02/22

No joke, I was sitting down to write a post about the 02/22 reference, and I responded quickly to a comment that Debbie had left on my Twos-day: San Ramon, another Walt, and flying into the Sun that also ended with another 02/22 reference.  Must be meant to be that I should get this 02/22 post out tonight.

In her comment, Debbie mentioned Trump as a divider.  I responded that this shouldn't be surprising given that my guess is that Trump is Coriantumr reincarnated.  I think linked the post in which I put forward my point of view, only to realize that post was published on February 22, or 02/22.  Crazy, huh?

But Trump really doesn't have much to do with this post, although Ether does, and per other posts and comments, he is linked to the number 22., so perhaps there is a connection there somewhere also.

In any case, on to the real reason I wanted to write about 02/22.

In my Twos-day post linked earlier, I mentioned seeing the data 02/22 on a safety card while sitting on an airplane, and in seeing the number 22 in date format, I suddenly realized that my birthday is on the 22nd.  Like, strangely hit me for the first time, whereas 22 has come up multiple times before.  I was so struck by the thought, that I ended up taking a picture of the safety card.  Here it is:

I then imagined all sorts of stories on the back of this Cicada...  I mean, this safety and information card.   Let's take a look.

As mentioned, I noticed the 02/22 first and thought of my birthday.  I then noticed the word next to it:  revision.  Normally this means 'to change' in everyday use (or at least how I use it) but in this case I saw it and understood it in its true root words:  "to see again".  Per Etymonline, that is the basis for this word, after all, with "re" meaning "again", and "vision" meaning "to see".  Pretty straightforward, and I understood this line to have something to do with the Being I have associated with the number 22 (Faramir-Menelmacar) seeing again.

My eyes were then drawn to the number 321, and I saw it as a countdown, as in 3-2-1, liftoff.  I wrote a few posts on the recent eclipse passing over church historical sites, including upstate New York and the Kirtland Temple in Ohio.  In upstate New York, a religious group known loosely as the Remnant was holding a conference and they referenced that the eclipse would pass over at 3:21, and I mentioned I thought that this seemed like a countdown, 3-2-1.

Interestingly, though, in place of 'liftoff' on this card, was the word 'neo'.  I instantly thought of Neo, the character from the Matrix.   He showed up in a dream of mine awhile back.  But, I realized that Neo was an appropriate replacement for liftoff, as this is what Neo did at the end of the first Matrix movie.  

Before he lifts off, however, he informs 'the Matrix', who he is speaking to on the phone, that he will "show these people what you don't want them to see".  So, here again we have this concept of vision, and people being able to see things that they hadn't been able to before.  After hanging up the phone, he steps out of the phone booth and then ascends to the sky.  He literally 'lifts off' straight into the sky as a rocket would do.

Here was my brief summary of the Neo dream, by the way, from my post Fiber optic cables, ceramics, and ethernet conversions: A stone metaphor.

In the dream, I was back in the house I grew up in (and that my parents still live in).  I was talking with my dad about something, and I started to say something like "It just feels like things are close, because I can hear you guys upstairs on your ceramics making a lot of noise".  As I was saying this, my dad's face transformed into that of Keanu Reeves as the character of Neo in the Matrix movies, which was a bit strange, and I found that it was difficult to tell whether the words I said were coming from me or the person I was now facing as Neo.  As soon as I became aware of this, I woke up.

OK, so all this is great, but why did I decide that I wanted to write about 02/22 tonight?  Well, one of our favorite movies, National Treasure, comes bounding back into the picture

The vision to see the treasured past

Tonight was Friday movie night, and wouldn't you know, my two youngest wanted to watch National Treasure again.  Looking up my previous posts on this movie, it looks like it was about 2 months ago they watched it.  They wanted an adventure movie and this one sounded good for them.  I was tired because it has been a long work week, so even though I have seen it recently (and written a few posts on it) I sat there with them and watched.   I actually figured I had seen most of the interesting things in the movie, but I turned out to be wrong.   It gets pretty interesting.

After arriving in Philadelphia, they try to crack yet another code/ clue in the form of a riddle.  Riley reads Ben and Abigail the following:

The vision to see the treasured the past

Comes as the timely shadow

Crosses in front of the house of Pass and Stow

The answer, of course, is the Liberty Bell.  The same Bell that I visited with my son last week and wrote a couple posts on as well.

We have here this concept of "vision" and "seeing" again, and it is about to be explicitly linked to 02/22.  

They figure out that it must be at a certain time ("the timely shadow"), and find that the right time is on the etching of the Independence Hall Clock Tower that is on the back of $100 bills.

That time?

2:22.

That clue then leads them to the clock tower where they find a brick that contains what the clue was referring to:  a pair of spectacles.

These are the same spectacles I wrote about before, and compared to the Urim and Thummim in my National Treasure post linked earlier, and here is the picture of what they look like:

This is a pretty direct link with the 02/22 'revision' story that had developed in my mind, with the clue in this movie involving the time of 2:22 leading to glasses that would allow one to have a different vision of things, specifically hidden things.

It was also interesting in that I have linked up Faramir-Eonwe-Ether with this 22 number, and here we have the character of Ben ('the son') directly associated with that number.

Here is the National Treasure clip.  The part really starts at around the 1:10 mark.