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.
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