Russell Rebrand

Media Matters YouTube video about Russell Brand

That is one awesome video if you want a not too short and not too long rundown of how someone turns to misinformation and disinformation just for the money.

Oh, the obligatory introduction for those who by some chance don’t know who he is and haven’t clicked on the video.

Russell Brand is a washed up comedian and actor who is most famous for being briefly married to Katy Perry (2010-2012).  Besides the Neil DeGrasse footage of talking science with Katy, the divorce is the biggest proof that she actually is intelligent.  Russell has also managed to get himself under investigation for rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/russell-brand-allegations-comedy-metoo-b2414756.html

He’s actually been decent in some decent films(Death on the Nile), but now his IMDB page is loaded with stuff he’s been spouting from his books and social media videos.  

And BRAND=33 in reverse reduction, so we all know what that means.

There are more ordinary, lesser known figures, who go through the transformations described in the MM video.  Hypothetically, you could have a decent “normal” job like working for a well known corporation that makes, among other things, medical equipment.  Then, you find gematria is getting money and attention from pretending you can predict sports results.  You wake up one day, and look in the mirror and think, “I gotta get myself a piece of that action.”  But you need a new, fresh angle.  So you build a calculator because these chumps use pen and paper and handheld calculators.  You start off by talking about spiritual related stuff like astrology topics and organic matrices and one day you’ve got a foot in the door.  Then, you get caught up in the new found fame and to keep the level of attention you got promoted to - how about taking a swipe at the Jews and celebrity death content that is getting the views in the sports pick world?

Something like that could very easily happen in a different corner of the multiverse.  Or maybe, it already did?!?

As we’ve been saying, today’s gematria grifters have not made up anything new that hasn’t been done before.  Brand is an example of how the process works on a person with a tad more fame than someone trying to start out fresh today.  The idea of gematria grifting existed in the Paul Foster Case era.  Alex Jones did all the heavily lifting on how to produce misinformation clickbait outrage porn.  And now we’re at the Golden Era of Grifting that is today’s internet.  The psychologically projecting, “Don’t censor my free speech because I’m trying to cover up the fraud” Golden Era.

I don’t feel guilty about “stealing” the fairly obvious Rebrand pun Abbie uses.  My post about cross pollination precedes this video, so without any evidence whatsoever I can claim she stole that from me.  In reality, it’s quite common for independent but like minded people to come to the same conclusions about an issue they’ve studied.  And sometimes the jokes write themselves.  And the spot we’re headed with this - Russell’s jokes weren’t working anymore.  The star was fading.  And based on the engagement measured by video views there are three Russell periods. 

It’s not fair to say distinct and completely changed at a single point in time.  It’s a timely process based on the method of operation.  That method, stolen from Jones, is to throw as much bullshit at the side of the barn and see what sticks.  Bad clickbait outrage porn slides off.  The good stuff goes viral.  Not permanently endemic viral, just long enough to capitalize on the gullible who have their checkbooks open at the moment.  Those that think that because they’re poor and miserable they have a chance to escape and strike back at those who they perceive placed them in their state of poorness and miserableness.  The artificially labeled scapegoat du jour that somehow you’re being willing to part with more of your money and you never receive any relief from your misery will magically be rid of - tomorrow.  Of the next day.  Or how about Saturday, the day after you cash your weekly paycheck.

Brand’s transformations are all encapsulated in his own story.  It works a bit different at the lower levels.  Those that deceive hope and pray to make it to the big time where millions of dollars flow in and they can ease back and laugh at the misery they’ve promoted.  But not everyone has the charisma and acting skill like Brand to get through a video that they know is misinformation without breaking character.  Jones is the master of spouting bat shit craziness while maintaining his composure.  Zach is really good at responding on the fly when needed.  Which also gives him the downside of occasionally going too far and getting flagged by the powers that be for crossing that line.  (Sadly, this is never more than a minor inconvenience.). And those like Derek…they couldn’t act their way out of a paper bag and rely on reading from a script to pull off the act.

Wherever they fall in the spectrum of acting ability, the cross pollination at the lower levels happens because to keep the numbers up for engagement requires the Shill Game or a crossover episode.  The spiritual guru who doesn’t focus on gematria is a guest on a synchronicity minded gematria host’s livestream.  The “Obama is the Antichrist” master posts a decode of the Super Bowl that’s now just days away.  The sports decoder calls up TFR to talk about urine therapy.  The Qanon influencer joins the weird shit in the sky master without ever mentioning what they think about chemtrails.  Ad nauseum.  There’s a lot of shit out there just waiting to be flung at a lot of walls.  It’s not a given, but the vast majority of time the shit slingers have just one single common point.

Give me your money.  Only I am the true salvation.  If my advice didn’t work it’s because you did it wrong and that is solved by giving me more money.

Deliberately Misinterpreting Upcycling

There’s yet another talking point to be added to the misinformation supply related to food.  There’s a couple that come to mind that have gotten a lot of traction long ago, so let’s cover them first.

First of all, there’s Monsanto, the poster child for GMO issues.  Genetically Modified Organisms.  Tinkering around with genetics is science, and science is always bad to your conspiracists.  So anything that’s not natural that the human body didn’t tinker around with on its own is allegedly bad.  There’s a lot of different stories to the evil GMO plot.  There’s the outright trying to kill us by “poisoning” our beloved natural food.  There’s the God doesn’t approve of tinkering around in his territory angle.  Like vaccines there’s talk about how genetic tinkering in food you eat is going to shed into the human body and all kinds of crazy outcomes that has, all that will DEFINITELY happen tomorrow.  Except they don’t, then the zombie humans will DEFINITELY happen the day after that, then the next day, then the next day.

I also would prefer to not have to worry about what can go wrong with GMOs, but not for the same reasons that the conspiracy theorists ate.  And we’ll get to that in a recap.  Their ideas have no basis in reality.  It becomes a fake think tank talking point.  Apparently, they are regulated and some standards are applied to pass muster.

And then there’s the eating bugs crowd.  Our poster child here is Klaus Schwab and the WEF.  You’re only going to have bugs to eat in the future, while the elites dine on high end steak, caviar and everything is seasoned with good dust.  Over two billion people eat insects on a daily basis.  Lots of these people have the only other option of starving.  GMOs cover science as bad.  Eating bugs is the elites are bad.  And the evil cabal won’t stop until enough people are dead that the entire mass production of normal food collapses and everyone dies.

Basic human necessities have always been a tough nut to eat, how do you feed an ever growing population?  A trillion dollars a year is wasted on food loss.  It’s not sensible to buy 59 boxes of Cheerios on sale at half price if you are just going to eat two of them before they go stale.  And even before they get to the table you have your mice, insects and microbes all staking their claim to what’s intended for people.  All things that have traditionally required playing God and tinkering around with chemical solutions to pest control.

There’s video out there about upcycled foods.  And deliberately insinuating that it’s waste products, being turned into bread.  Which is absolutely not what upcycled means.  The original poster even ignores etymology and calls it REused.  Here’s what it actually is:

https://www.upcycledfood.org/upcycled-food#:~:text=Upcycled%20foods%20are%20made%20from,landfills%2C%20or%20in%20anaerobic%20digestors.

Now, a lot of damage can be done in one short video that promotes a bogus talking point.  And you can tell by the closed minded reactions of the commenters who won’t research whether something is BS or not.  Amidst dozens of comments about depression era moldy bread and the evils of GMOs because it’s food related there is our hero of the day who posted this:

And sidekicks to the hero status for those  five that took the time to like the comment.

As far as wasted dollars on food I would love the chance to testify in Congress that internet grifting is a form of pest control that needs to be addressed seriously.  These things usually end up with some financial hook.  From reasonable to suggestions of organic food being better because it’s “natural”.  That translates to more expensive.  And there’s a lot of deregulation talk in that because improperly produced organic food can be a health hazard (salmonella, listeria) on top of being super expensive and impossible to mass produce.  And since the original poster talks about a lot of other baseless conspiracies, especially chemtrail oriented stuff, add in any topic you want.  Maybe, if there wasn’t so much financial loss on get healthy scams people would have more money to buy food.

In the meantime, there are some more sensible options an ordinary person can take financially.  Buying just a week’s worth of stuff at a time.  Making a budget and sticking to it.  Buying generics that are chemically equivalent.  Your store’s generic Oatey-O’s are a lot cheaper.  And if you think that chemtrails are about to kill you and you’re worried about stretching out your food stamps you should probably do something about that expensive smartphone plan.

