rfwu

Anyone seen the most recent program on the Bible Code? Seemed pretty biased to me, but they did say that the end of the world would be late 2012, and that's almost exactly what the Mayan calender said would be the end of the world. Thoughts?

Rational BAC

Or I guess it's really the Torah code.

In the middle of watching a program on the History Channel about this. Rather fascinating.

I am pretty sure this must have been discussed before somewhere in these forums. Tried a search and came up with nothing.

What do you all know about this?

Back later. Show starting again after a commercial.

rfwu

Already watched it and posted a thread on it before you did, but out of respect, I will post in yours. Hopefully, you will reply on mine as well.

I kind of thought that it was a little biased, though it did provide many counterarguements. It was biased in that it used many musical cues and adjectives in a way that supported only one view instead of being neutral.

I thought it was funny how Moby Dick managed to predict things too, and some people believed that it was written by God as well!

One thing I noticed is how they predicted that the end of the world would be late 2012, which is extremely close to the Mayan Calender prediction of the end of the world! Pretty interesting in that two completely different religions would predict the same date for the end times, though it turns out that the final X-Files episode predicted that as well! (maybe they were just copying it off the Mayan thing.) Scary stuff!

Postcard73

They been merged, so now you can post in both at the same time.

Rational BAC

Thanks --

Sorry I missed rfwu's thread. Should have looked for that before posting mine.
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The idea I got from the program was that even though it was possible to get "codes" out of Moby Dick (and I suppose War and Peace or any other large piece of literature)-------

The sheer number of "codes" available in the Torah was statistically highly improbable. Odds against such a thing happening without "help" supposedly astronomical.

I know little about statistics. Any statistician on this forum want to refute?

rfwu

Thanks, much easier!

Then again, we aren't seeing any "professional" statisticians supporting that, only the theologists! The show said it itself, though not in any significant way.

Schopenhauer

I'll name the culprit: media sensationalism. They do many specials on paranormal claims, from ghosts, to UFOs, to psychic phenomena, and almost always seem to favor the most far-out explanation.

Postcard73

No problem with the merge. There are a number of articles in the Library on the Bible Codes...

Ronin

"Tonight I'm gonna party like it's...2 - 0 - 1 - dee- 1."

Damn, I suppose I shouldn't quit my real job anytime soon.

Jack the Bodiless

I caught part of a documentary on the "Bible codes" (maybe the same one, I don't know) in which an advocate of the codes claimed that two out of three prophecies he had made and sealed into an envelope a few years ago had since come true (the third "hasn't happened yet": a nuclear war or something similar in 2006). But both of them had actually failed!

One was of a global economic collapse: "Well, we all know that came true" (no, it didn't: a recession in the United States is far from being a "global economic collapse").

The second was that terrorists would get their hands on a nuke: "after 9/11, nobody doubts it" (no nukes were used on that date, and if terrorists HAD gotten a nuke, they'd have used it by now).