http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2004/07/12/speaking-of-synchronicity/ Sci-fi, comics, humor, photos...it's all fair game. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:03:41 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2004/07/12/speaking-of-synchronicity/#comment-16140 Fantastic Films? | K-Squared Ramblings Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:29:42 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2004/07/12/speaking-of-synchronicity/#comment-16140 [...] On a related note, I don’t think I’m in the target audience for The Number 23. We saw the trailer for it on Friday when we saw Pan’s Labyrinth (which is quite good, BTW), and I could not stop laughing. Not because of Jim Carrey, but because of the premise. Perhaps it comes from reading the Illuminatus! trilogy. There’s a great sequence in the book where one of the characters is starting to look for certain numbers, including 23, in everything. Of course, since he’s human, he finds them, using ever more convoluted arithmetic to prove that they’re significant. While reading Illuminatus!, I looked up stuff on synchronicity and found the tech term for this tendency to see connections where none exist: apophenia. And here I’m watching this preview, and there’s a sequence in which the lead character starts finding the number 23 in everything, using ever more convoluted arithmetic…. I don’t think I could take the premise seriously enough to get into the movie. Share this link:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...] [...] On a related note, I don’t think I’m in the target audience for The Number 23. We saw the trailer for it on Friday when we saw Pan’s Labyrinth (which is quite good, BTW), and I could not stop laughing. Not because of Jim Carrey, but because of the premise. Perhaps it comes from reading the Illuminatus! trilogy. There’s a great sequence in the book where one of the characters is starting to look for certain numbers, including 23, in everything. Of course, since he’s human, he finds them, using ever more convoluted arithmetic to prove that they’re significant. While reading Illuminatus!, I looked up stuff on synchronicity and found the tech term for this tendency to see connections where none exist: apophenia. And here I’m watching this preview, and there’s a sequence in which the lead character starts finding the number 23 in everything, using ever more convoluted arithmetic…. I don’t think I could take the premise seriously enough to get into the movie. Share this link:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

]]> http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2004/07/12/speaking-of-synchronicity/#comment-374 Daniel Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:14:32 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2004/07/12/speaking-of-synchronicity/#comment-374 Ooooooh. Apophenia. Pareidolia. It'll take me a while to memorize those. . . Ooooooh. Apophenia. Pareidolia. It’ll take me a while to memorize those. . .

]]> http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2004/07/12/speaking-of-synchronicity/#comment-368 willy Wed, 14 Jul 2004 02:27:07 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2004/07/12/speaking-of-synchronicity/#comment-368 Its true the aliens are taking over the world thur evil teddy bears :0 Its true the aliens are taking over the world thur evil teddy bears :0

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