Whoa, the hive mind is getting a little scary 'round these parts (what with the plethora of x-postings). I think Sean may have set his mind-reading device to blow instead of suck.

Remember those dudes who keep predicting that NYC will get nuked?

Yes. The 28th came and went and if there was a nuclear explostion at my office it was very very small and I MISSED it. Have they given us an update?

OK:

>We correctly predicted that the UN would lose its headship in 2006Tammuz (this being the 2nd head of the image of the Beast of Revelation 13) which gets a death stroke but then recovers. It lost its head on 2006July12 when Israel invaded Lebanon without a UN mandate. The UN lost credibility and lost control for a month. It lost headship over Israel for one month. But the image of the Beast does not lose two heads, it only loses one head. Each of the 7 heads of the image of the UN Beast stands for one month of military headship over the governments of the world, just as the 7 heads of the UN Beast itself each stand for one year of military headship over the governments of the world. So we knew it had to regain headship this month and it did by virtue of the multilaterally agreed UN Security Council ceasefire resolution of Friday 2006August11. Now the UN will declare Peace and Security and then sudden destruction will befall them according to 1 Thessalonians 5:3. So please leave NYC for the sabbath!!!

OK, on to their predictions of NYC nukeage:

On April 29th we started predicting dates for a terrorist Nuclear Bomb at the UN in midtown. After making several mistakes we realised that 1 Kings 18:43 declared we would get it right at the 8th attempt (Since Elijah asked his attendant to go and look for a man made mushroom cloud 7 times after the first no show, making 8 attempts in all). The trouble is that we have found it hard to decide just what a valid attempt is. Here are all the incorrect dates we have so far proposed...

So the reason they've been wrong so many times is that the Bible predicted they'd be wrong. Neat. Also:

So one could say you have had 9 attempts, you screwed up each time, give up and try doing something less dramatic! But although our repeated failures would at first sight take more and more credibility away from our work, the world security situation is for a fact moving in a direction that lends more and more credibility to our work. We started behaving as prophets of Doom for the UN and for Manhattan on April 29th 2006, when we proposed 2006Iyyar11 (June 8/9) as the date of the first nuclear terrorist attack. At that time the following global security situation existed...

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I can't even figure out how they proved pi was 3.14 blah blah blah, but I figure that one shouldn't have to work so hard to prove that something is NOT an insanely long decimal!

I figure that one shouldn't have to work so hard to prove that something is NOT an insanely long decimal!

But...you can't! I mean, all you need to do is draw a circle using a compass and measure the diameter. And then you take a piece of string and measure the circumference. And then you divide the circumference by the diameter. And if you know how to do long division, pi JUST HAPPENS.

I think Sean may have set his mind-reading device to blow instead of suck.

"Oh, here's the problem. It was set to evil."

So the reason they've been wrong so many times is that the Bible predicted they'd be wrong.

Will people who are wishing for the End of the World please go stand all together and just kill each other, leaving the rest of us alone to NOT blow up the place? PLEASE?

So the reason they've been wrong so many times is that the Bible predicted they'd be wrong.

So if I predicted the same thing, does that make me infallible?

And then you take a piece of string and measure the circumference. And then you divide the circumference by the diameter. And if you know how to do long division, pi JUST HAPPENS.

But once you measure the circumference, God sneakily increases the length of the string to make it look like Pi is really 3.1415...etc. Just to test your faith, you see.

But...you can't! I mean, all you need to do is draw a circle using a compass and measure the diameter. And then you take a piece of string and measure the circumference. And then you divide the circumference by the diameter.

Although when I tried to look up things about how to prove pi, I kept seeing things about pentagons and Lemma's and things like this: [link]

which just scare me.

ETA Please note that I do not think that pi is three. I just, frankly, not even remembering that pi is the circumferance divided by the diameter or vice versa without looking it up, have no more proff in my head that pi is 3.14 than that pi is three. Although I am sure it could be proved to my satisfaction. But I have faith in pi being 3.14

There was an interesting link in the comments of that pi post: [link]

There are a lot of Hebrew words written in it, so I don't think copy and paste will work here, so I'm copying what I can of the English text:

The common word for circumference is (qav) Here, however, the spelling of the word for circumference, (qaveh) adds a heh (h) as a conjunction for the masculine singular noun.)

In the Hebrew Bible, the scribes did not alter any text which they felt had been copied incorrectly. Rather, they noted in the margin what they thought the written text should be. The written variation is called a kethiv, and the marginal annotation is called the qere

To the ancient scribes, this was also regarded as a remez, a hint of something deeper. This appears to be the clue to treat the word as a mathematical formula.

The Hebrew alphabet is alphanumeric: each Hebrew letter also has a numerical value and can be used as a number.

The [can't copy] has a value of 100; the has a value of 6; thus, the normal spelling would yield a numerical value of 106. The addition of the [can't copy] with a value of 5, increases the numerical value to 111. This indicates an adjustment of the ratio 111/ 106, or 31.41509433962 cubits. Assuming that a cubit was 1.5 ft. (3) this 15-foot-wide bowl would have had a circumference of 47.12388980385 feet.

This Hebrew "code" results in 47.12264150943 feet, or an error of less than 15 thousandths of an inch! (This error is 15 times better than the 22/7 estimate that we were accustomed to using in school!) How did they accomplish this? This accuracy would seem to vastly exceed the precision of their instrumentation. How would they know this? How was it encoded into the text?

That's way too mathy and gematria-y for me, and of that author's other stuff is not my way of looking at things.

I've never had the need to read the I Kings text as any more than an approximation, but if the author of that webpage didn't pull the translation explanation bits from a hat, it's pretty interesting.