioid peptides: Enkephalins~ Endorphins~ Dynorphin
3 basic epithelial cell shapes: Squamous ~ Cuboidal ~ Columnar
3 heart layers: Endocardium ~ Myocardium ~ Pericardium
3 forms of stroke: Embolic ~ Hemorrhagic ~ Thrombotic
3 Catabolism stages: Glycolysis ~ Conversion of Pyruvic acid into acetyl CoA ~ Krebs Cycle
3 important nitrogenous waste compounds: Ammonia~ Urea~ Uric acid
3 bands of the Colon: Teniae mesocolica~ Teniae libera~ Teniae omentalis
3 histochemical types of skeletal muscle fibers: Type I~ Type IIB~ Type IIA
3 types of taste bud groups on papillae: Circumvallate~ Foliate~ Fungiform3 molars, 2 bi-cuspids,1 cuspid on both sides and both lower/upper jaws
3 tooth parts: Crown~ Neck~ Root
3 bud parts: Enamel organ~ Dental papilla~ Dental Sac
3 surface divisions of tooth: Lingual - Facial - Proximal
***Triangular shape to canine tooth roots in cross section
3 main types of malocclusions: Overbite ~ Underbite ~ Crowding
3 (1st, 2nd, 3rd) lower & upper jaw molars
3rd molar is singled out to be called the wisdom tooth.
3 main stages to periodontal (Gum) disease: Gingivitis ~ Periodontitis ~ Loss of bone
3 main kinds of periodontal diseases: Gingivitis ~ Periodontitis ~ Vincent's Infection
3 most common artificial teeth types: Bridges ~ Partial dentures ~ Full dentures
3 muscle types: Striated ~ Cardiac ~ Smooth
3 muscle divisions: Head ~ Belly ~ Tail
3 gluteus muscles: Maximus ~ Medius ~ Minimus
3 muscle fiber arrangements: Unipennate ~ Bipennate ~ Multipennate
3 masseter muscle parts: Superficial ~ Intermediate ~ Deep
3 muscle heads: Biceps ~ Triceps ~ Quadriceps ("Quadricep" refers to Musculus Triceps Surae, the Plantaris is counted separately) {another 3:1 ratio}
3 muscle (contrasts) definitions: Superior/Inferior~ Major/Minor~ Posterior/Anterior
3 lateral vertebral muscles: Scalenus anterior~ Scalenus medius~ Scalenus posterior
3 peroneal/fibular muscles: Peroneus brevis~ Peroneus longus~ Peroneus tertius
3 general muscle attachment types: Superficial fascia ~ Deep fascia ~ Subserous facia
3 eyelid muscles: Levator palpebrae superioris ~ Obicularis oculi ~ Corrugator supercili
3 parts of the eye: Iris~ Cornea~ Pupil
3 orbicular muscle portions: Pars orbitlis ~ Pars palpebralis ~ Pars lacrimalis
3 color blindness types: Protanopia ~ Deuteranopia ~ Tritanopia
3 eyeball tissue layers: Sclera/Cornea ~ Uveal Tract ~ Retina
3 preotic myotomes of the eyes: Oculomotor ~ Trochlear ~ Abducens
3 eyeglass types: Monofocals ~ Bifocals ~ Trifocals
3 extrinsic straight muscles (eyes): Lateralis rectus - Medialis rectus - Superior rectus
3 parts of the eye: Iris - Cornea - Pupil
3 color blindness types: Protanopia - Deuteranopia - Tritanopia
3 eyeball tissue layers: Sclera/Cornea - Uveal Tract - Retina
3 "convenient" pelvic fascia divisions: Piriformis ~ Obturator ~ Superior
3 columns (with 3 subdivisions) of the erector spinne (sacrospinalis) muscle mass:
(Lateral column): Ilicostalis lumborum~ Iliocostalis thoracis~ Ilicostalis cervicis;
(Intermediate column): Longissimus thoracis~ Longissimus cervicics~ Longissimus capitis;
(Medial column): Spinalis thoracis~ Spinalis cervicis~ Spinalis caphis
3 divisions to the transversospinalis muscle group:
- Semispinalis thoracis~ Semispinalis Cervicis~ Semispinalis capitis
- Multifidus muscles
- Rotatores thoracis~ Rotatores cervicis~ Rotatores lumborum
*** The human knee performs one kind of movement (flexion/extension)~ The ankle performs two kinds of movement (flexion/extension & inversion/eversion)~ The ball-and-socket joints, such as the hip, allow three degrees of freedom.
3 between-finger triangular spaces for each hand
3 stomach wall fiber layers: Longitudinal~ Circular~ Oblique
3 layers of dead cells make up a hair shaft: Medulla~ Cortex~ Cuticle
Triphasic sexual response nature:
- Female): Desire~ Lubrication & Swelling~ Orgasm
- (Male): Desire~ Erection~ Ejaculation
3 stages of sexual behavior by sex "experts": Foreplay~ Loveplay~ Afterplay
3 immature "standards" of sexual behavior: Length of penis~ Frequency of sex~ Number of orgasms
3-part phrase of insecure, barbaric, egocentric men: Wam - Bam - Thank you ma'am
3-part motto attributed to British Special Air Services (SAS) Regiment:
Get in- Get it done- Get out
3 functions of human skeleton: Support~ Protects organs~ Movement (with muscles)
3 letters (and combinations thereof) used for blood typing: A - B - 0
3 main blood channels: Veins - Arteries - Capillaries
3 days after birth is a baby's customary first check-up
3 months old is when most babies begin shedding tears
3 amino acids associated with organisms having a thyroid gland: Monoiodotyrosine - Diiodotyrosine - Triiodothyronine
3 pounds: common reference to the weight of the human brain (repeat from above)
3 stages of brain development: Reptilian - Mammalian - Neomammalian
3 skin layers: Epidermis - Dermis - Subcutaneous Tissue
3 burn degrees: 1st degree burn - 2nd degree burn - 3rd degree burn
3 trimester divisions in pregnancy
3 layers to female uterus: Perimetrium - Myometrium - Endometrium
3 basic fingerprint types: Loop - Whorl - Arch
3 basic feather types: Contour - Down - Filoplumes
3 parts of the small intestine: Duodenum - Jejunum - Ileum
3 bones of the pelvic girdle: Ilium - Pubis - Ischium
3 animal reproduction types: Oviparous - Viviparous - Ovoviviparous
3 animal feeding types: Herbivore - Carnivore - Omnivore
3 main body parts to Arthropods: Head - Thorax - Abdomen
3 segments of insect thorax: Prothorax - Mesothorox - Metathorax
3 eyelids in the Tuatara, Crocodilians and most birds
3 groups of Ocean life: Plankton - Nekton - Benthos
3 muscles of the human nose: Procerus - Nasalis - Depressor septi
3 elevations (Concha) in the olfactory portion of the nose
3 bones in the nose: Inferior Meatus - Middle Meatus - Superior Turbinate
3 stages of bone development: Membranes - Cartilaginous - Osseous
3 types of cartilage: Fibro - Elastic - Hyaline
3 possible bone formation sites: Intramembranous - Endochondral - Heterotopic
3 bone layers: Concentric - Circumferential - Interstial
3 bone cell types: Osteoblasts - Osteocytes - Osteoclasts
3 joint categories: Fibrous - Cartiloginous - Synovial (Immovable - Partly movable - Freely movable)
3 stage development for some insects: Larva - Pupa - Imago
3rd and usually largest vein of an insect's wing is called the Radius
3 plant families of trees with the most significant (food bearing) attractive flowers: Magnoliaceae - Rosoceae - Leguminosae
3 "feeding" hairs on Venus fly trap lobes trigger closing
3 flagella on certain protozoans (Tritrichomonas)
3 sets of chromosomes in humans (presently) produces mutations such as Down's syndrome
3 sets of chromosomes in plants produces humanity's single most important food sources such as maize, wheat, barley, oats, rice and other cereals (Monocotyledonea plants)
3 photoperiodic plant types: Long day - Day-neutral - Short day
Note: during the process of placing the information from the poster onto a webpage, I added a few examples in an attempt to place other similar (or correlational) ideas in concert with the printed (on the poster) examples. The origin of the moon theories example can also be found on the 4th column, while other included examples are to be found on other pages at the threesology.org site. I left the additional examples in, attached with this comment.)
3 Classifications for selecting rotation crops: Cultivated row - Close growing grains - Sod-forming (rest crops), resulting in a simple 3-patterned ratio of 1:1:1: requiring 3 fields and 3 years to produce each crop annually.
3 basic steps in processing harvested rice: Cleaning & hulling - Removing the bran layers - Grading
3 gastric mucosa regions: Cardic glandular - Oxynti glandular - Pyloric glandular
3 system interaction for gonadal regulation: Hypothalamus - Anterior Pituitary - Gonads
3-letter mnemonic rule-of-thumb for First Aid: (A)irway - (B)reathing - (C)irculation
3-group sorting method during disasters to maximize number of survivors: Triage
3 lethal injection drugs: Sodium Pentothal - Pancuronium Bromide - Potassium Chloride
3 Spinal Cord white matter columns: Dorsal Funiculus - Lateral Funiculus - Ventral Funiculus
3 lobes on each Cerebellum hemisphere: Blocculondodular - Anterior - Posterior
3 sequences of kidney development: Pronephros - Mesonephros - Metanephros
3 main animal tissue fluids: Lymph - Cerebral Spinal - Milk
3 coats of the gall-bladder: Serous - Fibromuscular - Mucous
3 lobes to the prostate gland
3 basic leaf types: Opposite - Alternate - Whorled
3 basic leaf shapes: Broad - Narrow - Needle
3 distinct Cytoskeleton components: Microtubules - Actin Filaments - Intermediate Filament
3 types of animal symmetry: Radial symmetry - Bilateral symmetry - Asymmetrical
3 simple eyes (ocelli) in a triangular form between many adult insect compound eyes
3 insect types based on metamorphosis: Ametabolous - Hemimetabolous - Holometabolous
3 main divisions of insect digestive system tube: Foregut - Midgut - Hindgut
3 principal components of a typical insect antennae: Scape - Pedicel - Flagellum
3 integumental elements of insect wing: Cuticle - Epidermis - Basement membrane
3 bones (fingers, toes) - 2 bones (ulna/radius, tibia/fibula) 1 bone (humerus, femur)
3 appendage joint divisions: Shoulder - Elbow - Wrist/ Hip - Knee - Ankle
3 orders of leeches: Acanthobdellae - Rhynchobdellae - Gnothobdellae
3 layers ("horizons") to most soils: Topsoil - Subsoil - Partly decomposed bedrock
3 main mineral fertilizer elements: Nitrogen - Phosphorus - Potassium
3 common (U.S.) commercial grade percentages of cocoa butter: 11 - 17 - 22
3 parts or multiples of 3 (sepals, petals, stamens) occur with 3-chromosome plants
3 layers to Pericarp (ovary wall): Exocarp - Mesocarp - Endocarp (wall of the fruit)
3 common black male field cricket notes sometimes translated as "Please-Come-Here!"
3 "courting" chirp of European house cricket translated (by me) as "I-love -you!"
3rd F above middle C is pitch trilled for 1 5 sec. or more: (Black-horned tree cricket)
3 faint notes, Tip-Tip-Tip then a 5 to 20 sec. Tse-e-e-e: slender meadow grass-hopper
3 digestive enzymes: Glycerol esterhydrolase - Cholesterol esterase - Phospholipase A2
3 substances regulating HCL (gastric acid): Acetylcholine - Histamine - Gastrin
3 increased acid secretion phases in response to food: Cephalic - Gastric - Intestinal
3 glomerular capillary layers: Endothelium - Basement membrane - Podocytes/foot process
3 adrenal cortex zones: Outer (cortex) - Inner (medulla) - Outermost (zona glomerulosa)
3 input/output synapses (relations) classes: one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one
3 animal groups have developed true flight: Insects - Birds - Mammals
3 categories of migratory fishes: Oceanodromous - Anadromous - Cotodromous
3 winters, or 2 winters, or 1 winter: length of time Salmon remain in the sea
3 hour period: nocturnal migratory bird flights occur between 10 pm and 1 am
3 (length) types of rice: Short grain - Medium grain * Long grain
3 Asian rice groups: Indica - Japonica - Javanica
3 commercial ((U.S.) wheat types: Common Wheat - Club Wheat - Durum Wheat
3 main kinds of tea: Black - Green - Oolong
3 largest tea leave groups, used for loose tea: Orange Pekoe - Pekoe - Pekoe Souchong
3 smaller/broken tea leave groups, for tea bags: Broken Orange Pekoe - Broken Orange Pekoe Fannings - Fannings
3 piercing stylets in the mouth: The 1,600 kinds of fleas (Siphonaptera) on earth
3 small stylets: Sucking lice (Anoplura)
3 visceral cavities of humans: Skull - Thorax - Abdomen
3 organs considered vital for life: Brain - Heart - Lungs
3 major adrenal cortex hormones: (Glucocorticoid) cortisol - (Mineralocorticoid) aldasterone - Sex steroid precursors
Zoologists have noted many triads within the human body. It would seem as if every important function of an organism possesses this basic structure. Such observations illustrate the fundamental meaning of the triad as the living wholeness of types of relationship within a complex single structure. It is a mark simultaneously of a being's unique identity and of its internal multiplicity, of its relative stability and of the mobility of its components, of its immanent independence and of its dependence. The triad is as useful a channel of dialectic in the logical exercise of thought as of movement in physics and of living matter in biology. The basic rationale of this universal phenomenon of threes must no doubt be sought in a metaphysics of composite and contingent being and in a global view of the manifold oneness of being - appearance, development and destruction (or transformation); or birth, growth and death; or again, in Astrological tradition, increase, culmination and decrease.
3 letter (unofficial) - 2 letter - 1 letter abbreviations on Periodic Table of Elements*** After 3 years of debate, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has officially announced (two-patterned abbreviated) names for elements 101 through 109 that were previously (unofficially) named with three-patterned abbreviations. -This is another example of regressing from a 3 to a 2.
*** A triadic structure of elements for the Periodic Table was proposed by J.W. Dobereiner in 1817. The triad is the earliest atomic weight classification of the elements.
3 basic groups of the Periodic Table: Metals - Non-metals - Semi-metals
3 insect migration types: One-way emigration to breed - From breeding to feeding area - From breeding areas to hibernation sites
3 common animal territorial markings: Feces - Urine - Scent
3 major components of sunlight: Visible light - Ultraviolet light - Infrared radiation
3 main types of plant hormones: Auxins - Cytokinins - Gibberellins
3rd eye in humans is referred to as the "mind's eye"
*** The Arthropods are the largest phylum of invertebrate animals with jointed legs, a segmented body and an exoskeleton, including insects, crustaceans, arachnids and myriapods. In 1866 Ernst Haeckel proposed a Monophyletic theory of Arthropoda evolution. In 1894 Moseley proposed a theory of Arthropoda evolution. Tiegs and Manton (1958), Anderson (1973), and Manton (1973, 1977) have presented strong arguments in favor of a Polyphyletic theory of Arthropoda evolution. This third theory is based on evidence derived largely from comparative embryology and functional morphology which heavily supports dividing the Arthropods into three natural groups, each with the rank of phylum. The term "arthropods" thus becomes an indication of a particular grade of advancement and no longer has taxonomic status. The 3 phyla of this theory are the Chelicerata, Crustacea and the Uniramia. This theory requires the acceptance of the idea that an extensive evolutionary convergence has taken place. (In other words, a "fusion" has/is taking place.)
Tiegs and Manton, to the idea of an original three-segmented head (seen in modern Onychophora), have added progressively, Mandibular, First Maxillary, and Second Maxillary (labial) segments, giving rise to the "Monognathous", "Dignathous", and "Trignathous" conditions, respectively. There has been found no trace of the Monognathous condition. The Dignathous condition is found in the Pauropoda and Diplopoda and Trignathous condition is seen in the Chiopoda (in which the second maxillae remain leglike) and the Symphyla and Hexapoda (in which the second maxillae fuse to form the labium).
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*** As can be clearly seen in the simplified illustration, the Uniramia have (1) podite, the Chelicerata have (2) podites and the Crustacea have (3): Epipodite - Endopodite -Exopodite, in spite of the fact that the Crustacea are labeled biramous. |
*** A diagram indicating the main features of adult limb structures in arthropods:
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epi = epipodite; endo = endopodite; exo = exopodite; b = basipodite; c = coxopodite. |
*** The Oligoneoptera (bees, wasps, ants, beetles, lice, flies, fleas, etc.) are characterized by the presence of a pupal stage between the juvenile and adult phases of development. Several theories (and attendant stage labels) have been proposed to account for the development of the pupal stage within the 3 distinct stage system. The differing theories, except for H.E. Hinton's (I 963) which has attracted attention said to be due to its simplicity, revolve around arguments generally centered on (1) "Suppression of the larval stage", (2) "Compression of the nymphal stage" and (3) "Expansion of the imaginal stage".
Language development is directly related to how we hear. Look at its structure:
| 3-Patterned Ear
Structure | |
| 3 overall
divisions: Outer - Inner - Middle 3 middle ear divisions: Tympanum - Epitympanum - Mastoid antrum 3 eardrum membranes: Cutaneum - Collagen fibers - Mucosm 3 semi-circular canals 3 bones (ossicular chain): Incus- Stapes -Malleus 3 main malleus ligaments: Anterior- Lateral -Superior 3 incus anchorage points: Malleus - Stapes - Bony fossa wall 3 cochlea sections (Scala): Vestibuli- Tympani -Cochlear duct 3 extrinsic muscles (Auricularis): Anterior- Superior - Posterior 3 sound conduction paths: Elec. - Mech. - Fluid Bone (solid) - Air (gas) - Fluid (liquid) 3 nerve stimulation paths: Mech.- Chem. - Elect. 3 outer hair cell rows (typical in mammals) |
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*** Imagine our language development if our ear components exhibited a different predominant pattern: 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, etc…
3 main forms of ossicular chain fixation: Fluid - Mechanical -Otosclerosis3 classes of ossicular lever action: Force arm - Resistance arm - Fulcrum
3 principal types of deafness: Conduction - Nerve - Stimulation
3 acoustic distortion forms: Frequency - Phase - Amplitude
3 basic properties of vibrating bodies: Inertia - Elasticity - Dissipation
3 sound characteristics: Pitch - Volume (intensity) - Tone
3 Sound wave propagation processes: Diffraction - Transmission - Reflection
3 turns to the Cochlea, variously mismeasured as 2 3/8, 2¼, 2 5/8, 2½, 2¾, 2 7/8, etc., ???
