Weekly World Net Daily News

[Grantref]

I wasn't aware that World Net Daily had started selling copies at the checkout lanes at supermarkets, but judging from this headline they've apparently stareted taking a page (pun intentded) from WWN:

Mathematics bombshell: God 'confirmed in Bible'

[Kharum]

Oh, come now, there's no need to be such a cynic. Besides, everyone knows that these messages were planted in the Bible by the same gay shocker martians who kidnapped Elvis and covered up the role of Jon-Benet Ramsey's parents in her murder. I've been communicating with them through a filling in my tooth for some time now.

[Jidoe]

I still believe that if you look closely in any book that has 1000000000000 words, you'll find any pattern and "hidden messages" you want if you look for it

Generally, the Hebrew is evenly spaced into a grid of letters, they then find the letters significant enough to make words and then jumble them into actual phrases.

Granted, if what they're hearing is a direct referance to what's in the passage, it's kind of interesting, but I hear about people doing the very same thing with books like Moby Dick. Personally, I'd like to see them translate the bible into English and try this, then make the results public..

[Pae]

One thing I have noticed when it comes to stuff like this. Is that they are miraculously good at predicting things that have already happened - but when it comes to predicting things of the future they are suddenly insufficient and speculative.

[Jidoe]

Originally posted by Sareficono
Generally, the Hebrew is evenly spaced into a grid of letters, they then find the letters significant enough to make words and then jumble them into actual phrases.

Hebrew/Arabic/Aramaic and the other Semetic languages are very similar in that they use punctuation/vocalization instead of vowels. There ARE vowels (same as English, only 3 letters instead of 5), however, they can be used as constants and are usually used in places where there is no punctuation/vocalization. In books like The Bible, most of the vowels are used as constants since there is punctuation/vocalization.

Granted, if what they're hearing is a direct referance to what's in the passage, it's kind of interesting, but I hear about people doing the very same thing with books like Moby Dick. Personally, I'd like to see them translate the bible into English and try this, then make the results public..

As I've written above, since every vowel can be easily used as constant, it makes Hebrew a much easier language for these type of mystic beliefs. Basically, if you translate it to English, you lose the point they are trying to make because it just won't be the same.

Let's just say the pattern they found is that when you combine all the first letters of every second word in every prase verse in a chapter and you get "the world is ending" - if you translate it to English, you'll basically get something in gibberish. It can't possibly work. Maybe you can find different patterns in English.

[Jidoe]

Ya know, I've just watched a so called "bible code" that predicts the Tsunami in SE Asia. This is bullcrap.