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Post #1 : Assignment #1 of Paranormal and Pseudoscience

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Post #1 : Assignment #1 of Paranormal and Pseudoscience

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By Rahul Upadhyay, Working individual.

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Energy is measurable based on ability to work and this is transferable too in form of heat and light but Mystical Energy is something that we can not measure using equipment and "Chi", "Positive", "Negative" are the part of mystical energy. People believe that this type of energy helps in healing spiritually and even awake you or make you superhuman using mystical energy by opening your chakras.

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In India and many other places, People think that awakening your body chakras can lift you up spiritually and you can open your third eye which gives you super natural powers like seeing the future, flying in air, Hypnosis and many other. Below is the link to know different kind of supernatural power by chakras.

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Recommended reading : Chakras (explanation of the structure and location of chakaras)
Should be done under the guidance of an experienced guru only.
Muladhar Chakra or Root Chakra: The one who meditates on this chakra (the svaaymbhu linga in the muladhar chakra) attains darduri siddhi (power to jump like a frog and ultimately rise into the air). He becomes free from disease and old age. He can see the past, present and future. He becomes master of all esoteric sciences. He can attain mantra siddhi by mere repetition. He is freed from all sins and attains whatever the mind desires. By constant practice he sees results in 6 months and air element enters the sushumna (spinal column). He conquers his mind.

Swadishthan Chakra or Sacral Chakra: One who contemplates on this chakra, attains knowledge of all the sciences even though he may have never known about them before. He becomes disease free and can roam the universe fearlessly. He attains the powers of anima (ability to become small), laghima (ability to become huge).

Manipura Chakra or Solar Plexus Chakra: One who meditates on this chakra located in the navel region attains everything that he desires. He gets the power to convert base metals to gold, clairvoyance, the ability to find cures for diseases, and can see hidden treasure.

Anahat Chakra or heart chakra: If one contemplates on the flame called vanlinga that resides in the heart chakra (anahat chakra), he attains knowledge beyond measure. He attains clairvoyance and can see the past, present and future. He can walk in air (khechari siddhi) and travel anywhere (Bhuchari siddhi). Through his clairvoyance he can perceive the yogins.

Vishhuddhi Chakra or the throat chakra: One who contemplates on this chakra attains the knowledge of the secrets of the Vedas (sacred Hindu texts). He never experiences any weakness of body.

Ajna chakra or the third eye chakra: By contemplating on this chakra, one attains the highest success. One attains all the fruits as attained by contemplating on the above 5 chakras. One who meditates on this chakra while standing, walking, sleeping, or while awake, is free of sin.

Sahasrara or crown chakra: By contemplating on this chakra, one becomes god like. His mind becomes pure and he can see the future. All his sins get destroyed. All accidents are warded off.

Resource: Shiva Samhita as translated by Srisa Chandra Vasu

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A Summary of the effects of meditation on the chakras as described in the Shiva Samhita Recommended reading : Chakras (explanation of the structure and location of chakaras) Should be done under the guidance of an experienced guru only. Muladhar Chakra or Root Chakra: The one who meditates on this chakra (the svaaymbhu linga in the muladhar chakra) attains...

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Post #3: Red Flag: Confusion of Correlation with Causation

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Post #3: Red Flag: Confusion of Correlation with Causation

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People believe that if two events are happening at the same time, that means one is happening reason of other or one event causes the other event. And this happens because of lack of critical thinking in any human which creates the situation of confusion of correlation with causation.

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This is an image which implies the same red flag. Everyone who went to the moon has eaten chicken. That means if you will eat chicken, you will get a chance to go for walk on moon. Bad news for vegetarians.

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Proof by Verbosity means that an argument that is presented in complex manner or with wide information by the author that confuses the people and make them feel that it is true.

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Below is the video which explains about the Proof of Verbosity

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Everything, in the Nature are not safe. There is always a bad and good side of everything in this world. All natural does not mean it is safe and healthy.  For example, There are varieties of Mushrooms in the Nature but not all are eatable. some are so poisonous that may cause immediate death.

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Here is the list of 25 natural thing that can prove that All Natural is a red flag and it is not necessary that they are safe.

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We've all heard it, and we've all seen it on product labels: "All Natural!" These "all natural" products seem to be preferable over their more processed counterparts. Another favorite phrase heard is, "We don't want those chemicals; we like all natural!" (Everything is made up of chemicals, by the way. Literally everything). Aside from most people not really understanding what "All Natural" labeling means, we've somehow made it synonymous with healthy or good for us, as if nature would never provide anything that would harm us. As this list will clarify, that simply isn't the case. Just because something is "all natural" doesn't mean that it is in any way without risks or side effects. Nature has some pretty big teeth. To help us get some perspective on this, here are 25 All Natural Things That Can Be Harmful To You.

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Note. Lethal dose for coffee is estimated to be around 150 milligrams of caffeine per kilogram.

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25 All Natural Things That Can Be Harmful To You

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We've all heard it, and we've all seen it on product labels: "All Natural!" These "all natural" products seem to be preferable over their more processed counterparts. Another favorite phrase heard is, "We don't want those chemicals; we like all natural!" (Everything is made up of chemicals, by the way.

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Ancient Wisdom is a belief in which people think that ancient time was more advanced and modern than today, and Ancient people knew more than today’s scientist. Now-a-days many people still believe in this red flag, but they don’t have any supporting evidence to prove it. Examples of Ancient Wisdom are flat Earth theory (Some still believe), Bloodletting (Doesn’t make sense).