*** Stark & Nathanson (1973) differentiated three types of infant vocalizations:
1. Cry sounds (sounds produced in acute stress such as pain or hunger)
2. Discomfort sounds (a lesser degree of discomfort such as when not reaching a toy)
3. Vegetative sounds (coughs, burps, sneezes)
Wolff (1965) described three cry types:
1. Basic cry
2. Mad/Angry cry
3. Pain cry
Truby & Lind (1965) referred to three acoustic types of cry:
1. Phonation (basic cry)
2. Dysphonation (turbulence)
3. Hyperphonation (shift)
3 successive/overlapping stages of infant babbling:
1. Single Chunks (Ba)
2. Double chunks (MaMa)
3. Triple Chunks (DaDaDa)
(combinations produce long strings of "reduplications")
3 successive/overlapping stages of word development:
1. Single word (Doggie)
2. Double word (Doggie Come)
3. Triple word (Doggie Come Here)
(combinations can produce yakety-yak-yak)
3 Esophagus parts: Pars Cervicalis - Pars Thoracica - Pars Abdominalis
3 single and 3 pairs of cartilage compose the frame (skeleton) of the larynx
3 basic parts to all languages: Subject - Object - Verb
3-model structure of all languages: Phonology - Grammar - Lexicon
*** Noam Chomsky's transformational grammar components: Phrase-structure - Transformational - Morphophonemic
3 parts to speech: Consonants - Vowels - Supra-segmentals
3 stress forms in language: Primary - Secondary - Weak
3 English Language divisions: Old - Middle - Modern
3 Archaic Chinese Language divisions: Early - Middle - Late
3 sentence Ends: Period - Question Mark - Exclamation Point
3 sentence Types: Simple - Compound - Complex
3 library researches: Author - Title - Subject
3-part mnemonic rule: I before E except after C
3 Noun types: Person - Place - Thing
3 Pronoun types: First person - Second person - Third person
3 Personal Pronoun Cases: Subjective - Objective - Possessive
3 Personal Pronoun Genders: Masculine - Feminine - Neuter
3 Verb Moods: Indicative - Imperative - Subjunctive
3 Verb Inflections: Tense - Mood - Number
3 Adjective comparison degrees: Positive - Comparative - Superlative
3 Affix subdivisions: Prefixes - Infixes - Suffixes
3 basic correct punctuation units: Phrase - Independent Clause - Dependent Clause
3 word variation categories: Antonyms - Homonyms - Synonyms
3 types of Verbals (special forms of a verb):Gerund - Infinitive - Participle
3 successive stages of writing development: Logography - Syllabography - Alphabetography
3 great writing steps: Sumerian phonetization - West Semitic syllabary - Greek alphabet
3 writing systems on Rosetta Stone: Hieroglyphics - Demotic Script - Greek
3 Mayan Codices: Dresden Codex - Madrid Codex - Paris Codex
3 languages on Sumerian Cuneiform: Semitic Babylonian - Indo-European Persian - Elamite
3 (talking) drills: Imitation - Substitution - Transformational (Guided repetition to instill a particular aspect of language in a learner)
3 types of syllable stress by Sebastian Shaumyan (1987): Strong/Dynamic - Quantitative - Tonal/Musical
*** Tripartite division of language classification by the Linguist August Schleicher: Isolating - Agglutinating - Inflecting.
Influenced by Darwin, he proposed that his three types represent different stages in the evolution of languages. He made an attempt to support his views by using analogies to nature: Isolating (crystals) - Agglutinating (plants) - Inflecting (animals).
3 Types of Languages (Isadore of Seville, 7th Century A.D.):
(1) All the Oriental nations jam tongue and words together in the throat, like Hebrews and Syrians.(2) All the Mediterranean peoples push their enunciation forward to the palate, like the Greeks and the Asians.
(3) All the Occidentals break their words on the teeth, like the Italians and Spaniards.
3 rulers are noted for carrying out experiments (by isolating children from all spoken language influences) to determine which language would be spoken first, and hence, identify the first language:
1. Egyptian Pharaoh Psammetichus (664 - 610 B.C.)
2. James IV of Scotland (A.D.1473 - 1513)
3. Roman Emperor Fredrick II of Hohenstaufen (A.D. 1200's).
*** The "Three Languages" story occurring in Fairy tales is said to be very old and exist in various versions in different cultures.
3 allophone (phonemic derivative) environments:
(1) At the end of a word (only oral vowels; no nasal vowels)(2) Before nasal consonants (only nasalized vowels; no oral vowels)
(3) Before nonnasal consonants (only oral vowels; no nasalized vowels)
3 types of alphabet in use characterized by 3 different methods of indicating vowels:
1. Greek, Latin, and so on - vowels indicated by separate signs2. Aramaic, Hebrew - Arabic, and so on - vowels indicated by separate diacritic marks
3. Ethiopic, Indic - vowels indicated by diacritic marks attached to the sign or, very rarely, by internal modification.
3 subtle parts to one expression by the historian Francis Parkman (1823-1893):
(1) He who would do some great things in this short life must apply himself to work with such a concentration of force as,(2) to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves,
(3) looks like insanity.
3 subtle parts to analogy: Back to the Crib & Bottle though you call it Bar & Booze, get Drunk so you can Toddle and the unknowing will excuse.
3-part emphasis by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: I believe that the process of thought might be carried on independent and apart from spoken or written language. I do not in the least doubt that if language had been denied or withheld from man, thought would have been a process more simple, more easy, and more perfect than at present.
3-part expressions:
- Cool- Calm- Collected
- Lean- Mean- Fighting Machine
- Oh-My-God! (or Gosh!)
- (Between you- me- and the fence post)
- (1st the worst- 2nd the same- Last the best of all the game)
- (Those who can, do - Those who can't, teach - Those who can't teach, teach teachers)
- Past the lips- Through the gums- Look out stomach cause here it comes)
- Love- Honor- Obey (weddings),
- A minute in your mouth- An hour in your stomach- A lifetime on your hips
- Beg- Borrow- Steal
- Men- Women- Children
- Bell- Book- Candle
- Ready- Willing- Able
- Blood- Sweat- Tears
- Fat- Dumb- Happy
- Hither- Thither- Yon
- Hook- Line- Sinker
- Hop- Skip- Jump
- Lock- Stock- Barrel
- Me- Myself- I
- Jeepers- Creepers- Where did you get those Peepers
- By Jiminy- Jingo- Gee
- Ninety-Days Wonder
- Butter-Bar Lieutenant
- Dog-Day Afternoon
- Preserve- Protect- Defend (Presidential Oath)
- Turn on- Tune in- Drop out (Timothy Leary)
- Duty Before Pleasure (Work Before Play)
- Age Breeds Aches
- Seeing Is Believing
- Art Imitates Nature
- Hang In There
- Keep On Truckin'
- Borrowing Brings Sorrowing
- Walls Have Ears
- Never Say Never
- Never Give Up/In
- Never Say Die
- Forewarned Is Forearmed
- Vipers Breed Vipers
- Keep the Faith
- See You Later
- I Love You
- Faith-Hope-Charity
- In The Beginning...
- Be A Man
- Get A Job
- Count Me In/Out
- So Be It
- Home-Sweet-Home
- It Is Done
- Wanna Get Lucky?
- No Retreat- No Surrender- No Hostages
- Go for it
- etc..
*** Note: The predominant world view of criminals is a pattern-of-two. They see the world as Black/White, Right/Wrong, Good/Bad, Good/Evil, Win/Lose, Convict/Cop, etc... In the prison environment is the division of Convict/Inmate. Inmates will involve themselves in programs while Convicts won't participate in the "system." We encourage this grouping-into-twos perspective by forcing many prisoners to sleep in two-man cells though there are three overall sleeping arrangements: One man cell - Two man cell - Dormitory style (open bay). There is no middle ground for the criminal. No Win-Win alternative. They see only a Win/Lose or Lose/Lose situation. There is no gray area, no compromise, no middle, only extremes. For those of you who need to be slapped in the face in order to recognize the hysterical ludicrous idiocy occurring with our Education system ideology, Political social self-governance philosophy and our pathetic prison/youth "correction" rehabilitative measures , let me also step on your toe and punch you in the stomach:
If a child, for whatever reason (poverty, abuse, malnutrition, retardation, etc...) has a predominant world-view that is 2-patterned oriented and is required to do class work/homework and participate in a class/home/job whose teacher/parent/boss is (for the most part) unaware of their own 3-patterned preferences because (as will be seen in the following examples) a pattern-of-three is an inherent structure of the material being taught, there will be CONFLICT expressed in a variety of ways such as delinquency, criminality, pregnancy, suicide, truancy, etc... And in spite of the notions of 'gangs' (large groups) committing crimes the reality is that most juveniles commit crimes/delinquency in groups of 3, in groups of 2, or alone. Sociologists call these groups Triads, Dyads and the Loner.
(There are typically three number "words" of primitive peoples: One for the quantity 1, Two for the quantity 2, Many for any quantity beyond two. When a person has had too much alcohol to drink, we say they had one too many. The sleeping arrangements of prisoners are: One man cell - Two man cell - Many men 'cell.' Unfortunately, most of those who will read this page will not be conscious of the correlation just made, much less recognize the sociological implications of the intoned linguistic paradigm.)
Table 2.4 Examples of imposed recall structures. Most frequent grouping for each class with frequency given in parentheses. (From Wilkes, A.L., P and Simpson, I., Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 24, 48-54.)
| No. of items |
Age (years) |
No structure |
Doublet | Triplet | Quartet | Other |
| 5 | Adult | (9) | 2:3(5) | 3:2(6) | - | |
| 10 | (5) | 2:3(10) | 3:2(5) | |||
| 8 | (6) | 2:3(9) | 3:2(5) | - | - | |
| 6 | Adult | (4) | 2:4(4) | 3:3(9) | 4:2(3) | |
| 10 | (2) | 2:2:2(2) | 3:3(12) | 4:2(3) | - | |
| 8 | (1) | 2:4(4) | 3:3(10) | 4:2(2) | ||
| 7 | Adult | (3) | 2:5(2) | 3:4(5) | 4:3(3) | 5:2(3) |
| 10 | - | 2:2:3(1) 2:5(1) |
3:2:2(6) | 4:3(5) | 5:2(3) | |
| 8 | - | 2:2:3(6) | 3:4(7) | 4:3(2) | - | |
| 8 | Adult | (1) | 2:2:2:2(3) | 3:3:2(3) | 4:4(4) | 6:2(1) |
| 10 | - | 2:3:3(5) | 3:3:2(4) 3:2:3(4) |
4:4(2) | 5:3(1) | |
| 8 | - | 2:2:4(2) 2:2:2:2(2) |
3:3:2(3) | 4:2:2(5) | 5:3(1) | |
| Percent incidence of group structure All lists and Subjects |
Adult | 29.0 | 46.8 | 17.7 | 6.4 | |
| 10 yrs | 30.1 | 49.3 | 15.0 | 5.4 | ||
| 8 yrs | 41.1 | 39.7 | 17.8 | 1.3 | ||
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In a further study a partial replication was carried out using random samples of children of 10 and 8 years. Each child started with a consonant list of three items which was read and recalled to the usual criterion. Thereafter list lengths of four, five, six, seven and eight consonants were tackled in ascending order, the list at all lengths being randomly chosen for each subject. Tape recordings of the criterion reading and recall trials for each list were pause analyzed and imposed groupings identified from the presence of inflection pauses. There were 20 subjects at each age level with equal numbers of male and female children. As with the adult subjects the classification of imposed structure is based upon the size of the first-imposed group and included in Table 2.4 are the most popular groupings observed during the recall at these age levels. The numbers in parentheses refer to the number of subjects choosing a given structure. | ||||||
Taking adult performance over list length as a reference point a triplet preference is clearly shown. For all list lengths except list 8, the most frequent adult pattern is built around an initial triplet grouping. As Ryan (1969) has observed where symmetrical grouping is possible this tends to be preferred, serving to emphasize a 3:3 grouping for list 6 and to attenuate a 3:3:2 grouping for list B. If grouping type is expressed as a percentage of all grouping occurrences then strict comparisons are only possible for the doublet and triplet types since list 5 could be divided as 2:3 or 3:2 but not as 4:1 given the dependence on an inflection pause measure for identifying group boundaries. It follows that the incidence of doublet and triplet groupings can be meaningfully compared over list lengths but not groupings in excess of three items. For adults the incidence of doublet structures was 29 percent and, of triplet, 46.8 percent.
For the 8-year-old sample no predominance of triplet groupings was found, the percent incidences being equivalent, 41.1 and 39.7 percent. In the 10-year-old sample the distribution was close to the adult form, 30.1 and 49.3 percent. The grouping structures given in Table 2.4 apply to recall during criterion trials and it is possible to compare them with the grouping structures imposed during reading. It should be noted, however, that structural alterations from reading to recall can take different forms which need to be distinguished. Suppose for example that list 8 was read as 2:2:4. During recall the grouping pattern could again be 2:2:4 (Duplication), 4:4 (Omission), 2:2:2:2 (Addition) or 3:3:2 (Change). Of these possibilities Omission and Addition retain features of the original structure whereas change need not do so. Of the adults, two subjects introduced a change in their recall of list 5 and four subjects did so for list 8. The 8-year-olds showed a greater tendency to change from reading to recall than the adults but not to the extent found for the 10-year-olds of whom 12 out of 20 changed for the eight-item list. It seems plausible that the age difference is due to a developmental shift in the grouping base-tending to three items for older subjects. The established increase in memory span over this age range would appear to support this interpretation (McLaughlin, 1963).
Wilkes, Lloyd and Simpson (1972) argued that for adult subjects a single repeated rhythm based upon triplet groups was underlying the observed results. Subjects repeatedly imposed groups of three items leaving a terminal group of either two or four items. Assuming Broadbent's estimate of a register capacity to be correct at three items the present results couple the maximum use of that capacity with a single repetitive rhythm. The children's data did not permit a similar conclusion for the repetitive use of a single base but strongly implied a developmental progression in this direction. In general, therefore, the use of inflection pauses to identify spontaneous grouping structures provides an account consistent with other independent descriptions of similar learning tasks.
3 forms of memory: Sensory - Short-term (working) - Long-term3 forms of long-term memory: Procedural - Semantic - Episodic
*** The foregoing article by A.L. Wilkes from chapter 2 of "Studies in Long Term Memory," 1975, is one of many experiments by researchers who conclude that best memorization results from "chunking" in groups-of-three, (and above normal memory obviously results from using a hierarchal (triangular) structure as opposed to a linear, circular, or non-specific arrangement... for particular types of information.) The recurrent usage of three-patterned chunks by adults and older children is distinct from the usage of two-patterned chunks by some younger children. This two-patterned preference is further elaborated on in the studies of Bruno Bettelheim by his analysis of children and Fairy Tales as is indicated in the following excerpt from his "The Uses of Enchantment" on pages 74 & 75. As a corollary to this let me mention that criminal psychologists have profiled a tendency of criminals to portray a child's perception of the world with adult labels. It has been said that criminals are like two year olds because they harbor an attitude described (in a three-patterned way) as "I want what I want when I want it," which is clearly characteristic of the criminal's typical two-patterned "All or Nothing" approach illustrated by the phrase "I want it all or I want no part of it (but neither ran you if I can't have it").
The three-patterned repetition "I want what I want when I want it" that is used as an imposed description upon two-patterned oriented individuals, serves to camouflage the difference in thinking processes between the criminal and non-criminal. By imposing three-patterned (unconsciously) preferred descriptions on individuals with a two-patterned preferred orientation, such a three-patterned preferred cognitive grouping perspective obscures confirmation of what our common-sense notions about criminals say, namely, that they think differently from non-criminals. It is a necessary distinction that we continually trip over like some branch in a forest that we step on and cause ourselves to stumble, thus distracting us from recognizing that we need to adapt a whole new spectrum of rehabilitation measures based upon a 1-2-3 maturational development sequence. Like-wise, our Educators must become sensitive to the realization that a student may be subtly exhibiting a preference for two-patterned groupings in an academic environment whose instructor and/or subject matter is fundamentally three-patterned organized and necessarily requires the same of the individual.
If an individual's 2-patterned grouping preference persists in such an environment, there is the very real potential risk of conflict, confusion, or criminality if such a student is not offered an effective 2 into 3 transitional-grouping-preference learning skills curriculum attended with an appropriate teaching methodology. For whatever reason, be it poverty, abuse, malnutrition, retardation, etc., we must acknowledge that same students do not make the same "normal" 2 into 3 cognitive-grouping-preference transition as do their peers. (Some are slower while others are accelerated.) Convincingly, this is why mast delinquents turn away from criminal activities while a minority continue to commit offenses through adulthood.
