[threadbear]

I'm not a numbers person, not at all. Not into symbols much either. Too open to interpretation. However, the number 23 is really odd. There is an association between the star cluster Sirius and 23, (can't remember quite what it is) I mentioned this to my brother on the 22nd of some month about 15 years ago, and that night he had a dream that a ufo landed in the middle of town. A dog got out of the craft, wandered over to him and bit him. I had to bring to his attention that Sirius is the dog star.

Further reading on this number shows there is some weird correlation between 23, psychosis and the occult (one in the same, in some cases, I think)

I have a dear friend who is schizophrenic and was born on the 23 of July. Another friend has a sister who is schizophrenic, also born on the 23rd....odd...as I don't know many schizophrenics. These are the only two I'm really familiar with.

I just did a search for the movie, 23 and was astonished to read the movie opens with Jim Carrey being bitten by a dog!

Has anyone seen this movie? Is it any good? I was going to rent it, but decided not to because it looked like it might be depressing, or give me the willies.

[Opies]

I've seen it. It's pretty interesting and worth the watch, but not one of the best movies I've seen by any means.

[PenultimateManStanding]

It isn't too hard to grasp, 2 is the first prime number. 3 is the second. 2+3 makes 5, the 3rd. There ya go! Unless you are inclined to think it's all random, like Forrest Gump's floating feather. Interesting coincidences though about your friends born on the 23rd.

[da23]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I')nteresting coincidences though about your friends born on the 23rd.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('da23', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I')nteresting coincidences though about your friends born on the 23rd.

[kadoomsoon]

Irrational numbers are not rational.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kadoomsoon', 'V')ery few people know the importance of seerius. Do not go there, the most powerful people in the order do not play games with this topic.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kadoomsoon', 'V')ery few people know the importance of seerius. Do not go there, the most powerful people in the order do not play games with this topic.

And no, there are no aliens, that is not even part of the secret, it is the red herring A. "hole" Jones and other coadjutors put out so people go off track. Interstaellar travel by physical matter is not possible.

[Jack]

Where's Golem? I'm sure he could add some cogent remarks to this thread.


Notice that the foregoing had 13 words, 60 characters, and 13 spaces. Or, if we re-arrange it, 13 words, 13 spaces, and 60 characters. Now if we reduce the spaces and characters we get 1+3 - 4 and 6+0 = 6. Adding 6+4 is 10. Now, if we add the 10 to the 13 words we get...23!

Amazing! It's everywhere!

[Jack]

Very interesting. Your numerical work is always interesting.

[threadbear]

Just off the top of my head, asymmetry=imperfection= freedom? Ideas like perfection and purity seem to threaten freedom.
People have a strong aversion to perfect symmetry in art and architecture. Even an almost perfect face is more appealling if it is slightly flawed.

[jboogy]

What is Sirius , serious , seerious ? What website are you's talking about ? Pretty please , I'll be careful I promise.

[Narz]

My girlfriend and I were both born on the 23rd (her May, me June). The older lady we live with was born on July 23rd.

[Chuckmak]

did some interesting math birth year 1979 1+9+7+9 = 26
2+6 = 8
4+4 = 8
8 = 2^3
2+3 = 5
so does that make me perfectly imperfect (this would also imply the month i was born...the 9th month of the year; 5+4 = 9)? *head explodes trying to figure all of this out*

[threadbear]

Look at this thread! OHMYGOD...What have I done?

Keep hammering away, Rafe. You may end up the master of the universe while the rest of us toil away in the play pens of peak oil and politics. New zodiacal signs fall on the 23rd of the month, too, I think. As far as the swastika goes, it does sort of resemble a spiral galaxy, I guess. If you were to come up with a rough symbol, it might fit.

What I don't get is manipulating a bunch of numbers representing letters to come up with anything relevant. But then, I'm really not a numbers person, and it has to pretty much bite me, before I cotton to the math in anything. It's probably a good thing, because if I was so inclined, I'd be much battier than I am.

[RonMN]

I can't add much to this thread...but I do have a question. Once upon a time I tried to figure out a pattern to "random". I wrote a program for a random number generator (it was good to. No chance of repeating numbers in any order).

Then another program to analyze the numbers generated. Now I found after millions of cycles generating 3 digits (each 0-9) it would repeat itself EXACTLY every 6940 generations. Any special thingy about the number 6940?

[RonMN]

And to think I wrote those programs to see if I could figure out the lotto numbers...HMMMMMMM

[threadbear]

I can't remember the movie, 23, because I haven't seen it yet. I'm afraid if I watch it, I'll end up wandering the streets, carrying a geiger counter and mumbling weird shit about Bob Marley, oven mitts, hamsters, and the pope. You seem to be able to inhabit both the esoteric and mundane realms simultaneously. When I stare into the abyss, believe me, it doesn't just stare back, it comes right out into my mundane reality. And believe it or not, I've seen psyches and neurologists who have assured me I'm not psychotic.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RonMN', ' ')Any special thingy about the number 6940?

[RonMN]

PMS Wrote:
it means that your program had a flaw in it.

But PMS...I had a test for that. The very first thing it did with each generation was to take the micro-second from the system clock (then devide that by the prime number of 7 & do about 19 other things before it gave me one single digit...then start all over again for the next digit).

Since it first started with the micro-second, I should have (theoretically) been able to knock it out of it's pattern by raising & lowering the job priority as it was running...that would allow the program to use more or less CPU cycles depending on it's job priority level & messed with the micro-seconds between each number generated.

No matter the job priority I could not get the pattern to faulter.

Another problem I couldn't resolve is that it always took 10's of thousands of generations before it would "fall into" the pattern...to this day I can't figure out why...but once in the pattern, it would not come out of it, no matter what I did to make it happen.