Dr Pepper, 23 Flavors, and Famous Mass Killings

Surely you've noticed that the popular sugary beverage Dr Pepper contains 23 flavors.  But did you also know that it was first developed in Waco Texas?  A little over a century later Waco was of course home to the infamous massacre of a the Branch Davidian religious cult by the United States Federal Government on April 19.  (4+19=23)  Two years later the Oklahoma city bombing was launched on the same date in retaliation for that event.  And four years and a day later on 4-20-1999 the Columbine High School shooting occurred.  The story goes that the young shooters were forced to postpone their assault by a day but had originally intended to launch the attack on 4-19.  Coincidentally 4-20 was Adolf Hitler's birthday.  4-20-1889 (4+2+0+1+8+8+9=32)

According to DrPepper.com the company categorically denies the presence of prune juice in their beverage, but as far as I can tell there is no mention of blood.

Pixies - 23 years later a new album.

On the coming new moon the band Pixies release their first new album in 23 years.

AK-47 and 23

The single most successful firearm in the history of the world, the AK-47.

And it adds up to 23.  Of Course.

A(1)+K(11)+4+7=23

Also-- The Soviets' replacement weapon for the AK-47, was, of course, the AK-74, also 23.

Basketball and the 23 Enigma - Jordan, Shaq, and Johnson

Jordan 23

Shaq 32

Johnson 32

Then there are Bird and Ewing both 33.

The Golden Age of Basketball, ripe with the Enigma.  

What hath God wrought?

In 1844 Samuel Morse sent the first ever electronic message across a long telegraph line.  The message that traversed that line from Washington D.C. to Baltimore was from the book of Numbers 23:23

"What hath God wrought?"

But the message might as well have read "News Flash!  Julius Caesar stabbed 23 times!  Chaos ensues."

From that moment Chaos and Order, Confusion and Knowledge, have in marvelous duality, bloomed ever wider.

And the sacred numbers of Eris have sprung up in astounding abundance like toadstools after warm spring rain.

17, 23, 5  Everywhere.

A Koan of nature.

Coincidence and Synchronicities to tell us-- not to take this all too seriously.