As a final example of the aforementioned "3 imposed on 2" circumstance, another three-patterned perspective prison administrations impose on inmates is the basic security measure of Minimum - Medium - Maximum which indicate a prisoner's level of escape risk. We should acknowledge that at this point in time, society is a little bit late at trying to teach many of these individuals that they live in a world that is becoming all the more increasingly three-patterned oriented, particularly if they have a predominant two-patterned perspective. It is a pattern that most of us, for the most part, grow out of using as the foremost means of orienting ourselves in the world, society, job, family and various other social or non-social circumstances.
| ALL-OR-NOTHING THINKING To "see both sides" of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides. -Idries Shad, from his Reflections |
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By Bruno Bettelheim Before and well into the Oedipal period (roughly ages three to six or seven), the child's experience of the world is chaotic, but only as seen from an adult point of view, because chaos implies an awareness of this state of affairs. If this "chaotic" fashion of experiencing the world is all one knows, then it is accepted as the way the world is. In the language of the Bible, which expresses the deepest feelings and insights of man, in the beginning the world was "without form." The way to overcome chaos is also told in the Bible: "God divided the light from darkness." During and because of the Oedipal struggles, the outside world comes to hold more meaning for the child and he begins to try to make sense of it. He no longer takes for granted that the confused way he sees the world is the only possible and appropriate one. The manner in which the child can bring some order into his world view is by dividing everything into opposites. In the later Oedipal and post-Oedipal ages, this splitting extends to the child himself. The child, like all of us, is at any moment in a welter of contradictory feelings. But while adults have learned to integrate these, the child is overwhelmed by these ambivalences within himself. He experiences the mixture of love and hate, desire and fear within himself as an incomprehensible chaos. He cannot manage feeling at one and the same moment both good and obedient, yet bad and rebellious, although he is. Since he cannot comprehend intermediate stages of degree and intensity, things are either all light or all darkness. One is either all courage or all fear; the happiest or the most miserable; the most beautiful or the ugliest; the smartest or the dumbest; one either loves or hates, never anything in between. This is also how the fairy tale depicts the world: figures are ferocity incarnate or unselfish benevolence. An animal is either all-devouring or all-helpful. Every figure is essentially one-dimensional, enabling the child to comprehend its actions and reactions easily. Through simple and direct images the fairy story helps the child sort out his complex and ambivalent feelings, so that these begin to fall each one into a separate place, rather than being all one big muddle. As he listens to the fairy tale, the child gets ideas about how he may create order out of the chaos which is his inner life. The fairy tale suggests not only isolating and separating the disparate and confusing aspects of the child's experience into opposites, but projecting these onto different figures. Even Freud found no better way to help make sense out of the incredible mixture of contradictions which coexist in our mind and inner life than by creating symbols for isolated aspects of the personality. He named these id, ego and superego. If we, as adults, must take recourse to the creation of separate entities to bring some sensible order into the chaos of our inner experiences, haw much greater is the child's need for this! Today adults use such concepts as id, ego, superego and ego-ideal to separate out internal experiences and get a better grasp on what they are all about. Unfortunately, in doing so we have lost something which is inherent in the fairy tale: the realization that these externalizations are fictions, useful only for sorting out and comprehending menial processes. Giving the inner processes separate names-id, ego, superego--made them entities, each with its own propensities. When we consider the emotional connotations these abstract terms of psychoanalysis have for most people using them, then we begin to see that these abstractions are not all that different from the personifications of the fairy tale. When we speak of the asocial and unreasonable id pushing the weak ego around or the ego doing the superego's bidding, these scientific similes are not much different from the allegories of the fairy tale. In the latter, the poor and weak child is confronted by the powerful witch that knows only its own desires and acts on them, without regard to any consequences. When the meek tailor in the Brothers Grimm's "The Valiant Little Tailor" manages to subdue two huge giants by making them fight each other, is he not acting as the weak ego does when it plays id against superego and, by neutralizing their opposite energies, gains rational control over these irrational forces? Many errors in understanding how our minds work could be avoided if modern man would at all times remain aware that these abstract concepts are nothing but convenient handles for manipulating ideas which, without such externalization, would be too difficult to comprehend. There is in actuality, of course, no separation between them, just as there is no real separation between mind and body. When the hero of a fairy tale is the youngest child, or is specifically called "the dummy" or "Simpleton" at the start of the story, this is the fairy tale's rendering of the original debilitated state of the ego as it begins its struggle to cope with the inner world of drives and with the difficult problems which the outer world presents. The id, not unlike how psychoanalysis views it, is frequently depicted in the form of some animal, standing for our animal nature. Fairy tale animals come in two forms... Note: The above comments about Fairy Tales are from pages 74 - 75 of "The Uses of Enchantment: The meaning and importance of Fairy Tales" ©1975 ISBN 0-394-72265-5. |
3 ("powered") "arbitrarily chosen" Electronics math tool: 10-15 10-12 10-9 10-6 10-3 ... 103 106 109 1012 1015 ...etc.
3-patterned formulas:
| C = pi x D | (Circumference of a Circle) | E = H x V | (Planck's Constant) |
| A = L x W | (Area of a Rectangle) | P = I x E | (Watt's "Law") |
| A = 1/2B x H | (Area of a Triangle) | E = I x R | (Ohm's "Law") |
| A = pi x R2 | (Area of a Circle) | E = V1 + V2 | (Kirchhoffs Voltage Law) |
| E = M x C2 | (Einstein's formula) | P = R x B | (Percentage formulas) |
| Z = Eg ÷ Ig | (Thevenin impedance formula) | A2 + B2 = C2 | (Pythagorean theorem) |
*** Thales of Miletus; "Thales Proposition" (Triangles over the diameter of a circle are right-angled), is oldest theory of occidental mathematics. (Think of this in terms of a Triangle/Earth impression.)
3 patterned enumerations:
- 3 zeros (thousand)
- 6 zeros (million)
- 9 zeros (billion)
- 12 zeros (trillion)
- 15 zeros (quadrillion)
- 18 zeros (quintillion)
- 21 zeros (sextillion)
- 27 zeros (octillion)
- 30 zeros (nonillion)
- 33 zeros (decillion)
- etc...
*** Same Sum---Every Time: Take any three-digit number in which the first digit is larger than the last digit. Reverse the number and subtract the smaller number from the larger one. Reverse the result and add this number to the result. For example, use the number 725. The reverse is 577. Subtract 527 from 725 to get 198. The reverse is 891. Add 891 to 198 to get 1,089 every time. If the result from step 2 is a two-digit number, such as 99, put a 0 in front of the 99 before reversing it. (For the numerologically inclined, the result is 9, the perfect multiple of 3.)
3-letters:GCD (Greatest Common Divisor);
HCF (Highest Common Factor);
LCM (Lowest Common Multiple;
LCD (Lowest Common Denominator)
3 laws of Addition & Multiplication: Associative - Commutative - Distributive
3 common set of unite to indicate angular measure: Degrees - Radians - Grads
3 laws of indices (Algebra): Multiplication - Division - Powers
3-patterned common Set Theory expression: (1, 2, 3...)
3 Quadratic equation constants: Coefficient of x2 - Coefficient of x - Term of x
3 functions of angles in Trigonometry: Sine - Cosine - Tangent
3 basic triangles: Obtuse - Right - Acute
3 ideal geometric entities are the synthesis of all forms: Point - Line - Plane
3 letters used to name an angle with the vertex as the center letter: ABC, CDE, EFG, etc.
3 labels for mathematical term quantity: Binomial - Trinomial - Polynomial
3 fundamental math problems: Add - Subtract - Multiply (Division is a form of Multiplication; or viewed as a 3 -to- 1 ratio)
3 Addition/Multiplication parts: Addend - Addend - Sum/Multiplicand - Multiplier - Product
3 Subtraction/Division parts: Minuend - Subtrahend - Remainder/Divisor - Dividend - Quotient
3 divisions (ones - tens - hundreds) are grouped by a comma: ones-tens-hundreds, thousands
***From an Elizabethan Manuscript (1570: Multiplication is vexation, Division is as bad; The rule-of-three doth puzzle me, And practice drives me mad.
("Rule-of 3" arithmetic, found in Chinese textbook dating 1000-900 B.C.)
3 basic movement types for most resistance meters: d'Arsanval - Iron-vane - Electrodynamometer
3 electrical circuit types: Series - Parallel - Series/Parallel (combination)
3-phase systems used in most electric generators
3 phase and 1 phase electrical service in the USA (a 3 to 1 ratio)
3 basic transistor layers: Emitter - Base - Collector
3 patterned Power "Law": Power equals Watt divided by Time
3 laws of Indices (Algebra): Multiplication - Division - Powers
3 patterned current-in-amperes equation: (I)amperes equals Q(coulombs) divided by T(seconds)
3-patterned general formula of the Scientific Method:
(1) The observation of the phenomena and the recording of facts.
(2) The formulation of physical laws from the generalization of the phenomena.
(3) The development of a theory that is used to predict new phenomena.
3-colored flag: Children are taught to pledge allegiance to the U.S. Flag
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(To Be Sung by Niels Bohr) I think that I shall never C A # lovelier than 3; For 3 < 6 or 4, and than 1 it's slightly more. All things in nature come in 3s, like \ trios, Q.E.D.s; While $s gain more dignity If augmented 3 X 3 A 3 whose slender curves are pressed By banks, for compound interest; Oh would that, paying loans or rent, My rates were only 3%! 3 expands with rapture free And reaches toward ∞ 3 complements each x and y And intimately lives with π. A O's # of °s Are best summed up by 3s, But wrapped in dim obscurity Is the √ (square root of) -3. Atoms are split by men like me, But only God is 1 in 3. |
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And he one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost |
-But now with age in its autumn years, my eyes serve to keep with foot apace and my heart the some clear rhythm hears this soul of mine weeps longing tears that soon will I a new road face; For this very one upon which traveled long, seems twere only yesterday when all alone from within so deep came a made-up song that is now whistled by others without wrong and I've no right to claim it as my own; Since they too are as I once also was standing affront where two roads diverged choosing this the same only just because; a search for truth is a heart that greater loves all the more so am I now urged: Towards there that road where before me lays its fallen leaves still with virgin dew whispering those footprints where sunlight plays, just beyond the bend of these youthful days- knowing well it will make all the difference too. -Herb 0. Buckland |
3-colored traffic signal lights found all over the world Red- Yellow -Green
3 number emergency: 9-1-1 (USA)
3 number information: 4-1-1 (USA)
3 directions taught to children in order to cross a street: Look left-right-left or right-left-right before crossing a street
3 lefts and 1 right used in USA military marching drills: Give your left- Give your left- Give your left,--- right 3-lettered reference: Children are taught their ABC's, not ABCD's, ABCDE's, etc.
3 finger support: to hold pencils, pens, crayons, scissors, bowling balls, darts etc ....
3 names: some write only their last name, others first & last, or first-middle-last
3 parts: Children are taught all stories have a Beginning - Middle - End/Introduction - Body - Conclusion
3 part writing/speaking formula: Tell what you're going to say- Tell it - Tell what you said
3 bears: Pappa bear - Mamma bear - Baby bear :(Goldilocks and the 3 bears)
3 days, 3 attempts: Story of Rumpelstiltskin
3 fiddlers: Old King Cole
3 children family: John - Wendy - Michael (Peter Pan)
3 notes used to rid a town of rats & get children to follow into a mountain (Pied Piper)
3 characters: Wynken - Blynken - Nod (Nursery rhyme)
3 men in a tub, Rub-a-dub-dub
3 brothers: Peter - John - Boots (Boots & his two brothers)
3 Princes of Serendip
3 beans: (in some versions of Jack & the Bean Stalk)
3 months: May -June -July (A swarm of bees)
3 daughters: Rich merchant had 3 daughters in Beauty & the Beast (other versions exist)
3 little ghostesses sitting on postesses
3 beautiful white swans: The Ugly Duckling
3 bends in the road: Childe Rowland was told by an old woman to travel to the 3rd bend
3 score miles and ten: How many miles to Babylon
3 sisters: The Golden Goose
3 children, 3 handsome sons: The Six Swans
3 pigs expression to the wolf trying to get them to let him into their house: Not by the hairs of our chinny-chin-chin
3 different house constructions by the 3 little pigs: One of straw, One of sticks, One of bricks
3 times 3 she cast her spell, kisses 3: The laidly Worm of Spindlestone
3 brothers: The Golden Bird
3 character Aesop Fable: The Farmer, His Son, The Donkey
3 score & more of girls: The Ass, The Table and the Stick
3 headed beast: The Sea Maiden
3 loves: King loved to Laugh, a good Joke, a Riddle (The Flea)
3 sons, 3 horses, 3 golden apples: The Princess who lived on a glass hill
3 hearts: Queen of hearts - Knave of hearts -King of hearts
3 repetitions of Hector Protector
3 sisters: Cinderella - Anastasia - Drizella (The story of Cinderella)
3 part bark: Bow-Wow-Wow (Little Tom Tinker)
3 rhymes, 3 port utterance: Fudge, Fudge, Tell the Judge
3 Cheers for Red, White, Blue
3 pennies: 1 on the Avenue, 2 an the Sea, 3 on the Railroad (out goes he/she)
3 monkeys jumpin' on the bed, 2 monkeys jumpin' on the bed, l monkey jumpin' on the bed
3 part call: Red Rover- Red Rover- Call/Send he/she right over (Children's game)
3 part expression: Strut Miss Suzy- Suzy- Suzy... Strit Miss Suzy all night long (children's game whose origin apparentll suggests prostitution)
3 part Pythagorean theorem playfully mimicked:
32 + 42 = 52 (sum)
3 part (increasing speed) jump rope scheme: Hot - Peppers -Hot Peppers (variations exist)
3 part threat: See my finger. See my thumb. See my fist, you better run.
3 part (schools out) chant: (monkeys) 1 went east, 1 went west, 1 up teacher's dress
3 part tattletale: (K-I), (S-S), (ING) 1st comes Love - 2nd comes Marriage - 3rd comes (someone's name) with a Baby Carriage
3 part "revelation": Here's my fingers, Here's my thumb , fold 3 (fingers), make a gun
3 part disparagement: (Fatty, Fatty), (Two by four), (Can't get through the kitchen door)
3 foot placement: Put right/left in - out - in, to do the hokey pokey
3 witches; 3 dangers (lions-tigers-bears); Lion - Tin man - Scarecrow: Wizard of Oz
3 part Old McDonald: EI - EI - 0; Here - There - Everywhere (a quack-quack)
3 repetitions: Here we go round the Mulberry bush- The Mulberry bush - The Mulberry bush
3 baking directions: (Pat-A-Cake) Roll it - Pat it - Mark it with a B (or T)
3 places in the house: (Goosey, Goosey, Gander) Upstairs - Downstairs - Lady's Chamber
3 Indian groupings: One little - Two little - Three little Indians
3 repetitions: Mary had a little lamb - Little lamb - Little lamb
3 suggestions: Take the keys and lock her up - lock her up - lock her up (My Fair Lady)
3 news reports: London Bridge is falling down - falling down - falling down
3 skips: Skip - Skip - Skip to my lou; or, Lou- Lou - Skip to my Lou
3 phrases are said prior to saying POP! goes the weasel
3 questions: Did you ever see a lassie - a lassie - a lassie
3 racing commands: On your marks - Get set - Go!; To your marks - Get ready - Go!
3 swing types in "Statues" game: Milk (light swing) - Tea (moderate) - Coffee (hard)
3 part jump rope song: I like coffee - I like tea - How many boys are crazy for me? (Adult versions: Coffee - Tea - or Milk; Coffee - Tea or Me)
3 part apple core throwing phrase: Apple core - Baltimore - Who's your favorite friend?
3 part vanity question: Mirror, Mirror - On the wall - Who's the fairest of them all?
3 part exhortation: Jack be nimble! Jack be quick! Jack jump over the candle stick!
3 requests: Trick or Treat - Smell my feet - Give me something good to eat
3 screams: I scream - You scream - We all scream for ice cream
3 chase taunts: You missed me - You missed me - Now you gotta kiss me
3 patterned retorts: Goody - Goody - Gum drops/ Too bad - So sad - I'm glad
3 patterned accusation: Liar, Liar - Pants on fire - Hanging on a telephone wire
3 patterned slur: Nanny, Nanny - Boo, Boo - You are a Pooh, Pooh
3 bags full: Baa, Baa, Black sheep
3 repetitions: Row-Row-Row (your boat, a sing-a-long song)
3 blind mice: wife, knife, sight (3 rhymes)
3 little kittens lost their mittens
3 repetitions: B- I- NGO (and Bingo was his name... a sing-a-long song)
3 repetitions: Go tell Aunt Rhody
3 repetitions: this little piggie cried wee - wee - wee, all the way home
3 part song: A tisket - A tasket - A green and yellow basket
3 in a row: Tic - Tac - Toe
3-part observation: I see London - I see France - I see (someone's name) underpants
*** I declare! I see someone's underwear. They may be White - They may be Blue - They may be Full of dynamite
3-part relief: No more teachers - No more books - No more teacher's dirty looks
3-part entreaty: Rain, Rain - Go away - Come again some other day
3 part mocking: Nhaaa - Nhaaa - Nhaaaaaaaaaa
3-part assertions: N! 0! Spells NO!; NO! NO! A thousand times NO!
3 part assertion: Ready Or Not, Here I Come
3 years old: legend says Davey Crockett killed a "bar" (bear)... (I wonder if Samson killed the snake when he was 3 months old?)
3 weapons: (sticks - stones - names); Sticks and Stones may break my bones but Names will never hurt me.
3 part sing-along: Hi Ho! Hi Ho! It's off to work we go; (or the adult version): I owe! I owe! So it's off to work I go.
3 part suggestion: Go jump in the lake - Swallow a snake - Come out with a belly ache
3 little girl ingredients: Sugar - Spice - Everything nice
3 little girl ingredients: Frogs - Snails - Puppy dog tails
3 part cheers: Hip! Hip! Hurray!
For he's a jolly good fellow (often repeated 3 times)
3-part utterances:
Yaba-Daba-Do (Fred Flintstone USA television cartoon),
Scooby-Dooby-Doo (Scooby Doo: Comic book series in the USA),
Hey-Hey-Hey (Fat Albert television cartoon: USA),
Snap-Crackle-Pop (Rice Krispies USA cereal commercial),
Umm-Umm-Good (Campbell's Soups USA commercial),
Ho-Ho-Ho (Green Giant USA commercial & Santa Claus),
MIC-KEY-M-O-U-S-E (Mickey Mouse Club: Walt Disney show, USA)
Surprise-Surprise-Surprise (Gomer Pyle USMC),
Up- Up- and Away (Superman)
Triads of Characters once seen in USA television shows:
Theodore - Simon - Alvin (Chipmunks)
Huey - Duey - Louie (Donald Duck Nephews)
Yogi - Boo Boo - Ranger (Yogi Bear)
Chico - Harpo - Groucho (Marx Brothers)
Larry - Moe -Curley (3 Stooges)
Tom - Jerry - Spike (Tom & Jerry)
Sylvester - Tweety - Grandma (Tweety Bird)
Jody - Buffy - Sissy (Family Affair: USA television series)
Adam - Hoss - Joe (Bonanza: USA television series)
3 long-running USA television name shows:
- Wheel of Fortune: 3 contestants; 3 beeps indicate time limit for answer; (U.S. Television Game show)
- Price is Right: 3 door prizes; (U.S. Television Game show)
- Jeopardy: Jeopardy Round - Double Jeopardy - Final Jeopardy (U.S.A. Television Game show)
3 patterned utterance made by Woody Wood-Pecker: (you try writing it); Cartoon character in the USA.
