Personalization In Gematria

In one word describing the use of personalized stories in gematria narratives:


Don't.


It really doesn't do you any favors in the long run.


Let's start with the Kelvinator. His Gematrinator website has an introduction to gematria that explains it's more than just A=1, B=2, ....And being an intro it excludes the weird stuff like this actual comment: "Pi = 3.1416, 3+14+16=33". Which is easily the most astounding combination of misquoting Pi (rounded) partitioning the digits into convenient blocks with no precedent on any kind of a rule in place ahead of time, forcibly arriving at the magic number of 33 and based on investigative work into the history of the practice simply is not gematria. But you do want to recruit new talent. So don't scare them off. (Think John Saxon in Enter the Dragon. I'm the organizer of this super cool martial arts tournament. You do well your fame will spread, you'll get some prize money and maybe a character in the next Mortal Kombat video game. Ohhhhhh! By the way. I'm running a highly illegal drug operation on the side. Cross me and I'll kill your friend and maybe a random cat. Have a nice day!"). Suggest they investigate using gematria in their personal life. You'll be AAMMMMAAAZED at the synchronicity. If you are easily amazed by a constant string of two digit numbers that have an infinite variety of ways to be contrived. Like 3.141592653589793 etc.... equals 33.


You just got your evil martial arts clawed hand attachment (that's another Enter the Dragon reference) into someone. Congratulations. You just created Dan.


Dan gets hooked on a number and based on his blog posts must carry his laptop everywhere, or at least boots it up first thing when he gets home, and looks for the number of the day. And applying the infinite number of ways to alter a number into another number manages to magically find that number. And if the digits show up in a non-gematria setting, like how much lunch cost...the powers that be are speaking to him.


Which makes absolutely no fucking sense. The powers that be are some vaguely identified evil. Did you just avoid some dire calamity? Hah! You can't fool me! I've seen your evil 261! Now stop it, or I'll find 261 somewhere else. And I fail to see how encouraging the misspelling of TABASCO as TOBASCO Sauce and arriving at the magic number of the day helps the overall truth seeking cause. At least the Pi thing had some (weak) camouflage. But from past experience, personalized misspellings count. So let's throw that out there. Surely no potential new recruits. Dandemonium ensues.


Dan offered a rather odd personal story comment recently. He didn't want to offend the new girl at work. She's not ready for "truth" yet. He doesn't need any enemies at work because she's "super Christian". Yeah. Right. Like that should make a difference. It's ok to poison the internet with misspelling TOBASCO and suggesting that baseball players can aim a 105 mph baseball at little girls. But you won't talk to a new co-worker about it. As for the Christian part, I don't even know why he mentioned that. I'm offended. There's lots of words to describe me, but "super Christian" is hardly on the list. Other than Dan's videos that only get watched by the others in his clique there's lots of people offended as seen by the commentary. It's easy to assume based on statistics there's a healthy mix of personalities involved.


He could have taken the more direct approach like Hubbard devoting an entire post to "all Christians are stupid." Which ties into the personalization theme. When he offered the personal story of his donating his gas money to a man he got slammed in the comments by others that thought the same thing I did. Yeah, righhhhhhtttttt. Sure. And he showed gematria on Jesus. How convenient that this personal story that can't be proven contradicts the image manufactured by so much other material. And shortly thereafter it was suggested we would be seeing a new, kinder and gentler Hubbard. Which lasted about 36 hours.


We have easily produced positive reinforcement that over the long haul isn't going to fool anyone with half a brain cell. We have personalized events leading to outright mistakes that appear to count as legitimate gematria. We have personal stories that are dismissed by established lack of credibility. All because a huge problem with gematria is that there really aren't any rules.