[Junior_G]

nopardons is right. This is a crock.

[John Valentine]

People who are into this sort of thing have a need to find "significance" beyond that imparted by the reality in which they live. So, they seek significance in planetary motions, arrangements of debris in teacups, sequences of various kind of cards or devices, the order and arrangement of words and letters in text, and the natural occurence of numbers.

Is this to say that these things have no innate significance? Of course not, but they are not vessels in which significance hides until divined.

It is just that many people are so insensitised to the reality in which they are immersed, that they cannot discern the actual significance of all everyday things - the "writing on the wall" so to speak. So, rather than live in a world devoid of significance, they manufacture significance with cobbled together theories and complex but meaningless calculations as if mathematics alone can bootstrap nothing whatever into something 'significant'.

I would advise these people to find something useful to do, perhaps volunteeer at a hospital or child care center. Obviously the evidence is that they have an abundance of time to waste, and are wasting it indeed.

[sayfer bullets]

I agree. I get skiddish hearing people use God's word like a crystal ball. It is not THAT kind of predictive information.

If I may, though... is the assertion that The prophet Ezekiel's message was for Israel alone accurate? It was meant, perhaps, for that time-for Israel....but I would submit to you that it was included in the Bible expressly for US in this time as well.

Other than that...break out the Reynold's Wrap folks.