Kevin's Watch

Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:33 am**

Three weeks ago, I went to Taco Bell after work, and then parked in the Wal-Mart parking lot right next to it. (I was going to pick up a few things after dining.) As I sat there munching on my burrito, I noticed the time and my trip odometer, one on top of the other, both digital lcd displays. It was 11:33 and the the trip odo was at 333.1--I thought, "Wow. That is a lot of 1's and 3's."

At that point in my life (three weeks ago), I was thinking that maybe I need to re-think my place in life. You know, figure out why I am here. Chase my destiny. Stop wasting the days away in meaninglessness. I began to try to figure out what the numbers signified (nod to Havelock). I didn't know.

Two days later, I arrived at the movie theater to watch The Last Airbender. When I parked my car, and reached to shut it off, I glanced at the time to see how late I was. The time was 1:13--I shrugged it off. When I got out of the movie theater, I looked at the clock, and it read 3:33--okay, who the hell is trying to tell me something and what is it?

That same night, I watched the Fourth Kind. Had no idea what it was, thought all that "archive footage" was real shit. All the abductions in that movie occured at 3:33 a.m! Needless to say I was scared shitless.

Since then, I have gotten a few 1\3 scares when I was least expecting them.....

Tonight, I just started A Man Rides Through, and noticed I was on Chapter 27. Said, hmmmm...that means there were 26 chapters in the last book....So yeah, I find out that MN is four books of 13 chapters. 13131313.

WTF? Am I now insane? What do I do to make it stop? Or is there some subliminal message I am trying to send myself?

Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:34 am**

Look at the minute I posted that previous one.

Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2010 12:23 pm**

Enough with the swearing please.
Nothing wrong with cutting loose occasionally to emphasis a point but we try to keep it PG around here.

Thanks.

Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2010 3:07 pm**

Very freaky! But HLT's right we try to be a family based forum...

Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:07 pm**

numerology is a load of baby diaper stuff.

anyone looking for a pattern will find a pattern.

Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:54 pm**

sgt.null wrote:numerology is a load of baby diaper stuff.

anyone looking for a pattern will find a pattern.

I feel as though you have said that many times before....

Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:37 pm**

iQuestor wrote:
sgt.null wrote:numerology is a load of baby diaper stuff.

anyone looking for a pattern will find a pattern.
I feel as though you have said that many times before....

i have always again did at some point in the past future imperfect tense.

Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:13 pm**

The ex and I got married on Friday the 13th because, he said, it was a lucky number in his family.

Note that I called him "the ex".

You can see patterns in anything at any time. But if you get to the point where you're seriously thinking that you're getting messages From Beyond, it might be time to talk to a professional about it. [/armchair psychologist]

Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2010 8:31 pm**

like the number 436???

Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2010 8:40 pm**

Just eat some Pi.

Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:33 pm**

Gregorian calendar 436
CDXXXVI
Ab urbe condita 1188
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -1408 – -1407
Bengali calendar -157
Berber calendar 1386
Buddhist calendar 980
Burmese calendar -202
Byzantine calendar 5944 – 5945
Chinese calendar 乙亥年十一月廿七日
(3072/3132-11-27)
— to —
丙子年十二月初八日
(3073/3133-12-8)
Coptic calendar 152 – 153
Ethiopian calendar 428 – 429
Hebrew calendar 4196 – 4197
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat 492 – 493
- Shaka Samvat 358 – 359
- Kali Yuga 3537 – 3538
Holocene calendar 10436
Iranian calendar 186 BP – 185 BP
Islamic calendar 192 BH – 191 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 2769
Thai solar calendar 979

Posted: **Sat Jul 31, 2010 1:31 am**

Jerry Rafferty - Baker Street

Dedicated to Shuram Gudatetris

If you look carefully at the parking meter you'll notice...no 1's or 3's...

stay cool dude

Posted: **Sat Jul 31, 2010 5:34 am**

aliantha wrote:The ex and I got married on Friday the 13th because, he said, it was a lucky number in his family.

