22:22: The Twenty-Two Blog

2006-05-07T07:03:00.000+09:30

V for Vendetta:

"Good evening, London! Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valourous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V."

2006-05-07T07:02:00.000+09:30

I walked past the table at the cafe in Sydney. The man said "twenty-two?" as I squeezed past. The woman replied "ahuh, twenty-two".

2005-03-21T08:02:00.000+10:30

http://www.ciagents.com/content/view/42/41/

Did 22 SDI Researchers Really ALL Commit Suicide?

Fifty-year-old Alistair Beckham was a successful British aerospace-projects engineer. His specialty was designing computer software for sophisticated naval defense systems. Like hundreds of other British scientists, he was working on a pilot program for America's Strategic Defense Initiative--better known as Star Wars. And like at least 21 of his colleagues, he died a bizarre, violent death.
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Peapell was an expert at using computers to process signals emitted by metals. His work reportedly included testing titanium for its resistance to explosives. On the night of February 22, 1987, Peapell spent an enjoyable evening out with his wife, Maureen, and their friends. When they returned home, Maureen went straight to bed, leaving Peter to put the car away. When Maureen woke up the next morning, she discovered that Peter had not come to bed.
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[comment: titanium is the 22nd element. One of 22 mysterious deaths, Peapell's occurred 22/2/87.]

2005-03-07T21:58:00.000+10:30

On February 22, i.e. 22/2, I went to the Post Office to send a thick package of papers to my friend overseas. The man behind the counter weighed it, and advised me it would cost $22 dollars to send it airmail. I sent it airmail.

2005-01-20T09:08:00.000+10:30

At the summit of the vertebral column is the skull. The skull is of an oval shape. It is wider behind than in front. The bones it is comprised of are flattened or irregular, the only exception is the mandible. These bones are immovably jointed together. The cranium lodges and protects the brain and consists of eight bones and the skeleton of the face, fourteen: therefore there are a total of 22 bones in the skull.

2005-01-19T17:44:00.000+10:30

December 22: the now infamous suicide attack at the mess hall of a US military base in Mosul, killing 22 Americans. www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/22/iraq.main/

2005-01-18T07:55:00.000+10:30

In the third Austin Powers movie, an asteroid called Nimrod-22 is incoming to strike earth. In Minority Report, the date given for the election in the advertisement early in the movie is Tuesday April 22.

2004-11-27T11:04:00.000+10:30

Last week I was walking along the main street of Blackwood, when my eye was caught by a plaque in the wall. It's a poem written by Max Fatchen for the launching of a bookshop at that location. The bookshop is long gone, but the plaque and poem remain. I've seen it and read it before but for some reason my eye caught the date as I walked past it last week: November 16, 1982. I realised: November 16: that's today! That means the plaque was dedicated today, exactly 22 years ago! The name of the bookshop I am not sure, but one could imagine it was Blackwood Books, or BB, or 22.

2004-11-27T10:55:00.000+10:30

I was requested to attend an important business meeting with the company I work for in LA. The date of the meeting was 22 November. It was to commence at 2pm and last for two hours. My hotel room was on the 7th floor, room 722. Departure gate for the flight home from LAX was 122. On the last day of our trip we went to Newport Beach for lunch. We parked the car by the beach. Later I noticed we had chosen the location right by one of the Beach Inspectors covered huts on the beach with large 22 on the side. We walked along the sea frontage, and noted the street corner closest to us was 22nd Street.

2004-09-28T08:50:00.000+09:30

The very next day I drove past the car with number plate: BB-022V. Which is even better, as a perfect triple 22!

Next night I saw the new Mercedes Benz ad on TV. It features a DalaiLama type figure driving in a Merc with number plate MER-22, and the slogan, "Be at one with the road". My website is, of course, "The Mer Files", so this plate caught my eye, to say the least.

2004-09-20T21:46:00.000+09:30

Yesterday in town we walked past a parked car with the number plate BB-223-A. I pointed it out to the family: "check it out, BB, then the 22. And for a bonus, the 3-A is "3-1" or by my rules equivalent to "2-2". "

Of course, they all laughed and ribbed me.

