The sinister truth about Jim Carrey

Even more reasons to be suspicious
Had enough? Of course not. Carrey’s breakout year was 1994, which saw the release of three movies of his that turned out to be huge and cemented his career: “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective,” “The Mask” and “Dumb & Dumber.” The sum of the digits in the year (1+9+9+4) is 23. Multiply two by three and you get six, which gives you one six for each movie he released that year — 666. Oh, and since “Ace Ventura,” Carrey’s made (you guessed it) 18 movies.

When faced with this mounting heap of evidence, I was left with two possible explanations: Jim Carrey is closely connected to the number of the beast, or numerology is preposterous nonsense and I’d been wasting my time like those conspiracy nuts who claim to draw incontrovertible parallels between John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln.

The obvious conclusion is that Carrey is Satan. QED.

The doubting Thomases among you may be inclined to dismiss this kind of highly scientific analysis as mere data cherry-picking or superstitious hocus pocus. And true, it’s probably too early to start eyeing the skies for a rain of blood or a plague of locusts. But it’s worth pointing out that Mr. Carrey himself has had a keen interest in numerology and the number 23 particularly, since long before he signed on to make the film. He even named his production company JC23 because of his belief in the power of those particular digits. If he buys into it when it comes to his life, why can’t you?

And finally, I’ll leave you with one last bit of telling evidence: An anagram of “Lucifer” is “rice flu.” An anagram of “Jim Carrey” is “my rice jar.” This means something. Think about it.

Patrick Enright is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in MSNBC.com, Mr. Showbiz, Wall of Sound, Movies.com and Seattle Weekly.

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