Gematria Community - The Illusory Think Tank

A think tank is a group of people, and beyond that it’s pretty much all that a think tank has in common with gematria and other conspiracy communities.  The conspiracy grifter wants you to think they are knowledgeable.  They want you to think they are doing research that has value.  They want you to think they are part of a group of like minded individuals who have woken up, discussed the issue in depth and reached a conclusion. They want to be seen as having value that deserves more funding to further more research.

And here’s the failures one by one.

Particularly the top names that are still lingering around in the gematria community, but also extends into the mid level groupies, these people are not knowledgeable.  The concentration on the grift requires pumping out a lot of content to keep the base of the pyramid supplied.  That requires being the first reporter on the crime scene, or at least one of the first.  You may want someone else to do some of the heavy lifting to steal their theme and run with it, of course claiming it’s your own work.  And mistakes get made.  A lot.  That rap stars tattoo gets misidentified.  That currency you gematrified the year of - was the wrong year.  Birthday’s are misquoted.  It’s not that we expect them to be a living encyclopedia, but a knowledgeable person who doesn’t know something for sure would have enough knowledge to find a reliable source.

The research has no practical value.  Another victim of the quantity of content.  Whether explicitly stated or not the goal is to make a prediction of some sort.  Actual predictions fail at a rate you would expect them to statistically fail at.  And the most simple of all, decoding a sports game after it’s over doesn’t even give you the opportunity to make a winning wager before the game.  Of course, at a think tank level of gematria research virtually every combination of the four teams left in the NFL conference championships was picked by at least somebody as who will be playing in the Super Bowl.  Congrats to the winners!  Losers, you suck at this, but if you pay more….

There’s no way they operate as a group for a common cause.  Even the non gematria Twixter pundits are extremely annoying.  It’s either end fascism now, vote Blue or Lock up Trump now.  A credible think tank will through bias aside for the best result looking at diverse points of view.  Anyone participating in support of a gematria clique leader is extremely close minded.  It’s a foregone conclusion that gematria is cool and there’s no immediate way, no amount of actual evidence to convince them they are wrong.  And the gematria cliques are not compatible with each other.  You don’t see the crypto gematria user commenting on multiple cliques conversations.  The synchronicity people stick to that.  The crypto crowd sticks to that.  The sports group sticks to that.  And heaven forbid you get caught posting a gematria message on a flat earther video.  Allegedly there’s a common cause of stopping a vague evil, but as far as think tanking a common coherent message, umm….Qanon.

On the surface the request for funding is a match.  Strangely, we don’t see it happening other than the request part.  Then, they pretty much just keep it.

James McGann identified the following as common forms of think tanks.  Policymakers, Partisans, Scholars, Activists.  Policymakers have ties to bureaucracy, so no.  Partisans provide talking points to others.  That’s close except the ideas are stolen from what everyone else is talking about.  Or at least it’s expected that people will talk about it.  And somehow Matthew Perry’s death is a policy decision point?!?  Scholars, let’s say that there’s not a font or correct words to convey the laughter properly.  😂 😂 😂.  True scholars scoff at conspiracy beyond the bits and pieces of truth thrown in to make a story look good or actual conspiracies.  Activism is similar to partisanship.  And that’s even harder to pull off.  The effort to grab your megaphone and stand outside McDonald’s for hours yelling at people is too much like effort.  Not everyone has the time to invest in investing in fake sock puppet accounts and fake friends or even running for president under the gematria party label.

Please, Don’t Make it Too Obvious

 

Yeah, I could have copied more comments and even dropped some names.  But for now, just because I now where to find them and can go back as long as the videos are still up that’s good enough for a citation of sources.

At times, things get really sloppy out there in the gematria decoding world.  There’s a lot of cross pollination activity right now.  As I’ve said, whether by accident or design the incompatible cliques, when not directly at war with each other in the shill game, remain dedicated to their clique leader.  And gematria as the reigning champion of conspiracy light content does not mind if the cards fall on a different table.  If someone moves on to a different clique or even non gematria conspiracy, so be it.  After all, it is an election year and the mere fact that these people are acting as terrible political pundits that don’t have the resources (translation: born into a wealthy family) to get a Fox News hosting gig then that’s good enough.

What doesn’t happen too often is that there is within one cultish clique, the stories have some consistency.  It’s stupid consistency, but there’s a basic theme.  And these images are from videos with the same source.  Someone who’s into posting about how the end of the world will be SOON.  Like tomorrow type soon.  Which like Qanon predictions means it hasn’t happened in all these years I’ve been saying soon it’s likely I’m just bullshitting soon.  So, it’s happened before, and it will happen again.  Just in case there are sports gematria aficionados that need to know the world is ending soon there’s an entire video dedicated to how this is it.  The Last Supper…Er…Super Bowl.  All the pieces are in place.  Usher at halftime ushering in the end.  Matching gematria with Tribulation and such.  And a tie in to Obama’s birthday since you can’t have the end of the world without your designated Antichrist, who is talked about nonstop on the channel.  Which is probably why there’s this cross pollination content - it gets extremely boring for the parishioner to sit in the pew and listen to the same sermon each week.  Not just similar with a new twist.  The exact same, almost word for word.  So here’s the sports decode that has nothing to do with predicting the winner of the game.  Why care?  It’s the end of the freaking world.  The Midgard Serpent and Satan both have their narratives, so you should probably take the Serpent plus the points with a prop bet on the son of Beelzebub throwing for at least two touchdowns.  And go with the under.  Just in case there’s not enough time to finish the game.  The same end of the world message, acknowledged by the video maker, that he’s been making every day for four years.  And the best the sermon has to offer is a side reference to a different grifting clique.

Then, another video.  Posted on the same day.  They’re going to fake an assassination of Trump because that’s part of the plan.  Carefully worded to both sides left versus right ideology.  Not pro Trump at all, because he is part of the evil plan.  A member of the evil cabal, headed up by Obama the Antichrist.  And the scripts of the two videos would make Jim Wynorski proud.  You aren’t supposed to pay attention to the plot.  You want the blood and boobs and the mindless not have to think about it shut your brain off quality drinking movie.  The fake death will be sometime later this year, or even 2025.  Because that makes all kinds of fucking sense if the world ends around the time of this years Super Bowl.

This is an awesome example of the evolution of confirmation bias.  How contradictory content is just ignored and swept away without anyone giving a thought to how it couldn’t possibly be aliens hiding their spaceship in the clouds and the government’s newest energy weapon/chemtrail dispensing stealth aircraft simultaneously.  The sports gematria gang will be analyzing clock times after the game is over and the world hasn’t ended, and the end of the world cult will get to wait until next year’s inauguration for clues on who is the Antichrist’s next right hand person.  And the thought that the world hasn’t actually ended and they’re still poor and miserable won’t come to mind.

Nerd Humor and the Anti Science Movement in Education

I’ve personally seen (anecdotal evidence alert!) both sides of the free speech religion and science debate in school.  As a student, one general science teacher was fired for his regular sermons.  Traditional sitting in church kind of sermon.  Which by the Constitution is not allowed.  Another, a biology teacher, was forced into a leave of absence because biology insulted the parents of their precious little snowflake in his class.  The inconsistency with one’s termination and the other’s relative slap on the wrist - reminds me of arbitrary YouTube Community Guidelines strikes.

Teaching is a tough gig.  It’s right up there with law enforcement and medical fields where when something goes wrong it often goes wrong spectacularly.  You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.  You’re supposed to have empathy and care about others to effectively do your job.  Yet now that we have nicer toys and the Cold War has eased we’re supposed to forget about empathy and not teach students actual history.

But today’s real story begins with nerd humor.  Specifically what I call, “Stupid Math Tricks”.  My favorite being the proof of how 2=1.  It’s a trick, and a fake since it requires a division by 0.  But if carefully presented it can slip the notice that this is what’s going on.

A short video from the Zachosphere was posted recently, and it has this thumbnail:

Because of course education requires taking Stupid Math Tricks nerd humor into conspiracy bullshit.  So the story in the video presentation is about the Golden Ratio and sines and cosines and the magic of 666 and 144.  Complete with forcing the length of the video to be 1:44 so profoundly dumb people can notice and post something profoundly dumb about that.  To give you an example of the profound dumbness in the comments somewhat noticed that the sine function on the calculator is sin.  Wow, that is fucking magical!  Attaboy!^TM, you win a cookie!

