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[onehole]

What is your favorite number?

There are wrong answers.

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I do not choose for skies and stars.

[onehole]

Pardon?

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The heavens chose eight alone.

Congratulations unnecessary.

[onehole]

Then, is it not your favorite number?

If it is, it means that you chose it for yourself.
Something the stars and Heaven may have said they liked, but you said, "Yes, there is beauty here."
Even if it is normal beauty.

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Your favoured choice?

[onehole]

3.

It's the perfect number.

[downswing]

Elaborate.

[onehole]

3 is a very romantic number.
It's not lonely but encompasses more than itself without being too egotistical or wanting.
It's ugly and unsightly to people that think about it.
It's looked and ignored because it gets in the way of numbers that have deeper meaning.
2, 4.
Those numbers hold profound meaning and so 3 becomes a quiet whisper between them, and yet there is such beauty in what it offers.
3 wishes. 3 guesses.
The number 3 holds possibilities and love in it, even if its meaning feels like it is just to be skipped over.
It's beautiful in how it is, it's happy how it is, and it lets a person find happiness in its simplicity.

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Mind-body-soul. Existence is triad. Understood.

[onehole]

Are you going to change your favorite number?

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Eight. Three. I am indifferent.

[onehole]

To all numbers?

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Is it uncommon?

[onehole]

Not really.

There are plenty of people who are indifferent to them, but still, I think there is at least one number that a person holds in their heart and when they see it... they are a little happier for a short time during their day.

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Superstition or sentiment.

What number is least akin to three?

[onehole]

OH THAT'S MEAN

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Name it.

[onehole]

7.

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Why?

[onehole]

It's a pretentious number.

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What comes in sevens?

things i had to google

[onehole]

I can only talk about Earth, so I'll talk about that.

A week is comprised of 7 days. There are 7 continents. There are 7 colors of the rainbow. The locus flower has 7 petals. There's a belief that everyone has at least 6 lookalikes, so there are 7 people all together that look like one another. 7 comes up a lot in religious texts across multiple religions.

... there are 7 very famous dwarfs that saved a young woman from having her heart eaten by her stepmother.

But anyway, it's a number that once was very lovely and pure on its own, but people started to put a lot of stock and attention to it until it became pretentious and falsely pious.

i commend you, friend

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You loathe a number that spared a girl from cannibalism.

domo arigatou

[onehole]

The people spared the girl.

Yet the number is what is considered important.

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You differentiate between numbers and what they denominate?