QUOTE(Bright_grey @ Mar 27 2006, 12:48 PM) [snapback]1122888[/snapback]
Pilgrim, thanks for your response but did you check the news on January 8th? I ask because this was the day Iran announced it was removing the seals at a number of its nuclear research and development facilities.
...So I have to disagree with you regarding the events not happening, they clearly did. OK, they didn’t actually remove the seals that day as I stated, instead they issued the announcement they would be removing the seals (they actually removed them the following day).
My appoligies, I clearly was wrong (blame my laziness in checking Wikipedia instead of Reuters). The seals were, in fact, not removed on the 8th, but the anouncement of intent was made. However, to be perfectly frank, I would still count that as a "miss." The seals weren't removed on that day, so in a
very technical sense, it wasn't true. I would dismiss that argument as nit-picking, however.
More importantly - and the real reason I count this as a miss - this was not what I would consider a major event. Iran had already removed the seals on its centrifuges. It was still complying with IAEA inspections. The fact that it was opening more sites to active research was nothing new. It was the statements about Israel, not the removal of the seals at this time, which made the situation worse.
If there really was something to the bible code, why didn't it predict the arguably far more important developments on February 4, when Iran ceased all voluntary compliance with the IAEA? Or the infamous speech in which Ahmadinejad implied the holocaust was a myth?This feels too much to me like retrofitting - finding something which fits the prediction after the events have happened. If the bible code can only be deciphered in retrospect then it is useless regardless of whether or not it is real.
I also stand by my earlier statement that the prediction is so vauge that it could be shoehorned to fit any number of situations. It doesn't mention Iran, nuclear power, seals, or anything of the sort. Furthermore, the "terror" part seems a bit off-base. Is the code implying Iran intends to sell nuclear weapons to terrorists? If so, I strongly doubt they will ever get the chance. Or is it saying that the world is afraid of a nuclear-armed Iran? Or just that nuclear power is frightening? Too many questions, no clear answers. Just a line of garbled English whose only connections to world events are the words "removed" and "UN."
QUOTE(Foxe @ Mar 27 2006, 11:44 AM) [snapback]1122814[/snapback]
Even so, Iran’s seals have been intact since 2004 so hitting upon the precise date they make the announcement they're going to remove them after two years is remarkable in my opinion.
As I mentioned, they actually removed the seals on their centrifuge sites in July of 2004. In fact, it states in one of the news articles you linked that:
"It would be
the second time in five months that Iran, which insists its nuclear programme is peaceful, removed some seals put in place by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)."
Emphasis mine. Clearly, as I argued above, they had removed seals before and would do so again. The "hit" seems to be of a minor event with little significance.
QUOTE(Foxe @ Mar 27 2006, 11:44 AM) [snapback]1122814[/snapback]
Anyway, for me this year will prove the codes to be truly prophetic or complete hog-wash. Maybe we can compare notes later - after May 23rd. I’m perfectly willing to admit I was seeing too much into it if nothing happens that day!
ATB
By all means, I'll bring the popcorn.
-Pilgrim