What's up with the number 12 ? -Lubek's/Chess Champ's 'Reality Check' Observations ----------------------------------------------------- Six represents man (imperfection). 12 is a multiple of 6. It may represent God's efforts to redeem this miserable world, which does not deserve to be redeemed. (12 tribes of Israel, 12 sons of Jacob, 12th over never, 12 of etc...) God is Holy Trinity but it's only one God. There is the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Hence, if something is said or done three times in ancient Hebrew culture it was seen as being established. Number seven represents perfection and completeness which means it also represents God. 6 then is one less than complete, which is part of where the evil meaning plays in. Also 666 would be three times, which would be an attempt to establish man over God. (self salvation=New Age none-sense) A very interesting fact I observed when I was thinking about how many games there should be in a chess match... I came to conclusion 14 is enough but 11 must be played anyways... + 4 of Chess Champ's lottery... If after 10 games (in chess), if it's 5-5 tie, then the champ retains the title. But that one game of free style would be a little faster... Therefore in case of 10 games, 5-5 tie, the champ retains his title. But when I came to conclusions I became sick of &12. is that I am now sick of #12. Because it has been overused for no apparent reason. Or I am sure there is a reason... Think... For example... 12 baskets of food picked up after 5000+ (The Bible does not mention women & children) men ate after listening to Jesus, 12 tribes of Israel (original tribe was from Judah, thus the name 'jews'), from Noah to Abraham, From Abe to Moses, From Moses to Dave, from Dave to Jesus, the carpenter, there were 14 generations for each (actually he was also a constructor, contractor, mason... check out the muscles on the arms in the shroud of Turin. Then we have Mary, Mother of God, she is crowned with 12 stars around her head, then we have 12 Apostles... (Actually there were 14. They picked another one after the drawing of the lots, (Matias) then came Paul who was the apostle to the gentiles and Judas, was the traitor, who thought Jesus will come to save the Jews from the Romans... He thought it will be done by military power & not by the words Jesus spoke. He got the message wrong Jews, like Judas should not expect any other Messiah to come, because he already came to them and to the world. Same thing goes for pontius Pilate, he did not crucify him, it was demanded to him by the people of the land... And yes, he is also responsible in some way for crucifixion. Now, more: We have 12 months, 24 hours with 12 hours on the clock, 12 being the noon, 12 jurors (waste of time and tax payer's money. Ten is enough. I think they should have 11 justices in the supreme court, (better yet, 10 is enough) they are time wasters anyways...) Then we have dozen of eggs, or beers or donuts (cops, your favorite, I see you around donut stores all the time, dont deny it), 12 rounds in boxing, 8 + 4 years of school K-12, etc... It should be K-13. Kids should start school at 7 not at 6. At 7, their brains are more developed. When they graduate HS, they are 19 or 20. It takes at least 20 years to have fully developed brains, especially for men. What's up with that, is that some kind of a number disease: pathetic psychological obsessive disorder or something ? I am glad at least our Solar system (part of the huge Milky Way) is not 12... Well, may be there is, there are 9 planets, sun is a star, that's 10, then we have some other star close to Pluto, wow, I am glad, that's 11, I can rest now... lol. Or can I ? In 2004 they discovered some other star in the solar system which evolves around the sun in 11 000 years. They named it # number 11. Pluto is no longer a planet because it orbits around the sun backwards like other 8 stars & it orbits it a weird angle. Now, here's a thought for the day: Baker's dozen is 13, well then, that's not a dozen or is it ? I still prefer Baker's dozen over a mere dozen. I am glad, however, in basketball they have 10 players total and in soccer each team has 10 players + one goalman ( O good, number 11). In conclusion, I say... 10 is a full number and 11 is an addition to it, those numbers make much more sense than 12. After all human beings (even if they are animals) have 10 fingers, unlike mammals and animals who have only eight, 12 is more than 11, but then again if I want more of something then I have 13, 14... And more is better, right ? I CAME UP WITH A NEW NAME FOR THE PERFECT NUMBER OF ELEVEN: 'ELZEN' FROM DO_ZEN AND EL_EVEN, ALSO KNOWN AS CC DOZEN, SUPER GM LUBEK-CHESS HAMP'S DOZEN. I DONT MEAN CUBIC CENTIMETERS DOZEN.