Tag: 11:11

On Numerology

nivtric3 Comments

If you intend to give your critics a field day, base your argument on astrology or numerology, and they will have a good laugh. Numerology is about giving meaning to events using numbers. Numbers have no meaning except for the number itself, so numerology is nonsense. When you give meaning to numbers, you may find the occurrence of specific numbers meaningful. If your lucky number is twenty-six, and you happen to see that number, you might think it is your lucky day. Many of us are superstitious in some way or another. Some wear their lucky shirt when their favourite soccer team is playing. Conspiracy theorists think coincidences indicate that occult groups gather in secret societies like Skull and Bones to coordinate world events. Here is the proof, according to an anonymous online poster:

This year is the 192nd anniversary of the Skull and Bones Society. Matthew Perry died 14 days (2 weeks) after eclipse in October. Sonic (boom) = 192. Obama = 192. Leave the World Behind = 192. Eclipse = 192. Deer – 192. Matthew Perry’s birthday is August 19. 19 seen in Leave the World Behind. April 8th Chandler’s Birthday from Friends, played by Perry. Next Eclipse April 8th. March Twenty Five = 192. One Nine Two is 804 in English Gematria. That’s April 8th backwards, folks. Solar Eclipse is 804. At the very beginning of the movie, three 6s surround the bed. 666 There were 666 months between Chandler’s birthday and Matthew Perry’s death day. Julia Roberts played Chandler’s girlfriend on Friends for a very short time. They were also a couple in real life at the time. Matthew Perry died the same day Julia Roberts celebrated her birthday. At his funeral was a song played Don’t Give Up where the music video has an eclipse in it. Don’t give up – 133. Forty Eight – 133. Gematria for Moloch, Baal, and Mammon are all matched up with this movie.

Now, is it just me, or is this a collection of unrelated events cherry-picked to fit a meaningless scheme? If something remotely relates to Matthew Perry and adds up to 192, the poster added it to the list. And it supposedly proves that members of Skull and Bones are behind these events? That is why numerology attracts ridicule. But it is not that much different from what I am doing, seeing coincidences as evidence that there is a script. The connections I see could be meaningless to you.

These connections aren’t entirely arbitrary, though. The ‘prophetic’ licence plate number AIII 118 of the car that drove Archduke Franz Ferdinand to his assassin, raises the eyebrows of an editor at the Smithsonian Magazine, and many others as well, because the assassination triggered World War I while the licence plate looks like a reference to the Armistice of 11 November 1918 that ended the war. The more people see the same meaning, the less subjective it becomes, but it doesn’t mean someone made it happen. Meaningful coincidences can occur by chance. They aren’t necessarily evidence of an intelligent force directing events, unless they come in improbably large numbers or are part of improbably intricate schemes. Proving that is challenging, to say the least.

So, what about the licence plate of Franz Ferdinand’s doom car referring to the end date of World War I? The end date of the war, 11 November (11-11), may be odd, but most wars didn’t end on 11 November, so there is nothing suspicious about it if you take this fact in isolation. The license plate number and the role of the car in starting the war, however, make the scheme more peculiar, thereby highlighting the date. The start and end of World War I are among the most significant events in history. They are in an entirely different league than the 192nd anniversary of the Skull and Bones Society and the supposedly related events involving Matthew Perry. The combination of importance, meaningfulness and unlikelihood matters, even though we can’t pinpoint it as there is no reliable way to calculate the odds.

Many people notice the time prompt 11:11 on clocks appearing over and over again. So what about the number eleven? Is it special? Numerologists claim eleven is a Master Number. Others believe 11:11 is a sign from angels. If you see it, the angels have a purpose for you, they claim. Well, angels, tell me more. Some explanations make more sense. Eleven is the first double-digit number, and double-digit numbers attract attention. You may see other numbers, but they don’t draw attention because they don’t stand out from the rest. And so it seems you see eleven more often than other numbers. It is selective remembrance. You can remember only the things you noticed. If you happen to notice the same number again and again, it is either a selective remembrance or mind control.

