Have An Angle For Dessert, On The House

It has been about a week, so reasonable proofreading time has gone by. That opportunity has gone for this to be caught by Hubbard on his own. His chapter outline includes:


3. The 7 Complimentary English Ciphers, Tributes to Hebrew Gematria and Greek Isopsephy.


Compl*i*mentary. Like, "That's a nice suit you have on today.". Or, "Here's our famous Obtuse Pi for dessert, compliments of the house. Can I cut you am angle?"


You mean COMPLEMENTARY.


Normally I can be forgiving for this mistake. These words are often confused. They are etymologically similar and the meaning is close. However, here it's effect is magnified because of its part in the grad scheme.


As we are reminded further down in the chapter list, this is Sacred Geometry. Geometry is important. One of the most common uses for the word 'complementary' is math and geometry.


Get this, the angles in a triangle sum up to 180 degrees. Always. So if you have a right triangle, one of those angles, by definition, is a 90 degree angle. The other two angles have to total the other 90 degrees out of the total of 180. These are the complementary angles of a right triangle. Which is why -


The Pythagorean Theorem works.


Good old Pythie. Revered as some kind of mythical super being. Part of the core of Sacred Geometry. Studied and documented in a slew of blog posts after Hubbard's YouTube channel was shut down (and presumably before that). And you can't even use the correct word 'complementary' in your chapter index.


I doubt the normal commenters would pick up on this. The kinds of people with such wonderful comments about "soap is poisonous" and "the hottest it gets on Venus is 462 degrees". But there is somebody in Hubbard's camp I do expect should have noticed this by now. Fellow calls himself Trutharicy or something close to that. Calls himself a polymath(think Renaissance man) and etymologist. And he just wrote a book. He went to bat for Hubbard and put out a supportive video during the channel shutdown. He must know Hubbard is writing this book. One might expect him to offer up his word knowledge on proofreading. Maybe his price is too steep.


Also, if the gematria universe wasn't so soulless and gloomy the mistake could have been caught by the ok jokes. Google something like "complimentary angle joke" and lol for images. It's been beats to death. One angle calls the other a-cute angle. The other responds that the first is too. The third angle (the 90 degree one, if you've been paying attention) tells them they are right together. Yuck yuck yuck har har har.


Until it gets edited you can find this in Hubbard's blog post from about a week ago. And I do have the screenshot. Editing doesn't change the embarrassment of a mistake that shouldn't have been made in the first place by someone that puts undue importance on words.