Interesting, numerous "coincidences" associated with Quran

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In the Internet I read quite a lot about something which looks "pretty unbelievable" for me - a very large number of dependencies, "coincidences", "synchronicities" associated with original Arabic text of The Quran (book considered holy by Muslims) which are ofter associated with numbers or linguistics (letters, words etc.).

I was raised as a Catholic and The Quran denies some of Catholic dogmas like Trinity or Incarnation. From Catholic perspective, converting from Catholicism to Islam is a mortal sin against faith which causes eternal damnation if not repented before death.

An example of Quran-based "coincidence":
- first chapter of The Quran has 7 verses, 29 words and 139 letters (in original Arabic text), numbers: 7, 29, 139 are additive prime numbers (not just primes, but primes which have sums of digits in it which are also prime numbers) - 7 = 7, 2+9 = 11, 1+3+9 = 13 -> we have 7, 11, 13 now,
- triplet: 7, 11, 13 has sum of numbers 31 (7+11+13) and sums of digits in it 13 (7+1+1+1+3) and 13 and 31 are prime numbers and one of them is the "mirror image" of another,
- number forming by concatenation of numbers 7, 29, 139 - 729139 - is an additive prime number and number formed by concatenation of numbers: 139, 29, 7 (in such a sequence - from the largest to the smallest) - 139297 - is also an additive prime number.

These numbers tricks and 'coincidences' can be found and crafted in any large book, it doesn't have to be "holy".

I am ex-muslim btw, but been atheist for more than 20 years I guess?

I find the writings of genuine schizophrenics, quite interesting, you get angles and perspectives on things that most people would never see. they connect things in a very unique way. A deranged pattern recognition system sometimes is an amazing thing to behold.

Well, there is a similar tradition in Judaism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code

Not to mention numerous claims about hidden/encrypted messages based on all sorts of other texts throughout history.

Here is a passage from Moby Dick predicting the assassination of Gandhi:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_cod ... ther_texts

Oh, and no one actually has the *original* Arabic text of the Quran. All contemporary versions of the Quran are copies based on previous texts which are now lost, so we don't actually know how the original looked like or if the copyists made translation errors and/or deliberate changes to the manuscripts.

All we have are approximately 5 pages in total from Surah 18-20 in the Birmingham Quran Manuscript, which may (or may not) have been written down in the period when the Quran was (supposedly) composed.

...jk, it's space aliens, of course.

The experts cant even agree on what the Koran says that male martyrs get in the after life.

Forty nine virgins. Or 49 grapes!

Women martyrs of course get ...an eternal shopping spree at the divine shoe store in the sky.

Numerology ... Kabbala ... Webcomics ... all amusing to read, but totally without substance.

Finding Meaning And Purpose in Life

It's What Humans Do And It Appears

You Find A Lot of Meaning And Purpose

In Numbers and Mathematics; So, Obviously

What You See and Value As Important

Others May Not;

Yet, It's How

it Makes You Sense And

Feel and How it Drives

Your Life That Counts Most;

i found it AMuSinG, When i Tried

One of Those 'Numerology Calculators'

Online and my Life Challenges Based on

Birth Date of 6.6.60 and Sir Name Came Out

As A Result Like A One Armed Bandit And Jackpot

Hitting 0 For Free Will At Birth; And Three Consecutive
1's After that for Each Life Challenge Only To Affirm What

i Wanted To Do In Life; Do It All Like Writing An Epic Longest
Long Form Poem in the History of Humankind at 8.9 MiLLioN
Words in 89 Months; And 14,244 Miles of Public Dance in That
Distance of Months More Than Half the Distance around the Globe
Starting Out At Age 53, Hehe and Just in Case ya missed the Strength
Part of This Non-Fictional Story in Numbers; Leg Pressing Up to 1520
Pounds At 60 Years-Old too; Or True, According to the Free Will of 0
At Birth in Challenge; Just Hanging-Out Serving Shoes At A Military Bowling

Center for a Couple of Decades Skating thru GS-5 Pay for Long enough to
Get an Equivalent Pay Grade of GS-9 Thru 11 the Last 3 Years With Enough
Money in Retirement to continue doing Basically Nothing For the Rest of my

Life Hanging
Out Skating Free if that is

What i Care to Do Next...