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The Antikythera Mechanism is also known as First Ancient Computer and developed by ancient Greek. It was found under the sea on  17 May 1902 and Many believe that it can track the motion of Sun, Moon and other stars with such an accuracy that is impossible for modern science which is clearly a red flag of Ancient Wisdom.

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Hidden inscriptions offer new clues to the origins of a mysterious astronomical mechanism

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A fter 2,000 years under thesea, three flat, misshapen pieces of bronze at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens are all shades of green, from emerald to forest. From a distance, they look like rocks with patches of mold. Get closer, though, and the sight is stunning. Crammed inside, obscured by corrosion, are traces of technology that appear utterly modern: gears with neat triangular teeth (just like the inside of a clock) and a ring divided into degrees (like the protractor you used in school). Nothing else like this has ever been discovered from antiquity. Nothing as sophisticated, or even close, appears again for more than a thousand years.

For decades after divers retrieved these scraps from the Antikythera wreck from 1900 to 1901, scholars were unable to make sense of them. X-ray imaging in the 1970s and 1990s revealed that the device must have replicated the motions of the heavens. Holding it in your hands, you could track the paths of the Sun, Moon and planets with impressive accuracy. One investigator dubbed it "an ancient Greek computer." But the X-ray images were difficult to interpret, so mainstream historians ignored the artifact even as it was championed by fringe writers such as Erich von Däniken, who claimed it came from an alien spaceship. It wasn't until 2006 that the Antikythera mechanism captured broader attention. That year, Mike Edmunds of Cardiff University in Wales and his team published CT scans of the fragments, revealing more details of the inner workings, as well as hidden inscriptions-and triggering a burst of scholarly research.

The Antikythera mechanism was similar in size to a mantel clock, and bits of wood found on the fragments suggest it was housed in a wooden case. Like a clock, the case would've had a large circular face with rotating hands. There was a knob or handle on the side, for winding the mechanism forward or backward. And as the knob turned, trains of interlocking gearwheels drove at least seven hands at various speeds. Instead of hours and minutes, the hands displayed celestial time: one hand for the Sun, one for the Moon and one for each of the five planets visible to the naked eye-Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. A rotating black and silver ball showed the phase of the Moon. Inscriptions explained which stars rose and set on any particular date. There were also two dial systems on the back of the case, each with a pin that followed its own spiral groove, like the needle on a record player. One of these dials was a calendar. The other showed the timing of lunar and solar eclipses.

Experts have been working to decipher inscriptions hidden inside the mechanism, in particular to understand the mechanism's missing pieces, some destroyed, some probably still at the bottom of the sea. Though the pointers on the front face don't survive, Alexander Jones, a historian at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in New York, says an inscription reveals that they carried colored balls: fiery red for Mars, gold for the Sun.

Also missing are the parts that drove the planetary pointers, leading to debate about exactly how they moved. Because planets orbit the Sun, when viewed from Earth they appear to wander back and forth in the sky. The Greeks explained this motion with "epicycles": small circles superimposed on a larger orbit. According to Michael Wright, a former curator at London's Science Museum who has studied the mechanism longer than anyone, it modeled epicycles with trains of small gears riding around larger ones. Though some experts have dismissed this as beyond the Greeks' abilities, Jones says he will publish evidence supporting the idea later this year.

Other inscriptions hint at where the mechanism was made. Paul Iversen, a classicist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, reports that the calendar includes month names used in Corinth and its colonies in northwest Greece. A dial that displayed the timing of major athletic festivals, including the Olympics, lists Naa, a festival held in northwest Greece, and Halieia, held to the south on the island of Rhodes. Perhaps the mechanism hailed from Rhodes and was being shipped north. The ancient philosopher Posidonius had a workshop in Rhodes that could have been the source; according to Cicero, Posidonius made a similar model of the heavens in the first century B.C.

The tradition of making such mechanisms could be much older. Cicero wrote of a bronze device made by Archimedes in the third century B.C. And James Evans, a historian of astronomy at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, thinks that the eclipse cycle represented is Babylonian in origin and begins in 205 B.C. Maybe it was Hipparchus, an astronomer in Rhodes around that time, who worked out the math behind the device. He is known for having blended the arithmetic-based predictions of Babylonians with geometric theories favored by the Greeks.

Regardless, the Antikythera mechanism proves that the ancient Greeks used complex arrangements of precisely cut wheels to represent the latest in scientific understanding. It's also a window into how the Greeks saw their universe. They came to believe that nature worked according to predefined rules, like a machine-an approach that forms the basis of our modern scientific views. Edmunds argues that this "mechanical philosophy" must have developed as a two-way process. The ancient mechanics who captured the cosmos in bronze weren't just modeling astronomical theories but were also inspiring them.

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Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism, the First Computer

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Smithsonian Magazine | A fter 2,000 years under thesea, three flat, misshapen pieces of bronze at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens are all shades of green, from emerald to forest. From a distance, they look like rocks with patches of mold. Get closer, though, and the sight is stunning.

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Post #7: Reason for Belief: Patternicity  

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Post #7: Reason for Belief: Patternicity  

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Human Brain works based on patterns and process information in pieces and it tries to find useful patterns and meanings in any image and sentence which sometimes causes confusion too.

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3-4 years ago, I used to watch a show on History TV named "Ancient Aliens". In this show there were lots of pattern which they relate with Aliens. Below is the link which shows some pattern which causes confusion such as Time Traveler and Ancient Astronauts

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It happened just the other day: I had been thinking about James Bond, and later when I pulled out a form of identification for the bank teller, I noticed that my ID number began with 007! Was I a secret agent? Perhaps one suffering from amnesia?

