totse.com | So the number 23 caught me

Anirak · #1 2008-07-15, 20:53

It used to be only 111/11:11 that I compulsively noticed. I saw the movie "The Number 23" a long time ago, and even once I tried noticing it, but it never seemed to show up that much. All of a sudden, after reading a little bit more on it, it's showing up more than the gray hairs on McCain's head.

What's your opinion on this phenomenon? Is it just selection bias?

All Shall Perish · #2 2008-07-16, 03:27

It's just a movie.

ASS Juggernaut · #3 2008-07-16, 09:09

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It's just a movie.

A crap movie at that. =(

---Beany--- · #4 2008-07-16, 12:38

It's my guess that you see a shit loada numbers during the day, but since seeing the movie your subconscious mind notices this number more, which then draws your conscious mind to take notice.

ArmsMerchant · #5 2008-07-16, 18:14

We create our own reality. If you so choose, it IS selection bias.

I subscribe to RAW's idea, that 23 is the number of the Illuminati.

Anirak · #6 2008-07-16, 18:58

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It's just a movie.

The movie didn't invent the 23 phenomenon (or 23 enigma as it is sometimes known), it was based on the phenomenon that has been known for a while. And I saw that movie well over a year ago, so it wasn't the movie. If anything, it was the books I have been reading that are well older than that movie.

Auburn · #7 2008-07-17, 18:34

In my opinion its just a human mind flaw. Your mind is trained to recognize certain this, thinking back to primitive days when you were hunting fuckin crazy mammoths and shit. You are trained to recognize certain things. Say one time you notice a flaw very small on a mammoths toe, and you find that it helps you take down the beast easier. Then in your hunting you start to see that flaw on other animals. Well now we don't have fucking mammoths that we need to survive. When you get down to it, we have money, which is just numbers, and time, so maybe for some reason your mind you pulled one of them and your mind is like, you check it out, theres that important thing. Thats just my opinion, and I've dealt with that issue myself. I am also pretty fuckin high so that might not have come out right.

Since I'm feeling smart today, I'd like to add to this subject that when speaking about matters of the mind, always think back to primeval days. We have a lot of built-in extincts that we don't use anymore, and they aren't just going to sit around chillin and not do anything.

Anirak · #8 2008-07-17, 19:14

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In my opinion its just a human mind flaw. Your mind is trained to recognize certain this, thinking back to primitive days when you were hunting fuckin crazy mammoths and shit. You are trained to recognize certain things. Say one time you notice a flaw very small on a mammoths toe, and you find that it helps you take down the beast easier. Then in your hunting you start to see that flaw on other animals. Well now we don't have fucking mammoths that we need to survive. When you get down to it, we have money, which is just numbers, and time, so maybe for some reason your mind you pulled one of them and your mind is like, you check it out, theres that important thing. Thats just my opinion, and I've dealt with that issue myself. I am also pretty fuckin high so that might not have come out right.

Since I'm feeling smart today, I'd like to add to this subject that when speaking about matters of the mind, always think back to primeval days. We have a lot of built-in extincts that we don't use anymore, and they aren't just going to sit around chillin and not do anything.

I don't think it came out quite right, but let me try to rephrase what you said. Perhaps for survival our minds naturally look for patterns, and since we've grown to be heavily immersed in symbolism and we have less of a need for fighting for survival we can begin to notice those patterns in symbolic ways in unconventional locations.

Perhaps this is true.

DEADBEATDAD · #9 2008-07-18, 01:40

Is it weird that I always notice the number 23 and I have not seen a movie on anything 23 related?

Auburn · #10 2008-07-18, 02:39

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I don't think it came out quite right, but let me try to rephrase what you said. Perhaps for survival our minds naturally look for patterns, and since we've grown to be heavily immersed in symbolism and we have less of a need for fighting for survival we can begin to notice those patterns in symbolic ways in unconventional locations.

Perhaps this is true.

I think I might've been off in my way of the explanation by scenario, but I'm thinking the main point is that we have all these uknown left-over instincts that don't apply to anything modern, so they do all kinds of unexpected things.