The Code

Many of you have heard of The Bible Code, I’m sure. This is a “code” uncovered by some very brainy scholars using some very sophisticated mathematical tools and computers. To oversimplify the concept more than a little (because I am not all that brainy or sophisticated) if you apply these mathematical models to the Hebrew text of the Old Testament you can come up with information on historical Bible characters, trees, the chemical elements, Albert Einstein, Jesus, Messianic prophecies, Hitler, Christ’s crucifixion, John Glenn’s trip into space, hurricanes Georges and Mitch, and even the McGwire-Sosa baseball home-run race… and the list goes on, ad infinitum. Reportedly the code is being used as a predictive tool in finding the Ark of the Covenant, oil in Israel, gathering military intelligence, and researchers are finding themselves and their families in the code.

Now stay with me here because it’s Friday afternoon and I’m killing time, so the bends of my brain may be a little twisted, but what if there is a complex code that could be applied to ANY sort of writing? What messages and information could we find in the textbooks our kids read or any of today’s highly popular self-help books, or science fiction novels, or romance novels or even the OD???

How about song lyrics? Puts a new twist on simply playing the record backwards, doesn’t it?

And the labels on food! Maybe we’d discover what’s REALLY in all those preservatives and cans if we just applied the Food Label Code.

And let’s just apply the Judicial Code to the laws on the books right now – would we come up with stories of Clinton’s indiscretions predicted 200+ years ago by our forefathers buried deep within the Constitution?

And if we could actually read the assembly instructions written in Chinese that come with the bicycles, furniture, etc that we buy, what messages would there be? Would it actually make it SIMPLE to figure out which is Tab A and Slot B?

Menus! A Menu Code! Maybe buried deep within the menus of our favorite restaurants we would find out exactly what the chefs, cooks, preparers and servers are really doing when they’re out of our sight!

Ever ponder a Buzz Word Code? All those voluminous memos, employee handbooks and policies full of vague, but popular, terminology! I imagine that this is really where the Dilbert Principle comes from…Scott Adams discovered the Buzz Word Code and has been applying it to generate Dilbert Comics, Calendars and books.

Back to the self-help books for a minute. How many times would we find the phrases “gullible”, “money-maker”, “sheep” and “laughing all the way to the bank” in some of those books?

How about a Fine Print On Legal Contracts Code? No, on second thought, the messages resulting from using that code would be much too frightening for the average person. It would give horror movies a GOOD name.

Now, how about the OD code? Would we find messages about Torin’s creator and who The Watcher is REALLY watching? I bet Blue Eyes’ diary would be full of references to haggis! Winifred’s would be chock full of messages about the superiority of frogs. Tuppence’s diary would defy even the most sophisticated code, I’m sure! As for my diary…….the possibilities are pretty frightening there! I mean really – straight up you can already see that my plants, animals and bras speak to me, what could be uncovered with a mathematical code???

I have now sufficiently killed enough time and my head is beginning to swim. (Beginning? You say! SW – you quit swimming and drowned long ago!!) Enough of the warps of my mind….I’m going to go find a movie to treat myself to tonight.

Oh My God!!!!! A MOVIE CODE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…………………….