Most kids if they are going to go through hell go through it at age 7. Then you have the whole 7 year itch thing in marriage.
Asthma seems to go in 7 year cycles.
Whats this whole 7 thing about?
Why does everything change at 7?
Why does everything change at 7?
Hmnnn... you're absolutely correct. And people actually consider seven to be a lucky number? :rolleyes: I can't speak from experience regarding the seven year itch thing or the asthma thing, however.
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Why does everything change at 7?
Some people believe that we essentially become a new person every 7 years because in that amount of time our bodies replace every single cell. They also believe that every seven years your "body chemistry" changes, making you susceptible to new allergies.
This would be a good murder defense if you could stay on the run for 7 years because then you could claim that it truly wasn't you who committed the crime since you had become a new person within the seven years you were on the run.
However, if it were true that every atom or cell in your body was replaced periodically, nobody would be afflicted with permanent diseases, tooth decay, cancer, brain damage, etc. maybe we'd even regenerate missing limbs. As it is, we don't regenerate limbs, lost teeth don't suddenly regrow and tattoos don't suddenly disappear because new cells have replaced the inked ones!
Having said that, my daughter was a chronic, severe asthmatic on daily meds, yet when she was 14 she simply 'grew out of it' and very rarely needs her meds now!
I don't like the 7 year analogy personally because when I went through a couple of sh1tty years I found myself praying that I didn't have another 5 crappy years to go! :-5 :rolleyes:
So basically I've wasted a post, told you nothing you didn't know and wasted 2 minutes of your life by making you read it! Perhaps I should waffle on and waste 7 minutes of your life then you'd know there was something amazing in all this 7 stuff! Bwahahahaha! :wah:
Nope, I got nuthin' .................................... read slow!!!
This would be a good murder defense if you could stay on the run for 7 years because then you could claim that it truly wasn't you who committed the crime since you had become a new person within the seven years you were on the run.
However, if it were true that every atom or cell in your body was replaced periodically, nobody would be afflicted with permanent diseases, tooth decay, cancer, brain damage, etc. maybe we'd even regenerate missing limbs. As it is, we don't regenerate limbs, lost teeth don't suddenly regrow and tattoos don't suddenly disappear because new cells have replaced the inked ones!
Having said that, my daughter was a chronic, severe asthmatic on daily meds, yet when she was 14 she simply 'grew out of it' and very rarely needs her meds now!
I don't like the 7 year analogy personally because when I went through a couple of sh1tty years I found myself praying that I didn't have another 5 crappy years to go! :-5 :rolleyes:
So basically I've wasted a post, told you nothing you didn't know and wasted 2 minutes of your life by making you read it! Perhaps I should waffle on and waste 7 minutes of your life then you'd know there was something amazing in all this 7 stuff! Bwahahahaha! :wah:
Nope, I got nuthin' .................................... read slow!!!
Why does everything change at 7?
fuzzy butt;964762 wrote: really i thought it was Ancient greek philosphy? ????? socratis? about a boy learning all he knows by the age of seven ? something about giving this person "a boy until he's seven and i will show you the man" .... it's bull **** . because it means we stop learning and computing after this point.
anyone can that correct me?
Socrates? I have never heard such a quote attributed to him and considering he believed in life-long learning and
in-depth thought he is probably the last person who would own to such a crass statement.
Do you perhaps mean the Jesuit motto "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man" which is based on a quotation by Francis Xavier?
anyone can that correct me?
Socrates? I have never heard such a quote attributed to him and considering he believed in life-long learning and
in-depth thought he is probably the last person who would own to such a crass statement.
Do you perhaps mean the Jesuit motto "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man" which is based on a quotation by Francis Xavier?
Why does everything change at 7?
I think 7 has just been in the centre of a few well publicised cooncidences.
It makes it easy to explain something away using some sort of cosmic equation.
rather than just face the fact that that stuff happens with no point or meaning.
like alot of things, if you look hard enough you can find something to attribute it too.
It makes it easy to explain something away using some sort of cosmic equation.
rather than just face the fact that that stuff happens with no point or meaning.
like alot of things, if you look hard enough you can find something to attribute it too.