To really "get into" 23 - I will have to break out the "Illuminantus Trilogy" by Wilson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy / (unfortunately can't find at the moment.)
I believe Wilson was an "insider" / I believe P.K. Dick the science fiction writer, also was superstitious about "23" - or at least wrote about it in "VALIS" ? But I will have to look farther to confirm or to disprove. Of course jokerman, JIM Carrey, has a "thing" in real life for the number "23" - Quite apart from making a movie about a man with an obsession with the number. True or not? Maybe they just promoted that notion, that it was a real obcession of
Carrey's, in order to advance buzz on the movie?
Movie plot "23" with Jim Carrey
(Detectives name is "Fingerling" - like someone who would finger a criminal or murderer? Coincidence?)
Plot: "A mysterious novel, "The Number 23," given to Walter Sparrow by his wife Agatha as a birthday gift, depicts a chilling murder mystery that seems to mirror Walter's life in dark and uncontrollable ways. The life of the book's main character, a brooding detective named Fingerling, is filled with moments that echo Walter's own history. As the world of the book starts to come alive, Walter becomes infected by the most frightening and evocative part of it: Fingerling's obsession with the hidden power of the number 23. This obsession permeates the book and begins to control Walter. He sees the number everywhere in his own life and becomes convinced that he is damned to commit the same horrific crime as Fingerling–murder. Nightmarish fantasies come to haunt Walter, ones that portend terrible fates for his wife as well as family friend Isaac French, placing him on a desperate quest to understand the mysteries of the book. If he can unlock the power behind the number 23, he may be able to change his future. "
Seems to connect people who notice coincidences related with numbers with murder? Why would they want to do that? I wonder?
People who see too many "coincidences" could be dangerous to criminal conspirators?
Weird because there are now rumors Carrey murdered his girlfriend? So? A mirror with the movie in which he played the lead?
Other connections found in Wikipaedia
23 is a German film about Karl Koch.
The Number 23 is a 2007 film starring Jim Carrey about a man who becomes obsessed with the 23 enigma.
The 1980s TV series Max Headroom was set at Network 23.
In The Matrix Reloaded, the Architect tells Neo it is of utmost importance to choose 23 people to repopulate Zion.
In Jeepers Creepers, the Creeper appears every 23 years for 23 days to feast on human flesh.
As revealed in Japanese film L: Change the World, 23 is the maximum number of days a person may live before he dies by the cause of writing his name in Death Note. Main protagonist L of the film L: Change the World, signs his name in Death Note so to die after 23 days.
In The Big Lebowski, the main characters deliberately use only lane 23 at the bowling alley.
23 skidoo (phrase) (sometimes 23 skiddoo) is an American slang phrase popularized during the early 20th century. 23 skidoo has been described as "perhaps the first truly national fad expression and one of the most popular fad expressions to appear in the U.S".
"The 23 Enigma plays a prominent role in the plot of the Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson".
Since a lot of "news" is fake or fabricated, the owners might place number coincidences in Press releases, which the PR newspeople don't bother to fact check?
The 23, in South Africa, refers to the 23 conscientious objectors who publicly refused to do military service in the Apartheid army in 1987. The following years the number increased to 143 (in 1988) and 771 (in 1989), with Apartheid being dismantled from 1990 onwards.[24]
== >Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times.
"Murder of Julius Caesar" is the model of King Killings and it was done by a criminal conspiracy [of Roman Senators].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(number)
Psalm 23, also known as the Shepherd Psalm, is possibly the most quoted and best known Psalm.[18] Psalms is also the 23rd book in the Douay–Rheims Bible.
In Islam, the Qur'an was revealed in a total of 23 years to Prophet Muhammed.[19][20]
Muslims believe the first verses of the Qur'an were revealed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad on the 23rd night of the 9th Islamic month.[21]
Principia Discordia, [a CIA project - cult creation in our own lifetimes] the sacred text of Discordianism, holds that 23 (along with the discordian prime 5) is one of the sacred numbers of Eris, goddess of discord.
Have a vid for this but it's hanging when I try to post. it's a .wmv . What files does this board accept? I've had trouble with .mp4 's but webm 's seem to work.