Fairly recently Zach floated the idea of producing a gematria card game, which is a mixed blessing on if it actually came to be. If it happens, the benefit to society is recognition of how silly the concept is before people waste resources on the bigger projects. Like the group of gematria newbies that just lose a bit on bogus sports picks before getting sucked into the more expensive fundraisers.
And that is the reason for the idea. Another fundraiser. Find a group of people that show an above average level of interest. A group of people that have been around for awhile that have dismissed the plethora of negative content regarding his personality. The things like one day proclaiming he’s always lead a life of being a helpful Good Samaritan, and then later proclaiming all Christians are stupid and religion is the worst thing ever. (And I might add, wishing death and harm upon them.)
It’s also a good time to report that the plans to have a trip to NYC for 9/11 are scrapped. Not because that last year it didn’t really go all that well. NYC law enforcement is used to people with odd ideas grifting on 9/11, showing up to protest and putting out social media fundraisers. They had the perfect reaction, which I assume is part of the training - do not engage. Just stand there, making sure the crazies don’t cross the barricades, letting them rant and not engaging and not giving them an excuse to be caught on camera doing something dicey that backfires. Good job NY. No, it’s not that NYC is a bad business proposition, but the chance to create a fundraiser to go to Hawaii instead. Capitalizing on human misery for an island vacation instead of a long car trip to NYC.So using my knowledge of gematria prediction, here’s what happens if the card game talk continues. A group of mid level marks presents itself as being interested. These are courted with talk about how they’ve stepped up and are really making a difference in the community. Those that remain adamant about how it’s a dumb idea are targets for those courted to feel superior to. Talk of the card game proceeds to a production phase, where more funds are needed. A lot more funds are needed. Like, buying a building in OKC that of course never happened level of funds needed. Then, something will go wrong that is an excuse to just keep the money. Rinse, repeat when the next big project comes along.
When your cult leader constantly is asking for money, it’s time to wake up.
I imagine the card game itself would be pretty lame. Naturally when the idea was presented it wasn’t fully fleshed out about the game mechanics. (Gives the coproducers the warm fuzzies to add input.) But it was a trivia game. That was not the most well thought out plan.
By the way it operates gematria is trivial. Reducing a complex situation like the response to a tragedy like the Hawaii wildfires to a two or three digit number? Trivial. <whiny font>But this equals xxx, and so does this. How do you explain that? What are the odds?</whiny font>. Yeah, with the trivial way you operate, 100% chance you’ll find something to tie in. Once you tie in a nontrivial number like 5,893,211,076, 525 we ‘ll talk.
What I’m really wondering about is figuring out exactly who wins this game? Changing numbers to mean anything you want - gematria is designed to be a no lose project for the gullible. You want to make the story about wildfires. You can do that. You want to make it about your favorite NBA team’s star point guard? You can do that. You want to make it about the Antichrist? You can do that. You want to make it about intergalactic penguin aliens that have time travel death rays shooting out their eyes? Yep. A true competition has a winner and at least one loser. If everyone gets a participation award of equal value - thanks for playing and give the host an entry fee and a tip on the way out.
Your host is not going to take sides before the game starts. After years of picking both teams to win there is a firm pattern of non favoritism. The host will simply
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