From: rpattree2@gmail.com   
      
   The Number 23 and the law of fives    
      
      
      
      
      
   intro    
   23 fusion anomaly    
   23-illuminatus excerpts    
   the movie(s) number 23    
   my 311 synchronicities    
   more vids    
   ext link 23 enigma    
      
        
   YT: Robert Anton Wilson: What is the 23 enigma?    
      
   Intro:    
   The "23 Enigma" is the Discordian 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 (there   
   called the "23/17    
   phenomenon"), Wilson's Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati   
   (there called "The Law of 23s" 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 has 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.    
   "When you start looking for something you tend to find it. This wouldn't be   
   like Simon Newcombe, 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." - Robert Anton Wilson explaining how easily people find facts to   
   back their conspiracy theories after using the 23 phenomenon to illustrate   
   this tendency (From Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything, Sounds True,   
   December 2001). In the    
   Illuminatus! Trilogy, he expresses the same view: that one can find a   
   numerological significance to anything, provided "sufficient cleverness."   
   Though check the video linked above if this piece of text took the mystery out   
   of it for you ;).   
   (from the wikipedia article)    
   Fusion Anomaly 23: The Law of Fives states simply that:    
   ALL THINGS HAPPEN IN FIVES, OR ARE DIVISIBLE BY OR ARE MULTIPLES OF FIVE, OR   
   ARE SOMEHOW DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY APPROPRIATE TO 5.    
   9/11 2001: 9+11+2+1=23. WTC: W=23rd letter, T=20th, C=3rd, T+C=23. The BBC   
   also reported the collapse of WTC building 7 which wasn't hit by a plane but   
   obviously imploded due to controlled demolition (like Building 1 and 2) 23   
   minutes before its actual    
   collapse. Oops. 2012: 20+1+2=23    
   David Beckham's choice of the number 23 shirt to play for Real Madrid: Michael   
   Jordan wore the number 23 shirt, Caesar was stabbed 23 times, 23mph is the   
   maximum speed of an American crow; and let's not forget AA23, the cell in   
   which Princess Leia was    
   held in the original Star Wars movie. W is the 23 letter of this alphabet. The   
   symbol for that letter is two points down and three points up.    
   VW the abbreviation for Volkswagen has V=roman numeral for 5 and W=2 down and   
   3 up in it. Waco Texas and the Oklahoma bombing both happened on april 19th,   
   19+4 (april)=23. The Hiroshima bomb was dropped at 8.15, 8+15=23.    
   23 Annunaki, the number of the supposed original advance team of "aliens" who   
   aided in the seeding of life on this planet. William Shakespeare was born and   
   died on April 23. Most of Shakespeare is known to us through the first folio   
   published in 1623.    
   The human biorhythm cycle is generally 23 days. One measures a circle   
   beginning anywhere. It takes 23 seconds for blood to circulate through the   
   human body.    
   Apollo 'Lunar Landings' 1 & 2 - First 'landing' on the Moon was in the Sea of   
   Tranquility, 23.63 degrees East. Second 'landing' was in the Ocean of Storms,   
   23.42 degrees West. Notice the names of the picked sights and how they   
   contrast. Note: First two '   
   landings' were Apollo 11 & 12 (11+12= 23).    
   In the early '60's in Tangiers, William Burroughs knew a certain "Captain   
   Clark" who ran a ferry from Tangiers to Spain. One day, Clark said to   
   Burroughs that he'd been running the ferry 23 years without an accident. That   
   very day the ferry sank, killing    
   Clark and everyone aboard. In the evening, Burroughs was thinking about this   
   when he turned on the radio. The first newscast headlined the crash of an   
   airline plane on the New York-Miami route. The pilot was another Captain Clark   
   and the flight was    
   listed as Flight 23 (ala the line "Captain Clark welcomes you aboard."). The   
   human body has 46 chromosomes, which are paired, in somatic cells. Generative   
   cells have half this number, 23, which is the number of chromosomes each   
   parents gives to human DNA.   
       
   23 Axioms in Euclid's Geometry. The Knights Templars had only 23 Grandmasters.   
   Jacques de Molay was the 23rd and last of the Templar Grandmasters. After the   
   Rodney King verdict, a Korean shopkeeper during the L.A riots can be clearly   
   seen shooting at    
   looters from the roof of a building in front of a large sign proclaiming the   
   number 23 and nothing else. There are 23 letters in the Latin alphabet. Max   
   Headroom broadcast on Network 23.    
   Nissan is a brand of Japanese cars. In Japanese, "ni" is 2, and "san" is 3. So   
   Nissan would be 23. In the film Alice of Lewis Carroll's classic Alice in   
   Wonderland by the Czech director/animator Jan Svankmejer, Alice's   
   taxidermically stuffed rabbit    
   flings open the door by dressing itself and running 'away'. The case that   
   holds the white rabbit (i.e. Pookah (i.e. one who takes you OUT)) is labeled   
   "No. 23" 23 is the first prime number in which both digits are prime numbers   
   and add up to another    
   prime number. In the Qabalistic Tree of Life the 23rd path is associated with   
   the Hanged Man Tarot Card. Aleister Crowley also states that this card   
   represents the concept that the only way OUT is WITHIN. 23 HOP is the club   
   where the Toronto rave scene    
   was created.    
      
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