Or, let's say a man "has a system" for beating the Vegas roulette table. He has noticed that black has come up eight times in a row. So he bets everything on black, because "there's clearly a pattern to the wheel tonight." Meanwhile, a man across from him is thinking to himself, "I'd better put everything on red, since it looks like it's due to come up."

A child and her companion lie on their backs, looking up at the clouds. "That one looks like a giraffe!" she says. "And that one a camel!" "No, not a camel, look at it upside-down, it looks just like an octopus." One child says, "An angel!"; another says, "Actually, it looks quite like Charles Darwin!"

We have all played this game without realizing that we were doing pattern recognition. As Paul Simon wrote many years back, in the song "Patterns":

The night sets softly
With the hush of falling leaves,
Casting shivering shadows
On the houses through the trees,
And the light from a street lamp
Paints a pattern on my wall,
Like the pieces of a puzzle
Or a child's uneven scrawl.

Leaves, shadows, trees, indecipherable scrawling - these can all seem like messages because of our human tendency for patternicity. So can tortillas and numbers and corporate logos, as we shall see.

This is why astronomers speak of the Horsehead Nebula, which was not modeled after a terrestrial animal, but just sort of looks like a horse!

From ages past, people have imagined patterns in the stars and constructed "constellations" of animals, gods, heroes. And we can get a cross-check on patternicity by seeing how different cultures "read" the same stars - it's Orion in European legend, but the same stars are a hunter and his dogs chasing a deer in India. Mr. Rorschach invented his famous ink blots on the basis of human pattern recognition ("Ummm...is it, maybe, two ducks kissing?" "Okay, Mr. Anderson, we'd better make it three sessions per week!")

We are wired to quickly detect patterns in the data we see and hear. This is a huge help to get us through the day: when our alarm clock goes off, we don't have to puzzle over, "Now, what could that buzzer possibly mean?"

But for some people, that recognition faculty goes beyond what is useful and becomes a nuisance or even a hazard; what made John Nash ("A Brilliant Mind") a genius in math also made it hard for him to navigate through daily life.

I am no psychology expert; most of what I know comes from people-watching. It's that, ironically, I kept running into patternicity and it intrigued me. We will start with some general examples, and then move to the topic that really interests me - how Christian believers use patternicity to develop strange teachings.
PSEUDOSCIENCE in Everyday Life
Time Travel - Youtube is a veritable Library of Alexandria of Bizarre Theories and Goofy Notions. For example, did you know that time travel is - will be? - a possibility, because of the 1938 film of a woman using a cell phone?[i]

This is an easy call for patternicity, because our brains are telling us that that is what she is doing. But remember, (1) we think "cell phone" because whenever we see this gesture (but only since around the year 2000), that's what the person is doing. But (2) it would be very odd indeed if a "time traveler" from the distant future would use a cell that we in 2017 would be able to recognize. Presumably, a being who can travel to the past doesn't have a phone that looks like my Motorola.

Ancient Astronauts and Other Alternative History. I love the History Channel. Or, I loved the History Channel, when it was all about WWII videos and Civil War battle recreation. That was before it broke my heart: sadly, the money seems to be in following around the same tired ghost hunters and ancient astronaut theorists and Yeti chasers. Patternicity comes into play here, too. For example, did you know that there is a picture of an extraterrestrial carved in a Mayan sarcophagus?[ii]

Well, I wouldn't have thought so either, but this brings up another issue on the patternicity front - a hundred people can look at a thing and see no pattern, no "message," but as soon as one person points it out, we all see it! So, does the pattern really exist? Besides, the Mayan spaceman is problematic for the same reasons the cellphone time traveler is - if the being is sitting in a rocket ship, this was one low-tech extraterrestrial; to me it looks like a Mercury capsule from the 1960s. What self-respecting ET would tool around ancient Mexico in such a jalopy?[iii]

Ghost hunters are also big news; here's a specter of Robin Hood with his sword drawn (but didn't he, in fact, use a bow rather than a sword?).[iv] Well, I wouldn't have seen Robin Hood unless someone had cued me in that that is what I was looking at; it just looks like cigarette smoke to me.

Heaven in Orion? Fans of sf may remember the wonderful tale by Niven and Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye, where people identified a black nebula as God and a red gas giant as his eye. This recent Orion story is based on a dubious interpretation of the Old Testament, some have identified the Orion Nebula as God's abode or perhaps the portal to heaven.[v] Patternicity once again: if it looks like a portal, it must be a portal! I remember someone saying that a nebula that looked like organ pipes must be heaven's pipe organ.

Man on Mars. I think I remember seeing the supermarket tabloid that first announced that extraterrestrials had been on Mars, because there was a human face on its surface. Remember the Mars Man?

Patternicity is especially pronounced in human beings when it comes to human faces, since as it turns out, a nice chunk of our brain is dedicated to recognizing people. That's why someone can take a circle and a few lines, and most people are going to identify it as a frowny face, even though it isn't.

As it turns out, unless you think NASA is trying to dupe you, the Mars Man is an optical illusion, which dissipated when pictures are taken with better light and other angles in 1998 and 2001.[vi] It's like the Old Man on the Mountain that used to stand in New Hampshire - it too looked like a face from certain angles, but was merely a natural outcropping.

