A genius explains - [an autistic savant describes how he thinks]

Guardian (U.K.) ^ | February 12, 2005 | Richard Johnson

[Elsie]

Have you seen THIS yet???

 

 

 

 

 

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Revived Sanhedrin discusses Temple

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Posted: February 17, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Two remarkable developments took place recently that are extremely relevant to students of Bible prophecy.

For the first time in 1,600 years, the Israeli Sanhedrin was re-established. It occurred in Tiberius, the site of the Sanhedrin's last meeting in AD 425.

On Jan. 20, IsraelNN.com reported:

A unique ceremony – probably only the second of its kind in the past 1,600 years – is taking place in Tiberius today: The launching of a Sanhedrin, the highest Jewish-legal tribunal in the land of Israel.

The Sanhedrin, a religious assembly that convened in one of the Holy Temple chambers in Jerusalem [before AD 70], comprised 71 sages and existed during the Tannaitic period, from several decades before the Common Era until roughly 425 C.E.

Details of today's ceremony are still sketchy, but the organizers' announced their intention to convene 71 rabbis who have received special rabbinic ordination as specified by Maimonides.

These religious authorities believe it was necessary to re-establish the Sanhedrin because only this properly ordained body of sages can authenticate a Messiah when he comes. There is a growing expectation of the long-awaited Messiah to appear among devout Jews. The rebirth of the Jewish state and recapture of Jerusalem has increasingly influenced this conviction.

On Feb. 9, just a few weeks after the Sanhedrin's re-establishment, another enormously important development took place. The religious sages began to consider the rebuilding of the Temple and reinstitution of ancient animal sacrifices as prescribed in the Law of Moses.

The first step toward facilitating this monumental endeavor was to seek to determine the exact location of the Temple's foundation. Sanhedrin spokesman Rabbi Chaim Richman told Arutz-7:

It is appropriate that the Sanhedrin convened to discuss this lofty matter of the Temple's location this week ... the Sanhedrin continues to move toward strengthening the nation of Israel.

As all these things happen all around us, the Sanhedrin is researching ways to renew the deepest roots of our faith – to renew Temple service, reunite Jewish legal tradition and inspire the Jewish people to aspire to greatness. Our people have one path before us, and we will continue to march toward our destiny.

Sanhedrin member Rabbi Yisrael Ariel is the most ardent believer that the Temple is to be rebuilt in this generation. He is the former Yeshiva head, founder of the Temple Institute, and one of the paratroopers who took part in the 1967 liberation of the Temple Mount. He said:

People today ask, "Who are we in this generation to even consider building the Temple?" But in this week's Torah portion we see that the commandment to build a Temple was given to Jews who had just sinned and committed idolatry in the Sin of the Golden Calf. The fact is that what God requires in this world is for regular people to do their best. That is what we are trying to do.

The most difficult problem is to determine with certainty exactly where the previous Temple's foundations are. Muslims have not allowed Israeli archeologists to do archeological research on the Temple grounds. As a matter of fact, the Muslim custodians of this area, which they believe is their Third Holiest site, have systematically sought to destroy and remove any archeological evidence of Israel ever having a Temple there.

The Sanhedrin determined that there are only two viable theories as to where the Temple stood. One teaches that the Temple stood on the same basic site on which the Muslim mosque known as the Dome of the Rock was built.

The second theory (which I am convinced is the most accurate) is that the Temple was built north of the Dome of the Rock. Dr. Asher Kaufman developed this theory, using certain archeological evidences that he found before the Muslim's destroyed them. However, the most important archeological sign is the position of the Eastern Gate. According to ancient accounts of the Temple, its east-west centerline passed through the center of the Eastern Gate.

We have absolute evidence as to where the ancient Eastern Gate stood. I have viewed personally the remains of the ancient Eastern Gate, which is located under the modern Gate that was built on top of its ruins.

While photographing the area in 1983 for my book, "A Prophetical Walk Through The Holy Land," I sought to verify Dr. Kaufman's theory. I established the east-west centerline from the Eastern Gate. Then I received one of the most supernatural visitations of my life. My mind was suddenly flooded with a couple of verses that had been a mystery to me.

This is what I was shown. "I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, 'Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the worshipers there. But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months.'" (Revelation 11:1-2 NIV) So I measured off the distance from the centerline to the point where the wall of the inner court would stand. There was at least 6 meters clearance from the nearest points of the Dome of the Rock and the Temple inner-court wall. The Apostle John clearly predicts that "the outer court was not to be included in the rebuilt Temple, because it was given to the Gentiles."

So what does all this mean? The Temple can be rebuilt and stand alongside the Dome of the Rock without disturbing it. And since the outer court, also known as the Court of the Gentiles, is given to the Gentiles in this period just before the Messiah comes, it infers that there would be a Gentile building there, i.e., the Dome of the Rock.

The fact that a re-established Sanhedrin is now considering the rebuilding of the Temple after 2,000 years is extremely important to students of Bible prophecy. I believe that we are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ. 

[NonLinear]

Show Pn true for n=0 or 1

Show Pn true for n=k => Pn true for n=k+1.

By induction, Pn is true for all n in the Natural numbers.

Extra credit/geek alert: what axioms are specifically required for the last step (the induction step) to be true?

Why, isn't it intuitively obvious to the most casual observer?...

[longshadow]

Why, isn't it intuitively obvious to the most casual observer?...

Well, it is.... to some of us!

;-)

[DOGEY]

Amazing coincidence, I'm an idiot savant. Well, except for the savant part...


Me too, but I'm usually over at DU where I feel at home.