Meh, My Father's Class Motto
Was, "Don't Do Today What You
Can Do Tomorrow"; And His Identical
Twin Brother Ted to First Father Fred Was
More Precisely Shakespeare — 'I dare do all that
may become a man; Who dares do more, is none'

Here's A thing, it Ain't the Form that Counts the Most;

The Real Substance is the Emotions And Senses That Drive

Us Forward That Motivate Us To Do Whatever we Do Next...

That

no

one
Else

Has Ever Done

Before; Or Perhaps

You Never Find Any Powerful

Emotions and Senses And do the

Same Dam Thing Your Entire Life...

Whatever Works My Friend, Be Amazing, one Life to Live now...

Other Than That Placebo Works; Doesn't Matter if it Comes From
A Sugar Pill, An Astrology Report, A Fortune Cookie, or Prayers;

Placebo When Believed Drives The Subconscious Mind Beyond
Measure For Healing Up to Disorders That Are Previously Considered
Life Threatening into the Files of Medical Cabinets of Unexplained remission...

And The Nocebo Effect for 'Sour Pusses' Will Bring Harm, Illness, And Premature Death True...

Do Believe Whatever It takes

And Base the Success on

What You Believe

On Effects

You Will Measure

Empirically By Number too...

The Most Predictably Loving Persons
i know; Both of them Are Muslim Devout
As Such; Something About the Quran Works
for them; Just Like Something About Christianity
When Viewed thru Loving Lens Drives Those Folks

iN Loving
All of Human
Beings and Nature Same...

'Life is a Rorschach Test'

'Alan Watts' Agrees Too...

Some Folks 'Hear' The Music
of Heaven; Dance And Sing
Within Giving And Sharing
Freer Across A Life Span
Than Ever Before And

Holy

Cr8p

Others Fall
to CueAnon Conspiracy
Theories As they Are Wired
To See More of the Dark of Life;
Likely Thru Social Neglect and
Abuse Across Their Lifespan Now....

You Seem Like a Nice Person Who

Wouldn't Harm a Fly; and that is the only way
i for one am ever gonna Judge You as Most successful of all...

In Fact, i Remember You From Your Last Thread; You are Just
About the Person with the Least Darkness of Soul i've ever Felt on this Site

Not Unlike

My Friends

who Love The

Quran it appears

Your 'Religion of Numbers' is working
to make You Human enough not to harm others now..

Bravo

Just

Bravo

Kindness Goes

So much Further

For A Truly Happy Life...

And That's why i was most

Successful passing out shoes

At A Military Bowling Center

Making People Happy

Without Any

Words or

Dance

At All; Just
A Big Smile
With Teeth And
Eyes That said

Every Person is the Face of God For Real...

Again, Life is a Rorschach Test; Sadly, i See Dead

People Walking around this

Way

in Metaphor

of Course in Nocebo Effect....

Sadly, It Seems They Failed Life's Test Now...

Yet,

Just

From 'the

Painting' i see...

All or Nothing; All For me.... Now And Then;
And Yes, Seeing Nothing Much too of Value True...

Ancient religions that started around this period likely were highly influenced by maths, as, during this time,
astrology was even more important than it is today.

Astrology was the gateway to travel and those who understood Astrology certainly were revered.
Astrology includes calculations taken from various areas of maths.

Predating Islam, and even Judaism, were more primitive systems of belief which often included magical thinking beliefs.
I believe Numerology and belief in magic/k go hand in hand, perhaps also with Astrology.

So, if you do not consider the writing in the Quran to be the words of God, via Archangel Gabriel, and latter passed to the Prophet Muhammad, but instead you believe the Quran to be the works of a mortal man.

Then in context of the time (609-632 AC) and influences on culture (astrology, ancient religious beliefs including magic/k etc., I think it would be understandable for the work to include some numerology elements.

Not necessarily because the Prophet Muhammad considered numbers to have magic powers, but because he thought the numbers were holy in some way? (although perhaps there isn't that much difference between the two).

So, the numerology aspects found in the book may or may not be intentional.
That's always the problem with such books of antiquity, you can never ask the author to clarify.

So a question that will never likely be answered.