Likewise, people see "animals" in photos from the Mars Rover, but remember, our brains are correlating Martian shapes with animals we already know from Earth, such as a snake.[vii] When we try to determine if there is, or has been, life on Mars, we will first need to filter out the patternicity effect. The same goes for supposed ruined cities on Mars or the Moon, which have much to do with the imagination and little with real data.[viii] If you watch some of the "Ruins found on the Moon!" videos, they usually show you the undoctored picture, and then draw lines showing what they think it is. Because we are used to Earth buildings, we will "see" similar structures on other planets. Fun and entertaining, but it's a typical example of someone playing with our sense of patternicity, since, until someone tells me what I am supposed to be seeing, I don't see it. These are not Highlight Magazine with its "Find 10 common objects we have hidden in this picture!" puzzles; they are usually a whole lot of nothing. As they used to say about impressionist art: "Don't stand so close up! It helps to stand back!"
CHRISTIANS WHO LIVE BY PATTERNICITY, FALL BY PATTERNICITY Secret Messages from the Beyond!
Does the Lord send us messages by repeatedly showing us a thing? Of course. Just this past week, I read John 4:34 - "Jesus said to them, 'My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.'" Then I saw the same verse three times more within the week! I know that these things just happen sometimes. There is the James Bond effect, above. And we have all experienced: you buy a Snickers bar; then you see an ad for it; then someone mentions Snickers; the thing even has a name: the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Still, even with those caveats, the verse from John 4 seemed particularly relevant to me, so I copied it out to look over.

On the other hand, I once knew two guys. One week they independently happened to run across Revelation 11:3, "And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, wearing sackcloth." So they decided that perhaps God wanted them to do some ministry together. I wasn't impressed that way, but heaven knows. This is technically called the Baader-Meinhof Effect, which occurs when you see or hear a thing, and then suddenly you see it everywhere.

What I am talking about here is the type of "patternicity" where someone sees messages by staring too closely at random shadows or wood paneling or spilled soup or the linoleum floor. People have circulated fuzzy pictures of revival meetings in which a glare could, by a stretch of the imagination, be interpreted as an angel.

Then there are those tortillas with faces on them. Because of the way they are cooked, it is natural that patterns of light and darkness form on their surfaces, to form natural Rorschachs.

But whose face it is depends on the observer, since "patternicity" differs from person to person. And so, a Catholic sees the Virgin. A man in Texas saw Jesus, but some wag countered that she saw in it the face of singer Barry Gibb.[ix] A Hindu might see Krishna. I do not say this to mock someone's sincere faith. But if our brains are wired to quickly see patterns where they don't exist, and each observer interprets the pattern differently, then perhaps we should accept most of these "appearances" as interesting coincidences and nothing more.

Add this, divide by this, and it comes out to 666! You can find the number of the beast, 666, all over the place. But remember, that any figure that has three digits has about a one in a thousand chance of showing up. It is as probable as 665 turning up, or 999, or 492. Here are a couple of recent "messages" from the devil.

Do you know that Walt Disney was a minion of the antichrist? Neither did I. Maybe you think Disney movies communicate bad ideas - I'm not at all happy about "Pocahontas," for a start - but it's a stretch from there to the Mark of the Beast.

Here is a candidate for a Satanic message that has been around since 2014: the energy drink "Monster" has as its logo three claw marks. But some have "deciphered" as three of the Hebrew letter "vav" which in fact symbolizes 6 in Hebrew.

There are a number of problems here, beyond the fact that they market this as a healthful drink. First, the company says that they are claw marks; while they could be doing a cover-up, it's important to start there. Second, the letter does not resemble vav but the letter to the left (Hebrew goes from right to left), zayin, which could symbolize 7. No Hebrew scribe would read the Monster can and see three vavs. Third, and most importantly, the number of the beast in Rev 13:18 is not 6-6-6 (i. e., three sixes), but six hundred-sixty-six (as the NRSV; similarly the KJV's "Six hundred threescore and six"). In Hebrew the number six hundred sixty-six is made up of one vav and several other letters.

Another misuse of 666 is the idea that the Hebrew vav-vav-vav (able to be rendered in English either as vvv or www) means that the World Wide Web is the antichrist! Same problem with the Hebrew alphabet, same issue of patternicity.

And here is positive proof that Taylor Swift is a Satanist! (In fact, take almost any pop star, google their name with "Satanist" and you will find a theory). What's the evidence? Well, in one of her videos, if you freeze the action and then magnify the image, the very fuzzy result, according to one seeker after truth, might look something like a demon. Again, it looks like random dots to me.

Here is "proof" that Bitcoin is the End Times currency, because one day, for a few seconds, its exchange rate was 666.6 Bitcoins to the US Dollar. (Not 666, by the way.)

Actually, here is a graph that shows how Bitcoin's exchange rate has wandered back and forth over the 600s; I have added a red line to show where 666 would fall. So, naturally, it has hit 666 at some point, probably various points, and a lot of other numbers too.

The following patternicity person has really done her homework and found the mark of the beast in the logos for Google Chrome, Nickelodeon TV, Coca-Cola, and - inevitably, I suppose - Starbucks and Proctor and Gamble.[x] Meanwhile, this other guy hit the jackpot![xi] Of him we might say that it's possible to find three sixes or three fours or three tens anywhere you look, but do they really mean anything? As one commentator on the mark of the beast concluded: "We cannot infer much from the fact that a key fits the lock if it is a lock in which almost any key will turn."[xii]

A recent example of almost 100% "patternicity" comes from those who see the Muslim creed, the Shahada, a cryptic reference to the mark of the beast - hence, Islam is the antichrist. Now, the identification of Islam with the beast has been around for centuries, and for all I know, could be correct. But those who have "discovered" 666 in Islam are way off base. They ask you to compare Arabic letters (top) with the Greek symbols for 666 (bottom).

