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agvvv

14:01 / 08.04.03

Now, I wonder if yall could plug your magickal ,ritual infected (no offence, im no better

heads together and explain to me; just what is the meaning of, and beyond, the number that is 23? Now, I could have done the basical google search but, I am sure the answer I get here is far more interesting with its touch of madness and naked techno-gnomes dancing

Thank you all, in advance that is.

mixmage

14:21 / 08.04.03

Google? Fella... there's a search fuction here too!

ahem. Please excuse me, you probably already tried that and found nothing - like I just did. So, to make up for my 5n4rK1n355, I trawled the list for you and found the following:

232323232323!!!!
Psalm 23: the Remixes

hope this helps!

Schism

16:11 / 08.04.03

Just to twist your heads a bit more, the current invasion of Iraq started on........

20.03.2003

Here is abit more info on #23
http://www.geocities.com/eyelumin8/meaning.html

Schism

16:15 / 08.04.03

I am not used to the format of this board and went to moderate, my above post. Since it will take time to post, I will put the info here.

Here is a link on the meaning behind 23.

http://www.geocities.com/eyelumin8/meaning.html

Gypsy Lantern

19:39 / 08.04.03

The '23 enigma' was popularised by the author Robert Anton Wilson, ostensibly as a means of showing how we are unknowingly complicit in creating our own personal reality tunnels. If you pick a fairly arbitrary obsession and look for it everywhere, you will find it. The reality you live within is conditioned by your thoughts, dreams, and expectations, or as Wilson puts it "brain software programmes brain hardware".

Somewhere along the line, millions of people on the internet seemingly missed the point and the number 23 acheived cult status - unfortunatly becoming the numerological equivalent of someone telling you a Monty Python gag for the 300th time.

You could argue that the number has now effectively acheived egregore status, by the sheer volume of people feeding into its myth. So it probably does have all manner of strange powers and associations now, as a result of this process, which it may or may not have had prior to any of this.

jackamo

19:47 / 08.04.03

one line of thought is that w.s.burroughs first used it, as in "23skidoo" (yep thats where they got the name from) which according to burroughs was a greeting from hobos to each other in 1920's amerika and was taken up by bob shea and robert anton wilson in the illuminatus.

Whatever the origin > the deeper you look into 23, the deeper it looks into you.its been haunting me for at least 20 years.

q:are you tuning into the synchronicity matrix as you start seeing 23's everywhere > the cosmic clown/universal trickster god(desses)
at play

and/or

are you simply noticing more 23's because you are aware of the mythology behind the number.

i'll leave it for you to decide......

also 2+3 = 5 (the law of fives!) (see principa discordia)

20:46 / 08.04.03

Gypsy Lantern:

Somewhere along the line, millions of people on the internet seemingly missed the point and the number 23 acheived cult status

Well I'd say more like about few hundred of us in the actual cult...

One node of the whole 23 thing represent the sum of their thoughts on the subject here...

I think there are various ways in which people think about 23- the "naive" way is that there is something intrinsically special about the number 23, that it appears in nature more than any other number. The, ahem, "mature" view is that whatever is special about the number 23 is a product of the relationship between the observer and that number.

drzener

23:58 / 08.04.03

I have been noticing 23s every where sice the 2nd of march. since then i have been dumped, went on a three day drinking bender, felt very depressed for a couple of weeks [or 13 days], have had seriously fucked dreams about fay/itchy type exes and have generally been back to my old tricks. Except I seem to have some new ones. Despite my affirmations that I'm getting sensible there has been lots of fun and weird synchronicities. THings are going up the spiral again. plus I have no shame and a lot of audio experiments gone.
Probably just summertime again.

Tryphena Absent

00:04 / 09.04.03

I never noticed the number 23 popping up more than usual... that is until I got here and now it seems like a currency. Anyone want to trade 23's with me? I've got a piece of paper with the number written on it right here and it would loved to be swapped with one of your 23's.

mixmage

00:57 / 09.04.03

come now, Anna! remember the law of fivers... it has to be written on a bank-note

Meet me at the bar, we shall discuss...

Salamander

04:51 / 09.04.03

1904, 19+04= 23

thats the oddest one i could think of. 23 i think has gone beyond synchronicity status into cultural creation.

pomegranate

20:10 / 09.04.03

i knew a girl who was obsessed w/the number 111 (or was it obsessed w/her...oooooh!). whenever a book fell open, it would fall open to page 111. whenever she glanced at the clock, it was 111. etc, etc. i truly think that it's when yr looking for something, you see it more. usually. heh.

Salamander

02:19 / 10.04.03

so why can't i see aliens, i look for them every where...
if i could just reach the scavenger hunt goal of 23...

Cygnum

09:03 / 10.04.03

why don't you set yourself the task of only viewing it as significant, when you see 23 Aliens at the same time?

LVX23

23:09 / 10.04.03

i truly think that it's when yr looking for something, you see it more.

The logical extension of this would be...Are you seeing it more because you're paying attention, or is your will to manifest it causing the event to come to pass more frequently?

Personally I think there's more to 23 than simply saying it shows up when we look for it...

FinderWolf

01:32 / 11.04.03

I also think it's more than just 'you're aware of it so you see more of it' thing (with 23 at least).

Salamander

02:08 / 11.04.03

23 at once, i hope not for a probing...
i recall kahunas from the south pacific isles saying something about your focus of attention altering your reality, perhaps it's a cooperative effort between your attention and the 23, working together to make a stranger world.

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