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Old 07-30-2005, 10:46 AM   #1
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Default A Religion Founded on Anagrams

We are told that a character called Jesus Christ was the incarnation of God, that he came to Earth, travelled around trying to spread good vibes, but was tortured to death on a cross. However as he was God, the creator of the universe he, of course, didn't really die. He just went back to where he came from, leaving the task of sorting the planet to his human second-in-command, Simon Peter (St Peter, the founder of the Catholic Church).

Hundreds of millions of people dote on this character, Jesus Christ.

In the Bible his Greek name was IHSOUS XRISTOS (H = "e", X = "ch") ...

... which anagrams to:

OSIRIS SHT XOUS

XOUS means "grave"

Now we come to St Peter:

SIMWN PETROS in Greek

This anagrams to:

MORTWS PENIS which means "dead penis"

... and so on.

A bit creepy, eh?

... a religion founded on anagrams :devil3:
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I like anagrams as much as the next guy http://wordsmith.org/anagram/

A religion could be founded on messages gleaned from a bowl of prayed over alphabits. It's all really whimsical, don't you think?

Jesus Christ = Rich Jest Us
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I like anagrams as much as the next guy http://wordsmith.org/anagram/
Here's an anagram for you:

Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor (Prince Charles)

Christ, Pharaoh, World-Ruler - nuttee man got big penis
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A rather tenuous and ambiguous case to file isn't it?
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A rather tenuous and ambiguous case to file isn't it?
In the 70s a cult called EMIN was founded in London by an ex-policeman. He called himself LEO IV. The initiation of new members involved being exposed to hours of Sibelius music. If one repeats "sibellius" over and over again it comes out as "obey leo". LEO IV anagrams to "I LOVE".

Whether not the anagrams of Jesus and Peter's Greek names has any significance one can have a lot of fun telling Christians about MORTWS PENIS, especially Catholic priests (one of whom responded when I showed him it by bursting out laughing)
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Here's an anagram for you:

Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor (Prince Charles)

Christ, Pharaoh, World-Ruler - nuttee man got big penis
Those anagrams don't work. For them to work they have to be a
rearrangement of the original letters that form the anagram.
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Oh right. Thats one anagram. Well, nuttee doesn't seem like a real word. So yeah whatever, carry on then.
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Oh right. Thats one anagram. Well, nuttee doesn't seem like a real word. So yeah whatever, carry on then.
Virginia Bottomley, the onetime Conservative Minister Of Health in the UK, was reported to have experienced "alarming mood swings" after the media disclosed that her name anagrammed to I'M AN EVIL TORY BIGOT.

Saddam Hussein is an interesting one: MESSIAH SUN DAD ('Dad' was an ancient Mesopotamian God)

And Osama, as per his name on the 'Most Wanted' poster:

http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/fugitives/laden.htm

Usama Bin Muhammad Bin Ladin

... is:

I'm a bad subhuman animal mind

Note that these last two are non-English names anagramming into English ... ???
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Note that these last two are non-English names anagramming into English ... ???
Well, as long as you don't take it seriously it doesn't really matter. Plus the anagramming that is chosen is subjective.


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Saddam Hussein is an interesting one: MESSIAH SUN DAD ('Dad' was an ancient Mesopotamian God)
Saddam Hussein also anagrams to;

MEDUSAS DANISH
SUNSHADE MAIDS
ASSUMED DANISH

And other probably lengthy many other; overlooked combinations. So you feel
there is something to anagramming to reveal secret things then?
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Interesting, but not Biblical Criticism or history. A good candidate for MD.
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