This looks impressive, until you realize that there are maybe 5-6 fatal errors in it: first of all, in order to make these symbols come out right, someone had to mash up various Arabic letters, divide others in two, etc; second, Arabic is read right to left, Greek left to right, thus the letters in the bottom line should be reversed; third, the Greek letters represent now the text looked in a 4th century copy, but in the 1st century John almost certainly didn't write the number 666 in this way; fourth, Rev 13 says that this is a "name" (not a creed) and a number that must be calculated (not letters); fifth, how come the middle letter is at right angles in Greek? Some mystical meaning? This is pure patternicity, which only works if you squint from a certain angle and know neither Greek nor Arabic. And "know" beforehand that Islam is the antichrist.

During the Cold War, people "detected" Communist symbols everywhere; in the past decades, it has been Muslim symbols. One weird example is the memorial to Flight 93, the 9/11 jet that was downed by its passengers. The park is more or less a crescent shape, and it probably comes as no surprise that someone interpreted it as the Muslim crescent, oriented toward Mecca. And so, "It's a tribute to the terrorists, not to their victims," supposedly. These theorists have elaborate explanations as to why there is no Star in the Star and Crescent, and why it is not really, in fact, lined up to face Mecca. Actually, the open end of the crescent is oriented to the direction that Flight 93 came from, an angle randomly created when the passengers crashlanded the jet in the field.

Just for fun, I will toss in a 666 that I ran into and snapped a picture of. If you had seen this, wouldn't you have concluded that it was the Dark Powers sending you a message?

Don't worry! In fact, it's the lock on my briefcase. Nor are the numbers 666 - they are 999. And they happen to show up because I never changed my combination from 000 to anything more secure! Here is the truth revealed:

Here's another example, in my own garden!

But when I show you the whole image, you see that it's not 666 at all, but series of curls in some Latin American folk art.

Of course, there are Satanic symbols around - you don't have to be an adept at patterns find the hidden clue in this album cover:

But what would happen if we were to choose an image at random - let's see, how about Renoir's "Zwei lesende Mädchen in einem Garten" (Two Girls Reading in a Garden). Here's the original:

Now: with just three minutes I was able to "decode" secret symbols.

On the top, clearly a hovering (and dark!) angel; bottom right, clearly a man with a bishop's miter; bottom left: a coiled serpent, about to strike, like this one -

So, I guess if you are Catholic, the message has to do with the devil sending a false bishop; or if you are Protestant, the pope is the devil's agent. Either way.

This is the same thing that Dan Brown promotes in his goofy interpretation of The Last Supper, that there is a V-shape between John and Jesus, that the V is a symbol for "female," and John looks a bit girly, and that therefore Da Vinci is sending us the code that John is not John after all, but is really a woman, Mary Magdalene, who therefore must have been Jesus's wife. Did you get all that? To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a V is just a V.

But between the two extremes (" Nothing contains symbolism!"; "No, everything does!") perhaps we can find the middle ground where we see things as they are without loosing our common sense.

Satanic Messages in Super Bowl Halftime Shows. Yes, it's a thing, that the Super Bowl Halftime is supposed to be an annual transmission from the Satanic forces that rule the world, and that they put in little clues just to taunt the alert Christian. Just Google "Super Bowl Halftime Show Satanic" and you'll see what I mean. The power outage in Super Bowl XLVII, the night that Beyoncé sang, just confirmed the theory: in the second half of the game, the power went out for 33 minutes and 55 seconds; some people find hidden meaning in those numbers. Maybe you regard those halftime shows to be morally objectionable, but communications from the Evil One seems to escape most of the people who look at the same data; and perhaps, this time, the majority has it right.

Satanic Messages and Backward Masking. Backward masking is a whole issue in itself; the supposed instances I have listened to - over and over again - once more, showed the problem of patternicity, that people "hear" different things, or hear nothing, until someone tells them what they are supposed to hear.[xiii]

Hidden Messages in the Dewey Decimal System. Did you know that "Dewey Decimal system number for 'Numerology' is 133.335 which reversed is 533.331, add them up to get 666.666."[xiv] Whatever that means! I notice that 666 is the Dewey number for Clay and Ceramics; does that link it to the prophecy of Daniel 2? It's doubtful!

The devil is real, and he is a deceiver - but part of our job is to recognize that he tries to terrorize us with shadows, with things that exist only in our mind.

Superficial Historical Investigation. I am going to mention here the research published by Alexander Hislop in The Two Babylons (1853), about which I have written elsewhere.[xv] He made the mistake of "finding" parallels of Mary and the Christ Child in ancient Babylonian mythology and drawing from them the conclusion that the Catholic Church is really Babylon. His proofs are very sketchy and some are greatly exaggerated to make them match.

News Headlines and World Events. One meme that is circulating says that 10 natural disasters that have hit the United States were caused by America's mistreatment of the State of Israel. The coincidences strike me as nothing extraordinary.

Bible Numerology. If you find the number 2, or 23, or 67, or 17 in the Bible, is it communicating a secret message? Proponents of numerology think so, but in reality all they are finding is cryptic messages hidden in random data. The classic in this field is E. W. Bullinger, Number in Scripture: Its Supernatural Design and Spiritual Significance is the mother of all numerology studies. It is an example of patternicity gone wild, and perhaps significantly, Bullinger detected all kinds of weird doctrines in the Bible that no-one had never seen before. He was also a flat earther.

