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Post by maya55555 on Jul 14, 2017 21:23:10 GMT
It was popularly used in the writings of occultist Alister Crowley.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/777_(number)
Interesting for those studying Hermeticism------opinions----thoughts?
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Post by Catman on Jul 14, 2017 22:37:31 GMT
When used as a parameter for chmod, it grants file access to all users.
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Post by maya55555 on Jul 14, 2017 22:45:25 GMT
猫ちゃん：
なんですか？
私わでもわかりません？
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Post by general313 on Jul 14, 2017 22:54:29 GMT
When used as a parameter for chmod, it grants file access to all users. Russian hackers like it when you do that. |
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Post by progressiveelement on Jul 15, 2017 0:50:55 GMT
Crowley was a partial influence on the character Le Chiffre, in the first James Bond book Casino Royale. Turns out Ian Fleming had met him.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 15, 2017 1:06:50 GMT
maya55555 7 itself has long been a sacred number: seven days of Creation in the Bible (i.e., God rested on the seventh) in Judaism and Christianity, seven heavens in Islam and Judaism (and, because of the rhyming effect, in western, or at least Anglophone, popular culture as well), seven deadly sins, seven days in the week, seven seas, seven continents, seven elements in medieval astrology, seven classical "planets" (the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn), etc. Wikipedia has the last point as the reason why so many different cultures prize the number seven. It's also odd and prime (Mersenne prime, to be exact), if those factors have anything to do with it. Wikipedia also informs me that 7 was the pharaoh's number in Ancient Egypt, to such an extent that for a period commoners were not even allowed to use the number. Repeating it three times (three being another sacred number--the Christian Trinity, for example) would seem to increase the sacred quality.
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Post by maya55555 on Jul 15, 2017 3:44:24 GMT
Salzmank:
Interesting.
For some reason the "Odd Couple" writers used it. The TV series was filled with little gems like that.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 15, 2017 3:48:31 GMT
Salzmank:
Interesting.
For some reason the "Odd Couple" writers used it. The TV series was filled with little gems like that. Really? Thanks for letting me know. I quite like The Odd Couple (movie and show), and I never noticed that. I'll be on the lookout for it now!  |
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 15, 2017 14:37:29 GMT
maya55555 7 itself has long been a sacred number: seven days of Creation in the Bible (i.e., God rested on the seventh) in Judaism and Christianity, seven heavens in Islam and Judaism (and, because of the rhyming effect, in western, or at least Anglophone, popular culture as well), seven deadly sins, seven days in the week, seven seas, seven continents, seven elements in medieval astrology, seven classical "planets" (the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn), etc. Wikipedia has the last point as the reason why so many different cultures prize the number seven. It's also odd and prime (Mersenne prime, to be exact), if those factors have anything to do with it. Wikipedia also informs me that 7 was the pharaoh's number in Ancient Egypt, to such an extent that for a period commoners were not even allowed to use the number. Repeating it three times (three being another sacred number--the Christian Trinity, for example) would seem to increase the sacred quality. I should also add that, in Arabic, the word for seven is often used to indicate "many" or "infinite." In Islam, God is frequently titled "maker and sustainer of many words"), or something to that effect; there's an interesting parallel with the original translation of the Christian Nicene Creed: "...begotten of his father before all worlds..." |
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Post by koskiewicz on Jul 15, 2017 16:46:03 GMT
...interesting observation about the Odd Couple. Here is another TV reference...George Costanza from Seinfeld blew his stack when a couple named their baby "Seven." George thought he owned the rights to that name and said it was Mickey Mantle's number who was his favorite player.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jul 15, 2017 17:05:02 GMT
Biblically,
7 is a number representing completion or totality
3 is used for emphasis.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 15, 2017 17:26:49 GMT
...interesting observation about the Odd Couple. Here is another TV reference...George Costanza from Seinfeld blew his stack when a couple named their baby "Seven." George thought he owned the rights to that name and said it was Mickey Mantle's number who was his favorite player. Amusing! I was watching the one last night when George was annoyed at unusual baby names—"Rasputin"! |
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Post by maya55555 on Jul 15, 2017 19:43:11 GMT
It was, if I remember, the episode where Felix takes creative writing class.
His poem about a skyscraper; "777 they will name her. To heaven, heaven, she will climb."
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