I can save you the trouble of investing the 1:44 + the finding and loading time.  The magic gematria that isn’t even really gematria was stolen from old nerd humor.  Probably even this article here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinknudson/2015/10/29/devilish-trigonometry-linking-the-number-of-the-beast-and-the-golden-ratio/amp/

For the full math nerd the article gives the full math explanation on why this works.  For the not a math nerd that at least appreciates math and is smart enough to not believe in baseless conspiracies (and is likely to relegate conspiracy gematria to the land of stupid ideas it rightfully belongs in) I think this image might sum it up the best:

With a bit more text from the article and the video.  The golden ratio rectangles are broken into isosceles triangles.  Part of the trick involves multiplying by 2.  Notice that 72 x 2 = 144?  Good.  Now, sines and cosines work by mathing a 360 degree circle.  And as the circle loops around back to the beginning it cycles back.  So sine (number) is equal to sine (number +360).  360 x 2= 720.  720.  720-54=666.  Throw in how sines and cosines relate to each other through angles totaling 90 degrees and you’ve got yourself a nice little stupid math trick related to 72 disguised as 144 and 54 disguised as 666.

Just like a typical gematria narrative.  Forcing a number you didn’t like into another number.  Just like the anti science movement in general turns useful math that develops all the fun toys that make life convenient gets twisted into a spiritual mumbo jumbo that school administrators have to figure out how to deal with socially because people are assholes.

In many respects it would be nicer to just be a dictatorship based on theocracy without the social burdens. Yet the math beyond what’s needed for business degrees isn’t going to get funded for all the other stuff that makes life convenient.  And then there’s that part about dictatorship economics never work out.

Not All Wrongness Is Equal

Recently I heard mention of someone being referred to as a profoundly dumb person.  There is room in the world for someone to be on a scale of dumbness, perhaps IMDB 2 will start up soon.  The Internet Moron Dumbness Base.  Where cranks and their crank ideas are rated from 1-1 because gematria makes you drop the zero.

Applying a mathematically based system to subjective content like the original IMDB has its problems.  Current popularity can sway the ratings, jumping on bandwagons and rating higher or lower because of some sort of peer pressure, even blatant astroturfing for a profoundly dumb movie the makers know is profoundly dumb occur regularly.

In math, all infinities are actually not created equal.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/infinity-is-not-always-equal-to-infinity/

Infinity is not a number but an abstract concept.  Even not profoundly dumb people can struggle with this and the mathematical applications of approaching infinity or zero.  It’s the same for the scale of dumbness which has no set numbers to describe which adjective best describes how dumb the conspiracy content is.  And all this talk of database numbers and bandwagons, etc… is to make you think about how the conspiracy fits into politics and social issues.  Current popularity affects decisions for good or for evil.  Mostly evil, because even profoundly dumb people get to vote in a democracy.

Some critical backlash is tolerated, the science community and other reality based people have another function than their main role as the scapegoat du jour.  Mitigation.  An actual nuclear holocaust breaking out doesn’t do anyone any good.  Profoundly dumb people may talk big about it, but especially those just in it for the grift don’t embrace the idea of martyrdom for the cause.  So I offer what I see as the four basic levels of conspiracy dumbness.  The types of dumbness are not equal.  Often the way to generate engagement to your particular waste of time and resources requires outstupiding the competition.

Level 1 - The single topic crank.  Pretty rare these days.  Level 2 is all the rage now.  These don’t get off topic and stick to their chosen mission.  Perhaps some personal tragedy motivates them to an incident where they don’t realize that correlation doesn’t equal causation and they latch on to how that Laetrile didn’t really make their cancer go into remission, but it was something else.  Then it’s all gung ho Laetrile without any damaging influences of the JFK assassination getting in there.

Level 2 - Crank magnetism.  The grifters are constantly promoting different profoundly dumb ideas to those involved with other profoundly dumb ideas.  The double dip whammy.  Or triple dip or even more dips.  An infinity of dips being promoted to dips.  Conspiracies operate as a dog whistle to the gullible.  If you get lured away from your profound dumbness of choice you will got more of the same echo chamber producing tactics.  The Attaboy!  The encouragement to take your support above and beyond the clicking of the like button.  The attacks on knowledgeable experts.  And no comment on a video or FB group or whatever is challenged.  It can be profoundly dumb, off topic, and even contradict the original message.

Level 3 - Fractal wrongness.  The grifters especially have mastered this.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fractal%20wrongness

Everything is wrong.  Globally the personality is wrong about the given topic.  And when you dig deeper the entire set of beliefs is individual wrong.  People with genuine mental health issues can be described as fractals wrong.  My favorite example is the toxic narcissist; the one with full blown NPD.  They’re so used to the tactics that got them attention that being paid attention to is more important than being right.  And financially, people would rather have money than be right.  So the grifter embraces fractal wrongness as evidenced by the topics they choose to discuss.  Whoever died, whatever bad news makes the headlines, whatever it takes for more views is thrown out to get a piece of the action.  Alex Jones is fractally wrong.  Not because he believes in his own stories.  But that’s what his base believes in.  George Santos is fractally wrong.  Maybe he believes at least some of the pieces of his own story.  But it sure is odd how he backtracked and psychologically projected so much.  Fractal wrongness is crank magnetism dialed up to 11 to outstupid the competition.

Level 4 - Not Even Wrong.  

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube

Something so outlandish and bizarre it’s hard to take seriously.  The ultimate goal of some who appear to be in it just looking for the attention.  People who are displaying fractal wrongness get accused of being Not Even Wrong.  Marjorie Taylor Greene might be accused of being dumber than a box of rocks a lot.  At times she certainly puts out individual stories that seem so ridiculous that they are Not Even Wrong.  But she’s really just fractally wrong and very, very bad at it.  True Not Even Wrong content would, if actually true, totally upend life as we know it.  Those falsely labeled as Not Even Wrong are dialing the crank magnetism up to 101, unaware that they step over the limits that common sense dictates you should go.  MTG just doesn’t know when too far is too far.

The newest and low standing members in the gematria communities are Level 2 crank magnetism addicts. The ringleaders are all Level 3 Fractal Wrongness promoters.  Every gematria story has an equally viable gematria alternative story.  You just don’t hear the ones that don’t have some lurid take to tell.

Conspiracy Plot Armor

A decent explanation for a significant portion of the relative inactivity in the gematria conspiracy content these days compared to 2016-2018 is the same ennui that overcomes watching a long running television show or a reading a book series.  It started as fresh and exciting, then as time marches forward even the less critical thinking enabled at least subconsciously realize things.  Season 6 episode 13 is essentially the same plot as Season 2 episode three.  But it’s the Vorlons instead of a rogue Galactic Republic starship commander.  And comic book fatigue - how many times exactly does the invulnerable demigod have to die and get reborn before on thinks something is funny about comic heroes and villains constantly returning from the grave?

Gematria narratives are at a disadvantage compared to more normal media.  While the fiction in a popular series starts off good and gets harder through time the narratives in gematria and other conspiracy content start off badly.  Then get worse, or at least maintain the low standards of mind numbingly profound stupidity.  The debunks are already in place.  And the plot armor is the same over and over and over.

Plot armor is when the main character is known to be immune to catastrophic ends since without the main character the story isn’t going to go far.  Think of Scott Evil complaining how Dr. Dad Evil won’t just shoot Austin Powers and end it.  Miraculous escapes give a reason for a cliffhanger that gets you to the next chapter.  You can still invest some time with genuine interest on exactly how the heroics will unfold.  Maybe a minor character sacrifices themselves to save the hero.  Or maybe the deus ex machina is super obvious and stupid.  But something happens that the plot armor keeps the mains in healthy condition because sequel cash grabs rock.

We already know the purpose of gematria sports pick narratives.  There’s no attempt at serious engagement of a long term crowd of intelligent people.  There’s a Patreon attached and constant begging, to the point you know the plot is openly going to include a message to support the “work” for the next chapter you know is going to be the same.  Word of mouth has gotten around and we know the tricks.  Picking both teams.  Being vague and not picking either team but claiming (lying) you picked one when you didn’t.  Ignoring easily concocted counter narratives that contradict the predictions made by others.  And boy is the plot armor boring.  They flipped the script.  It’s heavily double coded.  Memory holing old material.  Occasionally mainstream fiction gets good word of mouth and takes off for a well written twist.  Ain’t gonna happen with gematria.  You learn pretty early on that excuses and other plot armor is the sole purpose of any future acknowledgment of previous material.