Note that I called him "the ex".

You can see patterns in anything at any time. But if you get to the point where you're seriously thinking that you're getting messages From Beyond, it might be time to talk to a professional about it. [/armchair psychologist]

My best friend married his wife on Friday the 13th, because they are both psychotic. But they are very happily psychotic together. By the way, aliantha, you posted you Friday the 13th commment on the 13th minute of the hour.

High Lord Tolkien wrote:Enough with the swearing please.
Nothing wrong with cutting loose occasionally to emphasis a point but we try to keep it PG around here.

Thanks.

Very sorry about that. I was up late with insomnia, very giddy with punchiness, and sometimes I write passionately without thinking what I am saying. Sincere apologies to everyone.

I will certainly do my best to clean up my act from now on.

Posted: **Sat Jul 31, 2010 7:10 am**

just in case...

Posted: **Sat Jul 31, 2010 9:11 am**

What's that movie? 27?

--A

Posted: **Sat Jul 31, 2010 4:36 pm**

The Principia Discordia states that "All things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropriate to 5 — this is referred to as the Law of Fives. The 23 Enigma is regarded as a corollary of this law. It can be seen in Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's The Illuminatus! Trilogy (therein called the "23/17 phenomenon"), Wilson's Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (therein called "The Law of fives" and "The 23 Enigma"), Arthur Koestler's Challenge of Chance, as well as the Principia Discordia. In these works, 23 is considered lucky, unlucky, sinister, strange, or sacred to the goddess Eris or to the unholy gods of the Cthulhu Mythos.

As with most numerological claims, the enigma can be viewed as an example of apophenia, selection bias, and confirmation bias.[original research?] In interviews, Wilson acknowledged the self-fulfilling nature of the 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 Newcomb, 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."
In the Illuminatus! Trilogy, he expresses the same view: that one can find a numerological significance to anything, provided "sufficient cleverness."

Posted: **Fri Aug 06, 2010 5:20 pm**

so....

last night, very late, i got on the watch to peruse, see what watchers was up to what and so on and so forth, before retiring to my cozy bedlet.
it seemed there was a bit of lag on the watch, each page i clicked on was very slow loading.
i finally arrived at this thread on a whim. just wanted to see what a thread titled "13" was about.
read the whole thing, started to post something or other, don't remember what now but then i got one of those crit error msgs when attempting to post so i tried to back button my way back to the front page but the watch wasn't having any of that so finally i just x'd out entirely and went to bed.
this thread being the last place i was before the crit error.
when i got up from the desk and made my way to bed i looked at the clock on the bedside table.
can anyone guess exactly what time it was when i looked at the clock?

that's right. it was exactly 1:13 a.m.

Posted: **Fri Aug 06, 2010 5:22 pm**

Posted: **Fri Aug 06, 2010 7:51 pm**

Me and my dad had a tendency a few years ago to always look at the clock when it was 9:11 PM. I can't really explain why it was weird, it just was.

Posted: **Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:32 pm**

hmmm....my wife has a thing about the time 11:11. I don't know why, I just know it requires saying 11:11 several times outloud in an excited tone, and kissing. [I got big kudos when she was working a show and I called her at 11:11 pm on 11/11...can't wait till next year when it's 11:11, 11/11/11.
But to get on topic [13]. I always chose #13 sweats/jerseys in H.S. sports...twice, once as a freshman in track, and once as a senior on swimming, the person in the lane next to me asked the ref's to move them to a different lane...goofballs.
OTOH, I had 3 live-together-for-few-years GF's, with birthdays on the 13th, and my wifes is 7/20 [20-7=13].

off topic again: My last name has 3 sets of double letters.
My military I.D. had 9 digits, 3 each of 3 numbers.

OTOH, my latest calculation is I've encountered 13 billion numbers that have nothing to do with each other.
[everything except the last statement is true]