Eleven is a pair of equal digits. Equal digits are an unusual occurrence that attracts attention like a remarkable coincidence. Coincidences can be pairs of similar events. That is why eleven represents coincidence to me. It is my interpretation. If you take this to the next level, you get 11:11. 11:11 thus represents a pair of related coincidences, such as the do-it-yourself store incident. Eleven is the fool’s number in the Netherlands and is associated with oddity. And so I think of 11:11 coincidences as the weird happening. But that is my personal view. Quran verse 36:36 states that God created everything in pairs. 36:36 is like 11:11 as 36 = 6 * 6. A Muslim might say, ‘It is a miracle of the Quran.’ And if you know how the Quran came into existence, you know it is not human intent that made this happen.

Natural Money website upload page 1
Natural Money website upload (1)

I became entangled in a few remarkable numerical coincidences as well. Take the following incident. I investigated eleven related coincidences and dedicated a webpage to them on the Natural Money website. I later removed it and focused the website on research on the financial system. The page had links to other websites dealing with eleven and 11:11. After uploading the page to the server, I noticed something odd had transpired. The upload timestamp of the 11coincidencegallery.html file was 11:11. I didn’t intend for that to happen.

Natural Money website upload (2)
Natural Money website upload (2)

Even more remarkable was a discovery I made more than a year later, which was closely related. I was researching the coincidences surrounding the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. After uploading excerpts from Killtown’s 9/11 coincidences website (files 2001.html to 2006.html), I found out their upload time was 11 April 2011 at 9:11 AM. Also, the file 911.html, which contained my findings regarding the subject, has this timestamp. At the time, the 11coincidencegallery.html page had an upload date of 11 September 2010, also 9/11. I did not make any effort to make this happen either. I discovered it seven months later. It is a pair of closely related coincidences. That is what 11:11 is about for me. If that happens to you, it might make you wonder.

An exercise often performed by numerologists is compressing numbers. It is adding up the digits of a number until you get a single digit. For example 1589 is 1 + 5 + 8 + 9 = 23. You then iterate this process until you get a single-digit number. 23 adds up to 2 + 3 = 5. And then you stop. There is one exception. You do not perform this on eleven, so 911 adds up to 11 as 9 + 1 + 1 = 11. You stop there. You do not go any further by doing 1 + 1 = 2. Why? Perhaps eleven is too beautiful a number to break down any further.

Perhaps you recall the fuss about the winter solstice of 21 December 2012. The world would end on that day, the Mayans allegedly predicted. The estimated time for the solstice was 11:11 GMT, while the digits of 21 December 2012 (21-12-2012) add up to 11 (2 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 2). That freaked out a few people, including me. What had happened to me made me think the End Times could be near. Nothing spectacular transpired on that date, perhaps also because the experts recalculated the exact time to be 11:12 GMT due to the Earth experiencing a delay in its planned trajectory. Coincidences might be signs, but you only know in hindsight, so trying to interpret suspected signs beforehand is pointless. Usually, nothing sensible comes out of that.

Coincidences involving numbers can be meaningful to us because we often attribute specific meanings to certain numbers. Once, I came upon the Dutch National Route 666 after leaving a village named Kwadendamme, which translates to ‘Evildam.’ Now, that is already quite peculiar. While getting on Route N666, I noticed a road sign to Borssele, the location of the only remaining Dutch nuclear power plant. The meaning we attach to 666 and Kwadendamme play into my feelings about nuclear energy. The only other Dutch nuclear power plant was in Dodewaard, which translates to ‘Death Holm,’ making it even more ominous. The former municipality of Dodewaard was 66.5 square kilometres in size, close enough to 66.6 to attract my attention.

But why was that size 0.1 square kilometre off? The N666 ends at ‘s-Heerenhoek, which means Corner of the Lord, a small village next to Borssele, so not Borssele itself, thus also slightly off. Furthermore, the N666 ending in ‘s-Heerenhoek adds an entirely different perspective to it, like that God is behind it all, including what we think of as evil. Is it just a coincidence, and do I see meaning that isn’t intentional? That depends on whether there is a script or not. So, was the Author of the script just sloppy when planning route N666 and sizing the Dodewaard municipality? Or did the Author do it on purpose to keep us wondering? Or am I just imagining that someone did this on purpose?

