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I've done some research on this in the past, though I am not satisfied I have got to the bottom of things, I can tell you some stuff.

Apparently there was once a duodecimal system of counting in use, that is instead of there being numerals from 1 to 10 there were numerals from 1 to 12.

The reason for 12 having been used are multiple. 12 is the lowest number with the highest number of factors 1,2,3,4,6 and 12. Counting on fingers was done with the thumb moving from philange to philange and there are 12 philanges total on the 4 fingers.

Multiplication tables are extremely regular in base 12 (duodecimal) and a lot easier to learn.

The clock having 12 hours, the year having 12 months, the foot having 12 inches all come from this. The 360° of a circle is 12x30.

All these things are related to ancient civilizations including Egypt and Babylon but I think there is more to it. Not a lot of info available, learning all this took a lot of digging. Would be interested if anyone else has something.

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you will love this lecture by randall carlson. the man is geological archeologist, self taught and has some excellent jre interviews. this is a lecuture i found the other day on 12. it should be its own post.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R7oyZGW99os

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I needed something to listen to on my walk home. Perfect timing.

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I might also point out that in english, you don't get to "teens" until thirteen. Eleven and twelve seem like they may derive from duodecimal as well. This is my opinion I have found nothing to back it up, but it is one of the things I was looking for.

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"Why don't you just make 10 a little louder and make 10 be the top number?"

"Ours go to 12."

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Let's look at the important numbers in Christianity.

  1. 1 God.

  2. Husband and wife. Smallest creation.

  3. Holy trinity. 3 denials of Jesus. Faith, hope, love. Third day.

  4. Commandments. Virgins.

  5. Apostles. 12 tribes.

  6. 40 days and 40 nights it rained. Jesus ascended 40 days after easter.

Hard to not see significance all around you when you've made every number under the sun significant.

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Every number is significant.

Consider, beginning with 0, it is significant for obvious reasons. As is 1, and so on. Suppose then you finally hit an “insignificant” number. Then it becomes the “smallest insignificant number”. Which is, of course, significant.

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I see Poal lists are as useless as Voat lists. You tried typing 1, 2, 3, 10, 12, 40, and got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

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I see Poal lists are as useless as Voat lists.

Markdown, how do you fucking work???????

  • 1. God.
  • 2. Husband and wife. Smallest creation.
  • 3. Holy trinity. 3 denials of Jesus. Faith, hope, love. Third day.
  • 10. Commandments. Virgins.
  • 12. Apostles. 12 tribes.
  • 40. days and 40 nights it rained. Jesus ascended 40 days after easter.
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The Pythagoreans had a significance for many of these lower numbers. Then there are the Platonic solids. I think Kabbalah ascribes a cosmic significance to all of the numbers 1-12 as well. I don't know what the parallels in the Vedas might be. They liked their astrology though too.

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Who was the first to recognize the importance of 69?

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You could do that with anything. 5 fingers. 5 cars in a parking lot. 5 toes. 5 qtards. 5 other things.

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not with powerful, man made organizations that have shaped our past and present

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8 is a sacred number from ancient Egypt and the corpus hermeticum

babalon had 8 gates

there is 8 festivals in the wicca calander

the 8 fold path from buddism

8 immortals taoist philosophy

Leviticus 12:3: “And on the eighth day the flesh on his foreskin shall be circumcised.”

Hanukah lasts 8 days

symbol of Ishtar is an 8 pointed star

8 is a lucky number in china

a spanish silver coin was known as a pieces of 8

there where 8 people on noahs arc

there is 8 planets(there is 9 planets we are still waiting to discover far out, a large planet on the far edge of our solar system)

8 on its side is infinity

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1 Earth. 1 God. 1 Human race.

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One race, Moshe?

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nice try bub.

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There are 12 houses in the Zodiac calender, the circle in the sky, with the creepy insects and beasts ... Within each house is 3 decans... 3 mini gods share the 10 degrees of that part of the sky... 12 x 3 = 36 Now here is wisdom, Count their numbers... 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17+18+19+20+21+22+23+24+25+26+27+28+29+30+31+32+33+34+35+36 = #666

Oh? the number of the beast, you say?

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you would love this lecture by randall carlson

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R7oyZGW99os

and to answer your question, 36 is significant as 3 plus 6 is nine. which is a hugely important number when it comes to geography and the building of megolithic structures as you will see in this lecture

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Here is the scripture that goes with the forms of creeping things and abominable beasts of the circle round about... You probably cannot understand it though.

Ezekiel 8: 10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

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The significance of 12 is that it is 3 X 4. Three 4s is 12. Four 3s is 12. Three is the number of spirit. Four is the number of matter. Twelve is thus the number of the living world -- of spirit in matter. Seven is also the number of the living planet, but in a different manner. Seven is achieved from 3 and 4 by addition, twelve by multiplication. What is the difference, symbolically, between addition and multiplication? Addition is passive -- it beings things together side by side. Multiplication is active -- it mixes things together. It is the difference between an unlit candle with an unburned match beside it, and a burning candle with a burnt match beside it.

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i dunno...

I kinda like 11