Kuramoto & Easter

[James Brody]

Crucifixion is with us, now in the Phillipines and, possibly, still in the mountains of Colorado. As Kuramoto noted, similarity and influence lead to synchrony. Can synchrony let us assume similarity? Or even identity?
JimB

"CUTUD, ANGELES CITY - Dozens of Catholic devotees were nailed to crosses, scores more whipped their backs and others chanted the Passion of Jesus Christ as Filipinos mixed faith and gory ritual on Good Friday."
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"About 20 crucifixions were held in four other areas.
Thousands, many of them curious tourists from Australia, Europe and South Korea watched the spectacle in Cutud, which has grown from a village novelty started in 1955 to a media and tourist attraction copied in other parts of the country.

"The atmosphere was festive, with hawkers selling bottled water, beer, ice-cream and souvenir whips. VIPs and some nuns watched from a specially elevated 'viewing platform.'

"Some residents offered parking spaces for a fee and others charged 5 pesos (about 10 U.S. cents) for use of toilets. More enterprising people rented the balconies of their homes for television crew and photographers."

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/re...good-friday-rp