The 23 Enigma

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MMMowman

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Anyone heard of it? It refers to the belief that most incidents and events are directly connected to the number 23 {and 5(2+3)}.

call me crazy but...
1000 divide by 13 = 76.9230
2 divide by 3 = .666
1610 (1+6+1+0=8, 8=2³)
Each parent contributes 23 chromosomes to the DNA of a child.
It takes 23 seconds for blood to circulate throughout the entire body.
The Titanic sank the morning of April 15th, 1912 (4 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 9 + 1 + 2 = 23)
In the alphabet E is the fifth letter of the alphabet, and also the most commonly used in the English language. W is the 23rd letter of the alphabet. Half of W is V, which is the roman numeral for 5.
April 19th As in 4-19... 4 + 19 = 23. April 19 is the date the Battle of Lexington, Waco, and the Oklahoma City Bombing... (4+19=23).You connect the dots.
April 23, 1564 and April 23, 1616 Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 and died on April 23, 1616.
April 23 William Shakespeare was born and died on this date. Most of Shakespeare is known to us through the first folio published in 1623.
The Beatles. The first song on Side A of the Beatles first Album took 23 takes to record.
U2 U is the 21st letter in the alphabet added to the number two gives you 23.
The axis of the planet Earth is 23.5 degrees
The distance from the center of the planet Mars to the center of it's farthest moon is 23,500 kilometers
The most frequent numbers in the Book of Revelations are 4 (the powerful beasts), 7(seven seals, seven churches, etc.), and 12 (12 apostles, etc.). 4+7+12=23!
August 23 Birth date of Keith Moon, original drummer for the Who.
Average Lunar Cycle Average Lunar Cycle is 28 (23+5) days.
Base 3 The number 23, written in base 3, is 212 (2+1+2=5)
Base 4 23 written to the base 4 is 113 (1+1+3=5).
Base 7 23 written to the base 7 is 32 (3+2=5).
Buddha 2x2x3x3x3 or 2 to the power of 2 times 3 to the power of three = 108, the number of auspicious signs by which the Buddha is known.
Ceasar was stabbed 23 times when he was assassinated
Adolf Hitler organized the National Socialist Congress on January 23.
The number of joints in the human arm is 23.
July 23 More reported UFO sightings on this day than any other day of the year.
There are 23 letters in the Latin alphabet.
23 is the first prime number in which both digits are prime numbers and add up to another prime number
Two (2), three (3), and five(5) are the first three prime numbers in our counting system. (1 is not prime, it's an identity.)
Vanadium The symbol for the 23rd element is V (roman numeral 5).
The USA performed 23 tests of atomic detonations at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific
Two (2) and Three (3) are next to each other in our numbering system (e.g. 1,2,3...)LOL

the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima at 8:15

There's heaps more of these google it.
 

Cpt_Oblivious

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A bunch of random facts with the number 23 won't convince anyone with any common sense of anything.

Jimi Hendrix was born November 27[small]th[/small] 1942.
Where's the 23 there?
 

DigitalSushi

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If you look hard enough at anything then you will see a connection somehow.

The golden number, or Phi, 23 isn't.

edit; that kinda rhymes, oh and for those not in the know, Phi is the ratio of which everything in nature has, i.e. the ratio of the length of a human arm versus its body is Phi, and that same number dictates to ratio of a Wolf's front leg.
 

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Cpt_Oblivious said:
A bunch of random facts with the number 23 won't convince anyone of anything.

Jimi Hendrix was born November 27[small]th[/small] 1942.
Where's the 23 there?
Numbers say what you want them to say
There's probably some way it does equal 23
 

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MMMowman said:
Vanadium The symbol for the 23rd element is V (roman numeral 5).
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I'm sorry but why does this matter?, Vanadium's chemical symbol is V, I don't understand the importance of that.

Hydrogen chemical symbol is H, take that?, is that important?
 

Sigel

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I agree-you can work anything to 23 if you look long enough or hard enough.
 