3 patterned betting game: Rock - Paper - Scissors
3 forms of tests given in class: Essay - True/False - Multiple choice
3rd Reich: Adolf Hitler's Empire
3rd Rome: Old name for Russia
*** Typical business letters are folded into thirds
2 Rows of 3 dots: Braille
3 numbered jersey and played for 3 teams: Babe Ruth
Triads - Dyads - Single: Experimenters, Inventors, Researchers, etc., work 'groups'
3 types of pedal cycles: Unicycles - Bicycles -Tricycles
3 Viking social classes: Nobles - Freemen - Slaves
3 Estates of Medievalism: Aristocracy - Clergy - Workers
*** "3 Affiliated"/"3 fires" Native American Tribes: Arikaro - Mondan - Hidatso/Potawtam - Chippew - Ottawa
3 assaults, in 1775, by the British, drove American Patriots from Breed's Hill
3-masted merchant ship: Mayflower
3 types of British Colonies in the USA by location: Northern or New England - Middle - Southern
3 kinds of British Colonies in the USA by type: Royal - Proprietary -Corporate
3 great Greek Playwrites of tragedy: Euripides - Aeschylus - Sophocles
3 cushions (couch), 2 cushions (love seat), 1 cushion (chair)
3 ships of Christopher Columbus: Nina - Pinta - Santa Maria
3 separate cracks in 3 separate castings of the Liberty Bell occurred (USA)
3 traditional ice cream flavors: Vanilla - Strawberry - Chocolate
3 sizes: Small - Medium - Large (X large - XX large - XXX large)
3 speed rangers on some appliances: Slow- Medium- Fast (USA)
*** Triangular trade route: New England - West Indies - Africa (etc.)
Bermuda triangle: Southern U.S. Coast - Bermuda - Greater Antilles
Polynesian triangle: Fiji - Hawaii - Tahiti
(In most vertebrates each transverse tubule has two cisternae closely associated with it, forming a three element complex called a triad.)
3rd Monday in April is Patriots Day in Maine and Massachusetts
3 time ruler: Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna of Mexico (He fought against the Alamo)
Third Communist International was founded in 1919 by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (He died after a 3rd stroke)
Three-patterned slogan printed on posters portraying Lenin: Lenin Lived - Lenin Lives - Lenin will always Live!
3-patterned phrase "East-Wind-Rain" on Japanese radio during a weather report indicated the conflict with the U.S. had begun.
*** Nathan Hale's three letters during his imprisonment: One to his mother - Another to his sisters - A third to his betrothed.
3 part body typing by W.H. Sheldon: Endomorph - Mesomorph - Ectomorph
3 part body typing by Ernst Kretschmer: Pyknic - Asthenic - Athletic
3-lettered abbreviations for countries
3 patterned motto: Citius - Altius - Fortius (Swifter - Higher - Stronger) for Olympics
3 main credit reporting agencies: Equifax - Trans Union - Trw
3 months delayed payment: (often called 90 days same as cash)
3 attributes of color: Hue - Brightness - Saturation
3 test tubes (or vials) of blood are commonly drawn from patients
*** In Leechcraft a child is passed three times under a donkey on nine consecutive mornings for the cure of whooping-rough.
*** For Tetanus Prophylaxis: 3 injections: the 2nd being given 6 weeks after the 1st, and the 3rd given 6 months later.
*** An old Irish cure for madness: Give the person three substances not procured by human means, and not made by the hand of man. These are honey, milk, and salt given as a drink before sunrise in a sea-shell.
*** According to Finellan's Le Triple Vocabulaire Infernal, If you are disposed to renounce the Devil after having entered into a compact with him, spit three times on the ground and he will have no further power over you.
3 part snowman: Small for the head - Medium for the upper body - Large for the lower body (somewhat resemble ancient fertility figurines)
3 ultraviolet radiation divisions: Near (4,000 - 3,000 A) - Middle (3,000 - 2,000 A) - Long (2,000 -100 A)
3 Big Bangs:
(1) 65 million year old "dinosaur killer" rock that caused a nuclear winter.
(2) Mammoth explosion of a nearby massive star 4 million years ago.
(3) The "original" Big Bang of the Universe.
3 men who shared the responsibility for the early success of radio: Lee de Forest - Edward Armstrong - David Sarnoff.
3 times the width of the material to he nailed is the customary nail length needed
Channel 3 used for VHS video watching (USA)
Triple nutrient mixture for alcoholics: Glutamine - Vitamin C - Niacinamide (500 milligrams each, 1 to 3 times a day)
3 part Candid Camera phrase: Somehow - Somewhere - Sometime (when you least expect it) [USA television series]
3-part advertisement: Plop, Plop - Fizz, Fizz - Oh what a relief it is (Alka-Seltzer commercial in the USA)
3 jars: Herman Munster spent most of his childhood in 3 jars (The Munsters: USA televions series)
3 Charley's Angels (USA television series)
3 boys, 3 girls, 3 adults (Alice-Mother-Father): Brady Bunch (USA television series)
Zebra 3: Starsky & Hutch call sign (USA television series)
3 hour tour: Gilligan's Island USA television series
3 smoking forms: Pipes - Cigars -Cigarettes
3 alcohol forms: Wine - Beer - Liquor (Bottle - Can - Keg)
3 Evolution theory co-discoverers: Charles Darwin - Patrick Matthew -Alfred Russel Wallace3 World War II Allies: Russia - England - U.S.
3 Axis powers: Germany - Italy - Japan
3 (1905) papers by Einstein: Brownian movement - Photo-electric effect - Special Relativity
3 (1905) papers by Sigmund Freud: Id - Ego - Superego (Child - Parent - Adult)
3 rode from Lexington to Concord: Paul Revere - William Dawes - Dr. Samuel Prescott
3 atom bombs changed the world: Trinity site - Hiroshima - Nagasaki (3 days after Hiroshima)
3 measures called The Reform Acts extended voting rights in 19th century England
3 Korean Kingdoms: Koguryo - Paekche - Silla
3 trees: Colloquialism for Gallows
3 days, July 1st - 2nd - 3rd in 1863, is when the Battle of Gettysburg was fought
3 shots fired at John E Kennedy's & Yitzhak Rabin's assassinations
Third Monday in January is celebrated as Martin Luther King Day
3 U.S. Diplomats killed together: Robert Frasure - Nelson Drew - Joseph Kruzel
3 shots killed Robert Kennedy
3 wars between Rome & Carthage: Punic Wars
*** "Death occurs in threes' is a common saying; also, "Third time is the charm"
3 conspiracy theories (FBI - CIA - Mafia) are suggested for M.L. King Jr.'s assassination
3 word phrase in King George III's diary (July 4, l776: Nothing-Happened-Today)
*** The bottom one-third of a billing statement, with payment, is requested by some Companies
3 New World discoverers: Christopher Columbus - Leif Erickson - Amerigo Vespucci
3 customary meals/utensils: Breakfast - Lunch - Supper/Knife - Fork - Spoon (Bowl - Plate - Cup)
3 wars before French & Indian War: King William's - Oueen Anne's - King George's
3-patterned phrase to avoid the Black Plague: Go quickly - Go far - and Return late
3 British ships raided: Boston Tea Party
3-cornered (Tricorn) hats: Continental Infantry
3-piece silver ink stand was used by the signers of the Declaration of Independence
3 squadrons commanded by General Claire Lee Chennualt: The Flying Tigers
3 major Native American take avers in the early 1910's:
(1) Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay
(2) Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington D.C.
(3) Wounded Knee in South Dakota
3 noted figures of the Alamo: William Travis - David Crockett - James Bowie
*** Japanese Naval attack fleet commanders were given all but three final orders:
(1) Date of sailing
(2) Date of mid-ocean fueling
(3) Date of attack (Pearl Harbor)
3 Ancient Roman (Latin) forms of first, middle, last names: Praenomen - Nomen - Cognomen
Three Mile Island accident is example used by critics of nuclear power programs in general
3 U.S. Supreme Court Authority boundaries: State & Nation - State & State - Government & Citizen
3 English/Welsh Supreme Courts: Court of Appeal - High Court of Justice - Crown Court
3 Gregor Mendel "laws": Independent Unit Characters - Segregation - Dominance
3 Darwinian essentials of Evolution: Variation - Heredity - Struggle for existence
*** Triarchic mind theory by Robert J. Sternberg: Componential - Experiential - Contextual
*** Triune brain hierarchical structure by P.D. Maclean: Limbic system - Cortex - Neo-Cortex
3 standard deviations means "huge" - 2 mean "very big" - 1 mean "big": page 44, Bell Curve
3 major types of seizures: Grand Mal - Petit Mal - Psychomotor (or Psychic equivalent)
3-part P.O.W. "rules":
Name - Rank - Serial Number
Last meal - Last request - Last words
Blindfold - Cigarette - Bound Hands
Make peace with God - The World - One's Family
3 styles of execution from a great height: Estrapade - La cale sech - La cale humide
3 phases of change: Resist change - Begins to accept change - Embrace change
3 days after a homicide produce the best leads to solving it - The second best leads come 3 weeks after the crime - After these two, it is difficult to get reliable evidence.
3 Olympic Medals: Gold - Silver - Bronze
3 (fencing) practice weapons: Foil - Epee - Saber
3 point shots - 2 point shots - 1 point shot/ Man to Man - Zone - Combination (Basketball)
3 basic gloves: Fielder's - First Baseman's - Catcher's Mitt (Baseball)
3 rope rink: Boxing
3 basic spur types: Bronc - Bull - Riding
3 main Crochet stitches: Single - Double - Chain
3 point ringer: Horseshoes
3 football "quantities": (Full)back - (Half)back - (Quarter)back
3 ways that heat passes from one object/place to another: Conduction - Convection - Radiation
3 distinct potentially harmful germ or microorganism groups: Viruses - Bacteria - Protozoa
3 firing squad commands: Ready - Aim - Fire
3 picture crew commands: Lights - Camera - Action
3 perfect woman measurements: 36-24-36
3 perfect man qualities: Soft - Strong - Disposal
3 railroad crossing rules: Stop - Look - Listen
3 (clothing) fire extinguishing rules: Stop - Drop - Roll
3 part cautionary rule heard in various workplace environments: Never- Assume- Anything (because "Assume" means making an Ass (of) U (and) Me if you're wrong in your guess)
Thrice is considered certainty, twice is a coincidence, once is considered curious
classical origin of Moon hypothesis:
(1) Binary planet or "sister" hypothesis(2) Rotational fission or "daughter" hypothesis
(3) Capture or "wife" hypothesis
3 traditional divisions of matter/geography: Animal - Vegetable - Mineral/land - Sea - Air
3 kinds of molecular kinetic energies for calculation: Translational - Vibrational - Rotational
3 patterned phrase of Winston Churchill: Never have so many owed so much to so few.
3 (traditional) great taboos in textbook publishing: Sex - Religion - Social Class
3 geological periods: Cenozoic-Mesozoic-Paleozoic
3 modern day food-related disorders: Bulimia - Anorexia - Binge Eating
*** During a meeting, a motion may be made that is "seconded" and "Thirded"
*** The Waiters Association tells how the tilt of a chef's hot is a window into his personality:
(1) Lightly ballooned out & tilted back: An Authoritarian
(2) Placed forward and pulled down over the eyes: A thinker
(3) Inclined on the corner of an ear: A Snob.
*** Note: The so-called four-directions concept referred to as North - South - East -West, is readily recognized as a two-by-two polarity association. We also are accustomed to use the phrase "North, South, East and West," (also, "Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall") with the "and" as a distinct means of partitioning off the first three, thereby producing a circumstance of 3 to 1.
Another such occurrence of partitioning off the first three as a characteristic of three-patterned grouping, is the child's counting scheme of One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four. There is no "Four Potato." Like-wise, in the High School cheer "Two Bits, Four Bits, Six Bits, a Dollar," there is not only no "Dollar Bits," there also is the separator "a" which acts as a sort of demarcation boundary line between the first three "Relatives" and that which is distantly related. As a final (related) remark, the child's counting rhyme "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" ...etc., not only represents a three-patterned grouping, but also is reminiscent of the repetition used by early peoples in their attempts to develop larger counting sequences which frequently relied on combinations of earlier quantities in much the same way as we repeat our numerical symbols after reaching the number nine. The rhyme of "Shoe" with "Two" is an example of cognitive grouping limitation in the sense that to go beyond the limit requires successive duplications whether we use words that sound the same, number (symbols) that look the same, or use some other perceptual referencing mechanism.
*** The parent asks the child: Do you have to do Number 1 or Number 2? (I always said Number 3, which is, in reality, a combination of both. Believe it or not some adults would ask what Number 3 was!)*** The new software content warning label is designed to give parents an indication of the levels of Nudity, Violence and Profanity in PC games.
*** Fundamental formula used in computers: Binary system with a basic 3-patterned analytical format based upon Boolean logic: AND-gate OR-gate NOT-gate
3 items juggled: Bowling pins, Balls, Eggs, Chain Saws, Knives, Torches, Plates, etc...
3 milk fat groupings: Low fat - No fat - High Fat
3 peels are customarily unpeeled from a banana
3 prominent television news categories: News - Weather - Sports
3-part rule-of-thumb: Early to bed - Early to rise - Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise
3 observations on running: Horses sweat - Men perspire - Women glow
3-part radio jargon: Roger - Wilco (will comply) - Out
3 (law) examinations: Direct - Cross - Re-direct
3 bus fare divisions: Student - Adult - Senior (Honored) Citizen
3 chief types of woven rugs and carpets: Velvet - Wilson - Axminister
3 Lewis Carroll physical states: Ordinary - 'Eerie' - Trance
3 methods of telling time by the Sun:
(1) Measuring its hour angle from the Meridian, as in an ordinary garden sundial
(2) Measuring its altitude above the horizon
(3) Measuring its azimuth (the angle measured on the horizon between the true south point and a vertical circle passing through the Sun), which requires a vertical style.
3 (Main Companies): TV.: ABC - CBS - NBC; Auto: GMC - Ford - Chrysler; Turkeys: British United - Canadian Hybrid - Nicholas Breeding; Outboard Motors: Yamaha - Mercury - Evinrude
3 dots, 3 dashes: Morse code for SOS; Dawn (interval) Noon (interval) Dusk: Dot Dash Dot Dash Dot, Means: (End of Message)
3 basic social science analysis strategies: Univariate - Bivariate - Multivariate
3 patented first practical typewriter in 1868: Carlos Glidden - Christopher Sholes - Sam Soule
3 additive colors: Red - Blue - Green
3 subtractive colors: Yellow - Magenta - Cyan
3 patterned scissor-"snips"-succession used by many barbers
3 part slogans of Jomo Kenyatta: Uhuru no main (Freedom and Unity); Harambe (Let's Get Going)
*** H.G. Wells (and others) display a "reaching for the 3" in their writings, paintings, songs, dance routines, acting roles, experiments etc., as indicated by the recurrence of patterns-of-three.
Noah Webster died May 28, 1843, his last words were: Zymosis, Zymurgy and Zyzzyva.
3 ratios of specific heat capacities:
(A) Monoatomic gases (1.67)
(B) Diatomic gases (1.4
(C) Polyatomic gases (approaches unity)
3 laws concerning black body radiation formulated by Wilhelm Wien were a foundation for Max Planck's (Planck's Constant).
3 principles of Nature by Adolfo Best Maugard (1949):
(l) Principle of the creative process
(2) Principle of the procedure of conversion
(3) Principle of the formation and gradual transformation of realization of fulfillment.
*** Galton, who inaugurated the systematic study of genius, formulated the theory that genius is a very extreme degree of these three combined traits:
(1) Intellect
(2) Zeal
(3) Power of working
3 stage evolution of man's conceptions of the Universe by Freud: Animistic - Religious - Scientific
3 planes of consciousness:
- Subconsciousness (instinctive & affective thought)
- Consciousness (Ideological & effective thought
- (Super Consciousness (Intuitive) thought and the higher truths).
*** The three-fold principle of the outer and inner world is:
(1) The common source of both
(2) Influence of psyche upon the physical
(3) Influence of the physical world upon the spiritual: (Tabula Smargdina)
*** Marius Schneider: If we take three fundamental planes:
(1) Vegetable and meteorological life
(2) Natural human life
(3) Spiritual growth,
then the concepts of death and rebirth - respectively symbolized by the moon in its waning and waxing phases - signify on three levels:
(1) Drought and rain
(2) Illness and cure
(3) Fossilization and flux.
3-group piano strings: About 58 tones (unisons) have 3 strings - Some tones have 2 strings - The rest, 1 string
*** In testing a microphone connection, we often hear: Testing 1-2-3
3 basic guitar groupings: Bass - Rhythm - Lead
Three-body problem describes classic attempt to understand the behavior of three bodies which mutually attract each other.
Triple point: The temperature at which all three phases of matter (solid - liquid - gas) for a given substance can coexist.
*** Primatologists call the most dominant monkey in the group the:
(1) Alpha male, the second most dominant is the
(2) Beta male, and thereafter,
(3) They assign numbers to all other monkeys.
3 football/basketball options: Drop kick - Place kick - Punt/Dribble - Pass - Shoot
3 combustion engine timing marks: Before B-TDC, (Top Dead Center), A-TDC After TDC
*** In 1863, after the first U.S. oil well, J. Rockefeller, S. Andrews, and M. B. Clark, started an oil refining business.
3 years of age is when Mozart showed signs of remarkable musical talent
3rd opera of Richard Strauss was his first success
3 groupings of W-2's for income tax filling: Federal - State - Filer's copy
3 typical facing ways for drawing: Profile - Three-quarter view - Frontal
*** The cubist painter, Francis Picabia, declared "The dadaists are nothing, nothing, nothing, assuredly they will amount to nothing, nothing, nothing, signed Francis Picabia who knows nothing, nothing, nothing."
3 places where great ideas are said to be generated by geniuses: Bed - Bathtub - Breakfast
3 rotary blades (electric shaver) - 2 bladed razor - 1 blade straight razor
3-part football hiking command: Hut 1 - Hut 2 - Hut 3
*** The common knife can be viewed as representing the 1 -
the Fork, entomologically, represents the 2 -
The Spoon, because of its usage to gather a quantity (much, "many") thus represents the 3.
3 patterned famous statement of Rene Descartes: "Cogito, Ergo Sum" (I think, Therefore I am, or, I am thinking, Therefore I exist)
3 gummed sealing strips - 2 gummed strips - 1 gummed strip (envelope flaps)
*** The classical musical style of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven is sometimes referred to as Viennese.
3 characteristics of any melody: Range - Shape - The way it moves
3 form categories: Monomorphism - Dimorphism - Polymorphism
*** In 1957 the composer Gunther Schuller, in a lecture delivered at Brandeis University coined the term "Third Stream," holding that classical music was the First Stream, Jazz the Second and the Third combined the other two.
