Our crackpot friend is using skip-codes plus gematria on the King James translation of the bible. "boy" in hebrew is YeLeD the word girl is YaLDa.)Īnyway. Modifying the (unwritten) vowels, or by adding suffixes to words. Most three-consonant combinations are a word-root and most conjugations are done by either Vowels aren't written, so you only have consonants almost all words have three-consonant roots (Hebrew works better than english for gematria because Itĭoesn't work nearly as well, but given enough input data, almost any process can create someĪmount of seemingly interesting output. Hebrew, they just create numerical mappings for english letters, and then do it in english. In more modern times, tons of crackpots have latched on to gematria. Primarily in Eastern Europe, became fascinated with studying the Torah by looking for ways of finding information based on converting back and forth between letters and numbers. Interpreted as a number, and many numbers can be interpreted as words. The same characters for writing letters and numbers - which means that every word can be Gematria is an old Jewish thing, which originally came from the fact that in Hebrew, you use The "codes" discovered by this are basically words that can be formed from The resulting letters are strung together, and you select
His code is basically a combination of skip codes and gematria.įor those unfamiliar, skip codes are a method where you select a text, select a starting But it's veryĪmusing, both because of the way it makes the same old mistakes, and by the sheer hubris of the It's not really particularly different from any of the other rubbish out there. Me look at all of the people who do that, and see patterns of similarity in how they Of bizarre and obscure structures that produce patterns in their holy texts and then people like Theīible codes are, to me, a really fascinating meta-example of this: people search for all sorts Recognizing patterns, and using those patterns to create models of how things work. Just the nature of intelligence: we try to understand the world, and understanding comes from We human beings - and in my opinion,Īny intelligent beings capable of natural thought - are inevitably natural pattern-seekers. The whole bible code phenomenon frankly fascinates me. One true bible code that everyone else who's found bible codes is really just beingĭuped by Satan, and that anyone who doesn't accept the truth of his one true The gist of it is that he has discovered the But this week, a new comment on that post showed up. My last post about the Lord's Witnesses and their goofy prophesies was back in 2006.
They've proposed somewhere around 20 different dates. They've been predicting that Manhattan will be hit by an atomic bomb. Jehovah's Witness spinoff group that claims to have discovered a "bible code" by which propheciesĪre embedded in the bible. For background, several times in the past, I've written about the Lords Witnesses, a But while I was bumming around, a comment showed up on one of my old I'm trying to first get caught up on my book schedule, so I haven't had time for any He was really a member of the family, and losing him really knocked me for a loop. To people who don't love dogs, it probably seems silly to be so upset over an animal, but I'm trying to get back into my routine, after being really devastated by losing myĭog.