If one is content to stay stuck at a reading level of hearing someone is suggesting that you see Spot run, and you find it enjoyable to find out that Spot does indeed run.  Knock yourself out.  Just don’t try to force me to lead a lifestyle that does nothing that but think about Spot and his running.  And don’t try to make Fluffy the cat his lazy non running arch nemesis that I must do nothing with my life but acknowledge how Fluffy must be destroyed because of artificial not factual labeling you assigned that isn’t even in the books.  Education is a two way street.  At least effective education is.  Biased education is just propaganda.  Good education promotes the material which is either objectively correct or subjectively shows both sides and nuance to the material.  Ineffective education leads to constantly finding plot armor that keeps Spot running in place forever.

Superman (Supermen) Suck(s)

If you have the misfortune of keeping up with what’s going on with sports betting gematria you will hear an often repeated story.  The Manchurian Candidate narrative.  Complete with actually mentioning the phrase, Manchurian Candidate.

No gematria story is complete without some misrepresentation, even if slight.  In the movie, featuring Janet Leigh in her best work where she doesn’t get stabbed to death in a shower, a Korean War POW is brainwashed to go back and do the bidding of communists.  The sports gematria has a homegrown born and groomed sports personality living his entire pre sports life building up to become a superhuman machine to do nothing but follow the script handed to him at game time.  The movie candidate is more like a lone wolf amidst the pack of sheep.  The sports gematria candidate is a wolf among wolves.

A person with at least a couple of brain cells dedicated to critical thinking might take the idea of a pro sports game being between more ordinary people.  Someone with genetic or God given talents and physical make up where some dedication, work and a bit of good luck advances through the ranks of their chosen sport.  The athletic child shows a knack in early school sports.  Hits the gym early and becomes a standout at the college level.  Gets drafted to the pros and learns the nuances of the teams playbook.  Plays as an actual team member working towards the ultimate goal of winning the game each day.  And if things go really well, enough talent is on the team they win that year’s championship.

The Manchurian Sportsman is not such a beast.  The Manchurian NFL, NBA, and MLB person is a Superman, with powers equivalent to a minor deity at the very least.  Undoubtedly, some are more superhuman than others.  The ones that are part of the couple of stories that get repeated most often.  Kobe, Lebron, Brady.  The big names that get the national media attention have their on field antics discussed often - the same two and three digit numbers appear for them as the others, ergo the grifter promotes those as being more magical. 

The other superhuman players, their role is key to the grand scheme as well.  The cover up.  They only get a mention when the occasional odd thing happens that matches up a little better than normal.  That lineman that is lucky enough to recover his first fumble ever.  That’s part of a script.  He too needs superhuman ability to not muff the fumble recovery at the exact right moment.  We know this because since his name is rarely mentioned rather stupid synchronicities are dragged into the mix.  Things like the down and yards to go being gematrified.  4th and 5 is 45.  Even more stupid, the clock times to the second.  See that play happened with 3 minutes 22 seconds to go in the first half?  322 is the SKULL AND BONES number.  Not only did the player recovering the fumble need to be in the right spot, every player on both teams needed to have perfect timing to make this happen.

And how do we know these superhuman antics are more stupid than normal?  Recently Hubbard took to Twixter to complain about his critics declaring what he does is at least at times not really gematria.  Sorry, chuckles.  They’re right.  Nowhere and in no legitimate shape or form is 4th down and 5 yards to go “gematria”, even with your definition quoted.

Yet, this isn’t about that nonsense.  I haven’t taken the time and I’m certainly not spending the $ to join the Patreon to look for it.  At a so called community level these types of sports decodes after the fact are a given.  This is about the Texans-Browns matchup in the wild card round of the NFL playoffs this year.  A game where the final score was scripted to be a Texans opening’ up a can o’whoop ass on the Browns.  And I can’t help but emphasize and restate the comical nature of how inept these born and bred supermen are compared to how awesome they’re supposed to be.  And the lame defenses of gematria, both real and not even really gematria like date numerology.

Of course this specific game is brought up because like one of many this season Hubbard got it dead wrong, having picked the Browns to win.  This NFL season’s theme for him is to pick both teams and put out a video post game saying, in his most annoying monster truck announcer voice, “I just want to say…Congrats to the winners!”  Which gets really old super quick and even his current Patreon subs comment about the “scripts” for both teams and how some of them have to have picked the wrong script to bet on, some had to have picked right.  And there’s no magic gematria solution to how picking both teams where one, in a playoff situation, simply has to win.  There’s no way you are wrong 100% of the time if gematria allows picking both teams.

No, this is the rarity this season where he sort of acknowledged that this was wrong.  And he didn’t use the number one defense.  I’m so good they flipped the script on me, so I was really right when I looked like I was wrong.  A self fulfilling conspiracy that can never be disproven as long as he’s in charge of determining after the fact when the script was flipped.  Which is naturally (almost) every time he’s wrong.  This time, it was bizarre.  And it was noticed and can be seen in the video posted by the SportsGematria channel a couple of days ago.  In the comments it echoed my own thoughts.

I got it wrong because the refs sucked.

Take a pause if you want to rationalize how that makes zero sense.

By extension, even if they aren’t supermen on the playing field, the referees have to be in on the chosen script for it to work.  If one blows the play dead too early there is 3:23 left on the clock, fucking up your Skull and Bones reference.  (Although we’re sure a 323 means something even if it’s a little more effort that’s required). They need to be an effective part of the show to orchestrate every detail about the box score.  No sports gematria decode is any good without waiting until the game is over.  Although their presence seems superfluous to a ball field filled with beings who are minor deities who can do amazing things with perfect timing, they at a minimum add some value to the script.

And at the other side.  They too seem to possess the superhuman abilities the cabal needs to script the game for both sides only to have one and only one winner by the games conclusion.  So apparently the superhuman officials need to step in to correct the mistakes of the superhuman players.  Whether this is the illusion of sucking to make the script go according to the real evil master plan or not sucking because they got it right.  And you can try and sort out the incoherent mess until your brain explodes.  I prefer to think that the superhuman players suck because there’s more of them.  Spread that suckage around a little instead of concentrating on the fewer in number game officials.

You really don’t need gematria to see that at times game officials suck.  You, as a sports fan, should be insulted by a gematria guru taking that away from you.  That’s your right and privilege as a sports fan - to complain about something you don’t have control over when your favorite  team loses.  Having a gematria expert claiming it’s all about making them look bad instead of making you look bad at the Monday morning water cooler is the epitome of narcissism.

It’s On the Internet So It Must Be True

 

Gematria - The Human Ghost Box

Alleged ghost hunters have some super nifty tools to aid them in their paranormal searches.  You’ve got your required education from purchasing all the Paranormal Activity movies, EMF meters, night vision goggles because no self respecting ghost comes out during the day.

And you’ve got your Ghost Box or Spirit Box.  Not all things labeled a ghost box operate in the manner I mention to follow, but some of the numerous con men who inhabit the world have helped nudge the confirmation bias and auditory pareidolia along.

There’s quite a nice little assortment of these available on Amazon.  Some may be better than others.  Some may operate differently.  First, the basic idea.  The ghosts for whatever reasons, most likely not having an evil looking doll to inhabit need to communicate with us via an old radio.  Preferably one found in a dusty attic, with or without a gramophone of similar vintage and a copy of the Necronomicon.  When the finder turns on the magic radio the spirits speak in brief clips garbled by an insane amount of static.  The apophenia takes over and you start trying to make sense of what bits and pieces sound like actual words.  You have to, because the magic radio never gives you anything approaching a full short phrase or heaven forbid a sentence or two.

The trick is, damaging the radio.  You don’t want the paranormal investigation to be interrupted by actually hearing the final score of the Astros game and the post game show on how they got caught and what new way to cheat they cooked up this time.  The human mind allowed to wander is much better at producing the reaction that these are expected to produce in the gullible target audience.  Even by its name there’s an expectation something spooky is about to happen.  So you’re more inclined to listen like you’re doing audio Ouija board research.  Did the spirit just say, “DEATH”?  Gosh darn it that sounded like “death”.  Soul?  Carry?  Like Jim Carrey?  That dude is ducking evil.  I know he said Carrey.  Etc…  

The intentionally damaged radio is designed to rapidly skip through different frequencies and only pause long enough for a short burst of actual audio.

A well practiced gematria guru offers a video with a rapid fire Gish Gallop of the story combined with some numbers.  The tiny numbers are the equivalent of the short burst of audio.  You’re not supposed to dwell on the gazillion alternatives for each number.  You just take their word for it.  They told you the ghost said “Soul” even when you thought you heard “Seal” and get off topic with the Seventh Seal or Navy Seals or whatever.  A person with symptoms of early onset gematria dementia falls for it.