3 o'clock PM. is school let out time
Bells are rung 3 times (in some schools) to call children to class after a fire drill
3 day suspension from school is common punishment for various irresponsible acts
3 days or more absenteeism from work requires a doctor's excuse (various employers)
3 different eye protectors for manufacturing jobs: Goggles - Face shield - Safety glasses
3 common additive toothpaste ingredients: Fluoride - Baking soda - Peroxide
3 dots arranged in a triangle stand for "crazy for life" or "my crazy life" (mi vida loco)
3 basic teaching methods of art schools: Model - Still Life - Landscape
3 dozens:
- "11" was Devil's Dozen in Central Europe
- "12" is Standard Dozen
- "13" is Baker's Dozen
3 hand drying methods in commercial restrooms: Paper towels - Cloth towel - Air blown
*** The Statue of Liberty has rest seats at every third turn of the spiral.
A third ("not paired") person is called upon to decide arguments between two others
A man uses 1 hand, 2 hands, or no hands when urinating.
3 Lipoprotein densities: Very low (VLDL) - Intermediate (IDL) - Low (LDL)
3 forms of vaginal "bloodletting": Menstruation - First Intercourse - Childbirth
3 (Sociological) sex characteristic categories:
(1) Primary sex characteristics (related to the gonads - primary sex glands)
(2) Secondary sex characteristics (body form produced by large-scale secretion of sex hormones)
(3) Tertiary sex characteristics (body language- learned communication, verbal and otherwise).
3-part expression: Uptight - Outasight - In the groove (Colloquial reference to a person's disposition of doing well, and also used as a humorous adjunct to describe the position of a female's tampon)
3-part phrase by women who say men are like parking spaces:
(1) The good ones are always taken
(2) The rest are handicapped or
(3) "way out there."
3 way ink drying: Oxidation - Absorption - Evaporation
3 R's rule-of-thumb for ink usage: Reduce - Reuse - Reclaim (Printing)
3 family network after marriage: Your birth family - You and your spouse's family - The In-Law family
3-part crusade slogan against Western Civilization (Stanford University course): Hey, Hey - Ho, Ho - Western culture's gotta' go.
3rd party health payment: By Government - By Insurance Company - By an Employer
3 typical questionnaire response categories: Yes - No - Not Sure (unsure)
3 customary "flaps" to household roof asphalt shingles
"Under" wear - "Over" coat - "Middle" (daily) clothes
3 flags, 2 flags, or 1 flag (flag football)
Triple - Double - Single scoring in Darts
Under Par - Par - Over Par (Golf)
3 school divisions: Elementary - Middle(Jr. High) - High(Senior High)
3 University Degrees/Awards: Bachelors - Masters - Ph.D
3 University Awards: Cum laude - Magna cum laude - Summa cum laude
3 female "tail" hair-styles: (1) Pony tail - (2) Pig tails - (3) Many tailed (Medusa)
3 poker chip colors: Red - White - Blue
3 ring notebook binders
3 number combination locks (turn right, turn left, turn right)
3 way - 2 way - 1 way (light bulbs)
3 restaurant sinks: 1 for washing - 1 for rinsing - 1 for sanitizing
3 in 1 restaurant door sign warnings: No Shirt - No Shoes - No Service
3 part grade divisions:
(A plus) - (A) - (A minus)...etc...
(above average - average - below average)/
(Grade - Pass/Fail - Audit)
3 colors: (Black - Red - White): Pimples, Unicorn's horn, Nazi flag, Typewriter ribbons, Middle Ages, etc., (to include White shirt - Red tie - Dark suit)
3 stages of original sin: White for innocence - Black or purple for sin - Porphyry for atonement
*** Sociologists called early American non-racist groups, Triracial enclaves, where an individual's heritage was white, black and red.
3 motorcycle drive mechanisms: Belt - Chain - Drive shaft
3 spout fire hydrants
Triple crown of horse racing: Kentucky Derby - Preakness - Belmont Stakes
Triple crown of baseball is one who at a single season's end, leads his league in:
1. Batting average -
2. Home runs -
3. Runs batted in.
Triple threat in football is a player adept at (1) Running (2) Kicking (3) Passing.
33 feet 3 inches longer: Boeing's new jetliner 717-300 compared to its old 777-200
3 devices in 1 (starter, alternator, damper) is being designed by Continental AG
3 toast variations: Light - Medium - Burnt
3 main appliances: Stove - Washer - Fridge
3 main bathroom fixtures: Bathtub/Shower - Toilet - Sink
3 fridge compartments: Freezer - Main cooler - Vegetable/Fruit storage
3 main stove sections: Top burners - Oven - Broiler
3 main washer cycles: Wash - Rinse - Spin
3 part auction call: Going Once - Twice - Sold; Once - Twice - Gone
3 fastening sequences on disposable diapers: 1 - 2 - 3 or A - B - C
3 gasoline types: Premium - Regular - Unleaded (3 number octane differences: 91 - 88 - 85)
3 workday divisions: Morning shift - Swing shift - Night (or Graveyard) shift/Day - Night - Weekend Shifts
*** Pythagorean letter: The letter Y, so called because Pythagoras employed it to signify the bifurcation of the good and evil ways of men; also taken as symbolic of the triad formed by the monad giving rise to the dyad.
*** Ancient Chinese proverb attributed to Confucius:
(1) I hear, and I forget
(2) I see, and I remember
(3) I do, and I understand
*** During the highest development of Druidism, the Bards were the seers and prophets with a spiritual knowledge greater than that of the Druid priests. The later Bards expressed all truth through the operations of Triads. In every sphere of experience, they traced the 3 and regarded it as the way to the understanding of the creation of the physical Earth.
3 reasoning processes (K.J.W. Caik): Translation - Reasoning - Retranslation
*** Whereas the school of Archytas apparently sank into inactivity after the death of its founder, the Academics of the next generation continued "Pythagorizing" Platonic doctrines:
(1) Supreme One
(2) Indefinite Dyad
(3) Tripartite Soul
3 in(of)1 (person) idea by Aristotle: Mind - Self-knowledge - Self-love
3 Aristotle government categories: Rule by one person - Rule by a few people - Rule by many people
Three People's Principles by Soon Yaht-sen, 1866-1925: Nationalism - Democracy - Socialism ("livelihood")
*** Yin - Unity - Yang: Unity is at the apex of a triangle and Yin/Yang at separate base corners
3 systems of thought attracted most Hellenistic intellectuals: Cynicism - Epicuranism - Stoicism
3 Great Philosophers: Socrates taught Plato who taught Aristotle (who taught Alexander the Great)
3 orders of philosophy by Hjalmar Wennerberg: Phenomenology - Normative Science - Metaphysics
3 essential vows of a monk by St. Benedict of Nursia: Obedience - Chastity - Poverty
3 dimensions/principles of Alchemy: Practical - Scientific (philosophical) - Spiritual/Salt - Sulfur - Mercury
*** In Plato's ideal state all three classes (Guardians - Auxiliaries - Common People) were to be persuaded to believe a myth: That their creator had fashioned them of three different substances (Gold - Silver - Baser Metals, respectively) and that failure of any individual to adhere to his station would be contrary to the nature of things.
Carl Jung: Everyone has in him something of the Criminal - The Genius - and The Saint.
*** Frances Bacon: Discourse maketh a ready man - Writing maketh an exact man - Reading maketh a full man.
3 principles of Mohandes K. Gandhi:
(1) That the good of the individual is contained in the good of all.
(2) That a Lawyer's work has the same value as the Barber's inasmuch as all have the same right of earning their livelihoods from their work.
(3) That a life of labor the life of the filler of the soil and the handi-craftsman, is the life worth living.
*** With respect to patterns-of-two, Gandhi made a comment quite applicable: One has to became absolutely passion-free, to rise above the opposing currents of Love and Hatred, Attachment and Repulsion.
Tripartite soul conception of Plato: Rational - Libidinous - Spirited(various animal qualities)
3 laws of Comte's thought progression: Religious - Abstract(or Metaphysical) - Scientific
3 false beliefs by Plato that are fatal to moral character: Atheism - Denial of the moral government of the world - Believing that divine judgment can be bought off by offerings
3 patterned philosophical distinctions:
| St. Augustine's Philosophy: | Memory ~ Understanding ~ Will |
| Comte's Philosophy: | Great Being ~ Great Medium ~ Great Fetish |
| Hegel's 3 Spirits: | Subjective Spirit ~ 0bjective Spirit ~ Absolute Spirit |
| Plotinu's Philosophy: | One ~ One Many ~ One and Many |
| Aristotle's 3 Unities: | Unity of Action ~ Unity of Time ~ Unity of Place |
| Sir F. Bacon's 3 Tables: | Presence ~ Absence ~ Degree |
| Thomas Hobbes's 3 Fields: | Physics ~ Moral Philosophy ~ Civil Philosophy |
| Immanuel Kant's 3 Critiques: | Pure Reason ~ Practical Reason ~ Judgment |
| Averroes's 3 Commentaries: | Little ~ Middle ~ Great |
| Karl Marx's 3 isms: | Communism ~ Socialism ~ Capitalism |
| Woodrow Wilson's 3 isms: | Colonialism ~ Racism ~ Anti-Communism |
| Hippocrates's Mind Disorders: | Mania ~ Melancholia ~ Phrenitis |
| Emile Durkeim's 3 Suicides: | Egoistic ~ Altruistic ~ Anomic |
| D. Liesman's 3 Social Characters: | Tradition-directed ~ Inner-directed ~ Other-directed |
| Erich Fromm's 3 Symbols: | The Conventional ~ The Accidental ~ The Universal |
| Pythagoras's "fusion" idea: | Monarchy ~ Oligarchy ~ Democracy (into harmonic whole) |
| M.L. King Jr.'s "Middle Road": | Acquiescence ~ Nonviolence ~ Violence |
| Kierkegaard's 3 Stages: | Aesthetic ~ Ethical ~ Religious |
| Husserl's 3 Reductions: | Phenomenological ~ Eidetic ~ Religious |
| St. Augustine's 3 Laws: | Divine Law ~ Natural Law ~ Temporal, or positive Law |
| Witness Stand "Laws": | Tell the Truth ~ The whole Truth ~ Nothing but the Truth |
| Titus Carus's 3 Ages: | Stone Age ~ Bronze Age ~ Iron Age |
| Feuerbach's 3 Thoughts: | God, 1st Thought ~ Reason, 2nd ~ Man, 3rd |
| Magnus's 3 Universals: | Ante Rem ~ In Rem ~ Post Rem |
| Max Weber's 3 Authorities: | Traditional ~ Charismatic ~ Legal-rational |
| F. de Sausure's 3 "Signs": | Sign ~ Signified ~ Signifier |
| Charles Pierces 3 "Signs": | Qualisign ~ Sinsign (token) ~ Legisign |
| John Keynes's 3 Eras: | Scarcity ~ Abundance ~ Stabilization |
| George Mead's 3 Distinctions: | Self ~ I ~ Me |
| Thrasher's 3-group Gangs: | Inner Circle ~ Rank & File ~ Fringers |
| Abe Lincoln's 3-For-All: | Of the People ~ By the People ~ For the People |
| Jesus Christ's 3 Praises: | In the name of the Father ~ Son ~ Holy Spirit |
| Samuel Clemmons' 3 lies: (Mark Twain) |
Lies ~ Damned Lies ~ Statistics |
|
Thesis ~ Antithesis ~ Synthesis Indulgence ~ "Middle Way" ~ Ascetism Major Premise ~ Minor Premise ~ Conclusion Contradiction ~ Excluded Middle ~ Identity Principal | ||
| "God-ology": Omnipresent Omnipotent Omniscient |
"Metaphysics-ology": What is real How change comes What is mind |
Marxian "Dialectology": Unity of opposites Quantity & quality Negation of negation |
| Epistemology: How we know What is truth What is mind |
Axiology: Nature of good Nature of beautiful Nature of religious |
Ontology: Quality (1st-ness) Relation (2nd-ness) Representation (3rd-ness) |
3 times the fool: You can fool some people some of the time - Some people all the time - But not all people all the time.
3 traditional syllogism forms: Categorical - Hypothetical - Disjunctive
3-patterned basic adult syllogism: All ravens are black - Jack is a raven - Therefore, Jack is black.
3-patterned basic child syllogism: Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear - Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair - Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy was he?
3 human origin theories: Out of Africa - Multiregional - Out of Asia
3 founders of Judaism: Abraham - Isaac - Jacob
3 families humankind descended from in Biblical tradition: Ham - Shem - Japheth
3 tribes that founded Rome: Tities - Ramnes - Luceres
3 couples founded the old order Amish over 200 years ago
*** The Tasady is a group of isolated people found in the Philippines (1960's) near a forest named Dafal. Few tales describe their origins. In the beginning, they say, there were 3 people who created them. These are similar to tales told by their neighbors
*** The Konyak Nagas of Assam in India believe that when a man dies his being splits into 3 spiritual entities:
- The 1st is the "soul" (yaha), to which most of the personality attaches, and which sets out on a complicated journey to the land of the Dead. >
- The 2nd part remains attached to the skull and is capable of helping his surviving kinsmen in many ways. This soul-matter is called mio.
- The 3rd spiritual element, which emerges after a man meets a violent death, is called hiba, and can best be translated as "ghost."
3 aims of the great learning (attributed to Zengzi, 500 B.(.): Manifesting one's luminous virtue - Reviewing the people - Abiding in perfect goodness
3 levels of Xuanzang's reality (A.D. 600-664): The utterly false and erroneous - The nominally fictitious - The real existent
3 ages theory by Kong Youwei (1858-1927): Age of Disorder - Age of Small Peace - Age of Great Peace (Each age contains 3 rotations, that is, each age contains itself and elements of the other two.)
3 characteristics of being (Buddha):
All constituents of being are transitory -
All constituents of being are lacking in an ego -
All constituents of "Being" are painful
3 gunas (strands): Sattva (goodness) - Rajos (passion) - Tamas (darkness); (In a dialogue between Krishna & Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita)
3-fold yoga: Austerity (tapas) - Study - Dedication to a meditative ideal (Patanjali)
*** Buddha spoke often of a "Middle Way" between Eternalism and Annihilationalism (continuity/discontinuity)
3 unconditioned dharmas (basic factors of experience & reality):
- Spatiality -
- Disjunction from impure dharmas by deliberate awareness -
- Non-arousal of impure dharmas due to the absence of their productive conditions.
*** In (7th Century) Indian Philosophical circles, 3 ways of knowing (pramanas) were generally accepted: Perception - Inference - Testimony
3 manifestations of the self: Waking - Dreaming - Dreamless sleeping; beyond which is the real self (Turiya): Mandukya Upanishad
3 orders of existence: Absolute existence or reality - Empirical existence - Illusory existence (Shankara, A.D. 788-822)
3 step study of Vedantic texts with a guru: Listening to instructions - Understanding the teachings - Practicing constant meditation
3 steps in the quest for the knowledge of non-dual Brahman: Hearing - Reasoning - Meditating
3 most important (out of twenty) substances: Brahman (God) - Matter - Selves (Madhva & Ramanuja, 1017-1137)
3 kinds of souls: Those who are eternally free - Those who have attained freedom from this world - Those who are bound souls (Madhva, 1197-1276)
3 means of valid knowledge confirmed by the Inner Witness: Perception - Inference - Testimony (Jayatirtha, 1365-1388)
3 ways of apprehending God:
1. Brahman (Absolute Reality is understood non-dualistically as without qualities, powers, or sports)
2. Supreme Soul (Paramatman) that creates the world and is the inner controller of nature and of souls)
3. Lover of God (Bhakta) mystically - apprehends God (Bhagavan) in God's own sports, qualities, and powers. (Jiva Gosvamin,1511-1596)
3 Satyagraha (truth, nonviolence, self-suffering) movements of Gandhi:
1. Noncooperation movement (1920-22)
2. Salt march movement (1930-32)
3. Quit India movement (1940-42)
Gandhi was jailed 3 times.
3-part slogan of Gandhi "God is Truth" was changed to "Truth is God."
*** Aurobindo's worldview is non-dual (advaita): In its Essence, Absolute Reality, (Brahman) is Sat (being) - Chit(consciousness) - Ananda (bliss, written: Saccidananda)
3 State Violence manifestations: Physical - Ideological - Economic destitution & starvation (Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889-1966)
3 meditative techniques of Chinul (1158-1210):
(1) The dual cultivation of concentration & wisdom.
(2) The Faith & understanding according to the Hwaom School.
(3) The distinctively Son (Meditation) investigation of the critical phrase, hwadu or kongan.
3 essential teachings of Buddhism - Confucianism - Daoism (Taoism) are the same: (Hyujong 1520-1604)
3 interpretations of happiness: Purely theoretical activity - Exclusive practical activity - Harmonious combination of the first two: (AL-Farabi, A.D. 300-900?)
3 beings: Necessary - Contingent - Possible, classified by accidents & substances; Substance divided into 3 categories:
Intellect ('aql) - Soul (nafs) - Body (jism); (Avicenna A.D. 350-1000?)
*** AL-Ghazali (A.D.1058-1111) observed that philosophers argue that the eternity of the world follows by necessity from 3 fundamental axioms:
(1) Nothing comes out of nothing
(2) Given a particular cause, the effect necessarily & immediately follows
(3) A cause is different from & external to the effect.
He further argued that they make 3 claims as the basis for denying the belief in bodily resurrection:
(1) There is no logical necessity that bodies be resurrected in their physical forms
(2) If there are no bodies in the hereafter, there can be neither pain nor pleasure in the other world
(3) Hell & Heaven in their physical sense do not exist; they are of a purely spiritual nature.
3 groups according to degree of purity & illumination:
Those who remain in the darkness of ignorance ("Ashqiya") -
Those who purify themselves to some extent (Sudad) -
Those who purify themselves & reach illumination (muta allihun): (Suhrawardi, A.D. 550-1150?)
3 Unities: Of the Knower - The known - Knowledge: (Mullasadra, A.D. 1000-1600?)
Laozi (author of Tao Te Ching [Daodejing]):
3-mile limit is customary territorial waters limit used by English speaking countries while others vary between 2.42 to 4.6 miles.Dao produces one. One produces two. Two produces three. Three produces the ten thousand things. (In classical Chinese, the "ten thousand things" means "everything." Commentators have long disagreed over what the "one, two, and three" refers to, usually plugging in their favorite cosmological, cosmogonic, or metaphysical model.) Laozi further writes: Something amorphous & consummate existed before Heaven & Earth. Solitude! Vast! Standing alone, unaltering. Going everywhere, yet unthreatened. It can be considered the Mother of the World. I don't know its name, so I designate it "Dao." Compelled to consider it, name it "Great." (Dao is considered indistinct & undefinable. It is not the vision of a visionary that helps others see more clearly, but that which they are able to articulate from memory of their visionary trek.)