DigitalSushi

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MMMowman said:
Cpt_Oblivious said:
A bunch of random facts with the number 23 won't convince anyone of anything.

Jimi Hendrix was born November 27[small]th[/small] 1942.
Where's the 23 there?
Numbers say what you want them to say
There's probably some way it does equal 23
so now your admitting the whole number 23 thing is fafflesauce, you say, numbers say what you want them to say, this is true.

Especially accountants, numbers are a means to not pay taxes for them.
 

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Sigel said:
I agree-you can work anything to 23 if you look long enough or hard enough.
You can work anything in to anything if you look long and hard enough.

take my above statement as proof, a dirty horny minded person would see my statement as having sexual connotations.
 

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ColdStorage said:
MMMowman said:
Vanadium The symbol for the 23rd element is V (roman numeral 5).
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I'm sorry but why does this matter?, Vanadium's chemical symbol is V, I don't understand the importance of that.

Hydrogen chemical symbol is H, take that?, is that important?
Hydrogen
A=1, B=2, C=3 and so on...
H=7,
Y=25... DAMN IT!
 

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This is the kind of numerology cunning but lazy people with no scrupules about lying to people have been selling to the masses for over 3000 years. There is nothing magical behind it, no more importance than with say the numbers 7, 9 and 16.

Human mind has evolved to find patterns, identify them and then extrapolate from the results. Given a completely random set of data, a human mind will find some pattern or connection if it is told that some pattern exists and then it will continue to apply this pattern if given even more random sets of data. And always some 'signifigance' will be found by the mind. So, once you have been told that number 2,3 and 5 hold some signifigance, your brain will begin to interpret all incoming data based on the assumptions that the connection does exist. This becomes a self-reinforcing cycle based on nothing more than the way brain analyzes data.

Woo, nothing more.
 

DigitalSushi

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I've decided that the number one holds much more importance than the number 23.

There is 1 of me!
1 is the first minute of the day.
in a competition, only 1 shall be the victor! (unless its an Escapist video competition *coughs* Unskippable and Doomsday Arcade, hur hur)

Sorry, i'll stop being a douchebag right now.
 

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William S. Burroughs believed in the 23 Enigma,as he called.He said he began to notice it when his friend Captain Clark,who ran a ferry between Tangiers and Spain, remarked he had sailed 23 years on boat 23 without incident.The next day the boat sank and everyone on board died.At the same time an Eastern Airlines Plane traveling the New York-Miami Route crashed and everyone on board died.The pilot of the plane was another Captain Clark and the flight number was 23.
In the movie Charly,about artificially boosting Human Intelligence,the number of the operating room is 23.
Gangster "Mad Dog"Coll was shot on 23rd street when he was 23 years old.One year later Dutch Shultz,who ordered it,was killed on October 23.The same day in Harlem Marty Krompier,who ran the numbers,was shot.
Charlie Workman,Shultz's killer,served 23 years.
23 Axioms open Euclid's Geometry.
The bomber in the movie Airport sat in seat 23.
Sydney Carton is the 23rd man guillotined in stage productions of A Tale of Two Cities.
In telegraph code 23 means break the line.
the 23rd Hexagram in the I Ching means Break apart.
There are unexplained bonding irregularities every 23rd Angstrom in DNA.
Aleister Crowley's Cabalistic Dictionary defines 23 as the number of parting,removal,seperation,joy,a thread,and life.

So what does it mean?It means you have metaprogrammed yourself into noticing a pattern that exsisits but doesn't have any significance.3000 years ago this would have led you to found a major religion.Today it's just a fun mental exercise.
'Til we meet again.23 Skiddoo!!!
 

MMMowman

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The movie "The Number 23" was alright....
AmrasCalmacil said:
That's odd. There was a movie to this effect.

And it was shit!
Come on it had Jim Carrey in it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Number_23
 

MMMowman

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What about the number 0?
stinkychops said:
The number one is far more common.

Take any number, now divide it by itself.

We're through the looking glass here people.
What about the number 0?