77 Wars

so, i looked into the history of friday the 13th and it seems as though no real significant event brought it on. some have speculated that the destruction of the “knights templar”, which was initiated on october 13th, 1307, was the trigger, but the absence of any reference to “friday the 13th” for 600 years of history and the fact that it is a somewhat obscure event has pretty much shot that one down.

it seems that the negative association a lot of societies have with the number 13 are not from a solid source either. some speculate that since judah was the last to sit down at the last supper (making him the 13th guest at the table) made it an unlucky number among christians. the greeks consider the number 13 lucky, but only on it’s own. and because the unimaginable happened when constantinople fell to the turks on a tuesday, the greeks have believed since then that tuesday is the unluckiest day of the week and for some reason a tuesday the thirteenth is considered very unlucky in greek culture. there is a ton of this shit to sift through… but what it boils down to is this…

it’s fuckin’ bullshit. just like christmas, medicare and democracy. so get over it. you want unlucky? you know where we’ll all be in a hundred years? yep. dead.

happy friday the 13th.

oh yeah… check out this wired magazine look back to the blackout in new york on july 13th, 1977, when i was a wee six month old baby… http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2007/07/gallery_dayintech_0713