The effect is also a lot of fun for the synchronicity clique.  Now left alone to the Spirit Calculator and way too much free time on their hands because they’re between jobs again they start to make connections (that don’t really exist) on their own.  That’s when you get the fun stuff like the sports decoder suddenly going off topic on how the numbers also show that what they are for breakfast matches to the head coach of Rutgers in three different ciphers.  Personal life decodes are a primary source of unguided by the alleged expert fake data.  And later stages of gematria dementia (gementia? gementria? dematria?) oh boy is that cognitive dissonance fun to deal with in real life.  These are the kind of people that get into arguments just for the sake of arguments.

Just like you can get a device marketed as a Ghost Box off the internet, it would be fun to have a product that combined the best of both worlds.  It speaks random short words that are related only to numbers.  Then the end user can have double the fun!  First make up whatever number you want to hear instead of the tedious process of using a gematria calculator.  Then decode those numbers and math terms and maybe some calendar data into what you want the story to be!  Double the fun, should be worth at least $1000 and a bargain at twice that price!!

(Dematria deprogrammer sold separately.)

Conspiracy Gematria Debunked By Paul Foster Case

 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Foster_Case

Paul was a rock star in the occult world, and an important forerunner in the debunking of the way gematria is used today.  (Aside from the general loopiness and how it ends up debunking itself).

Paul liked himself some Tarot, and reading through his life story you can assess that he was one of the forerunners of the inevitable side show when competing grifters get together - The Shill Game.  After making a name for himself in the world of Tarot, Paul didn’t like the attention given to other occult studies.  A long time before Hubbard discovered or invented or modified and perfected Manley P. Hall’s system or whatever else Zach has claimed or will claim about gematria’s origin in the past or future, Paul wrote these words:

https://www.scribd.com/document/459055340/PaulFosterCase-Bota-TheGreatWork-Lesson-2

“Gematria is in disrepute because it has been abused.  By perverting it one may make any writing whatever yield any meaning one wishes to extract from it, and fanatics and charlatans have so misused the Literal Qabalah again and again.”

Which is something a current day flat earther or sovereign citizen content creator could repeat word for word today and be 100% accurate.  In theory a political candidate with some decorum and sense of duty to his office could denounce the practice of old timey occult grifting and win an election based on ideas and policies, but sadly the Shill game is the only time people really pay attention to grifter content.  It’s never, “You people need to stop the baseless accusations.”  It’s always, “More votes for me!  Cooooooool!”

The reality of conspiracy gematria is more to do with rebranding than creation of something fresh and new.  People had forgotten that a hundred years ago gematria was abused to create any narrative you want.  As well as how Tarot card readings can produce any result.  It’s just a question of quality and charisma of the promoter and tweaking it to current societal trends.  Notably, a significant societal trend today missing from Paul’s time is the gambling on NFL games.  Then, as this sports predicting system got traction so many competing grifters jumped on the bandwagon.  There’s a ready supply of internet newbies and a collection of disenfranchised world haters with significant confirmation bias issues.  Others needed simply create their own sports pick blogs, websites, and Patreons or adjust to something else that came along that was new to society.  Topics like cryptocurrency, the modern political atmosphere and in general anything or technology has advanced to do.  Why just complain about NASA being an actual scientific authority when you can throw in a little loony lunar or eclipse gematria into your moon landing hoax nonsense?

Before taking this to the next logical step I correctly predicted my results.

Of course there’s no mention at all of Paul in the Fee to Find Misinformation blog.  If one searches for just FOSTER there’s a couple of hits for Jodie Foster and Arian Foster.  Other Fosters.  The ‘this celebrity was murdered in a ritual sacrifice’ and ‘this NFL running back is playing in the rigged league that’s mocking us’ content.  Actual research on someone involved in gematria issues, especially one who pointed out accurately and succinctly the make up any bullshit you want aspect of gematria would be a big no-no.  Also note that although the image isn’t shared here that a search for PAUL CASE yields only some mentions of other Paul’s without or Tarot loving friend.

Another feature of Paul’s Tarot fame is how he organized  and clarified the varied occult and Tarot writings of the time into his The Secret Doctrine of the Tarot. This kind of effort is missing from the current landscape of gematria and related internet conspiracy content.  The goal was to talk about the occult and not the grift.  Today it’s all about the grift and not the actual belief.  Today it’s all outrage porn and known baseless accusations.  I’d much rather have sat down with a Paul Foster Case and shared a beer than listen to a modern day angry rant about how someone is a crisis actor because of a two digit number.

Weird Shit In The Sky

Through cross pollination of crank ideas, amplified by the love of not being able to generate a cohesive story that makes any sense, if you are looking at gematria accounts you can’t help to find somebody talking about weird shit in the sky.  Like gematria decodes that can always find a story for either sports team there is one pseudorule: 

Do not under any circumstances create a story that makes sense.

It isn’t cool to call out your fellow truthers on how their interpretation is different than yours.  And other than gematria decodes picking multiple narratives there’s little else as diverse as the Weird Shit in the Sky crowd.  So here’s some terms and concepts you should be prepared to see. 

Natural phenomena explained by science 

Clouds

There are lots of these, so there’s lots of videos about clouds.  Given that there’s a wide range of things affecting the shapes of clouds there’s a rich history of apophenia interpreting cloud shapes in the same manner as finding similarities in the shapes in and on food.  The standard cumulus cloud like a three year old would throw into a drawing is the only cloud that is consistently deemed normal.  The weirder shapes like cirrostratus freak them out.  They look like chemtrails!  Every single time a cloud doesn’t look like a three year olds drawing there’s something wrong with it.  Red from sunrise or sunset.  Dark storm clouds.  The other weirder shapes.  It doesn’t matter.  They are evil or at best neutrally weird because of <reasons>.  And that’s where most of the conflicting incompatible interpretations come from.

Rainbows

Yes, as you’d expect rainbows are magical.  They’re still explained away as a deity produced miracle instead of light at different wavelengths.  Double rainbows are naturally a lot more special being so much rarer.

Sun Dogs

Most common when the sun is on the horizon and there’s refraction of ice crystals in the atmosphere giving the effect of bright spots on one or both sides of the sun.  Pretty much equivalent to the magic of rainbows instead of a natural thing not to be worried about.

The Moon

Do not expect the moon to be referenced as a distant somewhat spherical body.  The phases of the moon are where the magic happens.

The Other Planets and Stars

Not acknowledged much at all.  Our crew are almost always daytime people.  And most of them appear to lack the resources or desire to buy a high powered telescope.  If it weren’t for the Moon activity dragging in astrology and religion you wouldn’t know there were other things “in the sky”. 

Man Made Stuff  

Chemtrails(contrails)

From my experience it is safe to say that a large group of skywatcher chemtrail video makers do not give a damn about the Wikipedia context added to the video.  They just keep chugging along.  Where the screwball stuff comes in is the embellishment on the reason for the chemicals being sprayed.  It’s death to the masses.  Or it’s mind control.  Or it’s the minions of Satan doing their part for the rapture.  Etc…. When I was a kid I never thought it was anything other than planes just doing what planes do.  Now they are the arch enemy of the natural sky.

Helicopters

They can and do say the same things about planes, but helicopters are special.  There’s no such thing as a helicopter that’s not a black helicopter stalking and persecuting the antigovernment crowd.  The helicopter is the poster child for evil man made sky machines because they have the audacity to not be shaped roughly like birds.  And birds are cool to these folks, which is makes the Birds Aren’t Real stuff even more hilarious.

Satellites

They never see them, and it’s either out of sight out of mind or something like a mega helicopter waiting to shoot it’s Death Ray.  They do not help the GPS system work so you don’t antagonize the flat earthers.  (Up to the point where Shill Game Warfare explodes.

UFOs

These are undying and so ingrained in culture it’s not going away.  I’m putting them here because they have to go somewhere.  They could be the result of man made or natural phenomena.  But unidentified by definition means we don’t now.  By a long shot, the most common explanation is aliens because that’s way more fun and gets more clicks than deadly planes and helicopters.

Within the UFO content I’ve seen a lot of still photography where they point out the ship is hiding in the cloud.  These are commonly from a disinformation source, knowing that a video would make it easier to see the cloud changing color or something else happening to ruin the narrative.

Continuity Errors

 

Another glitch in the Matrix, I suppose.

