I'd always heard is as 5 out of 2.
Now we know which group you are in.
Seriously, what Kingfisher is doing here, is noise interpretation. Probably some of you remember the guy who posted digital photos of dark areas, zoomed in, and found faces in the detector noise and JPEG artefacts. Nothin could convince him that there was not something supernatural inserting faces in the pictures.
The fact is that words consist of letters. The relationship between words and letters has been carefully constructed to enable a fairly small number of letters to encode a virtually infinite number of words.
Since there are, in most languages, a vastly higher number of words than there are letters, it follows mathematically that any random collection of letters will necessarily form some words. Obviously, by placing the random letters in a matrix, you can connect letters in two dimensions, and the possibility to form words increases at least for-fold.
Notice I said random letters. Even though Kingfisher takes his input from a piece of text, by rearranging the letters in a different matrix, he effectively creates a random set, but with one difference: The occurrence of the letters will be weighted to enable the finding of even more words in the same language as the original text.
The next step Kingfisher used, after having generated essentially random words from the essentially random letter, is a procedure we could call the 'vast matrix fit'. Having found Hebrew words with a Biblical flavour, he now take these to the vast body of scripture, to see if they fit somewhere. Which, of course, they will do.
So, dear Kingfisher: What you are doing is to look for patterns in a random input. There is absolutely nothing in what you have presented that even hints at more than that. If anything you find surprisingly few patterns, but that is probably because you seek only certain types. Likewise, the apparent correlations with scripture are only what you would expect when you look matches in a large body of text.
If you don't believe me, I suggest you try to use a random piece of text as a source, pick a sequence of 64 letters, and place them
at random in your matrix. You will find that in most instances, you can find a similar amount of patterns.
Now, people have been playing this sort of games always, so it is indeed possible that you could find a historical reference where somebody acted on a similar illusion. That would be mildly interesting.
Did you know that during WW2, the allies employed a couple of astrologers as advisers for actions against Germany? Not because they thought astrology had any merit, but it was known that Hitler used astrological advisers, so this made easier to predict his decisions.
Hans