Weird things also happened in the stock markets. The S&P 500 hit a low of 666 on 6 March 2009 (date 6/3, while 666 is three sixes). The exact low was 666.79, so to be fair, that is closer to 667, but it is peculiar nonetheless. The FED stemmed the crisis by committing $7.77 trillion to rescue the financial system. Perhaps for that reason, IMF Chief Christine Lagarde made some frisky numerological comments on the Magic Seven in 2014 at the US National Press Club following the IMF’s annual review of the US economy.2

On 24 June 2016, the stock markets corrected after the results of the Brexit vote came out. In the United States, the Dow was down 610 points, the NASDAQ was down 202 points, and the S&P 500 was down 76 points, resulting in a total loss of 888 points.3 This happened exactly 7 years, 7 months, 7 weeks and 7 days after the Dow crashed 777.7 points at the height of the financial crisis on 29 September 2008.4 It didn’t take long before people on the Internet picked up Lagarde’s remarks about the Magic Seven.

A widely used method in numerology is to translate letters into numbers using the following scheme: A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, D = 4, and so on. In this way, the letters AD represent the number 14. Similarly, A5 represents 15. Something will fit some scheme most of the time. You can cherry-pick events and argue that they are part of a scheme proving members of Skull and Bones are behind it. That is why numerology attracts mockery. Probability, meaning, and significance are difficult to gauge, so critics urge us to refrain from making such evaluations. Still, peculiar numerical coincidences happen, and some stretch the imagination to the point that you might ask yourself, ‘Is this really just a coincidence?’

Latest revision: 12 August 2025

Featured image: 11:11 on a clock

1. Report: Fed Committed $7.77 Trillion to Rescue Banks. Eyder Peralta. NPR (2011). [link]
2. How One Speech Ignited A Ridiculous Conspiracy Theory About The Occult Allegiances Of IMF Chief Christine Lagarde. Peter Farquhar. Business Insider (2014). [link]
3. Crazy Day For Dow, S&P 500 And NASDAQ. Robert H. Anderson. Investing.com (2016). [link]
4. Dow Falls 777 as Market Reels From House Vote. Cindy Perman. CNBC (2008). [link]

Wake Up Call

nivtricLeave a comment

It was the Autumn of 2008. The financial system was in jeopardy. It was a scary time. The world as we know it could have ended if the financial system had imploded. I had just discovered how to prevent financial crises by having negative interest rates and a maximum interest rate of zero. At the time, it seemed an epic find that could change the world forever. Interest charges on money and debts, or usury, are the underlying cause of financial crises. However, banning interest would require negative interest rates, which had been impossible to achieve. In the early 20th century, Silvio Gesell proposed charging a holding fee on currency, allowing interest rates to become negative when the supply and demand in the markets for money and capital would justify it.

During the 1930s, when the world was in the most dramatic economic crisis in recent history, several leading economists, including John Maynard Keynes and Irving Fisher, recognised the potential of a holding fee on currency to prevent economic crises. Still, they didn’t think of using it to create an interest-free financial system. Interest-free lending never took off because you don’t lend money interest-free if you can receive interest elsewhere. Lending interest-free must be attractive for lenders. But I figured out how it can work. If the currency’s value rises, borrowing at negative interest rates can be appealing. More evidence emerged a few years later when interest rates in Europe fell below zero for several consecutive years.

That was still years in the future at the time. A holding fee on currency and abolishing interest rates above zero could stabilise the financial system and end economic crises. That would limit lending to the safest borrowers, as there is no reward for taking risks in the form of interest. As lending creates money, it promotes inflation. And so, this money could be inflation-free or even lead to lower prices or deflation.

In the Austrian town of Wörgl, money with a holding fee had been a spectacular success until the central bank banned it. The money continued to circulate because the holders spent it to avoid paying the holding fee, so people didn’t need to borrow to keep the money circulating and keep the economy afloat. A similar kind of money had existed in ancient Egypt for over 1,000 years. Grain stored in granaries had been money there. This money came with a fee to cover the storage costs. The Biblical story about Joseph in Egypt claims that he introduced these granaries.

I named the fin Natural Money after The Natural Economic Order, Gesell’s book in which he presented the idea of the holding fee. Initially, I attempted to recruit a few people to work on the theory and promote it. Nothing came out of it. Most economists think negative interest rates are impossible. I realised that might be wrong, and even if I were right, who would believe me? It seemed pointless to go on, so I planned to give up.

