11:11 11-11-11
That’s right, it’s at exactly 11:11 on 11-11-11. For someone whose family has always joked about the tyrannical horror of the number 11, it was pretty much required that I publish a post at this time on this day of this year. And so, for your reading pleasure, here are some very important and all indisputably true and logical facts regarding this oh so important number:
-The number 11 is a palindrome and is also one of the numbers that looks the same upside down as right side up. Others are 0, 1, and 8.
-The deepest point in the ocean is in the Mariana Trench at 11km from sea level.
-World War I ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the year 1918.
-11 is the number of brothers of the Biblical Joseph, dreamer and wearer of fancy coats
-The state of New York was the 11st state added to the Union.
-The first American lunar landing was made by Apollo 11.
-The largest cat in the world is the Siberian tiger measuring 11 feet long.
-The Grateful Dead wrote a very cool song called The Eleven.
-Soccer, cricket, American football, and hockey are all played with 11 players.
-According to some spiritual something from somewhere, “11:11 is said to be a pre-encoded trigger placed in our cellular memory banks prior to our descent into matter which when activated, signifies that our time of completion and ascension is near. It is believed that one knows when this particular gateway opens for them by continually seeing the numbers 11:11 in there every day lives as a continuous ocurrence. Activation of other gateways may be symbolized by other digits.” Again, all true and logical.
-When I was 11 I was already as tall as I am now, and just as weird and nerdy, although probably less likely to be writing blog posts about 11:11. Actually, that last part isn’t true.
And that, my friends, is all I care to say about that! Happy 11:11 to you all, no matter what time you’re reading this!
You know that your Aunt Lisa would love this post……
A tidbit from me….my parking space at work is # 11
I paid my phone bill the last three months on the 11th and didn’t even realize it until today….
Today is also Veterans day…..God Bless our Veterans past and present.
This post is most informative and the clock time says it all…
Mom
I love this Em! I constantly see the number 11. I am sure your Mom has made mention of this. You would not believe the amount of 11 info that has been passed my way today. Amazing!!!
By the way, I love the blog.
Aunt Lisa
I’ll tell you what ruined numerology for me: it was college and learning that numbers are abstract and don’t exist in nature. That we use a base 10 number system but there are infinite possibilities for the base (for example, computers use binary where the number 11 is 1011, which is neither palindromic or otherwise special looking). In hexadecimal, the number 11 is “B”. In octal 11 is 13. I automatically discount quotes with misspellings (there instead of their) but the whole pre-encoded 11:11 thing is especially ludicrous because it assumes that whatever universal power or whatever that encodes that number is operating on the entirely arbitrary decimal system. If there’s a true number system that exists in nature and god’s mind it’s probably something based on pi or some other natural ratio that mankind didn’t invent.
I do realize you added a healthy dose of cynicism in your blog post so I’m not trying to instruct you, I just wanted to tell you I enjoyed your post (as always) and it got me remembering back when my young mind was formed in the mold of logic that has stuck with me to this day.
I have learned so much! And I thought of you on the 11th even though I am just now getting around to commenting on this post! Yay for 11!
Dude I love that you wrote this post. This kicks ass. Thanks for all the trivia (I am obsessed with learning random facts). Want to joust on Twitter? Oh wait, we already do that…
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