Because real numbers can be boring. It's hard to be funny about real numbers. I got up way too early this morning and there's no updates on yesterday's football games to pick on. So this is an overdue explanation of the sloppy math these gematrianarianists use.
One of the overused bogus cheats is the use of numbers that are 'close enough'. 34 versus 43. Close enough, they are the same. Looking for 166? 116 is close enough.
Lets step back and look at the two digit example above. Picture two dice being rolled. The result is 3 and 4. Perfectly logical without much of a stretch that 3-4 and 4-3 are the same. But since these are used in context of things like football jersey numbers they are more obviously different. If you are playing a lottery with a drawing of a two digit number you have a 1 in 100 chance of picking the right number. 3-4 and 4-3 are different. If you are allowed to 'box' the numbers you increase your chance of winning. And the lottery adjusts the payoff downward accordingly. Your odds of picking a single two digit number from 1 out of 100 to 2 out of 100. Forget for a moment that 'boxing' doesn't make sense with double digit numbers, the overall odds don't change significantly.
Now expand the drawing to a three digit lottery number. The odds decrease to one out of one thousand. But in gematria math 116 is close enough to 166. And probably 266, 366, 161, 664 and so on.
The overall results might not change much at all depending on how much liberty you take with what is acceptable as 'close enough.' So lets pretend to limit acceptable 'close enough' to the actual digits, 1,6 and 6 in any order. That's 166,616,661. See the odds are still super low! That's only 3 in 1000. There must be something to this! But now let's start to increase the pool of acceptable numbers. Gematridiots love 666. So 266, 366, 466 etc...all work as 'close enough'. And the overall odds are still pretty low. Surely math isn't disproving anything here. Take that math! Numerology rules.
But things start to fall apart in a hurry once the number of digits increases. If the target is 1729 it gets more difficult to justify something like 2728 as 'close enough' even pointing out that the leading '2' is one more than the '1' and the trailing '8' is one less than the '9' in the target.
This is why the gematroglydytes don't go beyond three digit numbers and most of the numbers they manipulate are one or two digits. Mostly two because they do appear to be smart enough to have figured out that a one digit number really isn't that cool.
Think of the Nicholas Cage movie, Knowing. He found lots of sequences of numbers that tied in to dates and death tolls for multiple tragedies EXACTLY. Now if the gematrivialists came up with something hat boiled down to 09112001 they might be on to something. But, 911 is close enough. Stupid eight digit numbers. Heck, I'll even give you 11092001 dating with the day first like they do in Europe. But don't insult us by trying to claim that something like 20093 is 'close enough' because it has the 9,2 and some zeroes and the three ones add up to three. If you want to try and pull that bs on us write down a hard and fast set of rules. Put it in your blog and videos. No changing which numbering convention you are using. No spelling out numbers as words to get a different number. And for Christ's sake find something more meaningful than football and movies/TV which have soooooo many numbers in them you can always find what target you are looking for.
Or you could simply STFU and stop pretending that you are this guru that understands the truth behind these magic numbers. Which leads me to a closing comment about a video Chucky made. He explains his football(eerrgghh...) failure away as gematria being an inexact science and he's always willing to admit when he's wrong. Now listen up, Chuck. Wait, let me try that again. Now listen, Upchuck. YOU are the self proclaimed expert. You should be held to a higher standard. If we can't believe you, who the hell are we supposed to believe? Surely you don't trust us to figure it out on our own. That would make you....kind of pointless.
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