The Bible Code

[Rndm_Perfection]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

Extremely interesing, random.

I believe I have heard of this before, somewhere. I also remember something about when the Roman Catholic Church has successfully had like 43 or 46 popes, the world will end.

I also heard something that the final anti christ will actually be the first of his kind, and it mentioned something to the affect that he would be a clone. So if they clone a human, and he is the first, than watch out.

Hey, I noticed a few very cool things in your reply.

1) 43 or 46? Try 42! I just made a post about the number 42... and maybe that is it. Why? Because 42 has been "proven" the number of the universe. Oh yeah, what number are they at?

2) I don't care about the "definition" of the Anti-Christ, but I'd have a feeling that the final one would bring upon great (as in massive, not good) change upon the world we live in. And if somehow that little alien contraption in the Dead Sea has antyhing to do with the survival of mankind (gah, this is getting really "out there"), then the first cloned would be the first of a "new race". Whether he'd grow up and finish off mankind with an iron fist... or he'd start a new cloned race of humans on another planet and then mess with their religion.

Pretty interesting, even if it may not be remotely accurate.

[Dylflon]

Bah. Remember when all of the religious figure heads said that the world would end on the year 2000? Do you think maybe the author is making this stuff up?

If he's not; i'm frightened.

[Rndm_Perfection]

Originally Posted by Dylflon

Bah. Remember when all of the religious figure heads said that the world would end on the year 2000? Do you think maybe the author is making this stuff up?

If he's not; i'm frightened.

Well, the author is not religious (or at least wasn't until he found the guy assassinated and saw the events take place on September 11th). What gets me is that the guy who was assassinated was warned by the author before hand, in secret.

The difference with the religious people... is just that; they are people, not person... and they are religious. Those two factors can easily lead to fanatacism. Heh, didn't Nike have something to do with suicides? Oh well.

[Mechadragon]

Very interesting, can I get a link or something?

[Joeiss]

Hey, I saw a whole show on this like a year and a half ago. It was very interesting. It was like some Russian or East European guy who was warned about his assassination. It's very cool stuff.

[Xantar]

Too bad nobody with any serious background in science or religion believes the Bible Code. It's been discredited for years.

The author of the Bible Code is essentially creating his own prophecies. With any work of reasonable length, if you apply enough patterns and algorithms into it (and use a little creative interpretation), you can arrange the letters to say anything.

The author once responded to the criticism by saying, "When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I'll believe them."

Well, guess what? A group of mathematicians did just that. They were able find stuff about the assassinations of Indira Gandhi, both Kennedys, Martin Luther King Jr. and Yitzhak Rabin among others.

You can find all that stuff in the following link.

http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/moby.html

I don't think anybody is going to try to argue that Moby Dick was a prophetic text. But even if you do, it doesn't matter. You could do this with just about any work. Hell, you could probably find some stuff in my fan fiction. If you're willing to stretch a bit, you will find something. But then you're just generating your own prophecies.

Sorry, folks. The Bible Code is a hoax. You would probably be better off just praying for your answers.

[Rndm_Perfection]

Originally Posted by Xantar

Well, guess what? A group of mathematicians did just that. They were able find stuff about the assassinations of Indira Gandhi, both Kennedys, Martin Luther King Jr. and Yitzhak Rabin among others.

Very funny piece of information.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Xantar

Too bad nobody with any serious background in science or religion believes the Bible Code. It's been discredited for years.

The author of the Bible Code is essentially creating his own prophecies. With any work of reasonable length, if you apply enough patterns and algorithms into it (and use a little creative interpretation), you can arrange the letters to say anything.

The author once responded to the criticism by saying, "When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I'll believe them."

Well, guess what? A group of mathematicians did just that. They were able find stuff about the assassinations of Indira Gandhi, both Kennedys, Martin Luther King Jr. and Yitzhak Rabin among others.

You can find all that stuff in the following link.

http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/moby.html

I don't think anybody is going to try to argue that Moby Dick was a prophetic text. But even if you do, it doesn't matter. You could do this with just about any work. Hell, you could probably find some stuff in my fan fiction. If you're willing to stretch a bit, you will find something. But then you're just generating your own prophecies.

Sorry, folks. The Bible Code is a hoax. You would probably be better off just praying for your answers.

Where the hell do you find this stuff? You Swarthmorians are a weird people. I think lack of football has perverted your brains. (Sorry, but its been a long time since I did that )