Bible Codes. People find hidden messages codified in the Hebrew Bible. It's almost always the Hebrew, because it was originally written without vowels. This makes it stunningly easy to count every fifteen or twenty or eighteen letters or so and have it come out to mean "Buy stock in IBM" or "Stalin is a bad man" or, as in this example, "Obama is a Muslim."[xvi]

Let's have some fun and "decipher" the Paul Simon lyrics that I quoted at the beginning of this article:

"The night sets softly With the hush of falling leaves, Casting shivering shadows On the houses through the trees, And the light from a street lamp Paints a pattern on my wall, Like the pieces of a puzzle Or a child's uneven scrawl."

Now, remove all the vowels and we have the following:

THNGHTSTSSFTLYWTHTHHSHFFLLNGLVSCSTNGSHVRNGSHDWSNTHHSSTHRGHTHTRSNDTHLGHTFRMSTRTLMPPNTSPTTRNNMYWLLLKTHPCSFPZZLRCHLDSNVNSCRWL, etc.

And we'll pick the number 5 at random, and count out every 5 letters. This leaves us with:

HSWHLVNRDHHHDHSMSNLHPCNR, etc.

And of course we can add vowels back in and divide the words, all at our discretion. With a bit of creativity, I can come up with a "meaning."

HouSe WH LeaViNg ReD HHH [a known code for Habitat for Humanity House!] Do HiS MSN [Microsoft Network!?]. I will choose to interpret this jibber-jabber - and that's what Bible codes always yield, folks - as a prediction that when he leaves the White House, Jimmy Carter will erect Habitat houses, some of them red, and do something with Microsoft. His Habitat connection is a well-known fact, but after looking online I found this headline from August, 2016 - "Jimmy Carter appeals to Bill Gates [of Microsoft!] to stop the massive dumping of toxic coal ash." And so, in our little vignette, I will go on to publish an article that demonstrates beyond a doubt that my Bible Code is 100% secure and that Carter was destined to work with Habitat and to scold Bill Gates! Of course, I have done what in Latin is called Vaticinium ex eventu - a prediction only after the event takes place; no way I could have seen this coming!

The same "code," by the way, may be forced to predict a publication by Old Testament scholar Von Rad or some sort of pronouncement about HHH and DHS - obviously, references to 1968 presidential candidate HHH [as Hubert H. Humphrey was called] or the US Department of Homeland Security [the DHS]!

Don't let them kid you when they claim to be "Hebrew experts" - what we have done above is all they are doing, no more and no less!

Back to the real "experts": so, one rabbi predicted that Donald Trump would win the election in 2016 ("Rabbi Sees Donald Trump Ascendancy in Bible Codes"[xvii]), another, that Clinton would win ("Recently Discovered Bible Code Predicts [Clinton] Presidential Win").[xviii] Just put these two headlines next to each other and we can say, with Samuel Johnson, "I refute it thus!" Others have dealt with this mumbo-jumbo in detail.[xix]

Let me just add that, the Bible is not the only source for these "messages." People have been doing it with other sacred texts - notably the Koran and the Talmud - for centuries. Even more amusingly, a group calling itself "Polarization Nation Media" has put videos on YouTube to show us that the movie "Back to the Future" is chock-full of predictions of real events! They call it "the McFly Code." I more than half-suspect that the whole thing is a prank, and in fact some conspiracy theorists have come forth to claim that the fake McFly code is in itself a message from "those who are really running the planet" in order to make fun of them and distract the masses. You got all that, dear reader?
CONCLUSIONS
Any of these of course, in theory, could be authentic messages from the beyond. But given what we know about the ease with which the mind carries out pattern recognition, we should be very cautious, even hyper-skeptical. There are coincidences in life, which we sometimes recognize because of how God designed us. Thus, five green traffic lights in a row might be a string of good fortune, but not necessarily a message from beyond.

Some Christians have heightened patternicity. The danger they face is that they might make a false deduction from their seeming "revelations": I see things that others do not; or others do not see these things until I point them out. Thus, I must be specially anointed or smarter or more intelligent, because God has shown me these mysteries.

This is the only explanation I can come up with to explain Girl Scout Cookies fund a Communist Conspiracy! Which is actually not even close to being the fruitiest idea on this website, which claims that Olive Garden, Budweiser, and Nike are satanic.[xx]

For people who are mentally disturbed and cannot function properly, the solution may be treatment. But for the vast majority of us, the solution is to "stand back from the picture" and add a good dose of common sense and plain old Christian humility into the mix.
NOTES:
[i] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLU3F9glcgg

[ii] https://annoyzview.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/palenque-image-space-traveller-in-ancient-maya/

Just to mention another example that keeps showing up on History or History 2 - the so-called ancient astronaut that was carved into the walls of the medieval Cathedral Ieronimus in Salamanca, Spain. What further proof could you need to prove that ETs visited Spain centuries ago? Well, a lot more proof as it turns out, since it is well-known that this was carved into the chapel in the year 1992, when the artist thought it would be appropriate to add in a 20th-century image; he chose an astronaut. The man in the carving is a 20th-century earthling, not a medieval ET. See http://www.hoax-slayer.com/cathedral-spaceman-carving.shtml

[iv] https://www.thesun.co.uk/uncategorized/2683341/ufo-expert-claims-spooky-image-shows-robin-hoods-ghost-brandishing-a-sword/

[v] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwXjr-euOf4. See also http://www.snopes.com/gates-of-heaven/

[ vi]http://www.space.com/17191-face-on-mars.html

[vii] http://www.techtimes.com/articles/178421/20160920/alien-snake-spotted-in-nasa-mars-photo-by-alien-conspiracy-theorists-alien-life-on-mars-coverup-by-nasa.htm

[viii] http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/683353/NASA-COVER-UP-Space-agency-found-city-on-Mars-but-tried-to-stop-YOU-seeing-it; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tURyKxAfEtg

[ix] http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/religion/article/Man-claims-burn-mark-on-tortilla-resembles-Jesus-5950739.php

[x] https://terrific-top10.com/2013/10/08/top-10-satanic-symbols-hidden-in-logos/

[xi] http://goyimgazette.com/issue-666/ Caution: this page is written by a virulent anti-Semite. It just goes to show you that, when someone has the heightened patternicity necessary to detect the number 666 all over the place, he also has the ability to see evidence that They Are Out to Get Him, whether They are the pope, the Jesuits, the Masons, the Illuminati, or as in this case, the Jews.

