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For those unfamiliar with the concept of "threes" let me offer a (Levi jeans styled) watch/coin pocket quantity of references which explore the phenomena from different perspectives:
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In making a list (collection) of "three-patterned" ideas, you may prefer to focus on a single topic such as Astronomy/Cosmology, Physics, Biology, Sports, Fairy tales, History, etc... But if you make a collection from a multiple array of subjects as I have done, you can't help but come across the realization that the pattern comes with other patterns, such an an underlying "1-2-Many" or "3-to-1" themes, with the latter example requiring a moment of reflective explanation:
Some recognized "threes" in Fairy tales actually are 3-to-1 ratios:
- 3 Billy goats Gruff and 1 Troll
- 3 Bears and (1) Goldilocks
- 3 pigs and 1 wolf
- 3 fiddlers and (1) Old King cole
- 3 fingers used to hole 1 pen, pencil, paint brush.
- 3 coin combinations to 1 paper/plastic vending machine alternatives.
- 3 main (US) grades of gasoline based on octane rating: regular, midgrade, and premium. Plus 1 Diesel fuel oil and/or flex fuel
- 3 Alternatives: Propane, Natural gas, Electric charge
- Many countries only offer two grades
- Some countries may offer four or five grades, all based on octane ratings:
- China offers 89, 92, 95, and 98 RON fuel grades.
- Indonesia offers 88, 90, 92, 95, and 98 RON fuel grades.
- 3 most common methods for measuring octane rating:
- Research Octane Number (RON).
- Motor Octane Number (MON).
- Anti-Knock Index (AKI), also known as (R+M)/2.
- 3 to 1 ratio in Mendelian genetics, sometimes displayed as 9:3:1
- 3 fingers used to hold 1 pen, pencil, paintbrush
- 3 fingers used to hold two chopsticks
- 3 persons in 1 godhead (Christian Trinity)
- More examples here: 3 to 1 ratios A
Interestingly, for some researchers, you may begin to see that your list, arranged chronologically in terms of our present human perception of life and its place in the universe over time and distance... exhibits a history of our cognitive development which can initially be framed and categorized as a 1- 2- 3 development. This development can be categorized both with a Cardinal system of 1-2-3... counting and an Ordinal 1st- 2nd- 3rd... arrangement, as well as mixtures thereof. By applying enumeration to the ideas found in multiple subjects, we can get a much broader appreciation of how human cognitive activity is adapting to different cultures, languages, and environmental pressures, whether or not we are academically trained or have trained ourselves to do so.
My approach is quite different from others interested in developmental cognition being surveyed over vast periods of time:
- New thinking: the evolution of human cognition by Cecilia Heyes
- Unraveling the evolution of uniquely human cognition by Evan L MacLean
- A natural history of the human mind: tracing evolutionary changes in brain and cognition, by Chet C Sherwood, Francys Subiaul, Tadeusz W Zawidzki
- Historical Roots- History of Cognition by Mehgan Andrade, Neil Walker
- Historical Development of Human Cognition A Cultural-Historical Neuropsychological Perspective by Alfredo Ardila
- Unfolding the evolution of human cognition by Jacob A. Miller, Kevin S. Weiner
- Origin and evolution of human cognition by Gerhard Roth, Ursula Dicke
- History of Cognitive Psychology by Robert Graham, Scott Griffin
Note: if you arrange the examples on the above list in their chronological appearance of development, what we have is an expressed historical time-line of "threes" occurrences which follow one after the other in a type of succession whose sequential math formula has not been worked out, because the idea for doing so is far removed from conventional considerations of existence's flow of development over time where life as we know it may be but an extraneous variable, and not a major theme of existence based on human ego wanting to view humanity as the sole or major reason for existence to have arisen. In other words, one event of "three" comes after another event, followed by another event, even though in multiple instances we cannot distinctly discern nor identify a given "three" pattern which may be incomplete or some part has become lost to time and disintegrated much in the manner one encampment/civilization builds upon the resources or ruins of a previous encampment/civilization. Only some negligible trace may remain or not. Nonetheless, what we come faced with is the topic of mathematical set theory involving patterns-of-three.
Looking at a list of threes, particularly when we focus on biological examples cast in the framework of Nature's overall development with respect to the Universe and Life's place within it... or alongside it, we can't help ourselves but to use the language of biology with words such as maturational, episodic, reversal, punctuation, intermittent, parallel, convergence, mutation, hybrid, etc... Hence, for one example, I frequently use the phrase "a 1- 2- 3 maturational development sequence"; more recently conveyed in the notion After Every Third, which gives the impression that Nature is counting and/or playing some sort of sport... such as baseball, since the patterns of baseball apparently reflect basic conceptualizations to be found in the superstitions of religion.
The following are a few examples of a Triple crown designation. Use of the words "Quadruple Crown" are rare but is sometimes used to describe the EGOT (or Grand Slam) award in the entertainment industry— comprising the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards; all winners of which are selected by those in the collective entertainment industry... much in the manner in which businesses are left to police themselves (due to government collusion) and government financed (and thus sanctioned) over-sight committees are placed in charge of over-seeing government activities but are not required to announce any conflict of interest, bias, discrimination, etc... In other words, the public is wholly ostracized so that industry kings and court can marginalize and minimize everyone else. It is difficult to measure value when valuation is dependent solely on personal interpretation or reliance on sales. In other words, the value of a grand slam in baseball is highly visible and countable, whereas a grand slam in the Entertainment industry relies primarily on the account of a collection of personal prejudices.
- In baseball, after three strikes are made by one team, then the next team comes to bat. This is a set-of-three alternation.
