Scam Alert! - Controversial Truth liked my one post from yesterday. (That's the entire username, including the scam alert bit.) A quick check and some speculation reveals the following.
Despite problems viewing their material, some due to construction of www.contru.com, mostly due to my shitty excuse for a browser on my phone, they are what you could call a conspiracy theory site. The first red flag is that "Truth" is in the name. That's a tactic that's way overused. If you have to put truth in the name, it's more likely not to live up to the claims. In the gematria world, in addition to individual videos promoting truth we get entire channels. Truthiracy. Free To Find Truth. Chigozie Truth.
Does anyone real fall for that anymore?
Finally hitting upon their allied sites I got confirmation of content. What we've been lied to about what really happened on 9/11. Stop the Zionists. Get the fluorine out of our water.
I was going to bring this subject up soon anyway. So this visit will give a jump start. The post that was "liked" was about the Kelvinator's 9/11 video from yesterday. I would have preferred that it was the plate tectonics post. If you think about gematria using GPS coordinates, they don't have a good explanation for exactly when things started and will stop being on thus and such a meridian. I could have gone into the detail of how in about 925,000 years Wollongong Australia will cease meaning 34 and will then be 35. (Assuming some catastrophic alteration of current patterns doesn't change current movement). But it's only satisfaction for my inner science geek. It explains a lot of why I'm interested in the topic at hand. But how many people who read and understand really care? Very few. I'll settle for the satisfaction of knowing that the rebuttal to that bit of numerology misinformation is out there for public consumption.
They visited. They must have seen I'm anti-gematria. Or maybe not. One of two explanations is somebody just assuming if it had 9/11 in the post title must mean I'm a 9/11 truther. The other is that like the gematridunce that posted on 9/11 Let's Roll they decided gematria is too weird and stupid. The sentiment is appreciated, but overall doesn't help the cause. And they resent that someone is trying to make money off of it.
In the content I read that they specifically do not like well intentioned truthers making them look bad with shoddy information. And they want donations, too. No sense in donating to gematria when you can give it to the big boys that really have the truth, right?
I'll stick to gematria and someone else can argue with them about the science behind the collapse of WTC7 and such. For now. We have brought up the subject of money. Good enough for me for now.
The plate tectonics post and the post about the letter S were timed to be made because there are more rumblings from the grottoes that this Hubbard book is pretty much finished and will be released by the end of this month. Both those posts are seriously damaging to the case of gematria being valid. There is no good reason that SOOTHE and ANNOY don't match, which they shouldn't, and SOOTHES and ANNOYS do match. I'd really like to know that the descendants of Wollongong have a big party when the latitude changes. It's like the gematria Y2K bug. That produced some memorable partying. If there really is a book coming out, there surely isn't a chance to react to it like my older information about the misuse of Pi, the distance to the Sun, etc...
The same way that I cater to my audience, there is a limited audience for this book of Hubbard's. The hardcore supporters that refuse to even accept that there's anything slightly wrong with what he says. And some sports buffs deluding themselves into being able to get an edge by figuring out how these nearly infinitely powered beings are rigging things the way they do.
The sports gematria is easy to dismiss. If you can't see that it's being reported after the event is over or any prediction is no better than a coin flip or based on a well informed sports mind, you deserve to lose your money. Picking the Patriots to win the next Super Bowl isn't much of a prediction. They were the heavy preseason bet. There still one of the top choices. Changing it mid year to the Eagles. My how convenient the gematria suddenly lines up favorably for them when preseason there wasn't even a burp. (And watch it change again if two offensive lineman go down with injuries in week 15.) No. Picking the '69 Mets preseason is a prediction.
The hardcore followers are very defensive about the craft. The motivation is mysterious. But they do show interest in purchasing this book, even after a poor track record on previous fundraisers. The All For Truth social network - $15k (?) raised with nothing to show for it. The Presidential campaign/book tour-dead after a month. And now asking for another donation to finish a first run, that may only have produced one donation.
It looks like one last push before the party is over. I've seen a marked increase in criticism in my 10 1/2 months. And although I could also take the attitude of "you deserve to lose your money" I'm wired to be anti-fraud. I'm an outspoken critic of Scientology. I spent years on internet poker. I hated SeaWorld, not because of the mistreatment of the whales, but their lame lying through their teeth defense. All of those causes are resulting in disaster for the frauds by their perpetrators.
When you get down to the bare bones, gematria in it's current form is just a glorified version of a psychic hotline. Just substitute "the freemasons are talking to me through numbers" for "I'm talking to dead people." Even without significant existing indications that the creators of these narratives are forcing the script to match what they want, they keep asking for money. If you want to make ludicrous claims about the English language on your own time and dollar, fine. Leave money out of it. Even if you move on, the misinformation you spread is "out there" for someone else to build and capitalize on. Because what's better than a scam for lulz? Getting paid for it.
I've got no reason to make things easy for you. Especially with some of the morally repulsive content involved.
The status of the Hubbard book...
It's now mostly committed to actual production of a physical book. His publisher of choice is Bookbaby. This already does not make complete sense. He needs money to print the book. The people that want the book are supposed to pay for the printing. Then buy the book? Or have they preordered and get a copy by their donation? Book any was chosen specifically to keep money out of Amazon's hands, because they are part of the problem. And they also do eBooks. Which you need to have a way of viewing. By buying a product from Amazon or another company that's part of the problem. And you can buy just a single printed book. Very interesting to see if we'll see any more than a video of the author holding a single copy. There's always the chance that another excuse for delay will be presented.
So, Controversial Truth, I agree with your sentiment, if I've read into that correctly. Gematria proves nothing. There's no grasp of science, language, history or rational thinking.
And for the record, the Gematrinator video about his stats crashing - the one that he says he doesn't ask for money because he has a real job? The donation link is still on his Website. To give him credit, he doesn't and has not actively requested donations from anything I've seen. I'd still like to see the link removed to synch up with the claim in the video.
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