[ xii] G. Salmon, An Historical Introduction to the Study of the Books of the New Testament. London: Murray, 1904), 230-31.

[xiii] Here is a good summary of the issues: http://www.equip.org/article/rock-music/

[xiv] See once again http://goyimgazette.com/issue-666/

[xv] https://openoureyeslord.com/2015/11/11/the-emperor-constantine-the-great-a-villain-or-a-hero-or-something-in-between/.

[xvi] https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/68330/biblical-numerology-confirms-obamas-roots-in-ishmael-and-islam-05-16/

[xvii] http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/rabbi-sees-donald-trump-ascendancy-in-bible-codes/

[xviii] https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/67210/bible-code-predicts-clinton-win/

[xix] http://www.equip.org/article/the-bible-code/

[xx] http://extremelifechanger.com/
'Christians and "Coincidences" or Is There a Hex in the Patternicity?' By Gary S. Shogren, PhD, Professor of New Testament, Seminario ESEPA, San José, Costa Rica

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This article has many images and footnotes; I encourage the reader to download it as a pdf here: Shogren_Christians and Coincidences It happened just the other day: I had been thinking about James Bond, and later when I pulled out a form of identification for the bank teller, I noticed that my ID number began with 007!...

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People start relating things with coincidences sometimes. For example, if i am thinking about my cousin, who has no chance to coming and meet me, suddenly appears then i will probably conclude to myself having psychic ability to predict the future.

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The above scenario is based on Law of Attraction which is nothing but simplicity.
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Simply put, the Law of Attraction is the ability to attract into our lives whatever we are focusing on. It is believed that regardless of age, nationality or religious belief, we are all susceptible to the laws which govern the Universe, including the Law of Attraction. It is the Law of Attraction which uses the power of the mind to translate whatever is in our thoughts and materialize them into reality. In basic terms, all thoughts turn into things eventually. If you focus on negative doom and gloom you will remain under that cloud. If you focus on positive thoughts and have goals that you aim to achieve you will find a way to achieve them with massive action.

This is why the universe is such an infinitely beautiful place. The Law of Attraction dictates that whatever can be imagined and held in the mind's eye is achievable if you take action on a plan to get to where you want to be.

What Is The Law Of Attraction?

The Law of Attraction is one of life's biggest mysteries. Very few people are fully aware of how much of an impact the Law of Attraction has on their day to day life. Whether we are doing it knowingly or unknowingly, every second of our existence, we are acting as human magnets sending out our thoughts and emotions and attracting back more of what we have put out.

Unfortunately, so many of us still blind to the potential that is locked deep within us. Consequently, it is all too easy to leave your thoughts and emotions unchecked. This sends out the wrong thoughts and attracts more unwanted emotions and events into your life.

Having said this, discovering that the Law of Attraction is at work within your life should be a great cause for celebration! Once the power of attraction has been understood by you it is no longer secret. Plus, you have learned how to effectively apply these to your everyday life, your entire future is yours to create.

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The History Of The Law Of Attraction

Before you begin to embark on the incredible journey towards true enlightenment in the Law of Attraction, it is important that you understand that you can apply it to your life and it can be effective if the correct tools are used. The practices and beliefs in this law have been igniting the lives of great individuals throughout the course of history.

Hundreds of years ago the Law of Attraction was first thought to have been taught to man by the immortal Buddha. It is believed he wanted it to be known that 'what you have become is what you have thought'. This is a belief that is deeply intrinsic in the Law of Attraction.

With the spread of this concept to western culture also came the term 'Karma', it is a belief that is popular throughout numerous societies.

Over the centuries it has been a common understanding amongst many that what you give out to the world (be it anger or happiness, hate or love) is ultimately what can return to your own life in the end.

This simple and easy-to-follow concept has been so popular among many for a large number of years. It demonstrates that the idea of the power of attraction is not new whatsoever. It is already recognizable to many of us in a variety of ways.

The main principles of the Law of Attraction can also be discovered in the teachings of many civilizations and religious groups. An example, in the Proverbs 23:7, it reads 'As a man thinketh in his heart so is he'. Proof of praise for the Laws of Attraction can be uncovered throughout the ages; all recorded and taught in different ways, but still there for all of humanity to find.

Is The Law Of Attraction Real?

As previously discussed, The Law Of Attraction and its values have been seen throughout history. And a great many women and men who have left their mark on this world have shown the Law of Attraction to be one of the greatest powers on earth; with many well-loved poets, artists, scientists and great thinkers such as Shakespeare, Blake, Emerson, Newton and Beethoven all conveying this message through their many works.

There have been many modern advocates of The Law Of Attraction as well. These include Oprah Winfrey, Jim Carrey, and Denzel Washington. In addition, with over 5.8 MILLION Facebook fans, there are plenty of success stories surrounding The Law Of Attraction.

The most challenging part of acknowledging and accepting the truth of what the Law of Attraction has to offer is coming to the realization that every single one of your decisions in life, good and bad, have been shaped by you alone. For many, this can be a bitter pill to swallow, especially if you feel that you or your loved ones have been dealt some particularly hard blows in life.

