Even calling something Weasel Words is use of weasel words. A deliberate attempt to immediately associate more meaning to an argument than the argument deserves based on facts. Some weasels are pretty good at being weasels. Born into a weasel family, struggling to get by and instantly being associated as sneaky and dangerous when they and their weasel family are not judged by their individual weaselneess but as a group. Every weasel has a weasel Mom. And a Pop. They might be good at being weasels or absolutely suck eggs at it, which actually might make them good weasels after all.
The first insincere debate tactic from somebody who thinks gematria has value is the request to have a debate. In this corner we have a peer reviewed scientific study that has a result that can be duplicated by an independent, unbiased person running the same experiments. In the other corner, we have gematria where the results can only be duplicated because every piece of data fits whatever outcome you want.
I want to dwell more on one aspect of weasel words in a bit, but here are some examples of weasel words in the gematria setting.
“It’s been said that the reduction cipher is the purest cipher.” It’s been said - by whom? I want to check that source out. Granted that was quoted in a previous video, but people are making their own content based on an overused repeated phrase without any knowledge of who said it, when they said it and whether there is genuine authority.
“Congratulations to all of the winners last night!” Yeah, the three people that won versus the three people that lost. Classic weasel wording giving the impression that the house took a beating and there’s a huge crowd of winners, maybe everybody that played. In the meantime there are multiple sports gematria picking sources that picked the other team. And you’re hiding your picks behind a paywall and reporting results after the game is over instead of an up front verifiable preview.
“Support this young man, he’s been doing a lot of good things for the community!” Granted, in a limited space for a quickie social media post it’s not possible to list. But if you want to elevate this person as a source of reliable information, how but linking at least one single video with a specific mention of something good?
Wording is a tricky thing to master. Even the best scientific papers will have some vague wording. Reading through the Wikipedia article, you can see this is because “we” means they’ve given the basics on how to duplicate the results to a statistically significant level. The pseudoscience “we” means “I found a meme on Facebook that told me what I want to hear.”
But really, the main point here is - since gematria is falsely equating words with numbers the world has to put up with weasel numbers now. And boy howdy does that get beaten to death. People see a number and latch on to it because they saw an evil number. 1488 is a nasty number, they all know what that dog whistle means. Uh oh, there’s a 201. They all know what that means. 33. 113. 42. Well, save some time - all the two and three digit numbers (except some of the larger ones like 500+) are weasel numbers. Even 1488 is just 14 and 88 mashed together, because 1488 just doesn’t show up by itself often enough.
The insincere gematria debater is armed only with logical fallacies and weasel numbers. The reason for a debate is to show initiates more repetition of the weasel numbers in a setting where the cult leader is a bad ass, lying his way through the debate. The initiate is armed with rudimentary knowledge to be successful at creating every weasel number, and will see it every day. Or if they don’t see it, the mind will wander to manufacture it. 148 - that’s 1488, close enough. 201, 21 is close enough because somebody weasel worded their way into dropping or not dropping zeroes without any authoritative source on the proper way to handle it.
If you do get into a setting where you are debating the gematria clown, it’s best not to let them get started on the often repeated weasel number stories that make a tad bit more sense. Don’t let them start on the “but what about Kobe dying on blah, blah, blah, blah….” Keep it focused on the corrupt system that allows them to change the rules. Rules are important, except to the criminals that want to avoid accountability.
Every number is a weasel number to the gematria aficionado. A false equivocation to a meaning that is totally ambiguous.
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