Talk:Numerology

The above is an early draft of an article that is being considered for Nupedia. I have the author's permission to post it on Wikipedia. I have an unusual request: will you edit this article, as if you had to take responsibility for it (though granted you might not want to), so that it is fact-stating? Then I'll present the results to the author and read them myself and see if we can proceed! -- Larry Sanger

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Done

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This is a vast improvement--thanks! I think it could use another going-over or two, though. For example, the first sentence is still not right, I think--far too broad (it seems to me). Elaboration of accusations of pseudo-science, and the reaction to those accusations on the part of the pseudo-scientist, would be grand. -- Larry Sanger

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OK - there's some more. Perhaps the author could develop it from here.

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Does any one know if the numerologists believe in some significance of the dates 1999/11/19 and 2000/2/2? Nov 19, 1999 was the last day to have all odd digits in the date until 3111/1/1. On the opposite end, the date Feb 2, 2000 was the first day to have all even digit since 888/8/28.

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An email is going around the internet on the numerology of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack around the number 9 and 11:

• date of attack: 9/11; 9 + 1 + 1 = 11

• 9/11 is the 254th day of the year: 2 + 5 + 4 = 11

• days remaining in the year after 9/11: 111 days

• Twin towers standing in New York skyline look like 11

• first plane to hit: flight 11

• State of New York: 11th state added to the union

• New York City: 11 letters

• Afghanistan: 11 letters

• The Pentagon: 11 letters

• Ramzi Yousef (convicted of attacking WTC in 1993): 11 letters

• 92 on board flight 11; 9+2 = 11

• number of crew members on flight 11: 11

• number of passengers on flight 93: 38; 3+8 = 11

• number of passengers on flight 175: 56; 5+6 = 11

• number of people on board flight 175: 65; 6+5 = 11

• number of floors in each TWC tower: 110; a multiple of 11

• number of floors in building 7: 47; 4+7=11

• flight 77: a multiple of 11

• number of passengers on flight 11: 81; 8+1 = 9

• number of crew members on flight 175: 9

• number of passengers on flight 93: 45; 4+5 = 9

Note for readers unfamiliar with the phone system in the US: 911 is the telephone number for emergency services nationwide.

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Number of coincidences gullible minds will deem significant: infinity