Bear with me. This is going to go the long way around.
I believe in Discordianism. To the followers of Eris the numbers 23 and 5 are sacred. The number 23 has a strange way of showing up in all sorts of interesting places, and of course 2+3 is 5.
You can find all kinds of interesting things about 23 here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(numerology) and here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(number)
For me the best bit is - “In interviews, (Robert Anton) Wilson has acknowledged the self-fulfilling nature of the 23 enigma, implying that the real value of the Laws of Fives and Twenty-threes lies in their demonstration of the mind’s power to perceive “truth” in nearly anything.” “Truth” here meaning meaning.
So, the other day I saw a poster for the new Jim Carey movie “The Number 23″. It’s a paranoid delusional joy ride through the 23 Enigma. Looks to be fun. It got me thinking on such things as how we make up so much of our own meaning and what the philosophers I have been studying lately have said about that - Nietzsche, Kant, Hume, Heidegger, etc. They have all had interesting things to say on the subject. Even occasionally very meaningful. 
I belong to the Eris of Discord tribe and was taking a gander in between frantic bursts of work activity. There is a thread there titled - “grab nearest book. turn to page 23. post 5th sentence.” It’s fun. So, I grabbed the nearest book and this is what I find on page 23, sentence 5 - “You are going to write.”
This is beautifully meaningful (at least I am making it so) because over the last two years I have been slowly ramping up on living my long held dream of being a fiction writer. I finished my second novel (to first draft stage) a couple of weeks back and have been steadily writing more. I take the above to mean Eris is on my side, and with the matron of discord at my back I can hardly fail.
Of course it’s all made up anyways, but then again, what else is fiction?
Stumble it!
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