Gematria Debunked By Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy

One of those oldies I’ve been holding off on, waiting for an opportune time for somebody to specifically mention it.  That didn’t happen.  But since the “that reminds me of...” gematria game reminds me of being reminded I’m constantly reminded of weird connections.  John Cleese was on The Late Show Tonight.  Which reminds me of Monty Python.  Which reminds me of Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.  Which reminds me of 42.

So if (unlike me) you have a sense of humor since Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a part of pop culture then the significance of 42 is already well known to you.  For the neophytes hiding in a cave that don’t know, a synopsis is in order.

The book is a humorous work by Douglas Adam’s detailing, among other things, the creation of the Earth.  The powers that be decided they really needed an answer to the ultimate question:  What is the meaning of life, the universe and everything?  Using their superior technology they built the best supercomputer ever made, Deep Thought.  At first Deep Thought said that it was going to take a little bit of thinking.  Seven and a half million years of thinking.  So generations pass by and when the magic day arrives an eon later the descendants representatives wait anxiously for the answer to the great question.

42.

Comic gold.  Of course this explains nothing.  So Deep Thought explains it to them, that he did his job, but the posers of the question didn’t really understand the question.  So a new supercomputer was built, the Earth.  That would produce the answer to the extremely complex question.

It should be obvious how this applies to gematria.  All these variables swirling around.  The Earth is a big place.  And the best Deep Thought could come up with is a two digit number.

Each individual gematria story may not be as complex as what the meaning of life is, but the overall math is basically the same.  Instead of a single answer, whatever two or three digit number that can prove your point is sufficient, while ignoring all the numbers that don’t prove the point.  Instead of only accepting 42 hundreds of other numbers count.  Just based on one person’s name I can derive hundreds of numbers.  At least half of all the 999 different one, two and three digit numbers.  After being challenged on how significant 166 was recently I got my calculator, pen and paper out and produced 200 before I even started shopping around with phrase changes.  And I was only a small fraction of the way done the list of the initial options on my full screen of elisions on the Gematrinator calculator.  Then I got bored.

This is exactly the way this sad excuse for proof of conspiracy or synchronicity  works.  Make a big deal out of a single match between two things when each match instantly generates thousands of other mismatches.  If the Hitchhiker’s Guide computer was Derp Thought the answer to the ultimate question would have been, “1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 ... or infinity”.