Haha the ability of the internet i scavenged most of my facts from good old wiki, all this came to me on my drive home from work as i looked at my key rings and i have a keyring that is a small scale version of a number 13 billiard ball and it got me thinking that i don't see it as unlucky like a lot of people do.
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Triskaidekaphobia is also the fear of the number itself. An irrational fear...I might add.
People are too quick to invest meaning in relatively innocent numbers. Numbers themselves are even beyond innocent. They are a construct for us to relate to various concepts that are recurring in nature and this reality. Truly, numbers themselves aren't real. How many numbers occur between the number one and the number two? There is...1.1 and 1.11 or how about 1.111? Do you see how meaningless they are? There are sets of infinity between sets of infinity and they carry on...infinitely. Technically, there are only ten symbols used to define a universe of unending figures and the various properties of those figures. It's no shock that they should reoccur both in matters of importance and unimportance.
Piazzi Smyth discovered, in 1864, that the base of the pyramids were square; each side measuring to two hundred and eight meters. Converteed into Egyptian cubits, you get a base of three hundred and sixty six.... The number of days in a leap year, yes? The height multiplied by ten to the ninth gives the distance between the earth and the sun. One hundred and forty eight million kilometers. The base divided by the width of one of the stones is three hundred and sixty five. The number of days in a year. The perimeter of the base is nine hundred and thirty one meters. Divide that by twice the height and you get 3.14. The number of Pi. Amazing yes?
Bullshit actually... Smyth played with those numbers like a kitten with a ball of yarn. 3.14 isn't Pi. 3.1415926535897932384626433832795.... and so on, is Pi. His measurements on the distance between the Earth and Sun were wrong as well. Flinders Petrie, a colleague and distinguished Egyptologist once found Smyth trying to chisel stones on the pyramid down so they fit his idiot equations.
You see what you want when you look at something as vague as numbers. Like you see faces when you look at clouds. It's so dark in the human mind that sometimes we dim things that are otherwise bright and obvious...wheedling associations out of things as common as numbers. It's sad, truly. That's not to say that there aren't important associations of numbers to discover and understand. But once you get spooked, you can see ghosts anywhere.
Superstition...Numerology...Gematria...ect... They're all dim wavy reflections recast by the carnival mirror of the human mind.
-Sin
Last edited by Sinister; 08-15-2009 at 11:03 AM.
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I never really understood all the fuss about the number 13. Yes this number seems to be included in many unfortunate events but it's just a number and nothing more. I myself had one of the best days in my life on Friday the 13th. I don't really see how could a pure number be unfortunate, and I really cant believe how many people are afraid by this number.
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