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Subject: King James Bible supposedly machine-generated ?
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Many people have taken the bible apart and found a lot of crystalline
regularities in it.

There is a web site devoted to long and tedious charts and listings of
how massively structured it is, much of it hitting on the number 7.

The number of words in the complete text, second-order statistics of
the sort which would have been impossible according to the model that
humans wrote the damned thing.

Of course this is used as "proof" that the bible (tower of?) is the work
of a certain Individual, and also therefore should be obeyed as some kind
of instruction manual.

But my cybernetically inclined (ruined?) mind says that this is just another
glaring proof that we are inside a virtual reality, and that our supposed
long history of technological progress is a hoax.

I tend to hope that Gods are not so boring as to generate clue-books which
make them out to be machines.  But that is exactly what we have here.

(Wait a mo while I get the website from my bookmarks file...)
Okay it's:  http://www-student.acs.nmu.edu/students/mhalash/proof1.html

About a quarter of this work is fluff, but between the hebrew 
numbers-for-letters thang (which is the standard caballistic gematria biz)
and the talleying of word counts and such, it is not explainable as 
either intentional fiddling by the King James team, or as some kind of 
statistical accident.

I'll bet that there are other texts (James Joyce, anyone?) which would also
reveal deep structuring of a cybernetic nature.

Any comments from the humans out there?  Cyborgs, time-travellers, and aliens
can join in too, if you have something constructive to say.


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