Duhbaiting

We haven’t thrown out a new word or phrase to add to our list of gematria related insults lately, so to compensate for lost time let us introduce our friend Duhbaiting.  So to get things rolling along let’s look at the original word and how it’s misused.

Gromk, the pattern recognition expert of the caveman world instantly recognized the precursor as DEBATE or DEBATING.  Now that I’ve caught that speedy banana slug, should I cook it first or simply chow down?  Maybe the rest of the tribe wants to give their thoughts.  Maybe since talking about the zombie apocalypse, gematria and donuts is literally eras away some formal discussion is in order right now since lack of sensible discussion didn’t work out too well in that future.  ZOMBIES=115 and DEBATE=151, so since it’s a rearrangement that MUST mean something.  Sure they don’t know about the future debate about zombies, yet just like the way the Freemasons hijacked our language to guide it pre-masonry existence this tribe is going places, unless they just want to wait around until the Neocalculative Matriconglomerate or whatever it will be named finally has a decision made on what it will be named.

This is getting too deep beyond where we need to go, so conveniently Durp swallows the live slug and gets rat lungworm disease and dies.  The debate shifts in the future to how to cook the slug instead of whether it should be cooked or even eaten in the first place.  And if they should wait it out until the microwave is invented.  Don’t microwave slugs.  It’s cruel.  Pour salt on them, then microwave them, a little hollandaise sauce, yum!

Now the word DEBATE has a couple key points in the definition.  It’s a formal process. A real debate should probably have a moderator to oversee it like a caveman Anderson Cooper to make sure both sides stay in line and keep it formal.  Otherwise, even without a moderator, a debate turns into an argument that doesn’t have a real winner or loser that has a real solution.  You end up with Durp just eating the slug instead of getting to the real issue.

There’s been more talk, even an insanely long video, recently about inviting critics to debate.  As is the case with so many fairly simple words and concepts like ordinal, evidence and synchronicity the gematria world just can’t get it right and misuse the word debate.  There’s no formality.  Also important to debating is logical consistency, facts and some degree of emotional appeal.  Well one out of three isn’t a complete whitewash, but that’s what it comes down to is that you’ve got a lot of emotion and no facts or logic.  Even the invitation to a debate itself is illogical since encouraging someone to call your radio show or post a critical comment on your latest celebrity death video never results in anything remotely resembling a formal discussion.

So what you really have is DUHBAITING.  Which is:

Encouraging unsuspecting people into allowing reverse trolling.

As previously mentioned this is not a fun process for the uninitiated.  Even well intentioned information from critics is rudely treated.  They’re used to being wrong all the time and that experience serves them well.  Like when my dog brings a dead groundhog into my house, he gets attention.  Not necessarily what he hoped for, but it is still attention.  “Look human, you ignored me a little longer than I’d like, a trophy for you!”  Yeah, now I’m going to yell at you for half an hour straight, then you’ll look at me with the sad eyes and win the argument through illegal debating tactics.

I don’t have the desire to play pigeon (or groundhog) chess with people of varying degrees of intelligence, commitment to stupidity and narcissistic personality disorder.  But I will remind you of what you’re getting yourself into and have some DON’Ts.

Don’t
1). Mention intelligence.  The top brass knows it’s bullshit and they’re marketing the scam to their sheep for money or attention.  They will play the “I’m actually quite smart” card, which is true enough at least to the extent of being smarter than their target audience.
2).  Mention mental disease.  Do you really think they haven’t heard that before?  Huge waste of time.
3).  Go back for a second helping.  After your first ill advised comment it’s tempting to rebuttal.  Because the reverse trolls will overwhelm you with goalpost switches and every logical fallacy in the book.

Here’s why, the duhbait goes like this:

GEMATRIA USER: <Insert crazy bullshit>
NORMAL PEOPLE:  WTF?
GEMATRIA USER:  Duh.  <Insert illogical follow up bullshit>
NORMAL PEOPLE:??
etc....

Instead of asking me to duhbait them on their home turf I’m still waiting for that phone call from Anderson Cooper for a real debate.  Which isn’t going to happen since it would be over real quick.