Tag Archives: numbers

Big Secrets

Posted on November 4, 2025 by Nathan

This article, which I saw linked on Slacktivist, connects the recent attempts by Donald Trump and his supporters to censor the Smithsonian with the Nephilim, a topic that has long fascinated me. When I did a Google Image search for … Continue reading →

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23 and Me

Posted on November 24, 2024 by Nathan

When I wrote about recurring numbers in the works of certain authors eleven years ago, I received a comment about how twenty-three was significant in The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. I hadn’t yet read the … Continue reading →

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Millions Upon Millions

Posted on December 10, 2019 by Nathan

I was reminded recently of how I used to like to look at the Table of Numbers in the dictionary, which probably sounds boring. I was fascinated by all the names for really large numbers, quadrillions, quintillions, and all that. … Continue reading →

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Your Letters Are Numbered

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Nathan

Since I wrote a post about the development of the alphabet, I thought I’d also do one on numerals. For some cultures, they’re actually the same thing. Both Hebrew and Greek letters each had a numerical value, starting with the … Continue reading →

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We’ve Got Your Number

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Nathan

Picture by John Vernon Lord I mentioned on Twitter last night that, when I hear the number forty-two, I don’t think of Jackie Robinson, but rather of Douglas Adams or Lewis Carroll. I guess that’s largely because I’m just not … Continue reading →

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The Man with the Talking Ass

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Nathan

No, not Jim Carrey, but Balaam, a character who appears in the Biblical book of Numbers. Basically, the story has it that Balaam, who was essentially a curse-speaker for hire, was ordered by King Balak of Moab to curse the … Continue reading →

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Better Go See Elijah

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Nathan

I’ve written about the prophet Elijah a few times, but I’ve only just become aware of a rabbinical tradition that identifies him as the same person as Phinehas. So who was Phinehas? He was the son of Eleazar, who in … Continue reading →

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Down with Dogma

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Nathan

In this post, I paraphrased Mark 2:27: “And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.” This got me thinking about the original passage, and how it’s a case of Jesus flatly … Continue reading →

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