[johnnycap]

This does sound like Asperger's which runs in my family. It is sad and scary and its like functional autism. Sometimes I feel it come out in me and see it in my brothers. They are all geniuses but we all battle social demons to one degree or another.

I am lucky in that I have it the least. It does make you super, scary smart but a pain to be around. The one saving grace in recent years is the fact its being talked about. Michelangelo and Mozart are now considered likely sufferers. Most aspergers are refered to as nerds.

[bondserv]

Time to put on our game faces!

[Vision]

bttt

[WindOracle]

Yeah, thats a fascinating article. I also agree with your analysis about what makes for a mathematical genius. Seems to me it is no more genius than a savant who is capable of sculpting anything he feels. It is amazing, but it is not genius for he has no ability for abstract.. to create a thing out of imagination. If I see anything ingenious about this kid, it would be more in the area of understanding of language, into which he is exploring unknown avenues.

[WindOracle]

That is interesting, had never heard of that. that may answer some questions about myself. I have always known there was something different, but could not put my finger on it. A tendency to get what my friends call the stares, and a few other things. It is probably something entirely different, but one thing I have seen a connection in, with myself, is I am a very bad compulsive... sorta like Monk on television... and I have, ever since childhood, had an affinity for numbers. Patterns mainly, playing number games in my head and such, and sometimes unable to stop it.. like a tune stuck in your head. The positive benefit of this is I eventually developed a high level of skill in multiplication and division of numbers in my head. I do not see shapes, I mentally see numbers... but they kinda interact like the original article describes the shapes morphing together, rather than as numeric value. I do see numeric relationships, such as when calculating geometric shapes volumes or areas, as moving shapes. I have some symptoms though which have made me wonder about ADD too.. so who the heck knows?

Wierd.

[Earthdweller]

I know there are sites that will give you more clues if need be. Don't feel bad about not knowing anything about this before.

Aspergers is a fairly recent discovery from what I understand...like in the last ten years, and even the general psych profession isn't up on it yet.

Since this is a high functioning group I think the social skills will probably be the only area that they can get their jaws into to make any money. Tee Hee. It may take a little longer to get any real attention directed to it for that reason.

[Kevin OMalley]

bump for later reading

[bootless]

I got a 5. I like people, unless they're leftists.

[finocchietto]

I'd like to know if he can factorize the XBOX RSA key (this is the public key, he has to find 2 primes that multiplied together result in this number):
2074011932725872376027602350906301713845599360627488352673195511324110900735 4362374128996096291046353572306742110305456946824862203867115042369878729703 4757651122801674981890464377946029661688124194233651969796694319295889511268 0464874302938783366603176573433716594963473137559247167029424618087781510481 2674626967450097045005117546657068700545263064105024888769118032059917845867 6530404194040036845598825091953986309228240504053796205135896999939802056942 6697323609577215347638826741847653366351274624331031785386194643005307289050 2949319703765023792161144942611323629444409600173894963797156859916567288947 565058003

[Yaelle]

Re Asperger's: you can "armchair diagnose" people like David Boies and Bill Gates very easily. My son also has it.

[Yaelle]

Start early with the social skills.

Got to tell you -- you can only "teach" so much. A child I know, who is more socially impaired than my own son, had hundreds of thousands of school district dollars spent on him, and now in his early teens he knows all the right ways to interact properly with people. Eye contact, the proper questions and polite responses.

Yet the "spitzengefuehl" (fine-tuning?) is missing. He can't slip into the casual dance that is every natural human interaction. He doesn't pick up the subtle signals, even though he's been trained to "do it all correctly." I have seen lots of these cases and frankly, it feels good to admit that it's not a parent's fault for not getting enough social skills formal training. Social skills can only be learned to a point.

[Ima Lurker]

Gee, that is very interesting. I don't tell many people this because they look at me like I'm odd, but I have always associated colors with numbers for some reason. 5 is green, 4 is red, 3 is orange, 2 is yellow, etc. But I can't add those numbers without a calculator and the only pi I can recall is that little strawberry number in my fridge.

Seriously though, that was a fascinating article.

[Yaelle]

Here were my son's fixations, in order: What floor people lived on (ages 1-2, he lived on the 6th floor); cars (a parking lot was as good as Disneyland to him and he could name every car in there, it stopped abruptly on his 3rd birthday when everyone we knew gifted him something to do with cars); nothing until about age 6 when he stepped into the world of Pokemon and didn't come out for 4-5 years. At that point it was all computers, gaming, and anime, which have continued to this day (he's 13) and might indeed lead to a career.

[Fred Hayek]

"It would be interesting to do a study on children who are brought up to be multi-lingual. How do they know when to switch from one language to another, or is it all one language to them? "

I have worked with some engineers from the Nethertlands. My impression was that they were truly multi-lingual, some conversations they would switch between Dutch, English, German, and French, whichever language expressed the idea best. One good thing about the education there I would say, is that the kids are taught multiple languages at a young age, and become fluent in those languages, much unlike the so-called English as a second language that is presented in the US (where a child with a Spanish surname is automatically sent to a class taught in Spanish, even though the child had known only English).

[OldArmy94]

Unfortunately, while this is interesting, the vast majority of folks with autism are mentally retarded and have extreme difficulty functioning in society. Rainman, this article and the popular culture tend to "romanticize" what is a very debilitating condition. That is most unfortunate for its victims and their families.

[Ditter]

I was thinking the same thing about myself, I am just a regular idiot not an idiot savant. He remembers all the thousands of books he has read. I can't remember the book I started last week.

Dang, note to self: Start the book from page one again.