Lincoln and Kennedy Every once in a while the following list of
coincidences between John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln comes
up. I am not sure if the purveyors of this stuff think there is
some cosmic significance to this or that a supernatural source
"designed" these things to occur, since it is never stated
exactly just what the purpose of this exercise is. I would
suspect the attached "mystical value" could be, and is used in
several ways: First, that there is some sort of power in the
universe that controls events. After all, how else can you
explain the relationship of the events? Certainly all of these
things cannot be coincidental. Therefore, there must be some
force controlling them. As we will see, this form of circular
reasoning in this application is false. Second, and for the more
religious, that a god, specifically "The God," is pulling the
historical stings for some mysterious reason that can only be
found in the mind of God. Again, circular reasoning. Third, for
the less credulous, just an in