Three-island ships (early 1900's): Forecastle - Bridge - Poop
3 sheets to the wind: Sailors reference to someone that's drunk
3 maneuvers sailors must know: Into the wind - Across the wind - With the wind
3 boat "stops": Wharf - Pier - Dock
3 basic European sailing vessels: Full-rigged (3 masts) - Brig (2 masts) - Slop (1 mast)
3 ship masts: Fore - Main - Mizzen
3 (ocean trip) sail-boats: Yawl - Ketch - Schooner
*** Medieval vessels usually had only one sail. Later, three: Course - Topsail - Topgallant (More elaborate rigs might have three additional sails: Royals - Skysails - Moonsails); (Sails are typically triangular-shaped)
3 main types of fishing nets: Seines - Trawls - Gill
3 common commercial fishing methods: Bait - Trolling - Long lining
3 layer net for catching birds or fish: Trammel
3 general types of reefs: Fringing - Barrier - Atolls
Triplet and Singlet fishing hooks are most frequently purchased
"Spinners" typically have 1 - 2 - or 3 sets of 3-hook hooks
*** There are "Triple Teaser" designated fishing lures but no similarly designated "Single Teaser," "Double Teaser," "Quadruple Teaser," etc...
3-point landing: "Perfect" landing of an aircraft
3 airplane movements: Pitch - Roll - Yaw
3 bowling "delivery" types: Straight ball - Hook ball - Curve ball
Three-hundred is "perfect" score in bowling
Triangle Pin setup is used in bowling
3 strikes (in bowling) are called a Turkey, 2 strikes a Double, 1 strike a Strike. Thereafter, the word "Bagger" (4 bagger, 5 bagger, etc ....) is sometimes used. Hence, we have three different words used to describe a particular type of strike: Double - Turkey - Bagger.
3 finger bowling balls (most frequently) - 2 finger bowling balls (occasionally) - 1 finger bowling ball (rarely, or when 2-finger holes are drilled together)
3 basic bowling "approaches": 3 step - 4 step - 5 step
3 commonly played pool games: 14.1 continuous - 8-ball - Rotation
Triangular Ball rack used
Three-day events: Most major horse Eventing Competitions
3 linguistic divisions to 4 "sides": Front - Back - (Right & Left sides)
3 trys: If at first you don't succeed, Try - Try - Try again
3 basic chain types: Twisted links - Straight links - Stud links
3 angle (30-45-60) valve job, 3 piston rings, 3rd member, 3 mirrors, 'third' stop light: Automobiles
3 patterned policy of many stores: Replace it - Repair it - Return it
3 typical ways of purchasing items: Cash - Checks - Credit Card
3 types of rainfall: Convective - Orographic - Cyclonic
3 (Luke Howard) cloud types: Cumulus - Cirrus - Stratus
3 divisions in 4-sectioned (actually two-by-two) games: 1st half - Half time - 2nd half
3 part George Wallace phrase: Segregation Now! Segregation Tomorrow! Segregation Forever!
3 way payment: Gas, Grass, or Ass, no one rides for free (vehicle pumper sticker)
3 part phrase change:
A loaf of bread, A jug of wine and thou -
Wine, women and song -
A pizza, the old lady and TV.
3 inches is the standard length of a bandaid
3 common fuels of steam locomotives: Cool - Wood - 0il
3 commonly ordered breakfast dishes served with syrup: Waffles - Pancakes - French Toast
3 "true rhymes" of purists: Masculine - Feminine - Trisyllabic (Feminine is called double)
3 Greek Columns: Doric - Ionic - Corinthian
3 Alexander Von Humbolt invention stages:
Doubt its existence -
Denying its importance -
Credit for its discovery going to another
3 patterned "Riddle of the Sphinx": What walks with 4 legs in the morning - 2 legs at noon - and 3 legs in the evening? (answer: Man)
3 strikes you're out; Baseball, and policy regarding "three-time criminals"
3rd World - 2nd World - 1st World nations: Political divisions
3rd reading: Last reading of a proposed legislation
3 measures of statistical measurement: Mean - Median - Mode
3 person management hierarchy in some retail businesses: Manager - Assistant Manager - Third Man
3 in 1 Shakespearean view: The Lunatic - Lover - Poet, are of imagination all compact
3 social class divisions: Lower class - Middle class - Upper class
3 traditional race classifications: Mongoloid - Negroid - Caucasian
3 letter "arbitrarily" chosen suffix in many Dupont products: Teflon, Orlon, Nylon (Lon)
3 geological system divisions by Charles Lyell: Eocene - Miocene - Pliocene
3 sights: Foresight - Sight - Hindsight
*** Tripartite rhythm defined by Aristoxemus: Speech - Melody - Movement
3 seconds were placed on clock by Olympic official making U.S. lose basketball game (1972) (1 second was placed first)
3 month designations on some calendars: Last month - Present month - Next month
3 common job payment distributions: Weekly paycheck - Bi-weekly paycheck - Monthly paycheck
3 day weekends is typical strategy of many workers when choosing vacation days
3 days before & after: Fireworks lighting days in many States (after/before 4th of July)
3 trailers - 2 trailers - 1 trailer semi-truck carrier trucks
3 grouped-together auxiliary vehicle gauges: Oil - Amp - Temperature
3 types of tire construction: Bias-ply - Radial - Bias-ply belted
3 jaw chuck used for drills, lathes, etc...
3 possible samplings for drug or alcohol testing: Breath - Blood - Urine
*** Warning Label: Don't use aspirin during the last 3 months of pregnancy
*** The tricyclics are a group of drugs (among others) used for depression
3-part law for selling to a Pawn-broker:
- Written certification that item belongs to seller
- Give right thumb print
- Provide I.D.
3-tiered Health System: One for the Rich/Politicians - One for the Middle Class - One for the Poor
3 rebarb poles are frequently used in parking lot concrete tire stops
3 sets or multiples of 3 are often used in weight lifting exercises
3 days a week: Common exercise routine
3 part exercise: 1 - 2 - 3 One, 1 - 2- 3 Two, 1 - 2 - 3 Three
Threes Listed by Alan Dundes (The number 3 in American Culture, in "Every Man His Way" pg. 401)
3 placements of automatic transmission selectors: Column-Floor-Dash (push button)
3 12's rule: FCC restriction on station ownership limiting it to 12 AM, 12 FM, and 12 TV stations by an individual or corporation.
3 uses of tobacco: Smoke it - Chew it - Use it as snuff
3 Americas: South - Meso - North
3 times the rent, is the necessary wage some apartment managers require a tenant to earn
3 tenants complaining about another tenant's noise, etc., can get the one evicted
3 directions to move game pieces (checkers or chess): Horizontal - Vertical - Diagonal
Triple colored business forms
3 main engines are used in the Space Shuttle
3 lenses to some compound microscopes
Triple - Double - Single decker sandwiches, ice cream scoops, somersaults, typewriter spaces
3 great Tenors: Luciano Pavarotti - Jose Carreras - Placido Domingo (Publicity-wise "Great")
3 female/male singing voice types: Alto - Mezzo Soprano - Soprano/Bass - Baritone - Tenor
3 patterned slogan of Julius Caesar: I came - I saw - I conquered (Veni - Vidi - Vici)
3 part "Barry Goldwater for President" opposition: Goldwater 64 - Hot water 65 - Bread & Water 66
3 multiple choice "options": Individual selection - None of the above - All of the above
3 rhyme system (terza rima) was used by Dante Alighieri in his famous Divine Comedy
3 Kachina doll forms: Spirits - Men impersonating these spirits - Dolls in the image of the men
3 human evolution phases by August Schleicher: Basic physical aspects - Language - History
3rd finger (middle finger) used to express a vulgarism; for horses, it's the hoof
3 lines were/are customarily drawn on a blackboard with a wire-holding-chalk line maker (that has 5 chalk slots)
3 colloquial references to a "person": Straight - Square - Well Rounded
3 basic demographic variables: Fertility - Mortality - Migration
3 great Monotheistic religions: Islamic - Judaic - Christian
Trigrams used in Chinese and Japanese divination and symbolism
*** The work of Christ Jesus, "The Way - The Truth - And the life," has three main divisions;
(1) The preaching of the Word
(2) The revelation through Signs and Wonders
(3) And the realization through by means of the Passion.
*** The Eleusian mysteries imply three levels of meaning according to Pail Diel: (1) Agrarian (2) Psychological (3) Metaphysical
*** It has been indicated that the neophyte of the Ephesian mysteries had to grasp the meaning of the logos (word), that this world- creating Word revealed itself concretely through its 3-fold intonation of the vowels: I-O-A, vowels which were the subject of meditation.
Om, in Hinduism and other religions chiefly of India, a sacred syllable that is considered to be the greatest of all the mantras, or sacred formulas. The symbol Om is composed of the three sounds a-u-m (in Sanskrit, the vowels a and u coalesce to become o), which represent several important triads: the three worlds of earth, atmosphere, and heaven; the three major Hindu gods, Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva; and the three sacred Vedic scriptures, Rg, Yajur, and Soma. Thus Om mystically embodies the essence of the entire universe. It is uttered at the beginning and end of Hindu prayers, chants, and meditations and is freely used in Buddhist and Jaina ritual also. From the 6th century, the written symbol designating the sound is used to mark the beginning of a text in a manuscript or an inscription. The syllable is discussed in a number of the Upanishads, which are the texts of philosophical speculation, and it forms the entire subject matter of one, the Mandukya. It is used in the practice of Yoga and is related to techniques of auditory meditation. In the Puranas the syllable is put to sectarian use; thus the Saiva mark the lingam, or sign of Siva, with the symbol for Om, whereas the Vaishnava identify the three sounds as referring to a trinity composed of Vishnu, his wife Sri, and the worshipper.
This number ("3") also is an expression of the social order in its fullness and particularly the threefold structure of Indo-European society. According to Georges Dumezil, if all social structures are analyzed, it will be found that this threefold division only evolved into an all embracing world-view and value structure among particular peoples. Although its origins are unknown, this threefold division of duties or orders is perfectly clear. It is given expression in various triads which easily embrace religion, warfare and work; kingship, martial strength and fecundity; the priesthood, power and productivity; priests, warriors and producers (Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva); Brahmans, Kshatriyas (warriors) and Vaishyas (farmers and merchants), Shudras or slaves being as it were outcasts; Jupiter, Mars and Quirinus; Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches; the senatorial, equestrian and plebeian orders. Interaction takes place between the socio-political and the mythological organizations, each structure being reflected in the other, but they do not always develop at the same pace. Myth changes more slowly than reality, although sometimes it may anticipate it.
3 Buddhist existences: Parikalpita-svabhava - Paratantra-svabhava - Parinispanno-svabhavaTriad in Occult Philosophy: The Vital Soul - The Animal Soul - The Rationalized Soul
*** Salem Witchcraft Trials: Fear of witches reached panic proportions after:
(1) a teenaged girl had an argument with a washer-woman. The next day, the girl had convulsions and complained of pains all over her body.
When her (2) younger brother and
(3) sister also complained of pains, the washer-woman was brought to trial on the suspicion of being a witch. She was convicted and hanged.
*** Myvyrian Archaeology cites King Arthur as saying: I have three heroes in battle, Mael the tall - Llyr, with his army - Caradoc, pillar of Wales. He also names 3 Bards of Britain: Merlin Ambrose - Merlin the son of Morfyn, called also Merlin the Wild - Taliesin, chief of the bards; 3 golden-tongued knights: Gawain, son of Gwyar - Drydvas, son of Tryphin - Eliwlod, son of Madag, and Uther; 3 honorable feasts of Britain: Feast of Caswallaun, after repelling Julius Caesar from the isle - Feast of Aurelius Ambrosius, after he conquered the Saxons - Feast of King Arthur, at Carleon upon Usk.
3 parts to each Astrological sign called a detonate or decan*** Homer & other Greek poets wrote of a legendary ship called a Trireme. The 120 foot long wooden vessels were powered by 170 oarsman on three levels, whose main task was to ram enemy ships at high speed.
TRIPLICATE: If you happen to be a tour guide, it's very easy to memorize the facts about the Church of the Trinity in Waldassen, Germany. Since it has 3 towers & 3 turrets, each turret with 3 dormer windows; 3 rook with 3 openings in each; 3 windows & 3 doors in each part of the structure; 3 large & 3 small crosses; 3 altars & 3 staircases; 3 doorways & 3 columns; 3 lights & 3 niches; 3 bays & 3 windows in each bay; 3 statues of the Virgin Mary; The designer was George Dientzhofer, the 3rd architect in his family; The church took exactly 33 months, 333 weeks, & 33 days to build; It cost 33,333 florins & 33 kreuzer.
3 days, May 9, 11, 13, are when expiatory rites were held to expel the lemurs (ghosts), Evil spirits of the dead who often appeared as skeletons and were known to strike the living with madness. The temples were closed and marriages were prohibited. (Roman Myth)
3-fold law of Karma believed by religious witches: "Magic returns to the sender magnified 3 times."
3 senseless creatures of Buddhist mythology: Tiger (anger) - Monkey (greed) - Deer (love-sickness)
3-patterned phrase on Nazi belt buckle: "Gott Mit Uns" (God With Us)
3 patterned philosophy in Moonie religion: One Heart - One World - One God
3 sixes (666) or 616 have been used to represent the Anti-Christ, Devil, Satan, Evil one, etc.
3 eights (888), in antiquity, was the sacred number of Jesus
3 z's (ZZZ), in antiquity, symbolized the Christian Holy one - Triple Rays - and the exclamation Sanctus! Sanctus! Sanctus! (Holy! Holy! Holy!)
3 S's (SSS): 3 knots or 3 Solomans. With a line (
The dollar sign of today (one S with two vertical lines), is believed to be the modern-day usage of the triple Z's or triple S's. (Does All Mighty Dollar come from this?)
3 S's (SSS) of modern military men refer to morning routine: Shit - Shower - Shave
Triad in Mesopotamian religion: Anu (An) - Bel (Enilil) - Ea (Sumerian Enki)
3 Taoist gods: Yu Ch'ing, Pearly Azure - Shang Ch'ing, Upper Azure - T'ai Ch'ing, Supreme Azure
3 intoxifications of Buddhism: Hate - Ignorance - Lust
3-lettered names to denote Buddha: Foh, Fuh, Pot, Put, But
3 patterned motto of ancient Persian religion: Good thoughts - Good words - Good deeds
3 ancient Egyptian gods for solar "phases": Horus (morning) - Ra (noon) - Atum (dusk)
3 Christian evangelical counsels: Holy obedience - Perpetual chastity - Voluntary poverty
3 Christian virtues: Faith, symbolized by a cross - Hope, symbolized by an anchor - Charity, symbolized by a chalice or light.
Trinity of the Celtic Brigantian Empire: Virgin - Mother - Crone
3 gates: The New Jerusalem
3 mockings of Christ: Struck by Malchus - Before Herod - Pilate's order to be scourged
| Three Wise Men came to me with three gifts, on Christmas morn they had followed a star to see the saviour-king who was newly born And when I was a young child exploring the world as a child plays I got lost for three days but within a home of God, I smiled A spirit led me into the wilderness to be three times tempted by the Devil Satan wanted to make me one of his but I gave visiting angels my soul I taught so that all might remember- "to Ask, to Seek and to Knock" for with these keys, all things surrender and Heaven's doors unlock I was 3 times ten plus 3 years old speaking out for Faith, Hope & Charity some thought me evil, others called me bold but what I did, I did for thee "I am not," was all that Peter would say when asked if he is one of my disciples his third denial came after I was led away, before the moment a cock crows Many think I dropped the cross three times on the way to my crucifixion and with two others found guilty of crimes, |
that 3 of us had embarked towards
Heaven It is believed that three nails were used to bind each hand and both feet - my executioners expected to be abused but with words like these I chose to speak: "And though my flesh deeply pangs for water while blood also trickles from each hand, please forgive them oh Father for they do not understand" It was Pilate who inscribed above my head, in Greek, Latin and Hebrew, on a wooden plaque that could be read: 'Jesus the Nazarene the King of every Jew' When at 3 o'clock, I was to take my leave so that future generations might believe, some say I said this simple phrase of three: One nearby, rushed up to me with a sponge soaked in sour wine but others around said "Let him be!", to see if God would save me in time It was on the third day that I rose after having been crucified and every kind-hearted person knows, it was for each of you that I died Three women with spices sweet, came to soothe their hearts by anointing me |
but I had gone before them, to Galilee for it is there we were to meet To my disciples behind shut doors, I came twice to be heard then near the sea of the Tiberieas shores, meant this visit was my third I asked Simon Peter three questions knowing he would answer the same my undying love was given in these lessons, so that all the future might gain All authority in Heaven and on Earth had been given to me on the day, that I had known since my birth I would be ascending with yet much to say but, so that all nations might realize hoping all peoples would come to hear it my disciples were sent out to baptize, "in the name of the Father, Son & Holy Spirit" Like a thief in the night, I am to come unto you though some believe this untrue, I pray your heart shines my light Tis not a mystical coincidence that my life's story has patterns-of-three you must come to know of its significance as my love for you has not forsaken thee. |
| (Note: this is a condensed version of a poem with 333 lines:Three Wise Men poem English Version ) | ||
3 Indian deities for solar "phases": Apollo (rising) - Hari/Vishnu (midday) - Indra (setting)
*** In Chinese belief, if the souls of the just were not sent back immediately to a new life on Earth they might go to the dwelling place of the Immortals. The Palace of Immortality contained three gods who were originally human beings but were deified as a result of merit or good fortune: Shou-Lao is the god of long life, Fu-Hsing is the god of happiness, Lu-Hsing is the god of salaries.
3 humans who went to Heaven to perform service, according to Tannaitic sources: Enoch - Elijah - Moses
*** In Irish Folk Tales, the first three days of May were when great powers were given to demons, witches, and fairies by the Evil One. (Origin of our May-day! May-day! May-day! call for help?)
