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The director's newer work, 'A Requiem for a Dream' delves into the subject of addiction
Wow, I just saw that movie last night, and I can confidently say that it's the most disturbing film I've ever seen. It's excellently made, but the subject matter is terrifying. High school health classes would be much more effective in preventing drug use if they showed this to the students. Too bad it's rated NC-17.
I'm not sure if I want to see Pi now.
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Don't worry about Pi. It's mild by comparison. Requiem for a Dream haunts me - Pi merely jolted me. Great, worthwhile movies both.
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42? Nuts!
The Sacred 37.
Consider The Sacred 46.
Here is the King James Version of the 46th Psalm. You get a very interesting name by combining the 46th word from the beginning with 46th word from the end omitting the final, untranslated "selah". [I've added a / every tenth word, to facilitate your counting.]
Scholars have no evidence the named gentleman named worked on this translation -- but he was 46 years old at the start of the year in which this translation was published.
Psalm 46
1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help / in trouble.
2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth / be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the / midst of the sea;
3 Though the waters thereof roar and / be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. / Selah.
4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the / bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the / chariot in the fire.
10 Be still, and know that I / am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I / will be exalted in the earth.
11 The LORD of hosts / is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
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There is a page "More than you ever wanted to know about the Number 42"...but it seems to be unavailable right now (to see what's being missed search the same title with the Number 17). Anyway, here's something intriguing I found: From the modern viewpoint, Alhirra subsequently diminishes the
attractiveness of his thought by then introducing his pet obsessions -
cryptozoology and numerology. He believed that the overseers of this vast
computation (the "Archons" or "Sysadmins", in occult jargon), although
originating in another dimension ("the spaces between"), had incarnated in
a form visible to us - as *mice*. (Hence the book's title.) He believed
that their centre of operations was "an alien city in a cold land to the
north" - presumably the Antarctic. Alhirra had several visions of this
city from space, perhaps while scrying (these visions later formed the basis
of the "Piri Reis" map); he described the city's physical environment, and
its flora and fauna, in considerable detail, and it is for this reason that
the NecroMicon is also sometimes known as "The Penguin Opus".
Alhirra also attached great significance to the number 42, suggesting
that this number somehow lay at the heart of the planetary entelechy, but
never explaining why. It is a frequent observation that 42 is twice 21,
the number of characters in John-D's Enochian alphabet, but otherwise no
one know what "Bill" meant by this. Colin Low has written that Alhirra's
scrying technique involved the use of "an incense composed of olibanum,
storax, dictamnus, opium and hashish", and it has been surmised that the
NecroMicon was not meant to be understood except by individuals who had
ingested certain rare psychedelic plants. (For more on this line of
thought, see ethnopharmacologist Terence McKenna's article on the Voynich
manuscript in Issue #7 of "Gnosis" magazine, and the scene in Wilson and
Shea's "Illuminatus!" in which Weishaupt attempts to fathom the NecroMicon.)
Alhirra himself may have been unhinged by his exploration of
consciousness. He is said to have written that to free oneself from "the
click of the mouse" (an unclear phrase, apparently referring to the means
of their alleged control) one must become "like that cat, dwelling in the
midpoint between Something and Nothing, which is neither alive nor dead."
Perhaps this is similar to the sentiment that one should be "in the world,
but not of it." In any case, Alhirra is said to have met his end while
standing on a chair, literally frightened to death by his invisible
persecutors; his last words were, "Ia! Cthulhu ack-phffftagn..."Interesting that you started this thread, Capk!  [the url's way too long, search NecroMicron, you'll find it]
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This is the 16,100th post in Miscellany. I wonder what the prize is. A subscription to a numerology newsletter, I'll bet .
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Hey! Connie! You said this was the 17,000th post, and while I was searching the url you went and changed it!  So, evidently, you are destined for this award, upon reaching that noble number of 17-- more than you ever wanted to know about it! (keep working on those other 900 posts!  ) Congratulations! http://www.vinc17.org/d17_eng.html
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Sorry WO'N, it was late and I misadded. I had been hoping nobody had witnessed my error  . Two down, 898 to go.
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Yeahbut®, Connie...did you realize your last post was the 17th reply to this thread? Really.  Maybe you just better take a look at that 17 site after all! [Rod Serling now signing off from The Twilight Zone]
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A German film called "23" talks about the 'Illuminator' and the number 23 as being key
The Illuminati! trilogy makes much the same point about the number 23. (couldn't be a connection could there?) They helpfully point out you can do the same with any number as I think we have amply illustrated here.
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