I received an email from a friend today. i don't know how accurate it is. I'm sure it's just one of those chain mail things, but is it true? What do you think?

I don't know if it should be in this section or not, but I didn't know where else to put it.

Check this out...!

1) New York City has 11 letters
2) Afghanistan has 11 letters.
3) Ramsin Yuseb (The terrorist who threatened to destroy the Twin Towers in 1993) has 11 letters.
4) George W Bush has 11 letters.

This could be a mere coincidence, but this gets more interesting:

1) New York is the 11th state.
2) The first plane crashing against the Twin Towers was flight number 11.
3) Flight 11 was carrying 92 passengers. 9 + 2 = 11
4) Flight 77 which also hit Twin Towers, was carrying 65 passengers. 6+5 =11
5) The tragedy was on September 11, or 9/11 as it is now known. 9 + 1 + 1 = 11
6) The date is equal to the US emergency services telephone number 911. 9 + 1 + 1 = 11.

Sheer coincidence..?! Read on and make up your own mind:

1) The total number of victims inside all the hi-jacked planes was 254. 2 + 5 + 4 = 11.
2) September 11 is day number 254 of the calendar year. Again 2 + 5 + 4=11
3) The Madrid bombing took place on 3/11/2004. 3 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 4=11.
4) The tragedy of Madrid happened 911 days after the Twin Towers incident.

Now this is where things get totally eerie:The most recognised symbol for the US, after the Stars & Stripes, is the Eagle.The following verse is taken from the Quran, the Islamic holy book: "For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle.The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah and lo,While some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced:For the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah and there was peace." That verse is number 9.11 of the Quran.

Still uncovinced about all of this..?!Try this and see how you feel afterwards, it made my hair stand on end:

Open Microsoft Word and do the following:

1. Type in capitals Q33 NY. This is the flight number of the first plane to hit one of the Twin Towers.
2. Highlight the Q33 NY.
3. Change the font size to 48.4.
Change the actual font to the WINGDINGS.

What do you think now?

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So....... what do you think?

The wingding thing is false,some guy just figured out that you could get that image with a certain combination of letters,and then claimed it to be the name of the flight.Or so I am told.I believe some of the other info supplied is false,but I'm not certain.

Anyone know?

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/wingdings.asp

Try looking things like this up before you post.

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/coincidence.asp

That Surah doesn't exist... Much of the 11's you talk about are coincidental (Hey, there are eleven letters in "Palatka, Fla" as well!).

Scipherel covered the wingdings as well.

Jeez...

In that case even who died in that plane may be having some link to 11, so these people sprit trying to contact people with introduction of 11.11??? To convey something..

just a thought..

Geez, and I thought the spirituality/skepticism board was tough
Talk about an unforgiving crowd.......

I still thought it was interesting. Only one thing...I don't think that Koran scripture was accurate. I'll look into it later.
Still, those are some pretty cool coincidences.

Strange coincidence. but all i really think it is a coincidence nothing more. Reallydo you actually think microsoft was helping the terrorists. The moderaters really need to cut down on these poimtless topics.