But then the very next car parked in front of the first one had number plate BB-446. "Double the 22 you get 44", I noted. "How do you like that, BB-22, and BB-44, right next to each other".

"Why does the universe do stuff like that?" my son asked, shaking his head at his crazy father.

Then today driving to work I saw the car with numberplate BB-222-W, which, as followers of this site will recognise, is all 22, as W=V, V, or 22,22 as the 22nd letter.

2004-08-29T16:21:00.000+09:30

The atomic number of titanium.
The number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet.
In the Kabbala, the number of paths between the sephiroth.
The number of yards in a chain. A cricket pitch is 22 yards in length.
The narrowest f-stop available in most single-lens reflex cameras.
The number of cards in the Major Arcana of a tarot deck, if you include the fool.
The number of players in a rugby union squad for international and other top-level matches. Seven of the players are "on the bench", ready to play as replacements or substitutes.
- from http://www.fact-index.com/t/tw/twenty_two_1.html

2004-08-18T06:50:00.000+09:30

On my way to work, I pass a business called Wall to Wall Airconditioning. They have a big sign out the front with a logo which looks like this: W2W.

The letter "W" is of course not really a "double-u" at all, but a "double-V", and as V is the 22nd letter of the alphabet, I always think of it therefore as a "double-22".

So "W2W", to me, reads 22-2-22.

Directly across the road from this sign is a bus-stop. The number of the bus-stop is, you guessed it: 22.

2004-08-18T06:38:00.000+09:30

Last week at work, we reached Purchase Order #2222. It was one of mine, so was presented to me to sign before submitting to our supplier. I wondered as I opened the folder how it was going to produce the inevitable 22. There were two items ordered. The first one was ordered in a quantity of 20. The second item was ordered in quantity 2. So there was the 22, the total number of items ordered on our order 2222.

2004-07-28T12:02:00.000+09:30

"Would any but these boiled brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty
hunt this weather?"
- The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare aka Francis Bacon

Again (see next entry), two-and-twenty occurs next to an implied "22", in this case boiled brains.

2004-07-28T07:13:00.000+09:30

Here is a dear, a true industrious friend,
      Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse.
      Stain'd with the variation of each soil
      Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours;
      And he hath brought us smooth and welcome news.
      The Earl of Douglas is discomfited:
      Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights,
      Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see
      On Holmedon's plains. Of prisoners, Hotspur took
      Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son
      To beaten Douglas; and the Earl of Athol,
      Of Murray, Angus, and Menteith:
      And is not this an honourable spoil?
      A gallant prize? ha, cousin, is it not?
- from First Part of Henry IV, William Shakespeare aka Francis Bacon

Now, what follows the "two and twenty" knights? Balk'd in their own blood. B and b: 2 and 2. Thus, the two and twenty knights called forth immediately another 22.

2004-07-23T10:22:00.000+09:30

my friend wrote:

"i've been asking this for years, i know the catch is 22, but WHY 22?
why not 4 or 31? why 22?
you know, of course, that i collect 22's...
kauai is on lat 22. my name and birth-times, according to some body at some time told me i am a 22, and i attract 22s.
and so many of my numbers, ss #, auto lic tag, phone, many many - well most - have 22. i am surrounded by 22's and i also see them as swans kissing when one of them turns around and their cute beaks touch.
ahhhh, romantic.
my gmt birth is 11:44am and i rewrite that as 2:22 22 . i met X in 1984=22. and we divorced in 2004 ( 2 00 22). and it continues to show up no matter where i look, there it is. when i'm driving, i notice a car with 22 on the tag. may not see the car or the driver, but i see the tag.
my phone number is X22-2XXX, my cell is XXX-7224. i didn't ask for these numbers. my car tag is 322. anyway - my brother was born on 8/22 and i usually think that's my birthday and someone made a mistake...my birthday is 8/25 . we usually celebrated both on the 23 or 24th. my spirit feels 8/22 is my day.
i often wear a tutu and own 2 of them.
and they are too-too much!!!
tahitian for grandmother is tutu..."

2004-06-15T07:00:00.000+09:30

Goodbye Norma Jean
From the young man in the 22nd row
Who sees you as something as more than sexual
More than just our Marilyn Monroe

- Candle in the Wind; Elton John

2004-06-05T19:17:00.000+09:30

Yesterday I saw the car which has personalised numberplate 2222 in this state. It was a gold Jaguar, turning in front of me as I drove to work.

