Twenty seven is a mystical number in several religions, including the religion that is modern mathematics.
For a start, it is a perfect cube, three to the power three. Twenty-seven to the power three is 19,683. Add those numbers up (1 + 9 + 6 + 8 + 3), you get twenty-seven. Start counting the digits of pi at zero, and when you reach twenty-seven, there, in the digits of pi, is the number twenty-seven.
It is also the age of Amy Winehouse on the day of her untimely and tragic death.
What cannot be explained is that twenty-seven was also the age at which Janice Joplin, Robert Johnson, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and many other iconic and legendary names of music have passed to the other side, leading to the so called 27Club. This club has rather a lot of members. Forty-five at the last count.
There are some that believe that these iconic names made a pact with the Crossroad Demon. That deal ensures fame, fortune and world wide acclaim, but at some point in their twenty-seventh year, the Crossroad Demon will return, and claim their life. This myth was used as the basis of a plot of the American TV Series, Supernatural.
Why would the Crossroad Demon pick twenty-seven? Although it was never explained in the TV show, it is because the Crossroad Demon is ruled by Saturn, which has an orbit of twenty-eight years, and so a person receiving the favour of the Crossroad Demon may not live to see one orbit of Saturn. The origin of this myth is part of the Saturnalia cult.
It was not just musicians that may have approached the Crossroad Demon. Pope John the Twelfth died at twenty-seven, and is widely regarded as the most evil Pope ever. Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, also died aged twenty-seven.
According to myth this cult extends its evil tentacles anywhere where the number twenty-seven recurs. Such as the total value of snooker balls, the number of 'outs' in baseball. The number twenty-seven was drawn twenty-seven consecutive times in the UK lotto, and hasn't been seen since.
Is there any truth to this?
Amy joined the 27 club
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Posted 30 July 2011 - 09:48 PM
Strangely 27 is also the number of times I yawned whilst reading the original post.
Also there are also 27 letters in the phrase .... "What a load of absolute nonsense" ...
Meanwhile, if you could manage to place the word "AMY" on a triple word score in Scrabble it actually adds up to 27.
Plus if you total the day/month/year of Amy's birth it comes to ... well you'll never guess what?
Yes, of course .... 25!
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Also there are also 27 letters in the phrase .... "What a load of absolute nonsense" ...
Meanwhile, if you could manage to place the word "AMY" on a triple word score in Scrabble it actually adds up to 27.
Plus if you total the day/month/year of Amy's birth it comes to ... well you'll never guess what?
Yes, of course .... 25!
LOL
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Posted 30 July 2011 - 09:55 PM
HILARIOUS!Strangely 27 is also the number of times I yawned whilst reading the original post.
Also there are also 27 letters in the phrase .... "What a load of absolute nonsense" ...
Meanwhile, if you could manage to place the word "AMY" on a triple word score in Scrabble it actually adds up to 27.
Plus if you total the day/month/year of Amy's birth it comes to ... well you'll never guess what?
Yes, of course .... 25!
LOL
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Posted 31 July 2011 - 12:02 PM
Goodness gracious me, I am tiring of this conspiracy-flavoured rubbish now... Talk like this can be very damaging to some people. Not one jot of it has any factual basis. I just hope her family don't see this kind of thing....
I'm very interested in number theory myself, especially pi and the golden ratio. You can use pi to 'prove' anything if you know enough about it. None of this means anything other than that some people have too much time on their hands and should maybe get a new hobby.
Amy would be laughing her balls off... which may be the only good thing about this kind of stuff.
I'm very interested in number theory myself, especially pi and the golden ratio. You can use pi to 'prove' anything if you know enough about it. None of this means anything other than that some people have too much time on their hands and should maybe get a new hobby.
Amy would be laughing her balls off... which may be the only good thing about this kind of stuff.
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Posted 31 July 2011 - 06:12 PM
So did thousands and thousands and thousands of other people. It proves nothing except that some people will believe anything if it's bonkers enough.
Sorry, no dice here for this stuff. At least not from me.
Everyone OK if I close this thread too? I'm not really comfortable with this kind of talk, especially while shiva is still ongoing. I don't think it's respectful.
Fellow admins; if you wanna reopen it go ahead, but I'm closing it for now.
Sorry, no dice here for this stuff. At least not from me.
Everyone OK if I close this thread too? I'm not really comfortable with this kind of talk, especially while shiva is still ongoing. I don't think it's respectful.
Fellow admins; if you wanna reopen it go ahead, but I'm closing it for now.
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Posted 31 July 2011 - 06:21 PM
I've just read the original post and what a load of shit it is. I don't mind keeping this thread closed. If one more person calls it the "27 club", I will scream. It's not a bloody club. It just so happens that several musicians have died at 27. A club it is not.
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