Deadbeat wrote: [img]smileys/smiley36.gif[/img] I've still got a folder of soundlab shoops....
What is the '23' for?
23 is everywhere, it'svery much adopted by theFree Party/Squat rave scene and anyone a little bit 'alternative'
Google it and see!!
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Discordianism
The "23 Enigma" in
Discordianism
is the belief that all events are connected to the number 23, given enough ingenuity on the part of the interpreter. It can be seen in
Robert Anton Wilson
and
Robert Shea
's
Illuminatus!
trilogy (therein called the "23/17 phenomenon"), Wilson's
Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati
(therein called "The Law of fives" and "The 23 Enigma"),
Arthur Koestler
's Challenge of Chance, as well as the
Principia Discordia
. In these works, 23 is considered either lucky, unlucky, sacred to the goddess
Eris
, sinister, sacred to the unholy gods of the
Cthulhu Mythos
, or strange. Discordians regard this as a corollary of the
Law of Fives
.
As with most numerological claims, the 23 enigma can be viewed as an example of
apophenia
,
selection bias
, and
confirmation bias
. In interviews, Wilson acknowledged the self-fulfilling nature of the 23 enigma, implying that the real value of the Laws of Fives and Twenty-threes lies in their demonstration of the mind's power to perceive "truth" in nearly anything.
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"When you start looking for something you tend to find it. This wouldn't be like
Simon Newcomb
, the great astronomer, who wrote a mathematical proof that heavier than air flight was impossible and published it a day before the Wright brothers took off. I'm talking about people who found a pattern in nature and wrote several scientific articles and got it accepted by a large part of the scientific community before it was generally agreed that there was no such pattern, it was all just selective perception."<SUP id=cite_ref-0 ="reference">
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In other words '23......A LOAD OF OLD BOLLOCKS!!!!'</SUP></BLOCKquote>
Edited by: Insane Tony
