Pythagoras, The Horny

It should have been the last Free To Find Truth blog post before the 25th. But some two dozen posts later (and six videos) it's buried down the list a bit. It regards The Cranberries song about zombies and Pythagoras.


Pythagoras was the father of a lot of stuff.


"Remember, Pythagoras who is important to Freemasonry, is the father of mathematics, music and Gematria,..."


Or so it's claimed. This is coming from one if these self proclaimed astute researches on Gematria. And like everything else related to real math and science presented in the Gematriverse is just not true.


Archimedes is credited, rightfully so, as the father of mathematics. He, being far hornier and prolific in regards to mathematical children sired, has an impressive Tinder profile. Including a useful approximation of Pi. Considering the Gematria obsession with Pi, don't you think they would know that? Apparently not.


As for Gematria being "sacred geometry"? Well, Euclid is credited as the father of geometry. He certainly built on some Pythagorean concepts. But there's little proof on how much geometry Pythie was involved in. Geometry is the relationship between objects. Surface areas, volumes, lengths, widths. Even if you want to claim Pythie as the father of Gematria assigning a numerical value to alphabetical characters and doing simple addition is hardly geometry. Euclid is considered the father of geometry, and yet with geometry supposedly at the core of Gematria is curiously also never mentioned. Maybe Euclid recommended one of his blind Tinder dates to Euclid and they hit it off so well that Pythie got the credit.


What about the Pythagorean theorem? This famous formula is at best formalized and simplified by Pythie. The concept was well known before him. Other ancient civilizations had a working knowledge of it for construction and engineering purposes. There's no proof that Pythie created it. It was more likely to have been one of his students.


Speaking of his students and anticipating cherry picking my criticism. "But I said Pythie fathered those concepts *at least how they are taught*." You really don't want to go there. Your decidedly unscientific approach to paring down large numbers into small numbers makes that idea laughable. No respectable mathematician would teach his students to start at the answer and reverse engineer it into the question.


The reason this hasn't been pointed out before?


Gematria and geometry start with GE. I want to sound sciency and authoritative so I'm going to milk it for all it's worth. Let me throw out some historical names and references, even if I'm wrong nobody will notice. I've gotten away with it for years! If you are going to credit Pythagoras with fathering other things he didn't you might as well suggest that he invented cherry flavored hemlock since the thought of corrupting real science by something like Gematria was more than he could bear.