The Fool wrote:
> I. Prophecy for Math Geeks: The BIBLE CODE:
*Sensible* math geeks know this for the bovine exrement it is.
> Like the Mayans, Orthodox Jewish mathematicians have attempted to
> prophesize through science. Based on the premise that hidden messages are
> embedded within the Torah, as a sort of in a crossword puzzle of world
> events, their decoding method was brought to the public attention in
> 1997, when Michael Drosnin's The Bible Code became a New York Times
> bestseller. Using a letter-based numerological system created by Jewish
> mystics and facilitated by computer technology, Drosnin concluded that
> the Holocaust, Hiroshima and Kennedy killings were among major events
> foretold in the first five books of the Bible. He also used the code to
> predict the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin (whom he personally warned)
> and searched the Mezuzah scroll for signs of the Apocalypse.
If you warn someone in an effort to prevent a prophecy, what happens
then? Do you falsify it? If you really believe in the prophetic value of
something like that, do you want to prevent the predictions?
> Last year, Drosnin released The Bible Code II, which, despite massive
> debunking of his first book (even among scientists who endorse the Bible
> code) also hit the New York Time's bestseller list. Here's a sampling
> what Drosnin found hidden in the Bible:
I'd be upset at someone having brought the sequel to my attention, but I
saw it in the grocery store last week. :(
> * "Afarafat," Sharon" and "Bush" align with "the end of days."
> * "War of Bush," coincides with "the nations under heaven" and "the evil
> that will befall you in the end of days."
> * "Economic crisis" is encoded with "from 5762" (2002).
> * "New York" and "fire from a missile" appear with 5761 (2001) and 5764"
> (2004).
> * "Terrorism," aligns with "plague," "New York," "Jerusalem and
> "smallpox."
> * "World war" and "atomic holocaust" are linked with 2006.
>
> Downside: One mathematician used Drosnin's technique to decode Moby Dick,
> and found hidden messages regarding the assassination of Gandhi, Leon
> Trostsky and Martin Luther King, while another used Drosnin's method to
> discover the phrase, "the code is bogus" embedded in Genesis.
You can find a pattern anywhere if you look long enough. Finding patterns
in text is fairly easy.
Julia
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