2004-05-28T20:43:00.000+09:30

Today we ate lunch at our usual Friday Chinese restaurant. I noticed that the phone number is:

8231 2231

This is, according to the rules of the game (which I made up, and which include that 13 or 31 is an acceptable permutation of 22, as indicating a temporary division of 4 objects into sets of 1 and 3, or 3 and 1, before returning to the natural 2:2 division) reducible therefore, or translatable into, or substituted by 8222 2222. Even the 8 reduces to pairs of 22: 2+2+2+2; or 2x2x2: so in fact the phone number is nothing but a string of twenty-twos. The restaurant's name is T-Chow, pronounced T-Tchoo, shorthand, I now suspect, for TwentyTwo.

2004-05-06T21:06:00.000+09:30

Dear .....,

You won't believe this one.

I was taken though the security issues today at work.

I had to choose a pin number - won't tell you what it was but I wanted to
choose 2222.

Then I was given an ID number - 22

I laughed under my breath, audible and almost felt the need to explain.
Then I was told what the number of my office was and......you know what
number it is... 22 of course.

It was then that I had to tell her about the 22 phenomenom.

One day I might show her your blogg.

:-)

.......

2004-05-05T07:22:00.000+09:30

Bishop Desmond Tutu. :-)

He received his Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.

1 + 9 + 8 + 4 = 22.

2004-05-04T08:12:00.000+09:30

The 22 Code

So where is the entrance to the Cave of Treasures? We may know the answer. Very early on in the course of our investigation, we stumbled upon what seemed like the solution to one of the central mysteries of Rennes-le-Chateau: “the 22 code.” Throughout Sauniere’s church and its grounds, the number 22 is repeatedly encoded into things. Words are purposely misspelled so as to contain twenty-two letters. The Tour Magdala has twenty-two crenels. The skull at the entrance to the cemetery has twenty-two teeth. Researchers have gone to absurd lengths trying to divine the occult significance of the number 22, producing obtuse “explanations” which in fact explain nothing at all. We wondered if a simpler, more straightforward approach might be in order. We had noticed that the church and its surroundings seemed to be infused with symbolism pointing towards duality, or indeed, redundancy. There were two Christs on Sauniere’s pulpit, and two baby Christs at the front of the church (one held by Joseph, the other by Mary. The name of the Tour Magdala is also a redundancy, as the name “Magdala” means “tower.” Why would someone with Sauniere’s sophistication name one of his key constructions “Tower Tower” unless it was an indication of something? Bearing this strange theme of duality in mind, we wondered if perhaps the 22 code could mean that we should look for two sets of two. Almost immediately, we could think of a number of such sets: statues and other constructions around the domain that seemed to mirror or echo one another on some symbolic level. Enlarging a map of the church and its grounds, we marked the sets of landmarks. We proceeded to draw lines through the points indicated, extending the lines across the map. When we were finished, we had five sets of lines, all of which intersected at precisely the same point.

A strange coincidence? Hardly. We had followed obvious clues that had been purposely left by Sauniere. We had interpreted evidence according to the simplest possible means: logic. And as it appeared, we had gotten results. From the very onset, we had felt instinctively that the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau held something of far greater import than a mere treasure. Whatever lies buried beneath the spot on the map revealed by the 22 code holds the key to a great secret. We now believe that this location might very well conceal the entrance a tunnel system leading to the Cave of Treasures.

from: The Vessel of God

2004-04-30T07:57:00.000+09:30

In the game of rugby, there are two 22-yard lines on the pitch. There are 22 games in the AFL season, contested between teams of 22. 22 players take the field in a cricket game, played on a 22 yard strip.

The length of 22 yards is also one chain. One square chain has an area of exactly 1,000 Egyptian Sacred Cubits.

2004-04-29T07:11:00.000+09:30

On tv show Rove Live this week, the hottest rock band in the world at this moment, Jet, played live. The lead guitarist had a prominent 22 written on his right hand. Next day I flew home. I was allocated seat 22A. On arrival, we went to grab a quick bite to eat. I wanted a plate of fried rice, and when I went to the counter to order it, discovered it was Menu Item#22.

