Jim Carrey in a horror flick? Interesting...

The number 420 is everywhere. There you'll see it everywhere now.

The Law of Fives

The Law of Fives is one of the oldest Erisian Mysterees. It was first revealed to Good Lord Omar and is one of the great contributions to come from The Hidden Temple of The Happy Jesus.

POEE subscribes to the Law of Fives of Omar's sect. And POEE also recognizes the holy 23 (2+3=5) that is incorporated by Episkopos Dr. Mordecai Malignatus, KNS, into his Discordian sect, The Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria.

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.

The Law of Fives is never wrong.
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Principia Discordia - Page 23

I remember a german film called "dreiundzwanzig" (23) which told the true story of Karl Koch, a german hacker in the late seventies who after reading Robert Anton Wilson books on the iluminati started seeing the number 23 everywhere. He hacked into the west's sensitive computer systems and sold data he stole from, among others, the Pentagon, to the KGB.
He died in 1989 in an apparent suicide which has been said to be a murder.

In fact, 23dians are people who witness the number 23 in significant places and circumstances. It's a common sympton of people suffering from apophenia (a psychiatric disorder in which patients see patterns everywhere, think john nash in a beautiful mind).

Farhad's comment is probably spot on, but still it's intriguing that such a number should get more cultural significance than, for example, 24 or 22.

Check out the wikipedia articles on 23 and Karl Koch or Hagbard Celine. Interesting reading.

I think there is a lot of numbers that appear to be culturally significant but are not. Like the mention of 420, which is stoner credo, or the number 666 of the devil, 319 as in John 3:19 or the number 13?

We are pattern recognition creatures, when we read you aren't really READING the words so much as recognizing the pattern that is there, am sure you have seen that famous example of some lines of words, which look like gibberish but upon looking you find that you can read it. Because the first and last letters of the words are still the right ones, so you are able to read it by recognizing the pattern (first and last letters, word length and context).

Am definitely gonna read up on it though. Sounds intriguing. Upvote now for the discussion that is emerging!

23 axioms in Euclid's geometry? I thought it was 5

Like HorsSujet said, This is such a ripoff:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126765/

The latest Dr. Pepper TV ads used #23 too!

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