Law of Fives
So, we all know about the plane that hit the apartment building in New York yesterday. Katie pointed out to me that the date, 10/11/06 was 9/11/01 turned 180°, when two large airbuses were flown into the World Trade Center buildings in New York. I thought that was a bit creepy. But, upon more careful examination of the idea of the date, which is of course an arbitrary number our society assigns time and not any sort of Universal measurement or Truth, I became much less enthralled with this information.
For one, 10/11/06 flipped 180° reads 90/11/01, which, I guess, would really mean 3/11/09, since there is no 90th month. I guess dropping leading zeros would account for that, but 10/11/6 was 2,000 years ago.
Second, 10/11/2006, the full date, would be 9002/11/01, which I don't even want to calculate what that would mean.
Third, month/day/year is just one convention to write a date, and I feel the least logical. Most of the rest of the world uses a much more sensical date system of day/month/year, which would be 11/10/06, and that flipped around (I'll kill trailing zeros for the sake of simplicity) 9/1/11 (ok, or 90/01/11). Or more preciesely, 11/10/2006 -> 9002/01/11, which is nothing near the date the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked on 11/09/2001.
What's the point of all this?
Well it's simple. The Law of Fives is an excercise in getting people aware of the patterns we create in our minds of the world around us. The Law of Fives states that everything in the Universe is directly or indirectly related to the number 5. The Law of Fives is never wrong. For example:
10/11/06 ... 10 + 6 = 16 ... 16 - 11 = 5.
Never wrong.
Playing with the date, which has a lot to do with individual ways of writing it, does not prove anything. There is no connection other than what people create in their heads. So, what initially appeared creepy, turns out to fall apart very quickly, atleast to me.
Whoever made the connection conveniently chose a date system that worked better and conveniently concatonated the date all the way down to a single digit year, which is incorrect and 2,000 years off, to get a desired result: in this case, to create a date connection between two airplane-building encounters in New York.
So, the next time arbitrary information is used to draw connections between unrelated events ... remember:
The Law of Fives is never wrong!
For one, 10/11/06 flipped 180° reads 90/11/01, which, I guess, would really mean 3/11/09, since there is no 90th month. I guess dropping leading zeros would account for that, but 10/11/6 was 2,000 years ago.
Second, 10/11/2006, the full date, would be 9002/11/01, which I don't even want to calculate what that would mean.
Third, month/day/year is just one convention to write a date, and I feel the least logical. Most of the rest of the world uses a much more sensical date system of day/month/year, which would be 11/10/06, and that flipped around (I'll kill trailing zeros for the sake of simplicity) 9/1/11 (ok, or 90/01/11). Or more preciesely, 11/10/2006 -> 9002/01/11, which is nothing near the date the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked on 11/09/2001.
What's the point of all this?
Well it's simple. The Law of Fives is an excercise in getting people aware of the patterns we create in our minds of the world around us. The Law of Fives states that everything in the Universe is directly or indirectly related to the number 5. The Law of Fives is never wrong. For example:
10/11/06 ... 10 + 6 = 16 ... 16 - 11 = 5.
Never wrong.
Playing with the date, which has a lot to do with individual ways of writing it, does not prove anything. There is no connection other than what people create in their heads. So, what initially appeared creepy, turns out to fall apart very quickly, atleast to me.
Whoever made the connection conveniently chose a date system that worked better and conveniently concatonated the date all the way down to a single digit year, which is incorrect and 2,000 years off, to get a desired result: in this case, to create a date connection between two airplane-building encounters in New York.
So, the next time arbitrary information is used to draw connections between unrelated events ... remember:
The Law of Fives is never wrong!