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I was at a coffee shop (OK, Starbucks) when the guy next to me starts telling me about all this amazing stuff he has discovered. That stuff being some sort of weird alphabet numerology thing with religious words where you give each letter a number for its position in the alphabet and then add those numbers up and maybe re-add the digits in the resulting number. For example, "god" is 7 + 15 + 4 = 26 and 2 + 6 = 8 and 8 represents resurrection and regeneration because you know it's like an infinity sign... I let him go on for at least 20 minutes because I was curious how convoluted things would be. Let's just say very convoluted. Then I suggested that he look at another language. Because if this was some really insightful thing about the divine then shouldn't every human language work the same way, with special messages hidden in the numerology of the language by God? (or God's publicist or whatever) So I guess it's not just Christianity that's special, it's Christianity in Modern English spelling where the spelling system was regularized about 1500 years after the birth of Jesus. Needless to say that is another curious aspect of the theory. But he didn't really seem interested in listening to me. Which is not a great way to make a convert, IMHO. Thank you for listening to me.

PhitDoctor50 7 May 12
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There is a name for that numerology stuff..... Its call BS, where B is 2 and S is 19, which added together is blackjack !!!!... See, BS

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I like to suggest that that sort of brilliant mind should be taking up calculus and differential equations.

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I like the faint shame over being at a Starbucks as opposed to a real coffee shop. I feel it too.

vita Level 7 May 12, 2018
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There is a book that addresses this stuff, "Foucoult's Pendelum", takes about a thousand pages to get to the point, but it gets there.

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Ah, I came across a gentleman on Wordpress once whose site was full of that kind of thing, it was fascinating, but kind of scary too as he was using it to put forward some of my least favourite parts of religion...like homophobic stuff.
I think that the coolest thing about ancient lanuage I know is that the original languages were sacred, like hebrew, and this is because of the way they were chosen e.g. apparently if you say a hebrew letter and the sound is vibrated onto a plate of sand the sand creates the shape of the letter...now that's pretty special 🙂

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You have more tolerance than I do. I would not have listened to the guy for even 5 minutes.

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Yes, learning with the use of laughter can be very fun 🙂

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I am boycotting Starbucks and Waffle houses at the moment.

cava Level 7 May 12, 2018
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I had a creationist tell me that he couldn't believe birds evolved from dinosaurs because it was crazy that scales would become feathers or that birds could have scales (argument from incredulity). I asked him if he'd ever seen chickens feet.

JimG Level 8 May 12, 2018
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I was curious how convoluted things would be😀 I don’t think anything about religion ‘adds up’ … but it sure leaves a lot of people groping for answers..

Varn Level 8 May 12, 2018
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Lol you asked just the right question 😉

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Ain't it a magical thing?......What?......You're right! It ain't!

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Lmao good job

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