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So I moved a digital clock out of the way of an impending visit by a 3yr old. As it happened, it was put next to a mirror, perpindicularly, so I had a reflection of it that appeared like an adjacent clock of the same type (mirrors tend to do that).
Then, I saw it !
1001 1001
THat's 99 decimal, whose digits add up to 18 and then whose digits add up to 9, again - but only one 9 !
It must be an omen! Surely! An Omen !
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 I happen to be listening to Rush and just up the list is 'The Body Electric' from Grace Under Pressure. The chorus for that song is '1001001 SOS'. The first part is binary for 73 which then converts to ASCII as the letter 'I'. Apparently it's about a droid reaching self-awareness. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Now try it again in octal.
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I, in fact, did apply to it deeper thoughts in the hopes of ascertaining further enlightenment.
Let us, for example, respect the colons
10:01 10:01
2+1 2+1
3 * 3
9
Coincidence? I think not!
W W G S ? (from my What Would Griff Say wristband).
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Except ... 9 isn't Octal.
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OriginalGriff wrote: 9 isn't Octal.
Correct !
However, just suppose[^]
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Looks more like hex to me.
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No, The Omen[^] is a 10 digit binary where each digit is reversed from its mirror image.
10100 11010
(dec 666)
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But THIS is the REAL THING!
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Nope. That's Coke.
I saw an advert about it once, and they aren't allowed to lie to you.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: 1001 1001
THat's 99 decimal
Only if you treat it as two separate digits. If you treat it as a single number, then it's 153dec, whose digits add up to ... 9.
Well, I guess that's one of your lottery numbers picked then.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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If this were the SoapBox, I'd bring up the very likely possibility that this is a conspiracy of some sort set up with the introduction of digital clocks (and that include those that worked by flipping metallic leaves).
But it's not the SoapBox so I won't mention it.
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Nein!
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It is also palindromic. Sort of. As far as numbers can be anyway.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Yes, it's a sign you need to go on vacation to a small, far distant, South Seas island.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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W∴ Balboos wrote: It must be an omen! Surely! An Omen !
Numerology. People will see what they want to see.
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Basically, my point
(the above contains 18 letters and spaces (ignoring punctuation), which once again, resolves to 9,
proving the point.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: (the above contains 18 letters and spaces (ignoring punctuation), which once again, resolves to 9,
proving the point.
I thought you were a Freemason? How did you reach your current rank without reading all of that crackpot numerology symbolism?
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Well - probably because that crackpot numerology is not part of Freemasonry?
Actually, most of the really exotic stuff isn't part of Freemasonry - just the folklore built up around it. Amongst the arts one should study as a Freemason would be logic. Among the well-known Freemasons are men of logic and science (and religion).
But, no hocus pocus - except in the movies.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Well - probably because that crackpot numerology is not part of Freemasonry?
Ok, I read some of your essays some years ago while I was living in New York.
W∴ Balboos wrote: But, no hocus pocus - except in the movies.
So you are telling me that there is no map on the back of the Declaration of Independence? No glasses in the bell tower at Independence Hall? 
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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. . . and I deny there's any treasure buried under the Liberty Bell with the missing body of William Morgan guarding the entrance.
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Numerology, astrology, alchemy... All are subjects of witchcraft and wizardry and bad omens in itself!
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I've always been creeped out by the fact that the only numbers we have that are mirrors of one another are 9 and 6 1001 0110.
WTF!!!???
Ok I want off this merry go round now!
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Is a necromancer just a healer with bad timing?
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