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Originally posted by Esoterica
...It's very easy to find a "coded" message when you know what you want it to say....
Originally posted by FlyersFan
I love reading bible codes. They are such fun.
However ... Sr. Lucia was OLD. She was VERY OLD.
She died of natural causes I'm sure. No one would
bother poisoning her. She was a very old nun in
a cloister - which ment she saw no one except those
few cloistered sisters around her and she influenced
no one.
Originally posted by Esoterica
Considering that this ''discovery", only occured after her death, and she was like 94 years old, we can safely call BS.
The discovery coming after the fact in no way discounts the amazing nature of the Bible Codes.
Originally posted by Nygdan
The discovery coming after the fact in no way discounts the amazing nature of the Bible Codes.
Yes it does, it completely discounts it. It means that the codes don't exist, and people only find things when they want to see it, IOW they invent the association in their own minds.
Originally posted by Geneticus
Originally posted by Nygdan
The discovery coming after the fact in no way discounts the amazing nature of the Bible Codes.
Yes it does, it completely discounts it. It means that the codes don't exist, and people only find things when they want to see it, IOW they invent the association in their own minds.
The odds of finding words clustered together in the Bible in a skip-step code forming any type of meaningful message are astronomical
...that is statistically significant in the extreme...
You cannot discount the Bible Codes without addressing the inherent statistical significance of meaningful skip-step clusters.
Originally posted by Nygdan
If the statistical probablity is whats important then why aren't other improbable 'codes' also signigicant?
Also, how do you discount contradictory codes? How do you distinguish between 'natural' codes that must exist in any large text, and 'divinely' inspired ones, when they both will have the same 'statical probablity'?
Originally posted by Geneticus
What other codes are you referring to?
The point of the codes
Discerning between jibberish and meaning, beyond intellectual argument, involves having a gift of the Holy Spirit
Originally posted by Nygdan
Originally posted by Geneticus
What other codes are you referring to?
The ones in Moby Dick. The codes will exist in any sufficiently large text.
Show me a Moby Dick skip-step cluster that describes 911, the Madrid Bombing, The Tsunami, or anything else significant...
Originally posted by Esoterica
Considering that this ''discovery", only occured after her death, and she was like 94 years old, we can safely call BS. It's very easy to find a "coded" message when you know what you want it to say.
Odd that she was assassinated in her old age, when she was making no new proclamations. Why, if I didn't know any better, I'd have said she died of natural causes, like most of 90-somethings