Triskaidekaphobia: Is Jason Real?

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Triskaidekaphobia is an unnatural psychological and superstitious fear of the number 13, an odd number that does not neatly fit into a dozen or a dodecahedron.

Friday the 13th is a traditional superstition-festivity day that denotes a sign of misfortune and sometimes witchcraft. The date has become synonymous with bad luck campfire tales and black-cat storytelling.

The Friday the 13th horror film franchise presents the story of a vengeful zombie named Jason Voorhees who stalks innocent passerby near a place called Crystal Lake.

There have been stories and news reports of bizarre and terrible murders of campers and scouts looking to revel in the glories of pedestrian hiking, a fact which invites the question, "Could Jason Voorhees be real?"

Jack the Ripper preyed on urbanization frailties in London. Could there be a real Jason who preys on our superstitious fears of spiritual misfortune? Maybe Crystal Lake is the ruined Eden.

It's a funny fact that people do not consider Friday the 13th an insane superstition.






Triskaidekaphobia

Murder in the Mountains

Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders

Friday the 13th (Horror Franchise)

 

[konradv]

It wasn't exactly a favorite date with the Knights Templar either!

Knights Templar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Moonglow]

Eh, just another day of the week.....

 

[Abishai100]

The Darkside of Courage

The date Friday the 13th has become important to many people across a handful of human groups.

The Roman calendar was meant to help us mark time efficiently and for the purposes of the harvest, governance, etc.

The number 13 is not a nice and even number, and it is a problematic number of edges for a geometric shape, when compared to the nice even 12-sided dodecahedron.

Jason wears a hockey-mask, usually just used for ice-hockey, which is a very natural balance-driven sport. Jason's use the hockey-mask signifies a focus on outward appearance and body control, and his menacing look makes him a 'ghoul' from the darkside of the human mind.

We can try to understand how a mage/spirit/avatar such as Jason Voorhees encourages to think creatively about the philosophical reality of ugliness and shadows...




Tales from the Darkside (TV Series)

 

[Abishai100]

The Jason-Michael Equation

Also, here's another 'esoteric' consideration.

Friday the 13th is the date of Jason's ominous 'reign,' and the date (as we've discussed) represents a social superstition about general undesirable misfortune (but observes it in a mystical fashion), which is why we might find a Friday the 13th horror film marathon airing on AMC or Syfy on Halloween Eve, which incidentally falls on October 31st.

So, Friday the 13th and October the 31st offer us two numeric reversible dates (13 and 31), perhaps 'linguistic anagrams,' which we can observe (loosely or strictly) to characterize mystical spookiness surrounding unpredictable 'misfortune goosebumps.'

Is it any coincidence then that Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees have been psychologically linked for film ideas?

 

[Abishai100]

Transformation: Theosophy

In the film Friday the 13th Part IX, the 'spirit' of Jason inhabits other bodies and forms as creatures and ghouls, perhaps to remind us that the essence of Jason Voorhees can best be characterized as some kind of 'evil leprechaun' (although not to be confused with Lubdan the ghoul from the Leprechaun horror film series).

Maybe we can talk about the presence of Jason in terms of a general paranoia about 'undesirable unpredictability'...

One of my favorite stories/tales about unpredictability paranoia is Herman Melville's The Lightning-rod Man (about an unwelcomed insurance salesman).


Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (Friday the 13th Part IX - 1993 Film)

 

[Abishai100]

Direct Delirium

How about a Lewis Carroll-esque story Jason Through the Looking Glass, where Jason is like Alice and must slay the misshapen giant creature the Jabberwocky who lives on the darkside of reality that exists as a parallel universe on the other side of the image-astrophysics axis of reflection through a mirror. We can imagine Jason as 'real' when we think of our metaphysical curiosity about misfortune gibberish.

 

[Abishai100]

The Bad-Luck Forest


I wanted to offer up a short-story with Jason as Alice through the Looking-Glass. This is a fan-fic of course and it's supposed to stir you up into thinking that realms of the imagination may comprise actual 'faces of a eerily humbling reality.'


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Everyone wanted to know why Jason Voorhees was stalking and haunting the forest area surrounding Camp Crystal Lake which was located deep within the Pine Barrens of New Jersey (USA). A young scholar-scientist named Max, winner of the Westinghouse Scholarship for Young Scientists, was investigating the theory that the forest comprises a dark and mysterious portion of the species psyche, since we don't live there anymore but subconsciously remember its green labyrinths. Max reasoned that the forest was a real realm on the other axis of some reflection of Earth through a mirror and that is what drew and kept Jason there.

Max discreetly put together the right equipment and gear to go searching/hunting for Jason Voorhees, using only the best motion detector and night-vision lighting and array of electric stun-guns. He set up camp right on the outskirts of Crystal Lake and waited for Jason. Max positioned himself to be able to lunge at the psychotic zombie with a bright electric-lantern lamplight to blind his vision before striking him with the longpole electric stun-gun. The light would create an energy dispersion field, which would throw off Jason's sensitive "sixth sense" about metaphysical energy. The plan worked, and Jason lay motionless, having been stung by Max's stun-gun multiple times.

When Jason was carried off to the Oscorp Research Institute for Speciation Deviants in New York City, Max was relieved and realized he was a hero to the world. Jason was receiving adequate care and supervision at his maximum-security rehabilitation center of isolated cells. Soon, media and TV was all the rage about Jason at Oscorp, and some marvelled that he was indeed the new Quasimodo, perfectly and ghoulishly evil and dark for our modern age of nihilistic mysticism (e.g., The Wolf of Wall Street). Jason became a 'freak celebrity,' and Max was enraged that he was being demonized as an unappealing version of Pat Garrett.


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[Abishai100]

Crime & Punishment: Demonology

It would make for an intriguing 'American darkside' portrait to compare modern white supremacist and Neo-Nazi groups with Ku Klux Klan waves.

 

[Abishai100]

'Twas Brillig...


I wanted to add an addendum to my Bad-Luck Forest story simply titled, "The Appearance of Jabberwocky."

There is a new trend in art catering to 'rational mysticism' themes.


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As Max fumed and vented about the dreaded celebrity of Jason Voorhees through Oscorp, he gave off terrible psychic energies which were read in the universal ether as cries of anguish and frustration. Through the parallax of the dark forest of Crystal Lake, the Jabberwocky found its way through the dimensional axis of vertigo and came across from the mirror plane of Wonderland. It was hungry and mean, and it wanted to find Max and confront him about the capture of Jason. Max was camping peacefully near Crystal Lake writing in his journal a new entry for his Walden-esque project (to clear his name) when Jabberwocky showed up and shined intensely bright blue eyes at him, blinding Max temporarily. "Why did you cage Jason who was once free?" the monster asked Max, to which the shrewd self-appointed American vigilante replied with defiance and humility, "The world needed to see that Earth is dangerous!"


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