The Reality Check Episode 36

Japanese Horror + Bible Code + Soda Can Myth

The Bible Code

Part 1:

I'm sure we all agree that Japan produces the best thrillers. From everything we know, their thrillers are downright heart stopping. 

So, if you look at American thrillers, they tend to evoke shock, disgust, and suspense. Japanese thrillers however, they focus more on fear of the unknown, and big sense of fatalism. Japanese thrillers actually make us think that it might actually happen. They tend to include things we understand and see everyday. They also tend to include scary children in there, and they make it really creepy. 

The generally use Japanese ghosts, and their ghosts are different from what we usually see in western movies. They are usually people who died from the wrongful death, or their burial wasn't performed correctly. 

Traditionally, the Japanese thinks that they dead will only move forward to another place if they perform the burial right. 

Another thing is the long hair. Usually, traditionally, Japanese people have long hair they tie in a bun, and the hair would be let down only when people die. So, that's another scary thing about it. 

The music they play makes everything ten times more creepy as well. 

The reflection they use to see the ghosts are all really natural, unlike the Hollywood thrillers. 

The face covered ghosts also give a really strong feeling to the people watching the thriller. 

Part 2:

The future has been predicted in the Bible thousands of years ago!?

What is the Bible Code?

The Bible Code is an idea which you take the text of some document, such as the Bible, and you get rid of the punctuations and you get rid of the spaces. Then you wrap around the text in a cylinder, and so once you finish one line, it would just jump to another line but not like reading. And then, the idea is that you can read a particular letter, and you skip a certain number of letters to get to the next letter, and you skip the same number again to get to the next, and so on. The particular numbers that you get may spell something interesting. 

People have tried this before, but now we have computers, and they make things so much easier. 

The Bible Code is to find the events that took place after the Bible was written, to see if it actually told the future or not. 

So, who came up with this Code? We actually don't know who originated this Code. 

It actually started to become popular is because someone found this way and found that some important leader of a place was going to be assassinated, and at first people didn't believe it of course. But, in the end, the person really got killed, that was when this Code became popular. 

It it actually easier in the original Hebrew. One is that these texts tend to be written without vowels, so it's much easier; you don't have to look for a vowel to make a word, you can just use any of the letters together. Second is multiple spellings for the same words. There are many more that makes the original Hebrew easier. 

Science Myth of the Week:

When you tap a soda can, will it really not burst out as much? 

When the can isn't opened, so it's stable. When you open it, you reduce the pressure, so the CO2 comes bubbling out. So, it's actually not true.