When you have a popular film series that gets a lot of sequels, you inevitably get some fatigue in hiring competent script writers, throw out a bunch of crap with the same characters, the rough structure of the main theme, throw in a little bit of something new, and release it is a low budget cash grab.  The fatigue has also set in with your core audience who either choose to remain stalwart defenders of the awesomeness of their favorites, drop out including maybe openly complaining about how much it sucks now, or maybe even become a script writer for grifters of baseless conspiracy theories.

One major problem to contend with in these long running series is the continuity.  Some are relatively minor like a character reacting to information that they couldn’t possibly know.  Film nerds love to nitpick these.  Film editors try to minimize the damage and if need be retroactively work something in to explaining why something doesn’t make sense.  And then there’s major stuff like:

Oh my gosh.  Luke and Leia are such an awesome couple!  That kiss was so…WTF?!  That’s his sister?!?  Eewwwwwwww!

The alleged Truth Seekers bring upon themselves a major problem.  For the apex predators at the top of the food chain a back story is used where they explain the reasons why Jesus is talking to them personally in their dreams, how they became first convinced the Earth is flat, or what happened to inspire them to force two digit numbers into any story they want and claim the bullshit to be the truth.  Whatever it takes to present yourself as the ultimate authority and most expert practitioner of the craft.

If one simply said you love your God and here’s how I interpret this verse in the holy tome, it doesn’t have the same cachet and weight as if something spectacular.  At least not to the followers who are complicit in the spread of misinformation by never calling out the contradictions and continuity errors.  They might after far too long a period of time question bits and pieces, but getting them to the point where they admit the whole system doesn’t make sense is pulling teeth.  Sure, Hubbard’s sports picks suck.  But I was just thinking about tunnels yesterday, and today there was some movie star that died in a tunnel car crash!  And his name gematria matched the gematria of tunnel!  Explain that, normie!!  So they can get to the point where sports gambling gematria is silly.  But their chosen clique is still super cool and awesome.

For the longest time Hubbard’s most glaring continuity error is how he rebranded from the Freemasons/Illuminati/NWO back stories to out of the blue and with no explanation decided that it was really the Jesuits instead.  The retroactive correction was to simply claim that those other groups are puppets of the Jesuits.  Now, he’s stepped a bit closer to going full George Santos mode.  Where the story doesn’t just change after a number of years, it eventually changes almost daily.

It was easy to predict that the Disease X content was going to take off.  What’s been disseminated so far has been capitalizing on the old scripts - the synchronicity with Event 201 and Covid.  Just a smidgeon of direct Disease X content while the top script writers, who now have little imagination to work with, can start getting a read on what works and what doesn’t work for getting traction on Facebook, Twixter, and YouTube.  What we didn’t expect was that Hubbard would go against his origin story in the process.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nvXAZHrTmXc&t=389s

Some preliminary Disease X content offered by Hubbard begins with how the eclipse is forming the X, Twitter is now X and generally shows that he and his minions are continuing to read this blog for ideas, since I’m a better scriptwriter.  At about the 6 minute mark he segues from a mini rant about censorship on the internet to how vaccination topics first inspired him to speak out about all the injustices in the world.  And it’s definitely odd that his back story in the old Fee To Find Misinformation blog doesn’t talk about this.  As we see, it was his personal name gematria.  Content from many years back about the Jesuits screwing up the world with vaccines is

Missing.

It’s like he glanced down at his WWJD bracelet for inspiration.  There’s about to be a flurry of activity on Disease X.  Gotta keep my newcomers interested in something to distract them from the utter failure of my sports picks this NFL season.  What Would (Alex) Jones Do?  Claim to be the most expert on anti-vaxx topics ever.

It is amusing that it would be easier and just as effective to claim the system came into his brain through a fevered dream.  That would be easier to trick the gullible crowd into understanding the reason for the continuity problems.    Those with damaged critical thinking skills eat that shit up.  I just had my galactic overlords send me a message through a dream.  It’s the Jesuits, not the Freemasons.  Move along and send me $10 before you go on with your own channel content that gives me free advertisement.  Instead, as the self proclaimed expert he figured it out on his own.  Later, claiming to be inspired by Manly P. Hall who wrote about gematria and declared the reduction cipher to be the “purest”.  Spoilers:  Hall never mentioned the word GEMATRIA.  And likewise for this purest cipher claim.  The reality is reduction ciphers are arbitrarily declared to be pure because it’s way easier to trim down a bigger piece of data into a two digit or low three digit number to match up.  And of course, Hall somehow never wrote anything about using this system for sports picks or predicting the rise of the worst pandemic in a century.  At least Hall, being Canadian had a couple of wives and presumably several Canadian supermodel girlfriends to keep him entertained while he was also failing.

The piece that’s missing still is the first disgruntled long term gematriac to step forward and admit that they’ve been duped.  Eventually, even the Republicans had their fill of Santos.  In the meantime, they can enjoy losing a bunch of money on sports picks while listening to angry rants about what’s wrong with the world, which anybody can tell is the truth.

The 13th Floor of the Gematria Hotel

Tom Segura Stand Up

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_floor

For those of you with a lucky hat.  For those of you with a pre poker game good luck ritual surrounding your lucky card.  For those of you with your special numbers you always play even though you’ve only ever one $80 on investing thousands.  Your unlucky numbers have caused the rest of the world big problems.

Tom’s stand up routine naturally comedy and playing up the idea of unlucky numbers is played out on purpose for laughs.  And note that he speaks about throwing out perfectly good sequential numbering.  We’ll get back to that.

The Wikipedia article tones it down to read as, “This is what some people think”, without pointing any fingers directing the reader to think these people are looney tunes or prophets.  You can also look at the article on the number 13 on Wikipedia.  Therein unfolds those cultures that regard 13 as lucky, or at least designated in some form of numerology as having a beneficial character.

Now assuming gematria is correct, and if you take enough time to get over your laughing fit about that, does simply renaming what is physically the 13th floor of a multiple story building make it something other than the 13th floor?  And then all the higher floors are likewise misnamed?  In order to appease the superstitious there is a quaint tradition of avoiding naming the 13th floor that.  Because the superstitious are also less likely to give a damn about that pesky thing called math.

But the 13th floor brings on a peculiar problem for the gematria aficionado.  Not that they will think about it because getting attention is more important than math, or even being right about anything.  And we know this because of the Las Vegas shooting in 2017.  And boy was their math screwed up about that.  

For starters, the shooter fired from the 32nd floor.  And since 33 is a big Freemason number the narrative took hold (for just a few days) that because there’s no 13th floor it was really the 33rd floor.  Oops.  Floors 1-12, 12 floors.  Floors 14-32 is 29 floors.  Without a 13th floor floor that’s 31 floors not 33.  See how bad their math is?  But it gets better.  The solution (which also mercifully lasted a few short days) was to add the basement to floor 32.  Now you’re back to 32 floors and still short a floor to hit the magic 33.  Double oops.

But these narratives are expected, they are forced to a target.  The matches are forced to combine multiple themes together.  They’ve always done it and always will.  But let’s get your giggle fit started again and assume they are right.  And in a gematria world, where occult knowledge is embraced what would you call the floors?  In practice single digits don’t get too much.  Certainly every two digit number is evil.  Three digit numbers above 300 are pretty rare.  Even if you don’t start numbering floors ten and higher starting in the 5 digit range to be on the safe side, the Gematria Hotel would be numbers floors 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,400,401,402,403…

Except that zeros are dropped so it would be 411,412,413,414, 415,  

Except that some of those are prime numbers so…

And the old Gematrinator calculator had prime factors so…

Best to turn the bulldozers on all existing multi story structures and avoid insulting the superstitious.  One evil floor is already weird enough.

Astrophenia Alert

 

The heavenly bodies have aligned, and those who indulge in their apophenia and love of the occult had a huge bone thrown their direction.  When the path of 2017’s big eclipse and the upcoming 2024 big eclipse are superimposed on the US map, it makes an X.

We know the way these guys think, and the opportunity to make a big deal out of nothing is too juicy to pass up.  The 2017 eclipse content was fairly nuts, why should this year be any different?  I can already imagine the kinds of stories that will be churned out.  Combining astrology and astronomy with apophenia is not enough.  They can and will extend this into a meaningless gibberish of incompatible stories.

