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Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
Oh,Esoteric, I'm not implying that you are disagreeing. I'm just trying to keep your thread active because it's one of the better one that I have seen for quite some time. I am just trying to contribute to the discussion.
Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
I am taking somewhat of a leap a faith here. I do not speak, read or write fluently in Aramaic, Greek, Russian, or French. However, I am certain that our minds work relatively in the same fashion. What i mean by this is we are all required to "learn" the same way. Whether we are Greek, Russian, or French, we all "learn" through the process often called: "The Law of Association", which is a paramount variable in my personal interpretation of what a bible code would incorporate. "The Law of Association" is a general term that refers to the process in which the conscious mind incorporates information from the environment. To give an example of how people are usually required to learn this way would be most effectively shown in our school systems. We do not begin our childrens math curriculum in kindergarden or pre-school by beginning them with multiplication, division, algebra, or trigonometry. First they learn the numbers, how to count, then they progress. Why? Because in the conscious realm of understanding we can only accept a new bit of information as true if it can succesfully be integrated and comply with information we already accept as true, consciously. This reasoning alone, and/or paired with personal faith, leads me to blindly (almost blindly) believe that all languages, and all religions, do adhere in some form or another to the idea presented in this thread. Again, i do not speak, read, and write all languages, however i see certain consistancies from the words/phrases of other languages and faiths that have not yet permitted me to disregard this idea about all languages being influenced by the phenomenon of which i am speaking about.
Language and Culture
An idea that I would like to introduce you to is called cultural relativism. It states that there are close ties between the structure of a language and the culture that uses the language. This idea was first spread by two linguists in the 1920’s, Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf, and thus dubbed the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. The hypothesis says that "the structure of language constrains the thought patterns of participants in the culture associated with that language." The hypothesis was not exceptionally popular, linguistic scholars had a hard time agreeing on the meaning of the hypothesis, and therefore had a hard time testing it.
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
However, actually our language does cause a difference in the way that our minds work. A person who speaks swahili has different concepts than a person who speaks english does.
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
Esoteric, it would be interesting to find out whether language and the ability to understand language is encoded into our dna. It seems to me that I read somewhere that it was, but I cannot be absolutely certain of it.
Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
I think there are MANY FORMS of communication taking place within the body simultaneously. Consciously we can only listen to a few at a time, however the subconscious listens to many other internal forms of communication ..... i believe.
Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
Originally posted by wellwhatnow
Is the concept of the code of which you speak, ET, just a bit ethnocentric? I mean to say, does it only work if you look at the Christian Bible printed in English?
I certainly do not believe so. I believe the encoding encorporates all faiths, and all languages. Although, my support for such claims does rely upon English because it is the language I am most fluent in ("first" language), and I was raised in a culture that is socially inclined towards the bible.
Does the same code apply to the Bible printed in Aramaic? Greek? Russian? French?
Originally posted by Byrd
Yes. However, this is an example of "get a collection with enough material in it and you can create any code there you like in any language."
You can find the same codes in the Encyclopedia Brittanica AND in the 'thousand monkeys typing on a thousand typewriters' AND in a million copies of the alphabet. Given a sufficiently large text (even randomly generated characters in Chinese) you could find anything you like.
Here's the kicker (and the reason that most Christians reject the Bible Codes) -- if they were true and correct you could NEVER find a single lie in them. Because of this, conservative Christian ministers reject them:
www.leaderu.com...
No one has ever produced a single accurate prediction BEFORE an event, though after the fact they "find" predictions (if it was true, you could run a scan for a year and a month and find things that later came true.)
Christianity Today gives it a negative recommendation and suggest it's a waste of time:
www.christianitytoday.com...
A nice and actually even-handed review of BOTH sides of the argument:
www.rsingermanson.com...
Statisticians gave it a review:
cs.anu.edu.au...
A nicely balanced (pro and con) discussion:
www.religioustolerance.org...
I found one here you can try for free:
www.mastersport.co.uk...
Originally posted by actuallynothing
esotericteacher (i just realized, ET, are you conscious of some ET connection?)
thank you so much for the wonderful thread. after about a year of daily reading of ATS content, your post finally inspired me to join and post something.
i think i know where you are coming from and going with all of this. i wonder if you see the world like i do, and wonder many things. are we pure consciousness/subconscious/higher beings/subconscious and everything is just a reflection? like the tao? inner and outer? would you also agree with the "opposites" of self and other? do you see the us as dreamers in god's dream? like a manifestation/extension/part/inside God? i kind of hope so, because that would give my mind reassurance that it is "right" in my beliefs.
i am really excited about the things we are discussing now, and am starting to realize the enormous potential that sites like ATS have for creating the massive changes in consciousness/understanding to come. you have certainly reached me.
i tried doing the word thing with the word "rape". i can't remember if you did that before, but i came up with rape-raip-pair, and in my handwriting, the r really looked like an n, so it was like, rape-pair-pain. and i was like, wow, of course its true. just manifestations of Gods dream, so of course everything has meaning and code and is magical, if only we would stop and look, yes?
again, thank you so much for posting this. you have inspired me to work on my super-duper thread about the "secrets".
ps may i ask, around how young/old are you?
and, you show a great mental/thought based understanding of these "concepts".
i myself spend a great deal of time 99.99% of my waking hours in thought and 666 (in your meaning). i am optimistic about the "future" also. may i ask, how much do you consider your freedom from 666 in actual daily practice/life?
may i ask, how much do you consider your freedom from 666 in actual daily practice/life?
1) "Judge not lest thee be judged."
-- And yet the bible states what is right, and what is wrong. The bible does judge what actions are acceptable, and what actions and behaviors are not acceptable. So, if the author(s) of the bible are not hippocrits, then the author(s) have granted the readers permission to judge the bible, but to judge the bible by it's own accord. Hence, apply the rules of the bible to the bible, or words themselves. Apply the rules to the words, because that is what the bible is, words.
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
This has always been rather mysterious to me. To live is to judge. There is no way to avoid judgment. We have likes and dislikes. We have our own ideas of right and wrong. These, by themselves, are judgments.
Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
What if the code itself is/was somehow constructed by our own future?
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
What if the code itself is/was somehow constructed by our own future?
I am only going to speculate as to what you mean here... Are you implying that our interpretation of the "bible code" is based upon the future we are approaching.. I am not sure what you are implying by the above statement.