| good morning! |
[Nov. 29th, 2004|09:40 am] |
Sh'ma Yisrael Adonai Elohaynu Adonai Echad.
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[Nov. 29th, 2004|09:55 am] |
i have never felt
my farther's hand
without its calluses |
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| Mr. Iguana |
[Nov. 29th, 2004|11:50 am] |
( f-f ) Photoshop-free |
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| The Bible and the information theory |
[Nov. 29th, 2004|11:34 pm] |
For anybody who studies information, especially its evolutionary aspects, The Bible should be a required reading.
For example, take The New Testament discussion on the genealogy of Jesus Christ.
First, the apostles, e.g. St. Matthew, have a long discourse trying to prove that J.C. is a descendant of King David's. Why? Because it is a necessary condition for the acceptance of his Messiah credentials among religious Jews of the time.
Then The Gospels go into the immaculate conception story, which is trying to prove that J.C. is the Son of God. This would be a very strong argument for the Greeks, because it is consistent with the Greek religious mentality of the time.
As the result you get a bullet-proof concept, i.e. if somebody rejects the immaculate conception story, then J.C. is the Messiah; and if somebody rejects the genealogical argument, J.C. is the Son of [the only] God.
When considered logically the construct has critical flaws (e.g. the parts exclude each other) and redundancies within the new paradigm, but taken together the arguments form a highly survivable flexible message (meme combination) for the two most important replication environments - religious (diaspora) Jews and dissident Greeks. |
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| good night |
[Nov. 29th, 2004|11:56 pm] |
Sh'ma Yisrael Adonai Elohaynu Adonai Echad.
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