Quantcast
Channel: Market Time and Price Townhall
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 418

Ah, the smell of smoldering bigotry

$
0
0
Some time ago I gave up social media largely because it consumed too much time and distracted me from what I wanted to be doing.  I was spending too much time defending what I'd been taught (some right and some wrong) without otherwise creating/recreating myself.  I'd found a great investing bulletin board but it too took too much time.  

Without any provocation I receive the following email from a person who long ago I advised to not read my work because it so diverged from his sadly limited perception of the world.  Here, today, he took his valuable time to lecture me on The Bible Code:


Not for a minute do I think this dear person has any interest in my wasting my time.  And for edification, I have read Ingermason's very well thought out work "debunking" The Bible Code.  There have, however, rejoinders to his critique as I distantly recall, one by a Rabbinical Torah, physicist and statistician.  The latter found, again as I distantly recall, the "cylinder proximity" of messages that had come true was statistically significant.  Again, very distant recall and I'll not resort to wasting my time on Wikipedia for a 'one-up.

Perhaps Drosnin found the Bible Code, perhaps not.  Other pretty smart people believed such was present.  Isaac Newton, it is said, would have been far more fruitful had he not spent much of his time pursuing the Bible code he felt existed.  And, well, WD Gann... he, himself said many times that his knowledge and methods came directly from the Bible.  Gee, I hadn't found those methods in the Bible.  Why, they must be...encoded.  

But the point is not whether or not "The Bible Code," as presented in Drosnin's method, is true or not.  

The point is to inquire and make one's own decision.  To consider, wrestle with the evidence, weigh the results and move forward.  As Lord Bacon once said:


So, I again invited and advised this concerned reader, the Noxious One, not to read my "loony" work. 

I'll sign this essay in red with a challenge to the Noxious One's sense of self importance; explain this (and the other 33 instances in TTTTA):



[Its good to be reminded why one might not want to participate in social media.]




  

Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 418

Trending Articles