2004-04-29T07:07:00.000+09:30

On TV Sunday night, local travel program visitted Key West, Florida. The camera crew, finding colourful local identities in the streets, introduced us to "Love-22", his real name. Love-22 has been promoting his 22-dollar bills and other 22 paraphernalia for many years; he crops up in legendary book High Weirdness by Mail for example. He noted on camera that both of the phrases "United States Government" and "former whitehouse intern" both have exactly 22 letters. Spooky.

2004-04-22T18:59:00.000+09:30

"The gematric value of, "To Keri tou Abraxas"-The Hand of Abraxas = 2220, same as "Ego Alpha kai Omega", same as "Xpistophoros", Christbearer! 2220/365-Abraxas = 6.08219, scaled 1/1000 is extremely close to, "1 UK nautical Mile" of 6082.66 ft. according to the Dent Dictionary of Measurement. 6.08219 x 360-Probole',or Spatial projection = 2189, or "Ego Alpha Omega", see? Just a variation without the conjunctive, "and" or "kai"-31. Now comes the magical part,,,the upscaled version is 2,189,589 as in feet squared, of the value 1479.726 which is just a hair shy of 1480-"Xpistos", or Christ. The difference in the value of 1480 - 1479.726 is .27399 etc. whose inverse value is once again 3.64966 or basically, 365/100. It's "Fractal" you see?"
- from Mr Mailmut

2004-04-20T19:10:00.000+09:30

Walking past a man in the street today talking on his mobile phone, I heard this snatch of conversation:

"I told him I've got two twenty-two"

Then tonight there was a beer stubbie lid sitting on the counter from a couple of days ago. Inside it has printed: 22. I have no idea why.

2004-04-16T06:39:00.000+09:30

Last night at the fish and chip shop, I placed my order and was given ticket #22.

2004-04-13T07:11:00.000+09:30

"The sigil V is derived from the early Christian symbol, which made of a repetition of the first letter of the Greek word Nike, that resembles the Roman V. When repeated, it means double victory, or victory on the two planes (of Etheric and Astral). When tripled, it means victory on all three planes (Etheric, Astral and physical) - and is therefore a reference to complete initiation. The doubling of the V V is a mirror image - a reference to the fact that the Spiritual World is a mirror image of the material. In a different context, the triple, V V V, is one of the arcane greetings in initiate circles - perhaps here it is an indication that the highest level of initiation permits one to say farewell to the world."

- from The Zelator: The Secret Journals of Mark Hedsel; Edited by David Ovason

2004-04-09T09:18:00.000+09:30

Kill Bill, the Quentin Taratino film, was said to be 222 minutes in length, as a consequence of which is was decided to split the movie into two parts. The second "Volume" is to be released 22.4.04.

Initials KB: K is 20 (as Kaph or Kappa): so KB is also 22.

2004-04-08T06:58:00.000+09:30

The holy of holies was divided, as to its cubical contents, by the placing of the cherubims. There seems to be no especial meaning to this word, fitting it for such a place. The meanings usually assigned, though prehaps proper enough, after a fashion, as man, angel, cherub, are really not proper to the term. The word comes from Kaph-Resh-Beth = C-R-B = C*r*b, or Carab, meaning prehensile, to seize, grasp, as with talons...; as substantive it means bird...it is the British word crab, that seizes with its circular pincers,; also the word grab, as closing your fingers on something.... The real value of the word is thought to be in its numerical value, which is Kaph=20, Resh=200, Beth=2, or in a total of 222. These cherubims were 10 cubits in height, and stood with outstretched wings of 5 cubits in length, each touching, as to each, the wall upon one side, and the tip of the wing of the other, in the midst.

- From The Source of Measures, by J. Ralston Skinner

Therefore, there are always two cherubim, or 2x222=444, which is Daleth, or the Door.

2004-03-31T06:51:00.000+09:30

2004-03-27T06:46:00.000+10:30

Let's review allowed variations, and add a couple more. As the 22nd letter of the alphabet: V. Using the second letter twice: BB. Or in combination. VB. Victoria Bitter. My best buddy V...... B.... .

