Help me debunk biblical numerology - CT style

[Viper Daimao]

Thus achad, meaning one, is related to ahebar, meaning love, as both add to 13.

So God is a U2 fan. I knew it!

 

[slingblade]

I wonder which is better for the obsessive-compulsive person: this nonsense, counting ceiling tiles, or picking at scabs.

I prefer scabs, but my back is sore and looks like hell right now.

ETA: what I told Art was:

Ask over in the CT subforum, too. They have to deal with all the "OMG ONOES look how many times the numbers 9 and 11 coincidentally appear in a random series of events we strung together only because they somehow contain the numbers 9 and 11!!!!11!!!! Look, it just happened again, right there, ONOES!"

...and I'm wondering if that was anywhere close?

 

[danielk]

Hebrew numerology is usually base 9, as in Kaballah of the Nine Chambers. They didn't bother with a zero, a 0.

How can you speak of a "base" if you don't have a concept of zero (though not necessarily a symbol)? Doesn't the term only apply to positional numeral systems?

ETA: Ah, I found it: Hebrew numerals^WP. According to that page, it's a "quasi-decimal" system using symbols for multiples of ten, but not a positional system.

 

[Nick227]

So God is a U2 fan. I knew it!

Yes. Bob Marley too!

Nick