My wife and I were not the only ones having this, it soon turned out. People have shared stories on the Internet about being haunted by time prompts such as 11:11. This peculiarity is often referred to as the 11-phenomenon or the 11:11-phenomenon. Eleven is the first double number, a noteworthy coincidence of digits, and 11:11 is like the same happening a second time, thus two related, strange coincidences, hence doubly strange. World War I ended on 11 November 1918. Franz Ferdinand’s car’s licence plate number refers to this particular date. But what does that signify? Could there be a connection? Or was there nothing to it, and was it just my imagination?

Our minds trick us in different ways, such as selective remembrance. Remarkable things we remember best. Maybe you have experienced a few strange incidents. They stick with your memory, but you may not remember thousands of mundane events that also transpired because there was nothing special about them. Often, I see a number, and within a second or so, I see the same number again somewhere else, usually on licence plates. But when I look for recurring numbers, I rarely see them. Perhaps repeating numbers triggers my brain. Recording them then becomes a conscious process, so for each remarkable combination, countless others remain unnoticed.

tin foil hat

My waking up at night and seeing these time prompts was something different. There were no exceptions. I didn’t see other time prompts. And my wife had the same at the same time. That was not my mind playing a trick on me. Something made me wake up and look at the clock at these times. Is it mind control? Is there a plan, and is Natural Money part of it? And is there a connection with the licence plate number of Franz Ferdinand’s car? Only large-scale mind control can make the assassination succeed, trigger a war, and end that war on that date, 11 November 1918. And so, mind control, it is. And your mind is also under control. But don’t worry. A tin foil hat won’t help you. Nothing will.

Usury, thus charging interest on money and debts, is an ancient question and a biblical issue. Things were about to get a lot stranger. The only sensible explanation I could eventually think of is that this world is not real, but a virtual reality created by an advanced humanoid civilisation for entertainment, and that we are actors in a play. And everything goes according to a plan, so Natural Money could be part of that plan. That, of course, I still do not know, but it is better to be safe than sorry. And so, I worked out a monetary theory for a usury-free financial system with negative interest rates.

Latest revision: 5 October 2025

Featured image: 11:11 time prompt.

Other images: Tin foil hat. Morton Devonshire (2007). Wikipedia. Public Domain.

The car in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed

Is There a Plan?

nivtric5 Comments

On 28 June 1914, the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in their open car in Sarajevo. It triggered a sequence of events that led to World War I. Austria held Serbia responsible and declared war on Serbia. The conflict soon escalated and became the First World War. The war ended four years later with the Armistice of 11 November 1918. The date 11 November (11/11) is remarkable. But there is something far more peculiar about this event. The car in which Franz Ferdinand died bore licence plate number AIII 118, possibly referring to Armistice 11-11-18.

The assassination succeeded after a series of mishaps. Two conspirators failed to act. A third threw a bomb that exploded below the next car. Franz Ferdinand then changed his plan to visit the wounded from the bombing at the hospital. After learning the plot had failed, Princip positioned himself on the route to the hospital. There, Franz Ferdinand’s open car reversed after taking a wrong turn. The engine stalled, and the gears locked precisely in front of the only person still prepared to strike.

Surrounded by a crowd, Princip was unable to activate the bomb he was carrying. He used his handgun instead, but failed to aim it properly. He later said, ‘Where I aimed, I don’t know.’ Princip added that he turned his head off when firing the shots. Even considering the close range, it is odd he fired only two bullets, killing both the Archduke and his wife.1

Franz Ferdinand had premonitions of early death. One relative recalled him telling a few friends a month earlier that he knew that he was about to be murdered. Another account notes that the Archduke had shot a white stag a year earlier. According to folklore, a hunter who had killed such an animal would die soon. While hunting, Franz Ferdinand killed over 270,000 animals. It may have happened, but no reliable source confirms it.1

The assassination could have gone wrong, or it might not have triggered a war, or the war could have proceeded differently to end on another day. Indeed, remarkable coincidences surrounded the assassination. The car stopped just in front of Princip. And two poorly aimed shots proved to be fatal. But the licence plate adds a very peculiar suggestion to it. Did someone know the car would play a crucial role in the assassination that would ignite a world war that would end on 11 November 1918? In other words, is there a plan behind everything that happens in this world?

Latest revision: 15 July 2025

Featured image: Gräf and Stift Double Phaeton of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at the time of his assassination. User OlliFoolish (2011). Wikimedia Commons.

1. Curses! Archduke Franz Ferdinand and His Astounding Death Car. Mike Dash (2013). Smithsonian. [link]