3 Greek/Roman gods; (Heaven - Earth - Underworld): Zeus - Poseidon - Hades/Jupiter - Neptune - Apollo
3 sons of Zeus & Europa: Minos - Rhadamanthus - Sarpedon
3 sacred Hindu fires: Ahavaniya - Daksinagni - Garhapatya
*** Jainism: Right Knowledge - Right Faith - Right Conduct
Eschatology: Second Coming - Resurrection - Last Judgement
3 forms of Odin in Eddic Mythology: Har - Jafnhar - Thridi
3 mysterious figures amongst Norse gods: Hoenir - Lodurr - Mimir
*** Ancient Egypt Theban Triad: Amun - Mut - and their son Khans
3 ancient Egypt central religious figures: Horus - Isis - Osiris
3 Greek mythological snake-haired sisters: Stheno - Euryale - Medusa
3-pronged trident: Poseidon
3-forked lightning: Jupiter
3 monstrous offspring by Loki and Angroboda: Fenrir - Hel - Jormungund
3 hags possessing immense power in Norse Myth: Urdr - Verdandi - Skuld
3 Fates: Clotho - Lachesis - Atropos
3 Furies: Tisiphone - Megaera - Alecto
3 Graces: Aglaia - Euphrosyne - Thalia
*** The Maya believed 3 stars in the Orion Constellation (Alnitak - Saiph - Rigel) were arranged by the gods as a triangular hearth, enclosing the smoke of the fire creation - the nebula.
3-faced goddess in Greek Mythology: Hecate
3-headed creature: Cerberus
Triple headed god in Gallic Mythology: Cernunnos
3 precious possessions of Thor: Girdle of strength - Iron gloves - Magic hammer
*** The Gnostic savior Hermes Trismegistus, or "Thrice-great Hermes" was the legendary founder of alchemy in the West.
*** Observed by the fiery river, the Tartaruchian angels have iron rods with 3 hooks with which they pierce the bowels of sinners.
*** Themis (Right/Divine Justice) and Dike (Human Justice) sat next to Zeus in Olympus.
*** Amma is a supreme god of the Dogon tribe of Mali who mated with the Earth 3 times.
*** Nzame is the name of the Fan people of the Congo who lived on Earth with 3 sons. White man - Black man - Gorilla. Nzame is a shadowy god, impossible to represent in Clay - Wood - or Stone.
*** In the Caribbean region of the Americas, the great strength of pre-Columbian art from this region is in stone. Small, Tri-pointed carvings that were often human or Zoomorphic in form, represented the spirits Recoil of the land. The Taino culture is famous for these Zemi carvings, which are found in many of the islands, notably Puerto Rico and Hispaniola.
3 gods of Northern Europe at Upsala in Sweden had 3 images: Odin (or Wodan) as a warrior in mail - Thor with his scepter holding, as greatest god, the middle place - and Freyr with his customary phallic symbols of fecundity and peace.
*** Chian-Lan is a tutelary of Chinese mythological gods or protectors with 3 eyes, the third being in the middle of the forehead.
*** A Criosphinx is one of the three varieties of the Egyptian sphinx, having the head of a ram, as distinguished from the Androsphinx, with the head of a human, and Hieracosphinx or hawk-headed sphinx.
*** In statuary, Minerva (Roman goddess of wisdom) is commonly represented with a Spindle - Spool - and Needle
The only three divinities worshiped in the Roman Capital were Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva.
*** Teiresias's testimony: If the parts of love-pleasure be counted as ten, thrice three go to women, one only to men.
*** Manfred Barthel, describes Martin Luther's theology as "By grace alone, By faith alone, by Holy writ alone."
*** John Calvin prescribed three necessary things for salvation:
(1) Loyalty to his church
(2) Observance of the sacraments of the Lord's supper and baptism
(3) Obedience to the rule of the civil government.
*** St. Bernadette Soubirous was said to have been entrusted with 3 secrets given to her by the Immaculate Conception between February 11 and March 25, 1858.
*** The outer doorways of Stonehenge are called "Trilithons" (Three stones)
*** In 1951 Lachlan Stuart showed a photograph of a 3-humped Loch Ness "Monster"
*** On August 3,1965, Rex Heflin took 3 photographs (said to be genuine) of a UFO
*** It has been quite common during the "UFO era" for 1 "to" 3 people to be abducted by 1 "to" 3 aliens or they saw 1 "to" 3 UFO's (sometimes referred to as 3 lights in a triangle formation). (The right hemisphere imaginatively attempts to construct a representational image of an individual's transitional psycho-maturational development from a 2 to a 3-patterned (conscious) focus. The right hemisphere is attempting (with the "tools"/attributes that are specific to its processing ability,) to "understand" the-individualized 3-patterned left hemispheric metamorphoses that for some, can be quite painful, distressing, or lead them to falsely consider-they are going insane. All the pain, distress, and (false) claims of feeling oneself going insane (from divulging or keeping to oneself the variety of images made available to consciousness through the use of metaphor, imagery, and "mirage"- like allusions,) are because humanity does not yet appreciate the processes of evolutionary development with respect to a 1-2-3 maturation-developing consciousness. Instead, their unwarranted fears attempt to suppress their individualized psycho-maturational evolution by way of drugs, alcohol, promiscuity, religion, etc . . .) (Karl Marx said Religion is the opiate of the Masses.)
*** Probably the oldest recorded dreams and their interpretations are found in the ancient tale-Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, which originated some 2000 years B.C. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Gilgamesh was a Sumerian king), was originally part of the cultural heritage of all the oriental nations and was translated into many different languages. The story tells of Gilgamesh's ancestor, Utnapishtim, the only immortal being on Earth, and of Gilgamesh's long adventure-filled journey with Enkidu, his friend from the Steppes, in search of eternal life and the way to overcome death. Some lines from the poem are: 'Shall we find the trail of Humbaba (an enemy warrior) thus? Let us look at some dreams, one after the other. May the dreams be threefold'...
*** From the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, translated by E Max Muller: Then Vidagdha Saklaya asked him: "How many gods are there, 0 Yajnavalkya?" He replied with this very Nivid (Sanskrit: "saying"): "As many as are mentioned in the Nivid of the hymn of praise addressed to the Visvedevas,... three and three hundred, three and three thousand. (The same question is asked five more times and the following quantity of gods is given, separately, thirty-three, six, three, two, one.)
*** The Islamic tradition (Koran 74.8) relates that God created a special angel Israfil whose task it is to hold the trumpet to his mouth without sleeping, century after century, until God gives him the sign to blow. The first blast will destroy all buildings on Earth and all people will die. The mountains will collapse, the seas will dry up, the stars will fall down. The second blast, forty years later, will raise the prophet Muhammad. On the third blast all people will rise, having received new bodies.
| Left
Hemisphere Neo-Mammalian (Predominantly 3-patterned) Math: Associative Commutative Distributive Logic: Major Premise Minor Premise Conclusion Time Sequencing: Seconds - Past Minutes - Present Hours - future Language: Subject Object Verb Right Body Side: Tri-cuspid heart valve Three-lobed lung |
 Limbic System Reptilian Predominantly 1-patterned) (Self)-Preservation (Self)-Procreation (Self)-Preeminence |
Right
Hemisphere Mammalian (Predominantly 2-patterned) Holistic: (viewing the whole) Macro versus Micro Whole versus Part Music: Major Scale vs Minor Scale Loud versus Soft Visuospatial: (Art) Background vs Foreground Light vs Dark (Contrasts) 1 Dimension vs 2 Dimensions Emotions: Pain versus Pleasure Positive vs Negative Left Body Side: Bi-cuspid heart valve Two-lobed lung |
| Note: When we use the left hemisphere attribute
"analysis" to define qualities of the right hemisphere, we often-times
assign an additional third criteria in one form or another. When we use
the right hemisphere attribute 'viewing' (recognizing) to define qualities
of the left hemisphere, we often-times alter the 3-part descriptions into
2-part 'portraits'. For example, (generally speaking): Left "analyzing" Right: Holistic may acquire the additional term "Synergy" or "Unity"; Music can develop a Triadic structure; Art acquires a 3rd dimension and 3-color (trichromatic) theory; Emotion is assigned words such as Compassion, Patience, and Empathy. Right "viewing" Left: Math may he seen as Give & Take; Logic may become a Mind/Body dichotomy; Time is related to Life & Death; Language is perceived as High & Low pitch. Left "analyzing" Reptilian attributes may develop three criteria which distinguish a (3 in 1) singular nature, such as arousal, motivation, and emotion. Right "viewing" Reptilian attributes may picture the basic drives as the seat of emotion whereby a type of kinship alliance is formulated in order to maintain the idea of a dual brain by not permitting the "Reptilian Brain" a separate entity status. Additionally, we find (impulsively) rendered attempts to define the "whole" (as yet only) human brain as an inherently polarized structure by those "portraying" various 2-part (opposite) descriptions. (Recall 'whole' & 'impulsive' are attributes of the Right Hemisphere.) The sample list is a 2-patterned holistic (gestalt) appraisal of the human brain which actually proceeds along a 1-2-3 maturational sequence, but this is not to imply that the entire sequence is always achieved. Not all individuals reach each successive stage at the same time, in the same manner, or completely. |
| Who Proposed It | Left Hemisphere | Right Hemisphere |
| Many Sources | Rational | Irrational |
| " | Analytical | Creative (Artistic) |
| " | Deliberate | Impulsive |
| " | Verbal | Non-Verbal |
| " | Public Knowledge | Private Knowledge |
| " | Literal Meaning | Metaphorical Meaning |
| " | Intellect | Intuition |
| " | Digital | Analogic |
| " | Abstract | Concrete |
| " | Lineal | Non-Lineal |
| " | Objective | Subjective |
| I Ching | The Creative: Heaven | The Receptive: Earth |
| " | Yang, Masculine | Yin, Feminine |
| " | Light, Day, Sun | Night, Dark, Moon |
| " | Spring, Summer | Autumn, Winter |
| " | Reason, Cold | Emotion, Warm |
| " | Aggressive | Yielding |
| " | Positive | Negative |
| Freud | Secondary Process | Primary Process |
| Piaget | Primary Symbolism | Secondary Symbolism |
| Schactel | Accommodation | Assimilation |
| Maslow | A Cognition | B Cognition |
| Taylor | Convergent Thinking | Divergent Thinking |
| Polanyi | Explicit | Tacit |
| Bogen | Propositional | Oppositional |
| Wertheimer | Productive Thinking | Blind Thinking |
| Bleuler | Realistic Thinking | Autistic Thinking |
| Domhoff | Right (side of body) | Left (side of body) |
| Luria | Sequential (Successive) | Simultaneous (Multiple) |
| Kubie | Conscious Processing | Pre-(Un)-conscious Processing |
| Langer | Discursive Symbolism | Presentational Symbolization |
| Oppenheimer | Time, History | Eternity, Timelessness (Space) |
*** In aggressive Sociopaths, EA. Elliot (1979) concludes that their EEG waves are of the Delta and Theta variety which are typical of children and not adults. For same, this gives credence to the idea that criminals, for the most part and in general, for whatever reason, are in varying degrees slower in the maturational developmental processes. However, please do not misconstrue this observation. In some individuals, an increased theta wave activity does not bring deeply buried unconscious problems to the surface to be expressed in destructive ways; it helps them to acknowledge and make use of valuable archetypal images which are then represented in a variety of art forms and activities, as well as inspiring other creative, innovative, and original ideas that can he applied for social good. Looking at the developmental processes of the brain we witness a transition from the Limbic system (Reptilian brain) to the Right hemisphere than to the left Hemisphere which is considered to be a counter-clockwise direction. This right-to-left direction also is the same direction that most amino acids are said to be in with the more common reference of "left handedness," "levorotary," or less commonly, chirality.
If criminal activity is an expression of an individual who is "stuck" or in transition with respect to what might be called a "Terrible Two's" developmental orientation, our methods of prevention, intervention, and rehabilitation must accommodate the realization that each individual passes through a 1-patterned, 2-patterned, and 3-patterned world view under normal circumstances given ideal genetic, nutritional, and environmental conditions. Educators also must realize that beyond the "3" is the 3 to 1 ratio view that some students are no doubt experiencing but hove no social reference for except in eclectic approximations which present themselves in abstruse and esoteric ways as to be misinterpreted as weird, strange, alien, crazy, insane, otherworldly, inter-dimensional, bizarre, eccentric, evil, youth-created-fictions, drug induced, or even genius.
*** Compare the foregoing list of two-patterned views with common references to mental ailments and appreciate that they too are (antiquated) "portraits" of the right hemisphere: Schizophrenia (Eugene Bleuler, 1857-1939): "splitting of the mind" (The word ambivalence is used to describe "contradictory" manifestations of impulse, idea, or effect. Bipolar (Emil Kraeplin, 1856-1926): "cyclical manic/depressive behavior" (I once worked with an individual who said he was told (by those medical "gods" wearing white coats) that he had a bipolar disorder. I suggested he move into a "tripolor" frame of mind so as not to be chained down by the idiocy of present-day (two patterned) witch-doctor treatment views. It took him awhile to rid himself of the learned dependency that many doctors actively encourage patients to have, whereby they retain manipulative control (and can thus afford to buy excessive social luxuries.) Nonetheless, he freed himself of their (two-patterned) bipolar nonsense and is much happier!) Passive/Aggressive, Obsessive/Compulsive, Introverted/Extroverted, etc., though often fused together to represent a singular personality type, also are old fashioned right hemispheric "portraits."
*** We have Unipolar disorder and Bipolar disorder but no mention of a Tripolar condition whether good or bad. Even though individuals with a Bipolar disorder are encouraged to attempt self-monitoring for the purpose of recognizing the tell-tale signs of mood-swing change in order to alleviate circumstances which might produce dire consequences, the central idea of maintaining equilibrium should be called Tripolar as a means of enhancing understanding the 1-2-3 maturationally developing psychological processes because the similarity of labeling would advantage both the patient and physician in obtaining corrective results. An easily identifiable cognitive grouping formula will surely enhance understanding and lessen the stagnating preoccupation with the outdated notion of two extremes.
*** The ambivalent ("contradictory" or "bipartite") ideas such as good/evil, immortal (gods)/ mortal (humans), etc., with all the connotative embellishments given them by early humans, suggests our early ancestors were all schizophrenic due to the widespread usage of such ideas. (Humorously speaking, it means we all have a "crazy" gene in us.)
*** From pages 6 & 7 of the book "The Psyche and Schizophrenia," by Luc Ciampi, 1988, we find: "The overall structure of the psychoanalytic theory of drives-as of psychoanalytic theory in general-is dualistic or polar. Mental states, and drive states in particular, are regarded as the continually fluctuating results of dynamic processes occurring within a field of numerous poles or pairs of opposites. The most important of these are Conscious/Unconscious; Love/Hate; Life instincts (libido)/ Death instincts (destrudo); Object libido (object love or hate)/Ego libido (narcissistic libido-self love or hate); Pleasure principle/Reality principle; Tension/Relaxation; Stability principle/Nirvana principle . . . although various pairs overlap and the categories listed may not correspond directly. Bipolarities represent the simplest possible form of a "system"-a fact whose general significance has not been sufficiently recognized. More complex systems arise when several bipolarities interact. These bipolar structures, most especially the "stability principle" and "Nirvana principle," which Freud took over from Gustav Fechner and Barbara Low, correspond exactly to the concepts of homeostasis and entropy." . . .
Yet on page 160 he uses a three patterned orientation: "no one to my knowledge has yet integrated the approaches of (1) Systems Theory (2) Family Dynamics, and (3) Psychoanalysis into one unified theory of schizophrenia that would relate intrapsychic and interpersonal processes in the way in which they must obviously be connected in reality." (This is another 3 in 1 Unified Theory idea similar to other 3 in 1 Unified Theories being proposed in other disciplines.
Don't you think it's about time for all of human society to acknowledge such a "threes" orientation as being a fundamental human cognition process and this is why it's cropping up in various human endeavors?!! Don'/ wake up by smelling the coffee, tobacco, or imitation mountain-air incense, wake up by opening your eyes without the use of aromatic drugs that are being sold by companies that could care less if you live or die, that is after you buy one of their products.) Doctor Ciampi further states: "I am convinced that every new insight into "the nature of the beast" will prove to be practically useful in the long run"...
On page 181, he states: The psyche is thus truly "healthy" and in equilibrium-that is, capable of (1) optimal functioning (2) adoption, and (3) development-when it steers a middle course, and when shifts from one system of reference to another are moderate in (1) flexibility (2) amplitude, and (3) speed. In this case, the "middle" is the element one needs to progress to." (Put his comments in a 3-dimensional illustration and you will see the recurring triangular image though a 2-dimensional perspective often cites such as circular.)
On page 188, he mentions his three schizophrenic process phases: (1) The premorbid (from birth until the outbreak of the disease) (2) Acute psychosis (3) Chronic. (Once again we find another "expert" using a pattern-of-three idea (described with discipline-specific labels) as a basis for dealing with "traditional" pattern-of-two formulations instead of coming to the realization that there exists a 1-2-3 maturational evolutionary development taking place with the human species.
The point to be made is that we all recognize the existence of patterns-of-two, but some theorists are taking this everyday recognition too literally whereby entire schools (of academic-trained perception) teach this (child's) world-view as if it were the singular fundamental makeup of the psychological processes. They fail to recognize their own intuitive acknowledgment that patterns-of-two are part of a 1-23 maturational development sequence, whereby the labels they attach to their perceptions of patterns-of-two are being used to (inclusively) demark assumed beginning and ending boundaries which obscure the appreciation of a developmental third participant. Simply put, life on planet Earth is a dynamic evolutionary process where the appearance of opposites (patterns-of-two) precede the appearance of the third counterpart, but the slow rate of human recognition (due partly to the delimiting descriptive labels employed), of the third element in the process creates a condition of static thinking in those who persist in the ludicrous argument that patterns-of-two can explain the totality of developmental processes. (Or if not the totality, the main part, which is another asinine remark meant to deflect your attention from further articulation of their atavistic logic.) Theirs is an archaic form of thinking.
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This sequence of drawings show
(using a Dichotomous analysis) that it is absurd to consider that a person
can become the victim of their biography. However, using a Trichotomous
analysis approach which recognizes a 1-2-3 maturational development
sequence, these drawings do in fact illustrate the mindset of an individual
with a predominant two-patterned perspective of polarized views:
Inside/Outside; In front of bars/Behind bars; Here/There; etc... A
three-patterned predominant individual can have similar social experiences
but choose to visualize an alternative path. In other words, with this
rendering, a new school of Psychology has just been born. Another example of some people viewing their world in a particular (but not necessarily predominant) polarized fashion is illustrated by the following "Language and Sexism" comparison: A businessman is aggressive, a businesswoman is pushy. A businessman is good on details, she's picky; He follows through, she doesn't know when to quit. He stands firm, she's hard. His judgments are her prejudices. He is a man of the world, she's been around. He isn't afraid to say what is on his mind, she's mouthy. He exercises authority diligently, she's power mad. He's closed mouthed, she's secretive. He climbed the ladder of success, she slept her way to the top. (Graduate School of Management, UCLA, The Balloon, vol xxiii, no. 6) |
*** To help in your understanding of the aforementioned "New School of Psychology," the diagram below is a generalized portrayal of the overlaps occurring in human behavior with respect to criminal, civil, and creative activities. In relative terms we can make some assessment of what is meant by being criminal or civil, but what is meant by being creative is another matter. Thus I exhibit the "Creative Behavioral Degree" as being quite broad with an acknowledged line to indicate the colloquial notion of there being a fine line between genius and insanity, both of which are other vague terms applied to creativity. The underlying designations of 'one', 'two', and 'three' in concert with an arrow, show that we, as a species, have not arrived at a complete "3" state, whatever this may mean in terms of our future development aside from the usual metaphysical (annotations. Such an "advanced" individual would no doubt appear 'different,' if not physically, then their ideas might be looked upon as criminal instead of as creative, innovative, and original. Most of us are still in a partial "2"-going-on-to-"3" transition, while some of us are predominantly in a "2" stage of cognitive orientation herein represented by criminal behavior.