First of all, as Scrabble has taught us, ‘X’ is a weird letter on its own.  When it’s within the truth community’s favorite word HOAX, that X just reaches out and grabs your attention.  Now, Elon’s master plan to garner more attention than he already gets is revealed. An entire website dumpster fire with the name X is now poised as the number one source of upcoming eclipse path crossings misinformation.  He also loves himself some cryptocurrency discussion.  Do you remember the Dogecoin to the moon stuff?  That had part of its origins in moon ritual eclipse sacrifice sun gematria conspiracy babble.  Now is the time to focus XRP.  Because it doesn’t matter that there’s an R and a P.  Anything with an X, by extension is fair game.  <insert pause while they do the gematria on the word EXTENSION>

And the meat on the bone gets better.  The X crosses in the south of Illinois.  During an election year.  Where Obama is already the poster boy for Antichrist content.  Being accused of being not a US citizen isn’t enough, he’s also got a lot in common with Gregory Peck’s film family.  If it were as bad as it was in 2017 we can expect some interesting gematria stretched connections.  The thing about Illinois is it’s a State.  And States have cities.  And cities have names.  And a lot of times city names are based on people’s names, people who founded the city or did something important.  The kind of important people that get lots of false accusations labeled on them because they dared to get a little bit of fame.  The attention these nobodies deeply crave.

Perhaps this will break the Gematrinator out of his apparent funk.  He’s always had the lead on astronomy and astrology content in the Zachosphere.  And it’s downright boring with just a couple videos a month.  Interestingly, content predicting what will happen could have been produced a long time ago.  We’ve got astronomy down enough that we knew about the X for some time.  Gematria doesn’t work that way though.  The ritual is declared after the fact.  Chester, Murphysboro, Jonesboro.  If you can’t make some bullshit narrative for someone with those names, you are not going to make it in the fast paced dog eat dog world of conspiracy grifting.  Just don’t take the Jones narrative away from me.  I already have someone in mind for my stories.

(Do not assume X means elimination.  I’m going with X marks the spot and Alex gets a dog named Spot.  Just gotta wait until after the fact to declare my prediction being successful or the cabal flipping the script to make me look bad.)

Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future

 1964 World Fair video

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke

I did get to see Isaac Asimov live, but the opportunity to listen to Clarke live never arose.  Not so much never arose, but more so I was in to maximizing entertainment over scientific knowledge and just never bothered investing any effort.  Good old Artie, the idea man behind 2001, A Space Odyssey.  Like Asimov, one of the kings of hard science in fiction instead of total weird science fiction.

The video is a classic example of the difference between when a smart scientist makes predictions as opposed to when a gematria grifter makes predictions.  Let’s start off by giving predictive Clarke a gematria name - Arthur 4C Clarke.  Because 4C = Foresee.  Run that through your 1,974,489,201 ciphers and you’ll find something evil lurking in there.

A competent scientific mind, that understands the scientific method and how science weeds out incorrect information and then builds upon itself, can produce some stunning predictions.  I wonder if he were alive today if his message for a 50 year period beyond now would be so hopeful.  But I’m getting ahead of myself.

There’s a pretty impressive checklist of things he was remarkably correct about, including the timing.  Most notably the advances in computing and communications.  The basis of these somewhat vague predictions is understanding that technological advancement far outpaced the humanity advancements - how do we cope socially with the problems that arise?  The smartphone  I’m using now will be obsolete next…oh crap, it was obsolete as of three days ago.

As for his ideas on bioengineering - humanity may indeed  be at an end of significant advancement, though I disagree with the reason.  Compared to advancement of technology we are socially advancing so slowly, reacting to fires that need to be put out instead of proactive solutions being created, we will never be able to keep pace.

Every major advancement in communication has lead to social upheaval.  Tribal humans only interacted with their own tribe.  Then they met neighboring tribes and made civilizations.  Then they interacted with other civilizations.  Now the world interacts on a global scale.  Up until the point of if and when we do make contact with other life in the stars there’s not much room for another level.

Here are some of my predictions for the next 25 years.  Based on social upheaval.

1).  A return to more autocratic governments with a relatively short term disastrous impact on the global economy.  Major players will stop alliances because they deem the other trading partners inability to elect/embrace competent leadership as a sign they don’t want to do business with them anymore.

2).  Living with the long term effects of climate change.  Poorer nations will simply not have the resources to cope with the gigantic costs involved.  Another relatively short term disastrous impact on the global economy.  We’ve already proven we care more about putting out fires than stopping them from lighting in the first place.  The first sign will be a massive failure in the insurance industry.

3).  A shift in attitudes towards real estate investment.  Hollywood producers and their royalties, landlords and their REITs, finance with their stocks, bonds, and meme type crap like crypto, the way to be rich is to be born into old money and sit on passive income.  Not work for it.  Housing of the low income people has always been a problem in my lifetime.  Now, so called middle income people can’t cope.  Existence will be prioritized over saving money for retirement.  In return for the collapse of an effective social security system the rich people will have to live with not being able to get an easy 10% rate of return for doing nothing but being the lucky owner of the apartment complex Daddy bought in 1975.

4).  We will finally have the cure for cancer mostly figured out.  But of course it will remain outside the cost of the average person.  And I say mostly, not 100% because of the economics.  The science can be there, but if people can’t accept the miracle of vaccination for what it is, why should they accept curing cancer?

5).  Aliens.  Nah.  There are two types of potential aliens.  Those that want to be potential trading partners and those that want to eat or kill us.  If they’re advanced enough they can find material resources far closer than traveling here.  If they’re advanced enough to kill us from afar they already figured out the signs of life (atmospheric chemicals and long range telescopes) and they won’t need to show up.  They’ll just aim their gematria beam and make us stupider than we are now.  Let us fight among ourselves on Maple Street.  If they’ve figured out how to get along with their own members they have no need for us.

6).  Birth rates in developed countries will continue to decline.  Undeveloped countries will be the source of population growth globally.  The cost of having kids and socializing them is too much of a burden.

These depressing thoughts are based on how the Earth is a self correcting closed system.  Your politicians can talk about policies all they want, but bureaucrats don’t make policy anymore than they did in 1964.

But I’m nowhere near as smart as Clarke.  So I’m bound to be wrong about everything there.  And why worry when you can just explain it all away with a two digit number?

Jade Helm 15

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/everything-that-s-mind-boggling-about-the-texas-jade-helm-panic-2f557fd77a92

Jade Helm is another example of why because of baseless conspiracy and projection we aren’t allowed to have nice things.  In reality, there are a lot of occupations that it would be nice to have staffed with competent, empathetic, well trained and law abiding citizens who care about the country they call home.  But because of conspiracy content and the internet, we aren’t allowed to have a trained military.

Of course Alex Jones was involved.  As well as some activity funded by other countries who would enjoy not seeing a competent US military cadre out in action during live action real war type stuff.  Alex has made a lot of bank by the anti government/free speech/they’re coming to take our guns/buy my supplements and doomsday prep gear line of speech.  And of course the crank magnetism has helped identify those with reality problems that refuse to accept facts over feelings.  You can find Jade Helm content amidst the Rapture is coming crowds, because of course Satan isn’t powerful enough to fight off the people waiting to be raptured unless their guns are seized.  The convoluted movie plot reaches epic proportions.  The Wachowski’s are envious.  

Fortunately there is a lull, the direct Jade Helm content has died down from the good old days when there was even an antisemitcally titled YouTube channel devoted to confronting Walmart staff for daring to host training exercises to take guns away from civilians.  Or maybe it was secret Chinese supplies at the Walmarts.  Or maybe Walmart had nothing to do with anything but they were the arbitrarily chosen scapegoat.  Or maybe not so arbitrary since Walmart, even with corporate greed still has nice things relatively cheap, and the Wachowski level plot doesn’t allow for us to have nice things.

It’s died down, but don’t think that like Pizzagate it’s ever going to go away completely.  There’s a map.  And those with low levels of critical thinking skills love themselves a nice map to hone their misinterpretation skills.

Sure the map was actually made by the military.  So of course it makes sense (read in sarcasm font) that just these areas and, say, not Virginia would be involved.  That’s a separate secret unleaked map that affects a different area.  But trust us, not having an explanation means whatever we say about it must be true.

In practical terms, the full blown Jade Helm content is a thrown in aside.  Whenever someone sees a helicopter (doesn’t even need to be military), or military vehicle convoy, or the National Guard is called out or something happens in a Walmart parking lot, it MUST BE Jade Helm.  And more so in practical usage terms, the whole mish mash homogenous doesn’t make any sense style, like any good gematria narrative, has been proven effective in targeting the reality impaired.  You just never know what weirdness is going to take on a life of its own.

