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In <5n99cc$dd...@sunshine.atl.com> pro...@solomons.temple.com (The
Prophet) writes: 
>
>In his newly published book, _The Bible Code_, author Michael Drosnin 
>reveals astounding predictions of, among other things, the Holocaust, 
>the assasination of Rabin, and a yet to be cataclysmic earthquake in 
>Los Angeles (well that's a no brainer -Ed).  The quake is predicted in

>the year 2010 but by then Drosnin will have already pocketed his
profit.
>
>An Israeli mathematician, Eliyahu Rips, challenges the validity of the

>predicting the future by codes embeded in text but supposedly agrees 
>that there is a poorly understood code buried in the Hebrew
Scriptures. 
>He also states the Bible has predicted future events.  In fact it was 
>Rips who found the code by running a computer analysis on the sequence

>of 304,805 letters after removing the spacing between words.
>
>Drosnin seems to equivocate in that he says absolute certainties are
not 
>coded but possibilities are as though they were meant to be warnings.
He 
>also states that codes cannot be found in other literature, such as
Moby 
>Dick, yet I have heard claims of these types of predictions being
found 
>in the Koran.
>
>The author goes on to say that discovery of these codes awaited the
advent 
>of the computer (duh -Ed) hence they were meant for our age which
implies 
>to me that he believes the hoofbeats of the approaching Apocalypse
draw 
>nigh.  Yet he also claims to be a non religious Jew who does not
believe 
>in God.  What gives?
>
>I suppose a complex predictive code could theoretically be buried in a

>long text - kind of like a fractal but using letters.  And I suppose
such 
>a code could be the signature of a higher entity.  But maybe humans
tend 
>to find codes where non exist.  And if one did exist, how would we
really 
>know that the discoverer was not a crackpot?
>
>This isn't the first Bible code I've heard of but it is the most
complex.
>Are these codes compatible, I wonder, or do they compete in a mutually

>exclusive way?  And how do they analyze text for such codes?  Can any 
>of this work be taken seriously?
>
>The Prophet

===>Of course. It is a serious manifestation of human ingenuity
    and ability to hack away series of Hebrew letters of the
    alphabet until something pops.

    It is easier with space-free Hebrew script, because it lacks
    any vowels, so it can be sliced many different ways and a
    WRDCNMNLTSFTHNGS (word can mean lots of things).

    Libertarius