Diana Whelan: What happens when the numbers run out?
John Koestler: Stay with me. I know how this sounds, but I've mapped these numbers to the dates of every major global disaster from the last 50 years in perfect sequence. Earthquakes, fires, tsunamis... The next number on the chain predicts that tomorrow, somewhere on the planet, 81 people are going to die, in some kind of tragedy.
Phil Bergman: Whoa. Just step back. Have another look at it! Systems that find meaning in numbers are a dime in dozen. Why? Because people see what they want to see.
戴安娜·威兰:当这些数字出现时会有什么事情发生?
约翰·凯斯特勒:让我们来看看这些数字吧,我知道这些数字意味着什么。我跟着这些数字追寻溯迹,发现每个数字都与这50年间世界发生的灾难时间精确吻合。地震、火灾、海啸……而这些数字链中的下一个数字就与明天的时间相应和。在地球上,有81个人将在这场巨大的灾难中丧生。
菲尔·伯格曼:喔,停止这种疯狂的解释吧,除了你之外谁还会有这种想法?我们所有人眼里这些数字都极其普通,除了你,为什么?因为人们总是看见他们想看见的。