Quote Originally Posted by Rahu View Post
You do realize that it's possible to find patterns based around any reasonably-sized integral number? Given that the universe has been around for billions of years, the number of times that there would have been X of SOMETHING together, or that something would be associated with X is incomputable. Take 5, for instance. Boron has 5 electrons. Methane has 5 atoms. Many flowers have 5 petals.

If you add up every boron atom, methane molecule, and flower that ever was, the number is already way beyond human comprehension. Add in every 5-dollar bill, every 5-day work-week times everyone who's ever worked one, everything that has ever occurred in the month of May or in a year ending in 5, everyone in a fifth generation or each fifth crop or every fifth microbe or each fifth of a joule produced by every sun that ever existed....

It ends up being infinity. Because no matter what, somewhere, somehow, there will be five of something, or the current time will contain a five, or something will be the fifth in a cycle, or something, anything will occur that has to do with 5.

Do you get it now? You see what you want to see, and if you want to see a pattern, voila!, there it is.
The number 13 was not considered unlucky or a number to be connected with bad things until the catholic church rounded up and killed the knights Templar on Friday the 13th. The number 13 has always been a number recognized by many religions as a powerful number, one that brings luck or associated with only good things. That is what that post is about, not about what you find the number in. It is about the basis of why people now associate bad luck with Friday the 13th and the number 13 in general.