Or consider the numbers 31 and 13. Because they each add up to 4 (3+1=1+3=4), I think of these numbers as made up of four objects grouped together in piles of three and one, or one and three. So that by simply moving one object from one pile to the other, they can be transformed into two piles of two objects, or 22. So 31 or 13 are simple variations on 22. Now when I see 2213: it looks to me like 2222. Which is my phone number actually: XXXX 2213.

2004-03-19T15:47:00.000+10:30

To be or not to be.

2 B or not 2B

22 or not 22.

2004-03-16T22:53:00.000+10:30

One of the primary purposes of the Sepher Yetzirah was to elucidate how God designed, that is, engraved, carved, weighed, permuted and transformed, the 22 letters of the Hebrew Alphabet to form the foundation of his creation and how he combined these letters to generate the words by which "He depicted all that was formed and all that would be formed." The text states that God "placed them in a circle." In this regard, Rabbi Kaplan noted that:

The word for circle here is Galgal. This can also be translated as 'sphere' or 'cycle'. In a number of places in the Talmud, this word is also used to denote the cycle of events in the world. Later, the Galgal is depicted as king over time. [It] also denotes the mystical array of the 22 letters.

This Galgal, this mystical array of 22 letters that reigns as King over Time is none other than a primordial vision of God's Wheel "seen in a glass darkly." It is a prophetic glimpse of the final form of God's eternal Word by his ancient beloved people, the Jews. Its etymological relation to Golgotha is discussed in The Axis of the Wheel.

An Ancient Witness

2004-03-16T07:47:00.000+10:30

The great Indian batsman V.V.S. Laxman played in the #22 shirt for India on their tour of Australia this summer. Recall V is the 22nd letter of the alphabet, so here are three 22s in convergence.

2004-03-16T07:44:00.000+10:30

Another one: our local bottle shop advertises Black Bottle Brandy for $21.99 (which means one pays $22).

2004-03-15T23:28:00.000+10:30

So, if B=2, then BB=22, then a phrase like Big Brother, initials BB, represents 22.

Big brother is associated with 1984. 1+9+8+4=22.

See what I mean?

2004-03-13T08:37:00.000+10:30

Yesterday on an interstate flight, I was allocated seat 22B.

2004-03-13T08:31:00.000+10:30

The letter 'B' is the second letter of the alphabet. Therefore, 'BB' may stand for 22.

My local second-hand bookstore is Blackwood Books. Their telephone number is XXXX-2200, where XXXX is the area code common to all local phone numbers.

2004-03-07T06:24:00.000+10:30

One night driving home from work, I was telling my son about this crazy 22 thing. When we arrived home, the Simpsons was on TV. It's the episode where Lisa gets on the #22 bus. However, it turns out to be the wrong bus. She asks the driver about it, and he explains that there are actually two #22 buses, the 22A which runs Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and the 22B on the other days.

2004-03-06T11:18:00.000+10:30

On a recent business trip, having finished my appointments early, I arrived at the airport to fly home around 1PM. My flight was not until later that evening, but I hoped to be able to change my ticket to fly out earlier.

I enquired at the helpdesk of one of the airlines. They checked their computers. The best they could offer me, I was told, was the 2.20pm flight. It would cost me $222.

2004-03-05T20:13:00.000+10:30

The 22nd letter of the alphabet is V.

The next letter, the 23rd, is W, which is not actually "double-U" at all, but a doubled V.

So 23 is, by this alphabetic reading, masquerading as double-22.

Robert Anton Wilson plays with 23 in his books as the cosmic number, but I think he's really talking cryptically about the doubled-22.

2004-03-04T08:08:00.000+10:30

22. Twenty-two. What is it about this number? From catch-22, to the 22 yards of a cricket pitch, to the 22 major arcana of the Tarot, twenty-two pops up in all kinds of interesting places. Moreover, it has this strange property: it seeks to appear twice, in close proximity, if it possibly can. I first noticed this at a house numbered 22 near where I live. On the kerb, in the usual place, the number was painted twice. 22 22. I began noticing other occurrences of the number 22 around, and found that, almost invariably, a second 22 was not far away. Once I started observing this phenomena, it began showing up all over. I've started this blog to track and record some of these.