Alrighty Then
Last night on the Discovery Channel (which I always seem to watch for the 30 minute time period between my wife watching Sex and the City and me watching Mail Call) was this show on the Bible Code. Apparently, there are some sort of matrices that words from the Bible can be put into and some folks think that it predicts the future. In fact, one guy said that it predicted reds and blues, mentioned Gore by name, and referred to him as maybe Gore.
One other thing some guy said was that the world would end in 2010 based on this code. And the end would follow the peace between Israel and surrounding nations. For this to come about, the peace has to occur this in September or October 2004 (yes, this month or next) so I think we’re safe.
September 8th, 2003 at 1:35 pm
I read the books about the Bible Codes.
They’re pseudo-scientific crap of the worst sort. By the end of the second one, the author is talking abot alien UFO’s buried in Egypt being the source of all language.
Really.
September 8th, 2003 at 3:22 pm
Well, there are two things going on.
Yes, ancient writers *did* use all kinds of codes in their writing and language to protect secrets from the prying eyes of outsiders. These were sometimes sophisticated, and sometimes quite simple codes as few could read back then. Also, numerology was very accepted and practiced.
However, most of the modern-day stuff is crap. I had a guy back in the Seventies who showed me a code (A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.) that when applied to Henry Kissinger came to 666, thus proving he was the Anti-Christ slated to bring on the End Times.
Go back to the original languages in the way in which they were recorded, using what’s known of the day, and I might listen.
September 8th, 2003 at 9:42 pm
Hey Mike,
The bible code does use the Bible in it’s original form, using the Jewish Torah in Hebrew. The code is supposedly a skip code which requires a computer to unravel. Basically, you enter a list of search terms, and the program converts the Torah into a single string of characters, then searches those characters for for occurance of the search terms. Then it uses a skip sequence (every second letter, every third letter and so on) recording instance of the search term. Next, the program constructs an array based on the skip sequence which produced the search term, and searches the array for occurances of the other search terms.
The reason the code seems so amazing is more due to the flexibility of hebrew, rather than any coded messages.
September 9th, 2003 at 9:59 am
Do you mean September/October 2003 or 2004?
I need to know for sure, so I can make Disneyworld plans 😉
September 9th, 2003 at 10:03 am
I mean this month.
September 9th, 2003 at 11:06 am
You can re-arrange Ronald Wilson Reagan (which is 666 characters, BTW) to spell “insane anglo warlord.”
You can’t tell me THAT’S a coincidence!
In my hazy memory of the ’80s, I recall some people thinking that the birth mark on Gorbachev’s face was the Mark of the Beast. Or maybe it was the Scott of the Beast.
September 9th, 2003 at 4:03 pm
No, it was the Son of the Beast at King’s Island. If you look closely, it perfectly matches the first puke stain after that ride was opened.