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Old 11-24-2011, 10:22 PM
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Originally Posted by aklim View Post
You sound like the Chinese folk I knew growing up. The number "8" in the Chinese language sounds very close to the word "luck" and so houses with that number are especially prized. The number "4" sounds a lot like the word "death" and thus shunned and the price is lower.
It means nothing to me, spiritually.

I do like a symetrical number, aesthetically speaking though. When I built my house I had a choice of several numbers which needed to begin with 42 and could end with several choices. I chose 424.

When I built a spec house a block more or less straight east of my house I got to choose the number again. Again I chose the symetrical number 414 I think it was.

But as far as the number 666 being the sign of the devil....only in some superstitious folk's minds.
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