Are we all idiot numerologists now?

 Posted by on 9 July 2009  Modern Life
Jul 092009
 

This kind of stuff was passed around all day today:

The Toronto Star – Numbers Aligned For a Second

Precisely 56 seconds into the thirty-fourth minute of today’s twelfth hour, the time and date aligned in perfect numerical order. That’s 12:34:56, 07/08/09.

Lots of people commented on how incredible it was — and how it wouldn’t happen for a *whole ‘nother century!* Didn’t these people have email last year? Or the year before? There’s always something numerologically “significant” to celebrate, whether it’s the lucky weddings in July two years ago (7/7/07) or the Satanic June the year before.

Off the top of my head, I can think of things for next year  (10/11/12, 13:14:15, for example) and for pretty much every year thereafter. It doesn’t take much, especially if you start saying things like, “At exactly 1:03:05, 07/09/11″ it will be every odd number in order.”

Just wait till we get the Remembrance Day emails telling us we can extra-special honour the fallen vets if we remember that in 2011, it will be 11:11:11, 11/11/11, OMG!

PS. If you’re really into it, celebrate the alignment in August, when, if you write it out Day, Month, Year, it then lines up into the 12:34:56, 07/08/09.

Grant Hamilton

  • http://www.absurdintellectual.com/ Amy Breen

    I’m kind of sad you’ve already forgotten about my post on Odd Day. It was kind of cute, not annoying!

  • http://www.absurdintellectual.com/ Grant Hamilton

    No way! I’m totally on board with Odd Day! First of all, it had a fun-loving attitude about it, not like one of these OMG!! emails. Also, it was straightforward with the fact that it was six times a century, not a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence. Plus, and best of all, it was Odd Day! They took a fairly mundane number sequence and they turned it into a related holiday!

    Rather than just pointing out the fact that the numbers were all odd, they turned it into a celebration of all things unusual. That’s awesome!

  • http://pennywise-books.blogspot.com/ T. Keith Edmunds

    So I’m the idiot, then? Is that what you’re saying about my post on this topic?

  • http://www.absurdintellectual.com/ Grant Hamilton

    Aw, don’t feel bad! On a forum that goes by the name “Absurd Intellectual” I think it’s perfectly appropriate to celebrate quirky things like this. But, hopefully, we’re also intellectual enough to perceive the wires behind the puppet show. What really perplexes me are the mainstream media outlets that jump on what is essentially an email meme forwarded along by spinster aunts who buy into it hook, line and sinker.