Again I find myself going back to old topics with just a slight twist. But that’s the nature of the subject matter. It’s the same old thing every day.
The biggest lesson I’ve learned in this journey is how easily corruptible the social media sites are, if not the social media sites being damn near criminally negligent themselves. I had my suspicions, but like a good scientist I didn’t just assume I was right and tested what I could which without fail showed the preponderance of the information indicating I was right.
So let’s begin with how football ties in to the big picture. If you’re new, then you’ve been assaulted with a lot of football and sports related material here, with intent to focus on the NFL playoffs and the Super Bowl. Why? Because whether it’s an intentional scam or not there are people who are trying to pretend that with diligent application of the magic super powers of gematria you can successfully navigate your way through the data and make a butt load of cash in the process. Which invariably requires spending money to learn from the “experts” on what the invariably contradictory information means. That contradictory information is usually reporting on the magic numbers after the game is over. Trying to predict outcomes does not have a really good track record since it’s easy (with a little practice) to produce synchronicity between the two opposing teams just based on their basic info like team name. Which means that the evil super powered cabal doesn’t want you to know what they have in store, so what’s the point of trying to guess ahead of time?
Now turning away from sports, the same contradictory information is reported on real life issues that are for many people less frivolous than cracking open a few beers with the gang and watching the big game. Politics, mass shootings, the death of a beloved or not so beloved celebrity, blah, blah, blah. The world is a pretty big place, last time I checked. If I could I might go to a convenience store in Wollongong just for a change of pace, but spending hundreds to thousands of dollars for a pack of cigarettes is not convenient or cost effective. So thanks to modern technology I have a decent chance of finding out how much a pack of cigarettes in Wollongong costs today but this is of dubious practical value. The problem is when someone, for whatever reasons, decides to claim that this knowledge is in fact of practical value.
Purposefully chosen as a frivolous example, let’s turn to a real example. On the higher end of the spectrum of what I’m sure the majority of people think is wrong, is the Facebook story I saw yesterday about a criminal wanted for raping a 13 year old girl. So maybe a huge waste of time, but the post made its rounds and people shared it getting the warm fuzzy feeling that maybe they are doing some good in the world. While sharing the research results of Wollongong cigarettes or how based on their name the perfect job for them is cat toenail cleaner is frivolous, but arguably fun and uplifting since a good laugh doesn’t do any harm.
The problem is the “middle of the road” information, which is where social media does not help at all.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/criminals-using-plastic-bottles-carjack/
No need to recreate the wheel, I’ve mentioned this as a favorite example. With a big world and so much data, social media lets things like this perpetuate. And I can imagine that people forward this misinformation thinking they get the same fuzzy, warm feeling as potentially catching the child molester. Although I have a mental image of narcisstic teens gathering around the table bragging about what hoaxes they created that went viral, as it’s social media it’s a given that the readers of the information have a hand in this. “Oh, what’s the harm? It might do some good. If it’s just a prank, so what?”
Which is all fun and games until Aunt Tina calls the police when she hears a cat rummaging through the trash and finds a plastic bottle next to the car, calls the police and interrupts them from answering a legitimate problem like the crack head beating his wife to death.
Sorry. Insinuating that the evil empire is using easily duplicated numbers in football games to control our lives is not so innocent. Once you start finding matching numbers in football you’re a step closer to finding the bogeyman in everything from garden snails, TV commercials and child molesters. I can use Gematria to prove Tom Brady is the Antichrist as well as the price of cigarettes in Wollongong is a sign that bitcoin will increase to 5000% of its current value and peace and prosperity will reign throughout the world forever. I’d much rather surround myself with people that filter their information more rationally, like using injury reports on sports and understand that the housing market at times can form an unsustainable bubble that will burst. As opposed to worrying about having just seen a garden snail and how that relates to a Slug-Be-Gone commercial that showed up while watching Family Guy. You’re not helping anyone except yourself if you’re lining your own pocket or just looking for a little attention. Like you expect that one day the news story is going to be how the media is talking about how Slug-Be-Gone causes the zombie apocalypse and you get to say, “I was the one that figured that out!!!”
A recent news story suggests that YouTube is cracking down on conspiracy videos. Well...I’m a bit skeptical. There track record is not that good. Some content has been across the line of “community standards” good taste and removed, but it’s very arbitrarily applied. The easiest example is Alex Jones, who acts like he’s not as crazy as he pretends to be and just wants people funneled into his online store to sell them overpriced shit of dubious practical value. It’s up to the receiver of the information to filter out what is good info and what is bad after it makes its way on to the site. And quite frankly, some people’s filters suck big time.
The gray area in the middle of the road is exceptionally hard to deal with. Gematria is tailor made for this since it’s so mutable that it can literally be made into whatever story you want to concoct. A core value of this blog is a reference point on a semi-permanent level. Two years ago most people I knew that had been exposed to gematria just wanted nothing to deal with it. But obviously there are some people that continually are susceptible to the siren song it offers. Since the information is on a spectrum of obvious evil to obvious good knowledge, your filter needs to look at the source of the information. And it’s very easy for me to encourage that just the mere fact that it’s gematria should
make it be dismissed immediately as worthless.
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