Bible code?

[Orcone101]

First off, no, this thread isn't for religious wars or anything

I was watching the history channel about a week ago and they had this special on a bible code. They claim that the bible is encoded and has messages.
A bunch of researchers had designed a computer program to look at matrixes of text from the bible and they have found events in history tightly grouped.

They claim that the major events of history are foretold by the bible code. For example, the jewish prime minister assasination, a lot of wars, elections, president kennedy assasination, bush/gore election, columbia space shuttle and even 9/11.

A lot were skeptical though and did the same testing on the novel Moby Dick, (it being the same length) and they found that the novel contained a message about princess dianas death

Ofcourse, these messages from the bible code could just be coincidental arrangements of words, but they also said that the chance of these messages being so compact and in the same matrix as each other was statistically "an impossibility"

I just thought it was interesting, did anyone see this show?

 

[CyberSh33p]

didn't see it, but you can infer lots of things from just about anything. Hell, I could say the song Particle Man foretold the invasion of iraq.

You see, iraq was particle man, very small, insignificant, until triangle man, the evil USA invades and wins. Universe man is the UN, and they're usually kind to smaller man, such as iraq. Person man is your average iraqi who is miserable and living in horrible conditions, sometimes being hit on the head with 'frying pans', or bombs. USA, or triangle man, kills many iraqi citizens and beats them.

See? They Might Be Giants are psychic.
the end.

 

[The Dark Elf]

anyone with smarts could write a program that magically works out some code in code that wasn't even there. Do gooders and house wives with nothing better to do, do it all the time, seeing whatever they want to see in things that have absolutely no connection. Like Doom3 making people go out and kill

Also it doesn't help many people if all it deciphers are events that, surprise surprise, happened already. Real handy that.

 

[Korgoth]

didn't see it, but you can infer lots of things from just about anything. Hell, I could say the song Particle Man foretold the invasion of iraq.

You see, iraq was particle man, very small, insignificant, until triangle man, the evil USA invades and wins. Universe man is the UN, and they're usually kind to smaller man, such as iraq. Person man is your average iraqi who is miserable and living in horrible conditions, sometimes being hit on the head with 'frying pans', or bombs. USA, or triangle man, kills many iraqi citizens and beats them.

See? They Might Be Giants are psychic.
the end.

OMG THEY KNEW IT WAS COMING!!!!!

That bible code stuff was kind of wierd though... Just a little to much for me...

 

[CptStern]

didn't see it, but you can infer lots of things from just about anything. Hell, I could say the song Particle Man foretold the invasion of iraq.

You see, iraq was particle man, very small, insignificant, until triangle man, the evil USA invades and wins. Universe man is the UN, and they're usually kind to smaller man, such as iraq. Person man is your average iraqi who is miserable and living in horrible conditions, sometimes being hit on the head with 'frying pans', or bombs. USA, or triangle man, kills many iraqi citizens and beats them.

See? They Might Be Giants are psychic.
the end.

what about Triangle man? he hates particle man

 

[Maxi]

Yeah, or they coded the software to FIND those specific events, who knows?

 

[Orcone101]

Also it doesn't help many people if all it deciphers are events that, surprise surprise, happened already. Real handy that.

i know!
they said something about that, they said they "might" be able to see messages in the future if they knew what to look for, hey, lets ask ALICE eh?

 

[CyberSh33p]

what about Triangle man? he hates particle man

yeah, dude, first line of my intepretation USA hates iraq, they get in a fight, triangle wins

 

[Hot Soup]

Last time I heard about this they had either efused or not managed to replicate their reults in front of impartial observers. Frankly it's another case of nutjobs like nessie freak or da vinci code nubbinz/ You can write a program to infer just about anything from the bible .... it's too easy to debunk

 

[[Matt]]

you can apply the same programme to any book and it will come up with the same results...

 

[CptStern]

meh I dont know what's sillier .... a book with hidden messages or a book with fairy tales that may contain hidden messages

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Was that supposed to be something derogatry of the bible?

 

[CptStern]

no, ummmm i dont think so ...IMO it's just a book ...so there's no insult intended

 

[The Dark Elf]

next these scientists who get way too large a government grants, will be finding out you can make the face of Marylin Monroe by laying all the pages of the bible out in a way that makes it look like her face. Or that it contains a reciepe for muffins.

Then one of those butch lesbian types will appear on some late night current affairs show and lose her temper trying to explain the above to an audience of people who've just fallen out of the local.

 

[Dedalus]

next these scientists who get way too large a government grants, will be finding out you can make the face of Marylin Monroe by laying all the pages of the bible out in a way that makes it look like her face. Or that it contains a reciepe for muffins.

Then one of those butch lesbian types will appear on some late night current affairs show and lose her temper trying to explain the above to an audience of people who've just fallen out of the local.

strangley enough, all that just happened on Trisha. :dozey:

 

[Moto]

didn't see it, but you can infer lots of things from just about anything. Hell, I could say the song Particle Man foretold the invasion of iraq.

You see, iraq was particle man, very small, insignificant, until triangle man, the evil USA invades and wins. Universe man is the UN, and they're usually kind to smaller man, such as iraq. Person man is your average iraqi who is miserable and living in horrible conditions, sometimes being hit on the head with 'frying pans', or bombs. USA, or triangle man, kills many iraqi citizens and beats them.

See? They Might Be Giants are psychic.
the end.

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