[mseepgood]

> Otherwise, this sounds a little like a kind of numerology where similarly numbered years must resemble each other.

Even if history repeats in cycles for some astrological reason, why would it repeat in a 100 years cycle? Why not a 67 years cycle?

[Izkata]

For another viewpoint, this is based around "human lifespan" cycles: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generat...

[jareklupinski]

since we 'invented' numbers and assigned 'meaning' to them, it makes more 'sense' to tack experiences to frequencies/periods that are easy to represent and seem to mean more than they do by virtue of being 'right at the edge'

see: why everything costs x.99 units