JAMES HOLMES, SICK JOKER AND SHOOTING

On July 20, 2012, a mentally ill man opened fire on a packed audience at the opening of BATMAN THE DARK KNIGHT RISES.  On the matrix below, the axis term is a transliteration of JAMES HOLMES, the man who conducted the shooting. SHOOTING is at the same skip as JAMES HOLMES. Holmes called himself the Joker. On the matrix, JOKER touches JAMES HOLMES. He was dressed as any military man would be dressed if going out to do battle, complete with gas mask and bullet-proof vest.  Going through his name is GO OUT TO BATTLE. He shot 71 people, killing at least 12. In the open text is SLAUGHTER. Finally, there is an ELS of SICK on the 180-letter matrix. The phrase GO OUT TO BATTLE was only found a-posteriori.

STATISICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF FIGURE 1. I had to try many transliterations before I found a one that worked for the axis term, JAMES HOLMES. As per my standard protocol, no statistical significance is assigned to it. What surprised me when it was found was that SHOOTING was at the same skip as JAMES HOLMES. In fact, against of odds of about 1,089 the two terms only required 4 columns and 10 rows (40 letters) to show, but on the full 180-letter matrix, the odds of SHOOTING at a special case skip (+/-1 or the absolute skip of the axis term) were about 242 to 1. When I thought about the SLAUGHTER and then saw the word there in the open text that was also a tremendous surprise. The best case scenario is generally when a term appears in the open text on a matrix. This word is only found once in the 304,805 letter of Torah. It was on the matrix against odds of 1,693 to 1.  However, the first a-priori term sought JOKER because that’s what the shooter called himself. It was at an ELS against odds of about 15.6 to 1. For SICK I sought two 4-letter synonyms and found one of them against odds of about 3.3 to 1. The tough question was about whether to include GO OUT TO BATTLE in the joint odds. Although the odds against it being there were about 847 to 1, I ruled against including it in the joint odds because there are too many phrases in Torah that are similar. This phrase was not a-priori enough to merit inclusion. As such, the matrix exists against odds of about 21,038,300 to 1.

FIGURE 2: As is shown at the bottom of this page, the  exact DATE of this shooting is encoded with HOLMES, SHOOTING, and WHY DO YOU DO EVILTO THIS PEOPLE?  With 1 AV 5772 (July 20, 2012) as the axis term and no statistical value assigned to it, the odds against having HOLMES at a special case skip and SHOOTING (not at a special case skip) in the 690 letters of Figure 2 were about 410 to 1.

THE ISSUE OF EVIL. On Figure 2 the question WHY DO YOU DO EVILTO THIS PEOPLE? was only found a-posteriori, and although we all wonder about the answer, it is assigned no statistical significance. Why was evil done to this people? Why is our entertainment filled with so much violence? Holmes began his rampage with a gas attack. He was dressed as the Joker. When Jack Nicholson played the Joker, he began a mass killing with poison gas. We have a society that dishes out violence images for pleasure like candy to little children. These constant images poison too many minds. Just as we would not want to hand out loaded machine guns to everyone in our society, regardless of age, we need to get better control of the media (too often Japanese video games) that are corrupting so many minds. I have an (Orthodox Jewish) Korean wife. I often watch Korean TV with her, and I'm struck by the different approach to entertainment in Korea. The stories are frankly often beautiful, focusing on issues of morality, feeings, and the importance of family. We would do well to follow their lead.

       In general, I rarely look for any date other than the year of an event, and even then unless it is found at a special case skip, it's rarely very significant from a statistical point of view. Never until Figure 2 below have I found an exact date. To demonstate how hard it is to find such dates, at the end of 2011 I did a search for all dates in 2012 - day, month, and year and then I posted the results under 2012 DATES ENCODED. All of the dates found were in July during the Hebrew month of Av (which only requires 2 letters) except for two dates in August during the Hebrew month of Elul. The 2012 dates found were as follows: