23 IS AN EVIL NUMBER!
… because it represents change, progress, and innovation.
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“The number 23 conveys the meaning that a special group of people is reserved by God for his service and therefore ineligible to fight.”
yeah thanks, or can’t fight because they have too many girls to bring up – Adam and Eve produced twenty-three daughters according to the first century historian Josephus.
Blame Christians and Scientists, not Christ or God:
The Devil – 2 / 3 = .666 (the sign of the Devil)
Humans – Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes.
Caesar – Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times.
Math – 23 is the first prime number in which both digits are prime numbers and add up to another prime number.
Bible – Psalm 23: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want…”
Shakespeare – Shakespeare was born and died on April 23.
December 23, 2012 – The date the Mayans believed the world will end.
Unabomber – Wounded 23 people.
Earth – The earth’s axis is off by 23.5 degrees.
Atomic Bomb – The Hiroshima bomb was dropped at 8:15 (8+15=23).
April 19 – April 19th, as in 4-19 (4 + 19 = 23), is the date of the Battle of Lexington, Waco, and the Oklahoma City Bombing
Hitler – Adolf Hitler organized the NAZI’s on January 23. On November 23 he tried to take over.
Life – The average lifespan of a human being on the planet Earth is 63 years, roughly 23,000 days.
Heaven – 2/3 of the angels decided to stick it out in Heaven with God after Lucifer and the others fell.
Braveheart – August 23, the day William Wallace was executed.
Zodiac – The days on which the signs of the Zodiac begin and end are the 22nd and 23rd of every month.
Internet – Most URLs for the web contain 2 “/”s and 3 W’s..
W – W is the 23rd letter in the alphabet. Its symbol has 3 points up and 2 points down. Washington, William, White, W. Bush, World War, Want, We, Winning…
New Years – July 23rd are the Sumerian and Egyptian New Years
Geometry – There are 23 axioms to Euclid’s Geometry.
TWA Flight – 230 people died on the airplane disaster TWA Flight 800.
Pyramids – Tthere are 2,300 stones comprising the Great Pyramid.
Latin– There are 23 letters in the Latin alphabet
For some time past there has been going the rounds of the men about town the slang phrase “Twenty-three.” The meaning attached to it is to “move on,” “get out,” “good-bye, glad you are gone,” “your move” and so on. So yeah, progress.
The 23 enigma is a belief in the significance of the number 23. The concept of the 23 enigma has been popularized by various books, movies, and conspiracy theories, which suggest that the number 23 appears with unusual frequency in various contexts and may be a symbol of some larger, hidden significance. Discuss…
Linking to an article with 23 citations f’yawl. It’s ok, it’ll soon fade to digital oblivion, and nobody will know the article was also a property of 23. My pleasure.
Jim Carrey claims to have been obsessed with The Number 23 long before being a part of the movie. His production company is called JC 23 Entertainment.
The plot is largely based on the philosophical writings of William S. Burroughs, who came to believe that the number 23 held mystical significance after encountering it during significant moments in his life
True, but better than being a smelly one… “In number theory, an evil number is a non-negative integer that has an even number of 1s in its binary expansion. These numbers give the positions of the zero values in the Thue–Morse sequence, and for this reason they have also been called the Thue–Morse set. Non-negative integers that are not evil are called odious numbers.”
and it’s a sexy number
Haway! The 23 enigma is regarded as a corollary of the Law of Fives because 2 + 3 = 5. In these works, 23 is considered lucky, unlucky, sinister, strange, sacred to the goddess Eris, or sacred to the unholy gods of the Cthulhu Mythos.
was.
God doesn’t like change, being timeless and all that.
Damned Judas! “The Roman Catholic Church counts on the whole 23 dogmas: twelve are included in the symbol of the apostles and eleven have been defined by the Church.”
and …Each negative aspect is in relation with this missing letter of the primitive alphabet.
At the moment of his assassination, Caesar was stabbed 23 times.
The circulation of the blood through all the human body takes 23 seconds.
The number of articulation in the human arm is 23.
The 23 axioms of the geometry of Euclid.
The 23 days of the “physical” cycle in the biorhythm.
The ovule and the spermatozoon are composed both of 23 chromosomes.
etc