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If you've never read The Bible Code, it's essentially a book about the hidden codes contained in the Bible.
Essentially, a guy took the Hebrew version of the Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy) and removed all the spaces then used a computer to do Equidistant Letter Sequencing across the entire Bible.
Equidistant Letter Sequencing works by reading every Xth character and trying to form words out of it.
For instance,
OHAOMTKDQOVG
Looks like chicken-scratch, right? But if you took every 2nd letter out of that sequence, you'd come up with
OHAOMTKDQOVG
or
'HOTDOG'
And suddenly, you might be able to match that with other similar words you find.
So they did this to the Bible, using a computer to search for names, places, events, times, etc. and they found a ton of cross-matching things, like JFK's assassination, the sinking of the Titanic, etc.
What do you think?
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« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2008, 11:54:45 AM » |
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What translation?
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Duty and death.
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« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2008, 12:13:52 PM » |
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What translation?
Translation? |
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« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2008, 12:22:03 PM » |
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What translation?
Translation? Oh never mind, I missed that part of it. While interesting, I'm not exactly sure what it's supposed to prove. |
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Okay, woke to a grocery list...
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Duty and death.
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« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2008, 12:36:35 PM » |
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What translation?
Translation? Oh never mind, I missed that part of it. While interesting, I'm not exactly sure what it's supposed to prove. They think it's a codex directly from God. |
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« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2008, 04:11:29 PM » |
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hah
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i've heard about this, too; however, there are infinite possibilities for such things; if they changed the variable, it might say something completely different.
it's incredibly easy to find patterns that way - and patterns are what that software is designed to look for, so i don't think it's terribly convincing. coincidental, perhaps, but i'd like to see that same thing done with other religious texts by unbiased researchers and view the findings.
if it's completely, 100% unique to the bible, there would be a far better case.
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« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2008, 09:29:12 PM » |
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hah
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i've heard about this, too; however, there are infinite possibilities for such things; if they changed the variable, it might say something completely different.
it's incredibly easy to find patterns that way - and patterns are what that software is designed to look for, so i don't think it's terribly convincing. coincidental, perhaps, but i'd like to see that same thing done with other religious texts by unbiased researchers and view the findings.
if it's completely, 100% unique to the bible, there would be a far better case.
It's not 100% unique but it's pretty uncanny. |
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« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2008, 07:04:35 PM » |
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hah
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i've heard about this, too; however, there are infinite possibilities for such things; if they changed the variable, it might say something completely different.
it's incredibly easy to find patterns that way - and patterns are what that software is designed to look for, so i don't think it's terribly convincing. coincidental, perhaps, but i'd like to see that same thing done with other religious texts by unbiased researchers and view the findings.
if it's completely, 100% unique to the bible, there would be a far better case.
It's not 100% unique but it's pretty uncanny. Weirdness. |
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Okay, woke to a grocery list...
Goes like this:
Duty and death.
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« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2008, 10:24:41 AM » |
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hah
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i've heard about this, too; however, there are infinite possibilities for such things; if they changed the variable, it might say something completely different.
it's incredibly easy to find patterns that way - and patterns are what that software is designed to look for, so i don't think it's terribly convincing. coincidental, perhaps, but i'd like to see that same thing done with other religious texts by unbiased researchers and view the findings.
if it's completely, 100% unique to the bible, there would be a far better case.
It's not 100% unique but it's pretty uncanny. Weirdness. Can you elaborate on 'weirdness' ? :] Do you think it's possible God put codes into the book? |
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« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2008, 01:18:47 PM » |
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hah
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i've heard about this, too; however, there are infinite possibilities for such things; if they changed the variable, it might say something completely different.
it's incredibly easy to find patterns that way - and patterns are what that software is designed to look for, so i don't think it's terribly convincing. coincidental, perhaps, but i'd like to see that same thing done with other religious texts by unbiased researchers and view the findings.
if it's completely, 100% unique to the bible, there would be a far better case.
It's not 100% unique but it's pretty uncanny. Weirdness. Can you elaborate on 'weirdness' ? :] Do you think it's possible God put codes into the book? No, I don't. I don't see what the point would be. |
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Okay, woke to a grocery list...
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Duty and death.
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« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2008, 03:44:18 PM » |
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Do you think it's possible God put codes into the book? it's possible, but i need far more evidence. it's easy for a computer to find patterns, and the bible is so full of text that it seems simple enough. if it were unique to the bible, i'd feel more confident about it, but it seems too easy to me. |
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« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2008, 10:38:28 PM » |
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hah
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i've heard about this, too; however, there are infinite possibilities for such things; if they changed the variable, it might say something completely different.
it's incredibly easy to find patterns that way - and patterns are what that software is designed to look for, so i don't think it's terribly convincing. coincidental, perhaps, but i'd like to see that same thing done with other religious texts by unbiased researchers and view the findings.
if it's completely, 100% unique to the bible, there would be a far better case.
It's not 100% unique but it's pretty uncanny. Weirdness. Can you elaborate on 'weirdness' ? :] Do you think it's possible God put codes into the book? No, I don't. I don't see what the point would be. Well, if God did do something like this -- make a cryptex -- and it did hold all major events inside, it means we could not only predict the future but also discover the reality of the past. It also means that all those prophecies the Christians have been on about for a couple thousand years now wouldn't be bull. The point would be verifying the truth inside the Bible. |
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