- In basketball, we see the three alternative scoring possibilities of 1-point (free throw), 2-points (common), 3-points (exceptional)
Sociologically speaking, the 3-point variation of scoring in basketball can be viewed in a tripartite division related to 3 social classes:
- 1-point shot is charity, or a social given such as welfare and social security.
- 2-point shot is most common and reflects the working class.
- 3-point shot is akin to the wealthy or as an object of adoration, desire, contempt, exaltation, "a metaphyisic/dream" for the lower classes... much in the manner of a Triple Crown in Horse Racing, Cycle Racing, etc...:
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Triple crown in Acting: Refers to actors who have won a competitive 1)
Academy Award, 2) Emmy Award, and 3) Tony Award. The most common order in which these awards have been won is Tony, Oscar, and Emmy.
- The Grammy award stands apart from the 3 acting awards due to its application to the music industry.
- Triple crown in Basketball:
- American Basketball: An individual player winning an NCAA championship, NBA championship, and Olympic gold medal during his career
- European Basketball: a club winning their country's top-tier level national domestic league, their county's primary national domestic cup, and the top-tier level European-wide continental competition, which is the EuroLeague, all in the same season.
- Triple crown in Baseball: a player leading their league in three key statistical categories. For batters, 1) batting average, 2) home runs, 3) runs batted in (RBIs). For pitchers, leading in wins, strikeouts, and earned run average (ERA).
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Triple crown in Football:
- Wide receiver: Lead the league in receptions, yards, and receiving touchdowns.
- Running back: lead the league in rushing attempts, rushing yards, and rushing scores.
- Quarterback: Lead the league in passing yards, completion percentage, and passing touchdowns.
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Triple crown in Motorsport:
- Indianapolis 500 (first held in 1911)
- 24 Hours of Le Mans (first held in 1923)
- World Drivers' Championship of Formula One (first held in 1950)
- Triple crown in cycling, In American horse racing, championship attributed to a three-year-old Thoroughbred that in a single season wins the: Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes.
- UCI Road World Championships Road Race.
- Tour de France general classification.
- Giro d'Italia general classification.
- Triple crown in Science: Graduating with degrees in math, physics and nuclear engineering,
- Triple crown in Chess: The triple crown in chess refers to the winning of the World Rapid, Blitz, and Classical Championships.
- Signature designated Triple crown in fishing: Consists of three legs, with three consecutive fishing days in each tournament. They take place in consecutive months in the first part of the year, in January, February, and March.
- Major League Eating contest Nathan’s Famous finals are our Masters, our World Cup, our Super Bowl.
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Triple crown of Poker (In poker, the term Triple Crown is used in
three ways:)
- Winning three different events in three days at the same venue.
- Winning the WSOP (World Series Of Poker) Main Event, The Poker Players Championship, and WSOP Player of the Year in the same WSOP.
- Winning all three of the following across an entire career: 1) Any bracelet at a World Series of Poker event 2) A Main Event on the World Poker Tour (WPT) 3)
- A Main Event on the European Poker Tour.
- Triple crown of Rodeo: The Triple Crown of Rodeo is a series of annual major rodeo events which includes an annual bonus that will pay $1 million to any one athlete or collection of athletes who win first place in any three consecutive WCRA (World Champions Rodeo Alliance) Major Rodeos.
- H.O.B note: Like many a local martial arts contests claiming the winners as "world" champions, the use of the world "World" in the World Champions Rodeo Alliance is a misnomer, since there is no widespread presence of the Organization world wide. The use of the phrase "world champion" in multiple circumstances is an expressed example of egotism and not reality. It is like the kings of old that had map makers place their Kingdoms in the center of a map because they thought the world revolved around their domain. This also is a characteristic of religions which defaced statues in the past so that people would come to centralize Christian, Moslem, etc., beliefs and the hierarchy of their leaderships instead of the statuary of ancient gods.
- Academic Tripos in England: An apocryphal legend says that students used to receive one leg of a stool in each of their three years of exams, receiving the whole stool at graduation. Another tradition holds that the name derives from the three brackets printed on the back of the voucher.
- Triple crown in sailing: The Triple Crown was established in 2013 to honor youth sailors (skipper and crew) for achievement in winning on aggregated points in a series of designated championship races in the Club 420 sailboat throughout the course of a single year.
It is an old idea though present day writers think they have stumbled on some insightful connection, even when reminded of the view that the ball games of ancient Middle America were associate to their ideas of Religion and the Cosmos, with deadly consequences. Indeed, if one were to look at any sport, including the sport of warfare, the basic themes undertaken reflect the same patterns we see in fundamental ideologies being aligned. Throughout history we find the same basic cognitive patterns used in Cosmology, Religion, Politics, Commerce, Science, Mythology, Astrology, Astronomy, Metaphysics, Faith/Fate, Conquest, Domination, Slavery/Domestics/Indentured Servitude, Philosophy, Incarceration/Imprisonment/Penitentiary (effecting conditions for a person's Penitence), etc., such as the Olympic games and their relationship to ancient cultural views involving gods and goddesses. A few examples will suffice:
- What baseball can teach us about faith by Susan Sparks
- What Similarities Exist Between Religion And Baseball?
- The Ball Game of Mesoamerica
- Exploring Mythology and the Ancient Olympics by Jon Giunta
- War and Religion: A Very Short Introduction by Jolyon Mitchell, Joshua Rey
- Penitence, Plantation and the Penitentiary: A Liberation Theology for Lockdown America by Nikia Robert, PhD
Date of initial posting: Friday, June 6th, 5:27 AM
Updated Posting: Tuesday, June 24th, 4:59 AM