ia was speeking witha friend of mine, lets call him axwellmay, about how the bible code works. if you don't know what this is, let me sum it up. the bible code uses the bible (dah) and an algorithm takes so many letters out and makes a saying. so far these sayings have predicted things in the twentyth century will good acuracy. well axewellmay and i were trying to figure out who wrote the bible so that this would happen. we ruled out the fact that it may be a coinsedence (pardon all of my spelling). axewellmay thinks it was aliens from the past that wrote it and gave it to earthlings of the time. well this doesn't cover two things, why and how did they know we would speak english(the placement of the letters work in english from translations done letter by letter from the original scrolls). well this is what i think happened. it's the future, on in witch we can travel accoss space and time with ease. the whole galaxy has united in a democratic form, led by mostly humans( this is of course because humans wrote the constitution of the galaxy using mostly american ideas of democracy). the parties are made up mostly of the different races. well one race is trying to get more seats on the senate so the go back in time with a book we know as the bible. they plant it in our past (and theirs too) and go back hopeing that do to the scary predictions, that some of the humans on the senate will never exist and will be replaced by humans that are easier to defeat in elections. doing so the make sure some of the predictions come true so the future turns out the way they want it to. now my idea seems to work better since there is a who, what, where, when, how and why. axewellmay's idea sounds like a bunch of alien pranksters. what do you think?

-- jacob beardsley (spoon00@netscape.net), December 10, 1998

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i beleive that neither of you are right. why would alien pranksters bother to give primitive humans a collection of stories with secret messages hidden in them? "bible writing" could have been an art form, sort of like how people like to come up with palindromes (things spelled the same backwards and forwards) today. perhaps the rich people got bored and started constructing these massive stories with messages hidden in them. someone liked them, and formed a collection of them called "the bible". time traveling aliens could not have placed the stories, because reverse time travel can be viewed as one of two things: a paradox, or a temporary duplication of alternate realities (but the realities must merge at the point of time travel, otherwise, the time travel would have never taken place, leading us to the first option).

-- nick mckinney (hackman@mhasd.k12.wi.us), December 10, 1998.

hack, stop answering before me. this is ask William, not "query darhack". :P

Ayway, no, you're wrong. Aliens did not write the bible, and aliens certainly don't speak english. well, not natively, anyway.

This can be shown rather easily. First of all, as we all know, fiction is a mirror of fact. Therefore, let us take two popular movies of late pertaining to aliens: Men In Black, and Starship Troopers.

In both of these, we learn that most aliens are either (a) Very very small, or (2) Insectoid. Insects aren't smart enough to hold pens or pencils with those funky arm/leg/thing appendages. Very small aliens are too small to hold writing utensils. Since clearly the original "scrolls" were written, they couldn't have been written by aliens.

Nor could the aliens have dictated to people. As we all know, people are deathly afraid of large insects (haven't you seen those movies from the 60's?), so insectoid alien dictation is out. And people don't listen to the small; ask any child. So therefore, no small alien dictation.

So... as for your political theories, you're absolutely wrong. We all know that the Red Canadians are trying to take over the world. It's a simple matter of... have you acclimated yourself to their moral system or no?

They aren't very tolerant of those who denounce them. I recommend that everyone have a substantial armory, for self defense against those Red Canadians. I wouldn't want them to storm across the border and capture MY village without a fight.

-- William (spqrspqr@hotmail.com), December 11, 1998.

I guess I was dar to neglect the paradox issue that darhack so kindly brought up.

No, there wouldn't be a paradox if aliens brought the bible back... that would be a schism event in the multiverse. They of course wouldn't be bringing the bible back to their timeline, just a timeline. And since, of course, the multiverse has many interwoven timelines, this is no problem.

For those not understanding multiverse theory, read up some Heinlein; particularly "The Cat who Walks Through Walls". Very good book about how it all really works.

-- William (spqrspqr@hotmail.com), December 11, 1998.