11-11-11 (2011)
6/10
Dad in@1976: Look at the TIME (stupid)!
29 January 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Promising idea, but a little ridiculous execution/interpretation. Back in 1976 or there abouts, father used to point at the newly baught Swiss digital clock and once a day prompted me, enthused, to look at the time when the digits formed a periodic pattern, exclaiming: "Look at what time it is(!). Not always daily, but occasionally. Occasionally enough that the pattern was most often 11:11. I am not sure why he was so enthused about this event. Probably because of the scientific aspect of it (dad was a Ph.D. engineer). At the time, I was of course too young as a scientifically oriented person to recognize the mathematical aspects of it: Time is a variable in a direct product group space (hs,ms,secs) with all three components periodic modulo 24, 60 and 60, respectively. As such, the digits will obviously repeat at discrete points of time (which can be calculated easily). Much later in college- long after he died, I experienced this repetition as a psychotic reminder that I had to do "something" in order to advance through my training, whenever I was stressed in my finals deadline. I searched for meaning behind this particular reminder, but I could only find references to some absurd theories about signals from "Pleiadians" or "Zeta-Reticuli" extraterrestials, having to do with some sort of psychological "trigger" for enlightment. These references are still existent if you Google search 11-11. The latest years info adds details on how this is a message for attempts at some sort of psychological "alignment" to prepare the viewer for things to come - ranging from improving your "spiritual" state of mind to being ready for incoming/impending rapture(s). I don't know if the phenomenon has any "official" non-nonsense explanation today (i.e. in psychoanalysis), neither do I care, but this movie took this idea and made a ridiculous mess of it, combining the idea with religion and giving it religious undertones. It is true that in a sense the phenomenon implies impending doom of some sort, but it is nowhere clear that it's related to Christianity or some sort of prophesized pseudo-messiah, like the movie has. There are other movies related to this phenom, which take the idea to different interpretations, but none to satisfactory levels. This one is then probably the best of the worst, so watch it if you have nothing better to do.
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