pondering thoughts

THE NUMBER 23

It was one hot day! Geez! summer’s really bringing the heat - I
swear you wouldn’t last 5 minutes in my room, it’s like being inside a sauna
minus the fancy spa treatments… Outside was even worst and unbearable, awhile back
around 2:30-ish I was walking in one of the streets of Davao and it was like hell well not that I’ve
been to hell or something… I was sweating much like a roasted pig (letchon) just
like of what my cousin had on her post-graduation ‘handa’ just yesterday… after some
errands done, I head back at home and took a quick bath again to cool down and
changed into some fresh clean clothing. I waited till a bit dark just to beat
the sun at its game then it was off to the movies… I wanted to watch ‘The
Fountain‘ but I was a bit ticked off because what’s this? I get to watch ‘Dreamgirls‘
too? Noooo! hehehe! Apparently they put 2 movies back to back probably were forced due to squatly
ticket sales… So I picked ‘The Number 23‘ or just ‘23‘ I must say it has some nice ring to
it and sounds intriguing and it also stars Jim Carrey, the funny man doing yet
another serious role - now this has got to be interesting… The movie revolves
around Walter Sparrow’s fate on discovering a mysterious self published book entitled, ‘The
Number 23‘ and authored by a dodgy ‘Topsy Krett’  (sounds like TOP SECRET to me hehehe!), which
holds the key to his gruesome dark past, with his family by his side, he unravels
the secret of the enigma that is 23…

So what’s the deal with it? It’s really fascinating actually,
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. The reviews on the movie was a bit bad most critics cited the lack
of cohesion and sense but I never really took their words because for all I
know they are paid to do just that… I in fact liked it… the scenes are very
stylish and story was good and creatively told which will help keep audience at
bay but could have been better… What draws people to this is the main integral idea
of the movie which has something to do with that freaking number of course and how strange occurrences
are paired to it… again if this was explored a little bit more in the movie, it would have been cool especially with the relevance of the number that seems to be connected somehow to the murders / suicides… Soon you’ll be lost in the arithmetic side of things and
begin adding your whatever until it hoping to ends up to 23 which more ore less why I
hate math hahhaha so okay let’s give this a try:

Coincidence? Amazing right? Well it’s not that real big of a deal in fact
it was obvious heheheh! You see the thing with people who is obsessed with the
numerology of 23 is that soon enough paranoia takes over… always finding ways for things to add up to it… soon, it’s as if that number is everywhere, hunting
and consuming his life. Want a few scary tidbits? Here’s a few:  split 23 up to 2 divided by 3 equals 666 the
number of the devil… December 23, 2012 - The date the number-obsessed Mayans
believed the world will end… Knights Templar - October 13 (10+13 = 23) is the
month and day that the Knight Templars were arrested in France and killed… hence Friday
the 13th being considered a day of bad luck.

Here are some remarkable stuff about the number 23:
http://afgen.com/number23.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(numerology)

Hmmm do yourself a favor count all the 23’s here… hehehehe!

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