I’m not a huge Walmart fan, but given the difference in prices between them and Jones’ store I’m gonna stick with them.  And hopefully a loyal, empathetic well trained National Guard team distributing supplies in a crisis.  A real crisis.  Not a whiny grifter created crisis.

Cross Pollination

 Xenogamy

Actual cross pollination (with actual pollen) is the evolutionary advantage where genetic traits can be shared by “parents”.  And in a way conspiracy content is no different.  Through crank and grift magnetism people with different ideas of what’s wrong with the world, what can be done to make it right, or those just looking for a quick buck a collection of bad ideas flourishes through people checking out what other bad ideas the algorithms through their way.  Or in this case, the comments sections of YouTubes.

The picture is of course a run of the mill at this point dime a dozen image of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.  Or insurrection if you are so inclined to name calling.  And through cross pollination I was able to find that because of gematria.

There are of course active YouTube channels that embrace Qanon style content, and this is not one of them.  Qanon is pretty open about gematria being on their list of fake evidence tools.  Whether this user embraces the whole Qanon smorgasbord or not isn’t clear.  There are several ordinary person content videos and also footage of the riot.  And nothing else.  They were either there and took the footage themselves, or posted video from a friend who was there, or just found it and thought it would be a good idea to copy and share on their personal channel.

There are three types of crank magnetism cross pollination.  Direct, indirect and a hybrid of the two.

A direct cross pollination example is where somebody devotes their time to posting anti vaxx content.  Then starts commenting on gematria videos.  Gematria aficionados who didn’t much care about vaccine topics are now given the opportunity to listen to all this relatively new content they were unaware of.  The “gene pool” is different.  There’s talk of mRNA, excess deaths, lockdowns and a host of fresh, new exciting things to dive into.  The flowers are the same though.  It’s not trying to use orchid pollen to cross with dandelions.  The basic infrastructure is unchanged, all the anti government, evil cabal, the Attaboy!^TM, the grifter interruptions of conversations with their off topic suggestions, it’s all there.  A comfy familiar echo chamber.

Indirect cross pollination occurs because these are still humans.  And innocently humans like to be entertained as part of being a social creature.  And YouTube (rightfully) does not care about your content as long as it’s not too directly harmful.  So although some may dabble in chambers that they would arguably be better off leaving out of their lives they accumulate personal content revolving around their more normal interests.  Music, sports, their pets, videos of family gatherings, gardening, or whatever.  A theoretical example is stumbling on a new gardening video, because you love daisies in particular.  And that other daisy lover is also into the chemtrails they are convinced are killing off her daisies.  In all fairness, this seems rather rare.  Active direct cross pollination is very pushy.  You’re designated as less than human if you aren’t supporting the work of your local cult leader.  Posting videos about daisies when you should be posting about chemtrails and FEMA death camps is a no-no, no Attaboy!^TM for you.

The hybrid method is the style that best explains the magnetism where multiple bad ideas are embraced.  And it explains how I encountered the image shared above.  Gematria was the beginning of the chain, and then embracing a violent attempt to overthrow the duly elected government was the end result.

The same way often struggling TV shows have a crossover episode with another show in attempt to boost ratings, conspiracy theorists will have guest appearances on other YouTube channels.  The chain I present to you took a long time (months) to be created, but that’s expected.  You don’t just wake up one day and decide to become a rabid conspiracy supporter.  The process takes time.  The tactics are designed to encourage mid level promoters of the pyramid scheme.  Jumping right in at the top is out of the question, you will be deemed a threat and that results in being targeted by the Shill Game content.  You aren’t going to be noticed by the leaders if you don’t show some mild sign of support like posting a quick gematria decode of Monday Night Football or a weird looking cloud.  Trying to get a daisy gardener to start off immediately with posting sovereign citizen content is a huge turn off to the gardener.  And counterproductive as it runs the risk of having them do a little bit of research before getting used to the echo chamber.

Here’s the chain of crossovers and cross pollination:

Sports gambling gematria—>Evangelical rapture gematria—>Evangelical Qanon style content without much gematria —>There’s weird shit in the sky that’s aliens, spiritual, chemtrails, rainbows, may or may not be out to kill us content with 0 gematria —>Jan. 6th content.

And that’s what they call the conspiracy rabbit hole.

The Seven Psych Signs of the Conspiracy Theorist

As a companion piece to yesterday’s post.

Baseless conspiracies have the luxury of utilizing confirmation bias without the religious need to act like a so called “good” person.  There’s no need to love the neighbor, when each and every person you encounter can have an arbitrary, accusatory and false attribute slapped on to them.  Jump right into the hatred without dilly dallying on the formalities of genuine please and thank you common decency.  The disinformation kings know these attributes and pummel social media with the content.  They also know that long term exposure will keep the train rolling along as they’ve mastered what to do to manipulate their target audience into joining in with misinformation.  The quality of the disinformation is higher.  What the misinformation lacks in quality it makes up for with quantity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory

1.  The conspiracy is based on prejudice and emotion.  Even in something seemingly unrelated like sports gambling gematria you will get constant stories about race and the 42 dog whistle (the N word in reduced cipher = 42).  Non existent race war narratives are manufactured to appeal to the marginalized.  It’s so effective that Zach’s demographics include a constant supply of people that should care about his openly racist comments, yet they don’t.

2.  Psychological projection abounds.  As a show for the newcomers it’s important to get in the warning shot across the bow of the enemy ship.  The accusations against his many critics of the negative qualities he displays are relentless.  And at this point pretty well documented in unaltered video clips.

3.  Content is aimed at making life uncomfortable for experts.  The anti science movement.  Whatever it takes to silence the genuine experts who point out what’s wrong and can debunk the conspiracy.  Gematria for conspiracies is an extremely weak conspiracy theory.  It is more often used now as a companion tool alongside some other conspiracy content.  For example Qanon arguing Deep State topics alongside the vast array of unrelated (and at times contradictory) so called evidence.  Psychologically someone deeply invested in hatred of Trump’s opposition is never going to spend the time doing a simple debunk of finding an antonym for words in a gematria story.  They’re there for the hatred.  Posting such debunks on social media is problematic.  They’ve been trained to counterattack the experts.

4.  They use circular reasoning to resist falsification.  Sports gematria is a great example.  Zach is so good at the predictions that the cabal flips the script on him to make him look bad.  It’s taking his 50-50 coin flip between two teams and using circular reasoning to rationalize to his dim witted followers that he’s right all the time.  Or two thirds of the time.  Or whatever percent right of the time he settles into.  His circular reasoning on his success rate is all over the map from never wrong to occasionally wrong to admitting he’s having a bad season to admitting having a bad year.

5.  Shame is a cover up.  The typical gematria monetary loser did not come forward in the past to acknowledge their failure.  Here, progress has been made where angry “trolls” have come forward to denounce the system.  And some of them are even fellow truthers.  They still are invested in something else that’s also wrong, even a different sports gematria site they think is better.  These people are a mix of misinformation addicts and peddlers of disinformation seeking to reel in others that have proven their susceptibility to cognitive bias based disinformation.  If and when they ever truly wake up to reality it’s extremely rare they openly narrate how they had been conned.  The target audience of conspiracy content has been subjected to relentless tactics designed to make them feel more important, smarter, than they really are.

6.  Without the shame, active consumers are far more likely to believe in multiple baseless conspiracy theories.  The marketing of disinformation is tied directly to what is currently wrong in the world today, which is always going to have something wrong in it.  This Which Hunt is force fed and mass marketed without regard to quality, the goal is to throw as much crap on the wall as possible and react to what sticks and what slides off.  One would assume that Gematria Effect News YouTube videos would be about the news and Gematria Effect Sports would be about sports gambling only.  Yet in reality it’s just extra channels among several more that are used for whatever is the topic du jour.  Anti vaxx, war,  school shooting, chemtrails, urine drinking - they show up anywhere.  In practice multiple channels are a way to ride out the occasional community strike assessed by someone at YouTube having a day off from their normal policy of saying, “Stop!  Or I’ll say stop again”. The topic free for all of crank magnetism without concern for something resembling factual information from legitimate sources.

7.  The associated mental health issues.  Including the dark triad of Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy.  The root of the narratives, the topics that are chosen to attempt to make at least temporarily viral are about empathy.  Those that don’t have any empathy are the golden boys.  Acting like an alpha among a pack of betas is marketed as the best thing ever.  Heaven forbid your occupation is something like health care, law enforcement or you want to be the rare politician that wants to help your constituents instead of cashing a fat paycheck for doing nothing.  You show too much empathy you just painted a big bullseye on yourself.