The future frightens a person with its uncertainty. Death is a particular fear. And if you can't protect yourself from it, you want to at least know when it will come - until what time you can not be afraid of it.
Throughout the ages, people have attempted to predict the date of death. For this, various magical methods were used, and some of them are now available to the general public. thanks to the Internet. Numerous esoteric sites offer various ways to determine the date of death, including using numerology. The visitor is only required to perform simple arithmetic operations with his date of birth and read the corresponding forecast.
Numerological divination
Numerology originated in ancient times, when scientific knowledge, including mathematical knowledge, was the property of a narrow circle of priests, and religion had not yet completely separated from magic. So, together with astronomy, astrology was born, and together with mathematics - numerology. Numbers fascinated with their abstractness, it seemed that they live their own special life, permeate the Universe, ordering it and determining human destiny, which they tried to unravel with the help of numbers. Even such a serious scientist as Pythagoras was fond of numerology.
But this is the view of a man of the era when science was taking its first steps. Modern people could approach this issue with more logic. Thousands of people are born on Earth every day. If we assume that the date of death can be calculated from the date of birth, we have to admit that all people born on the same day must die at the same time. This assumption is regularly refuted by life itself.
An even more absurd situation arises if the most common method of numerology is applied - reducing any number to a single-valued one by successive addition. For example, if a person was born on January 5, 1983, his “fateful” number is 9 (5 + 1 + 1 + 9 + 8 + 3 = 27, 2 + 7 = 9). There are only nine single-digit numbers, therefore, the whole variety of human destinies in general and the circumstances of death in particular should be reduced to nine options. The absurdity of this assumption casts doubt on the possibility of calculating the date of death by date of birth.
Expediency
If we assume, by way of philosophical assumption, that the calculation of the date of death by date of birth is possible, its expediency is questionable.
A person knows that he will die, but this knowledge can be called theoretical, abstract, and it is precisely the unknown date of death that makes him so.
The degree of fear caused by any frightening event is inversely proportional to its distance, for example, students at the beginning of the semester are much less worried about the upcoming exams than during the session. If an event refers to some uncertain future, it becomes almost surreal for a person: “it is not known when it will be” psychologically equivalent to “it will never be”. We can say that ignorance of the date of death allows a person to feel immortal.
If a person knew exactly when he would die, he would carry an unbearable burden of fear all his life: “50 years left… 20 years… 2 months… 5 days”, and this would be much harder than realizing the fact of his own mortality.
Thus, there is no point in wasting time on the numerological calculation of the date of death by date of birth: this is both impossible and not necessary for a person.
