What is your opinion of the concept of numerology?
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It’s a little easier to calculate than astrology, and just as meaningful.
The same awe and reverence I hold for the ouija board.
I think the version where you go:
a = 1
b = 2
c = 3
and add the numbers in a name, and round down to a single-digit number, is so crude it insults my sensibilities.
However, just because it makes no literal scientific sense, doesn’t mean it (or other numerological systems, including just rolling dice) can’t offer a useful contrast to what our own thoughts and entrenched ideas and habits generate. I think it can work to generate perspectives. But I don’t want to be pigeon-holed by someone over-applying it.
Oh and also, just as there can be subconscious influence on the ouija board, the subconscious can do amazing stuff with numbers without us being conscious of it. Some people’s minds won’t stop crunching numbers an relating to them in creative ways, and for some it’s subconscious, and for others it’s more conscious. So I think for at least some people, there may indeed be associations with something like even the above numerology, because there are people who have emotional and color associations with numbers, and who’s minds don’t stop going over and over numbers and patterns.
It’s hard to see why numerology should have any connection with the real world but then you could say the same about mathematics.
69 leads close to uranus.
Numerology is as valid as astrology or palm reading.
If our universe is procedural and the numerologists understand the the “formula” then they can make some predictions. They don’t, so it’s all bullshit.
To be honest, Fluther is not the greatest forum to find a discussion of these kinds of “new age” (not so new anymore) beliefs. Most people here just find them laughable. What you will get instead is a lot of (well-deserved) mockery of these ideas.
Although I do love the idea that 1+2+3+4+...may be equal to -1/12
Tricking children to take advice from adults.
For those of us who see numbers as real things, it can provide an entertaining exercise.
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