However, once you have truly come to understand the true key behind of the Law of Attraction you can be renewed with hope and courage in the overwhelming knowledge that you are free to take charge of your life and free yourself forever from the cycle of fear, worry or negativity which has held you back for too long.

The Science Behind The Law Of Attraction: Fact, Not Fiction

The work of quantum physicists during recent years has helped to shine greater light on the incredible impact that the power of the mind has on our lives and the universe in general. The more that this idea is explored by scientists and great thinkers alike, the greater an understanding we have on just how significant a role the mind plays in shaping our lives and the world around us.

It doesn't matter if you do not ever come to have a thorough understanding of the quantum physics behind the Law of Attraction. However, this does not mean that we all cannot enjoy the many benefits that this generous and law can offer us.

As physicists come to supply us with more and more information regarding the law, the more we can simply rejoice in the truly liberating and empowering realization that we are the creators and controllers of our life and the energy we are all made of.

Be happy, for the universe is always on our side! The more time you dedicate to learning how to use the Law of Attraction effectively, the more fulfilling and rewarding your life can be. There are no restrictions! Open your mind and enjoy the natural abundance of the Universe.

How To Use The Law Of Attraction

Once we have come to understand the astounding possibilities that life has to offer us, we can also come to realize that we are like artists. We are creating pictures of our intended life and then making choices and taking actions that will realize what we envisaged.

So what if you don't like the picture?

Change it!

Life is a blank canvas of possibility; you are in control of what the finished picture could look like.

The Law of Attraction really is that simple. No catches. All laws of nature are completely perfect and the Law of Attraction is no exception. No matter what you are looking to have or achieve or be in life, if you can hold onto an idea and see it for yourself in the mind's eye, you can make it yours to have... with some effort on your part.

Here are just a few areas in your life that you could improve by utilizing The Law Of Attraction.

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1. Manifest Love And Relationships With The Law Of Attraction

"The beginning of love is at the end of resistance."

-Danielle Light

With new relationships being formed every single day, it is not surprising that this is a common goal. Many people wish to meet the love of their lives. But can The Law Of Attraction help your love life?

The short answer? Yes.

There are many Law Of Attraction techniques and exercises that can increase your confidence, charisma and overall subconscious willingness to receive love. In this way, it is entirely possible to attract your real soulmate by utilizing The Law Of Attraction.

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2. Attract Money And Wealth Using The Law Of Attraction

"Always remember, money is a servant; you are the master."

-Bob Proctor

Another common goal across the world is financial abundance. Wealth brings along it's obvious benefits to your life. Money can put a roof over your head and food on the table. Similarly, it has the ability to provide for your family and friends.

Unfortunately, many of us have troubled relationships with the idea of wealth. It certainly has connotations of greed and vanity. In order to attract money, we need to banish these negative thought patterns. A key aspect of The Law of Attraction is this idea that positivity breeds positivity. Therefore, you can learn how to harness positive money habits easily with help from visualization tools and techniques.

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3. Improve Your Mental And Physical Health

"Health goes beyond our physical body. It is not just about what we put in our bodies or take out of it, it is also about our emotions and how we are feeling spiritually."

-Katherine Hurst

With busy work routines, commitments to friends and family and general everyday life, we sometimes neglect our own personal health. Whilst utilizing The Law Of Attraction cannot purely substitute a healthy diet, exercise and regular doctor checkups, it can promote a vast range of benefits for your mental, spiritual and physical health.

Training your brain to see the positive in everything allows room for mental growth and happiness, which in turn can improve your physical health. Similarly, taking time for self-care can help combat a range of mental illnesses.

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Increase Your Self-Confidence And Combat Anxiety

Similarly to the above point, mental health can really impact your physical health and wellbeing. Therefore, you should decrease any levels of stress as soon as you can. In addition, The Law Of Attraction focuses on this idea of self-confidence and faith in the universe. You need to let go off all feelings of doubt in yourself in order to utilize The Law Of Attraction effectively.

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Get Fit, Lose Weight And Have A More Mindful Diet

Another common goal, losing weight can be a very demotivating process for a number of reasons. However, this does not need to be the case. Positive thinking can really help eliminate binge eating and lack of motivation.

A more mindful approach to eating can also reveal a lot about your body and appetite. In this way, visualization tools and techniques can really be handy when trying to get fit.

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4. Attract Success And Abundance With The Law Of Attraction

"Everyone visualizes whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of success."

-Rhonda Byrne (Author of

Whilst 'success' may sound a tad vague, it actually just proves how all-encompassing The Law Of Attraction can be!

Overall success can be achieved by individual goals but can also be achieved in the form of the life of your dreams. You just need to use the right tools!

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What Is The Law Of Attraction? And How To Use It Effectively

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People usually believe in things which may not exist or do not have any legitimate scientific explanation as to their existence, For instance, UFOs, conspiracies. They tend to believe the hype and not the proof and the ideology of the world being run by Invisible Agents.

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In this video, 38% of people in Japan think that the Earthquakes and Tsunami are the sign of GOD while it is proved that the Japan mainland has many subduction zone which makes it highly active area.

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Philosophical Failures of Christian Apologetics

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Psychology of Belief Part 9:  Agenticity

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Answering the question of why people keep seeing "God" in perfectly natural phenomena. Note that the second experiment was intended to be given to children. The bit with the pencil and the tiger is even verbatim with the actual experimental procedure. So if it seems a little condescending, then understand that it was designed for a five-year-old.