Some criminals are creative, some civil, while others are viewed as being no different than a reptilian minded beast of prey. There are various over-lappings amongst these three behavior groups similar to the over-lappings encountered when observing the successive 1-2-3 grouping stages of babbling that overlap prior to and during the (overlapping) 1-2-3 grouping stages of word usage development. Individualized frequency of overlap as well as intermittent (progressive or regressive) uses of any of these stages vary with the circumstances experienced by the infant and child. "Regression" in this context, is a term used to describe the exhibition of a behavior consistent with an earlier stage of development. With respect to infants, children, adolescents, and psycho-pathological disturbances in general, we sometimes accept the notion that such uses of early behaviors are temporary, that they will grow out of them.
Obviously, with respect to a 1-2-3 maturational development sequence, a predominant usage of patterns-of-two (with little or no referenced usages to patterns-of-three), is not necessarily a temporary stage of regression that an individual can 'grow out of as can be indicated by the usage of two-patterned orientations of three-time losing criminals. The idea of criminals being "throwbacks" to an earlier type of human is an interesting but misleading consideration meant to describe why a seemingly "normal" person would "all of a sudden" commit a crime. Two-pattern oriented individuals can appear quite "normal" until confronted with a three-patterned situation that they cannot progress into. It is easier for a three-pattern oriented individual to "regress" to a two patterned circumstance, as well as manipulate two-patterned individuals into maintaining a two-patterned environment which they control for selfish interests.
3 part Edward O. Wilson's Sociobiology definition: Ethology - Ecology - Genetics*** Steven Lab (1984) found that the vast majority of his (adolescent) subjects were involved in victimless crimes and status offenses, such as truants, runaways, beer drinkers, and curfew violators, and that over two thirds (67 percent) ceased their delinquency before the fourth offense, regardless of whether or not they were apprehended and legally processed. (page 478, Juvenile Delinquency, 1989, Jack Bynum & William Thomson)
*** Vision Quest is a private program designed to rehabilitate "hard-core juvenile delinquents through positive experiences and physical challenges in the wilderness" involving a "rite-of-passage" similar to that used by the Crow and Cheyenne Indians. The juveniles expected to complete 3 "quests": (1) Working with wild horses & stubborn mules (2) A 6-month wagon train experience (3) An 8-week program of training wild mustangs.
*** The FBI Uniform (crime Reporting Program is designed to attain three basic objectives: (1) To measure the extent, fluctuation distribution, and nature of serious crime in the U.S. (2) To measure the total volume of serious crime known to police (3) To show the activity and coverage of law enforcement agencies through arrest counts and police employee strength data.
- 3 social group categories: Cultural - Subcultural - Counter-cultural
- 3 types of juvenile gangs characterized by delinquent activities: (1) Crime-oriented (2) Conflict-oriented (3) Retreatist-oriented (Richard Cloward & Lloyd Ohlin, 1960)
*** Albert Cohen (1955) reported lower class boys who aspire to increased social
status in a dominant, middle class value system correspond in one of three ways:
(1) College-boy response
(2) Corner-boy response
(3) Delinquent-boy response
- 3 categories of juvenile delinquency (Theodore Ferdinand, 1966): Impulsive - Neurotic - Symptomatic
- 3 comments on dreaming behavior (Why do we dream?):
- Because we (as a species) haven't been taught (by wide-spread social awareness) to do anything else with our (wasted) psyche-energy.
- Nightmares are merely species-specific (last chance) mechanisms of stirring oneself (into consciousness) from certain types of slumber where physiological processes have slowed to life-threatening rhythms.
- If a certain "bad" (unconventional) dream stirs you to consciousness, don't begin moving about till you think "good" (new, original) thoughts, then keep a record of them in some fashion such as by writing, art work, model, etc...
- 3 basic elements of mind (Wilhelm Wundt): Sensations - Images - Feelings
- 3 main psycho-sexual stages: Oral - Anal - Genital
- 3 (Jean Piaget) Structure characteristics: Wholeness - Transformation - Self-regulation
- 3 (Karl Jaspers) consciousness aspects: Awareness of experience - Awareness of an object - Self-reflection
- 3-spined stickleback fish has often been used for research in instinct behavior
- 3 cycles to biorhythm theory: 23 day physical - 28 day emotional - 33 day intellectual
*** The British (sexually oriented slang) phrase "To play three to one (and sure to lose)", has been used as an example by researchers to support their claim the number 3 primarily is a reference to the penis and testicles, (because of their own frequent association of sex related commentary where the "3" in one form or another is present.) Such nonsense would thus lead us to conclude that God is definitely a male who was playing with or thinking (symbolically) about his penis and testicles when he put humanity on the 3rd planet.
*** "Homo ("one")-sexuality/ "bi" ("two")-sexuality, sadism/masochism, as well as the many "occupations" of promiscuous sexuality (due to being viewed as "opposite" variations to normal heterosexuality), and inter-/-racial dating (due to being viewed as "opposite"to the normal dating of one's own race), can be seen as examples of patterns-of-two due to those involved who remain somewhat preoccupied with reassuring themselves with the propriety of their actions through assertive simplistic expressions of various dichotomous activities. The "coming out" of homosexuals ("into what" has not been decided on), and the "blending of races" by those who attempt to rationalize inter/-racial dating with spurious arguments, are both short-sighted (primarily unconscious) attempts to reach some semblance of a third stage in personal development.
The main (but not only) problem with these types of approaches to reach the "three" is that the participants have not come to appreciate their own unique individuality as having no equal. These so-called "adult consenting alternative" lifestyles, which are basically poorly contrived renderings of camouflaged perverted sexual orientations, are being overlooked as premature expressions of the environmentally influenced genetic predisposition of a particular species whose biological "motivations" strive to reach the "three" but that these avenues of pursuit are futile because, metaphorically speaking, 1 plus 1 does not equal three. Fortunately, only a very small percentage of people engage in such acts of sexually-oriented self-absorption because most of us are insightful enough to know that such paths are blind alleys (like Nazism's "Third Reich, the French Revolution's "Third Republic," and Fascism's "Third Way.")... Labyrinths from which those few will never emerge until they call upon the reserves of their consciousness to seek fulfillment through their especial individualized course of a 1-2-3 attainment instead of through an adulterated mirror-image reflection as did Narcissus, and the dog who looked down upon a stream from a bridge while carrying a bone but subsequently "lost touch with this reality" by reaching out for what appeared to be an enlarged bone, thereby dropping "truth" into the waters below all because of a mirage. The moral is, when crossing the many bridges you encounter in life, discipline your eager (impulsive) potentialities, in order to reach the other side so that you stand on solid ground while reaching beyond your finger tips.
*** Man and woman are not opposite sexes. This notion of being "opposite" is an outdated reference developed in an age when humanity was largely oriented towards patterns-of-two.
*** Word Association tests are indicators of a person's two-patterned orienting ability exhibited (quite often) verbally, as are the "double figures in a Rorschach's (ink blot) test. When using the TAT (Thematic Apperception Tests), where various pictures with two people are often shown, individuals are asked to give a three-patterned Beginning-Middle-End scenario. Hence, test givers are using three patterned criteria to analyze individuals subjected to two-patterned tests! And you wonder why psychological (and other) problems aren't being solved? Such tests are like placing an individual in a round room and giving them three chances to find a corner... This is what we get for relying on stone age psychology.
*** When it is wondered how a person who seems (1) passive (2) shy, and (3) restrained can become an "all of a sudden" murderer and why habitual murderers are (1) aggressive (2) not shy, and (3) impulsive, most researchers (using these or other three patterned descriptive criteria) are overlooking these profiles as being opposites of the same human behavior spectrum.
- 3 types of schizophrenia by Emil Kraeplin: Hebephrenic - Catatonic - Paranoid
- 3-part Psychiatry reference: Neurotics build castles in the sky - Psychotics live in them - and Psychiatrists collect the rent
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Roman dicers from a fresco at Pompeii, playing what is thought to be an early version of backgammon. The cartoon like captions above their heads describe a disputed call: the man on the left cries, "I've won!" while the one on the right objects, claiming, "It's not a three, it's a two." Analogously, the two characters can be viewed as the right & left hemispheres of the brain. The right adamantly refuses to acknowledge the left's claim to a 3 and insists that the "3" the left sees is actually a 2. If the overall purpose of the "game" (life) is to achieve a "3" and yet there is a claim from some for a preponderance of "2" (with all its various guises), do we try to change the rules of the "game" or create a teaching methodology which enables the distinctions of "2" and "3" to be made identifiable and useful from all vantage points? (Even if the purpose of the game is defined by Earth-specific environmental circumstances.) The social problems created by an underlying 2 versus 3 contention has been going on for long enough... since Pompeii anyway. Let's not leave a similar picture of us for future historians who find it beneath the rubble of an extinct civilization. |
*** Upon greeting someone familiar, it is the custom in some cultures to (1) kiss one cheek (2) then the other cheek and (3) to kiss the first cheek again. On occasion, some greeters will forego the actual kiss and merely exercise an abbreviated version by moving their head from one side to the other side of the other person's head. If the two who are greeting have been in some conflict, they may use a two patterned form of the customary three-patterned greeting.
Entry- Friday, January 05, 2007 6:35:07 AM: While watching a DVD (yesterday late afternoon) entitled "Human Resources," a film by Laurent Cantet, there was a double cheek-to-cheek greeting amongst those who were giving an intimate acknowledgment of one another. It gave me the impression of an obsessive compulsive act. The traditional handshake took place as a formal or general greeting amongst non-intimates.*** The traditional handshake (palms clasped together) can be labeled a pattern-of-one. Some people will slap, tap, or touch their palms or lightly clenched fists twice, representing a pattern-of-two. In the prison environment an abbreviated (esoteric) variation of the two patterned palm slap/fist tap is the tapping of one's index and middle fingers against another's identically used set of two fingers. With respect to a pattern-of-three, some will (1) clasp thumbs (2) clasp curled fingers and (3) display a gang sign. Others will tap lightly clenched fists together 3 times, slap palms together 3 times, etc., some of which may include attendant verbal signs.
*** It would serve two-patterned oriented individuals as well as society much better, if they were taught a method of (three) pattern recognition as an attempt to help them learn to think in a trichotomous fashion with respect to our increasingly trichotomous-oriented society, as opposed to using a dichotomous world-view. For whatever reason(s), some individuals do not absorb a trichotomous social orientation by mere exposure to a culture organized on a widely prevailing pattern-of-three format. While others can readily assimilate (as if by osmosis) such a pattern and live socially responsible lives without ever being conscious of the fact that they use "threes" on a day to day basis, there are a few who must be taught to recognize such a consistency.
With respect to instructors who teach English as a second language to those who may not be accustomed to the U.S. culture(s), it would behoove them to teach the "3rd Language Compliment." Such a teaching methodology will help them to help others help themselves in their self-education efforts throughout their lives. The U.S. culture(s) is often referred to as a sort of "melting-pot" for various Indo-European, Asian and African Views. It is the multiplicity of such views, some say, that hinders a common understanding to the extent of exasperating many of our social problems. Thus, meaningful communication amongst so many divergent groups can only be enhanced by acknowledging (and putting to use) the world-wide commonality of a 1-2-3 maturationally developing (preferential) cognitive grouping orientation... the 3rd Language Complement.
Three-Patterned variations exist amongst different groups, but they are all expressing themselves with customarily similar (sub-cultural) symbolic gestures. Depending on the individual, these gestures may be the tip of an iceberg which bespeak of uncommunicated (dichotomously arranged) feelings that, if left unaddressed, may engender (dichotomously arranged) thoughts of disenfranchisement, alienation, ostracism, etc., from the larger society, and our socialized attempts to understand them is distorted because we continue to use on unrecognized three-patterned analysis technique that further confuses the arrived-at interpretation by articulating an individual's two-patterned perspective with three-patterned expressions, diagrams, charts, illustrations, intervention methods, etc.... The "self identity search" of a predominantly two-patterned oriented individual) with the various attendant questions: Who am I? Is this all there is? What can I do? What is my purpose, fate, destiny? etc...) may attempt to find answers with one or more others who seem to share a similar quest. A three-patterned oriented individual may have the same questions as well as seek out one or more others who appear to share the same quest, but the resulting outcome is different.
| 3 grouped beats | separated by 1 emphasized beat during Native American drum beating |
| 3 ordinary dimensions: Length - Width - Depth | 1 relational dimension: Time (4th dimension) |
| 3 standard amino acids: Adenosine - Cytosine - Guanine | 1 relational: Uracil (RNA), Thymine (DNA) |
| 3 common vending monies: Nickels - Dimes - Quarters | 1 relational form: Dollar bill metal/paper) |
| 3 enumerated potatoes: 1 potato - 2 potato - 3 potato | 1 without labeling 4 (counting) |
| 3 bits enumerated: 2 bits - 4 bits - 6 bits | 1 without labeling: a dollar (cheerleading) |
| 3 face cards: Kings - Queens - Jacks | 1 related Ace card (faceless) |
| 3 rhymes: eeny - meeny - miney | separated by 1 (mo) of another set of 3: (mo - toe- go) |
| 3 common indoor window coverings: Drapes/Curtains - Blinds - Shades |
1 related outdoor: Shutters |
| 3 God labels: He - She - It | 1 relational: Non-Entity (non-existence) |
| 3 numbered bases: 1st - 2nd - 3rd | 1 unnumbered relational: Home plate/base |
| 3 customary years | 1 relational: leap year |
| 3 primary cycles: Intake - Compression - Power | 1 relational: Exhaust |
| 3 "element" A-U-M (Birth - Being - Dissolution) | 1 relational: Silence |
| 3 step shampooing: Wet hair - Lather - Rinse | 1 relational: Repeat as desired |
| 3 desires of a woman for a man: Tall - Dark - Handsome | 1 relational: Rich |
| 3 part call: Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye! | 1 relational: The court is now in session |
| 3 part announcement: Apples - Peaches - Pumpkin Pie | 1 relational: Who's not ready hollar I |
| 3 basic forms of matter: Solids - Liquids - Gases | 1 relational: Plasma |
| 3 (metrical foot) stressed syllables | 1 relational unstressed syllable |
| 3 guitarists (Beatles): Paul - John - George | 1 relational drummer: Ringo |
| 3 regular forces: Army - Navy - Airforce | 1 relational: Marines (Navy Dept.) |
| 3 cadence march: Gimme' your left - Gimme' your left - Gimme' your left | 1 related: Right |
| 3 consonants to | 1 related vowel: Cuss Words |
| 3 related feet (numbers): 1 foot plus 1 foot plus 1 foot | equals 1 related (word): Yard |
| 3 common appendage crossings: Legs - Arms - Fingers | 1 uncommon related: Eyes |
| 3 European leaders: D.L. George - V. Orlando - G. Clemenceau | 1 related: (U.S.) W. Wilson (Paris Peace Talks) |
| 3 at-bat chances to run | 1 relational mandatory walk (ball four) |
| 3 microorganism "vats": Rumen - Reticulum - Omasum | 1 related "true" stomach: Abomasum (Ruminants) |
| 3 related: Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! | 1 relational: Step Right Up (Circus Barker's call) |
| *** Mendelian inheritance is usually described as the process by which one of two alternate alleles of a gene is inherited from each parent so that the offspring has one of the following combinations: two dominant alleles, two recessive alleles, or one of each. If both parents are heterozygous, that is, have one of each allele, the three genotypes will occur among the offspring with the following probabilities: one homozygous dominant, two heterozygotes, and one homozygous recessive. Phenotypically the two heterozygotes will be indistinguishable from the homozygous dominant. This results in the famous 3:1 ratio. (James C. King, The Biology of Race, 1981, page 28) | |
*** Triangles are readily seen as geometric patterns-of-three. With respect to the aforementioned Tic-Toc Theory, the figure "8", when truncated at both ends, becomes an "X", which can be seen as two triangles connected at their tips. No less, an "S" can be seen as (1/2) the mirror-image of an "8", the "S" being a common "expression" of many reptiles (etc.), such as a snake traversing the ground. Similarly, Buddha's idea of the way to Nirvana by way of the Noble 8-fold path creates the impression that his 4 Noble truths are a mirror-image formulation. Another mirror-image of the 8 is the "3" (or "E," "W," "M"), a connection that is symbolically represented by the 8 basic trigrams philosophy. By examining some everyday examples of the "X" to realize how (subtly) prominent such a figure is in our lives, you may come to appreciate the occurrences as more than just coincidental:
| School X-am | X-tinct animals | X-rated |  |
| King's X (children) | X-hume a corpse | X-communicate | |
| Treasure map X | XXX (moonshine/explosives) | X-rays | |
| One's "X" (spouse,etc.) | X-pert advice | X-pression | |
| X-pecting a baby | X-tenuating circumstances | X-tort | |
| X-pelled from school | X-tended warranty | X-plore | |
| X-calibur (sword) | X Chromosome | X-periment | |
| X-ceed expectations | X-ample | X-perience | |
| X-ecute the prisoner | X-tension cord | X-mas tree | |
| X marks the spot | X-plode the bomb | X-ponent | |
| Make an X (signature) | X-convict | X-terminate | |
| X-it the stage | X-cuses, X-cuses, X-cuses | X-actly | |
| Brand X | X-cetera (children) | X-cellent |
To express the "X" with a word, many of us would choose "cross": Cross X-amination; Don't cross the picket line; Cross-word puzzle; "Crux" of a problem; Don't (double) cross me; Got you in my cross-hairs; Cross reference; Cross roads; One's cross to bear; I double dare you to cross that line; Don't be cross (angry). And let us not forget: Cross your fingers - Hope to die - Stick a needle in your eye.
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