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Do Numbers have Meanings!

Or am I just going crazy?

By Simon AylwardPublished 9 months ago 3 min read
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Just recently, I’ve been seeing numbers that have certain patterns to them. They usually crop up unexpectedly, just like a moment ago when I looked up the balance on my Prolific survey account.

It currently reads: £26.02 (Balance) and £26.02 (Pending)

The reward payments on Prolific vary so much, that the chances of these same numbers appearing consecutively like this is rather unlikely. I’m sure there are some mathematical whizz kids out there that could work out the odds. But I reckon they’re huge.

“Well, so what!” I hear you say. But there’s more …

One of my hobbies is entering completions online. You name it and I’m in! This month I have won a £20 writing pen, £25 in energy crystal jewellery, and pack of electric guitar strings. A nice little stash I’m sure you’ll agree.

But the thing is, after I had won the pen, I knew that the other two would follow. I was expecting them. Now you may be sceptical (because I’m a total crackpot obviously!) but the majority of times when I win things, they always come in threes!

I am also quite a spiritual person and my desk is scattered with energy crystals. Many of them are for prosperity and abundance and I never seem to win anything that I don’t actually love. I think I’m known in the circle of weird as a ‘manifestor.’

But this last example is by far the strongest number pattern I have seen for a long time. It can be interpreted as both terrifying and beautiful, and it happened after writing a recent essay …

In my teenage years I was into heavy metal, and for those of you who don’t know, it was sometimes associated with devil worship. My favourite group was Iron Maiden and they once wrote an album called ‘The Number of the Beast.’

Just the other week I listened to the album for the first time in years. This triggered a memory of when I hid under their tour bus at a gig and got to meet them all in person. So I decided to share my experiences …

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When I eventually got to the end of my essay, I looked down at the word count. There was no significant reason for me doing so as it’s not something I normally bother with. But when I did, I was completely taken aback …

The word count was exactly ‘666.’

This particular number, as all good Satanists out there know, represents the devil; Lucifer! Beelzebub! Satan! God of Darkness! Donald Tr…!

So in the context of my essay, this outcome was rather terrifying to say the least!

But thankfully it’s not all bad news. Because in the spiritual world the number ‘666’ can also represent love and a deep affinity for nature. So I’m going to stick my neck out and say it was my spiritual side that manifested it and not my evil one (although I may have been wearing my red horns at the time!)

In the end however, I got so paranoid about ‘that number,’ I decided to add an extra word and make it ‘667.’ Just in case.

It it possible that these numbers are not coincidences, but part of an energy force that we just don’t understand yet? Or am I just being a bit Dan Brown about it all? Perhaps there’s a novel in it!

Thanks for reading.

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Originally published at https://medium.com/never-stop-writing/do-numbers-have-meanings-3e1e43edf88e

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Simon Aylward

Undiscovered Irish Playwright and Poet - Seeker of eternal youth - Wannabe time traveller and believer in spiritual energies - Too many books to read, not enough time!

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  • Dharrsheena Raja Segarran9 months ago

    Ah man, why'd you have to destroy that perfect 666 words? Lol

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