Know Your Grifter Gematria - Number Transformation

Every once in awhile you find something that is profoundly ridiculous, even with gematria’s notoriously low standards.  3+3=8 is right up there for ridiculousness.  Yes, I can see an elementary school student playing with his crayons right after snack break coming upon the revelation that a 3 and a backwards 3 overlapping this way makes an 8.  But what kind of grown up would do this?

Naturally, there’s a website.  It’s linked on this post, in the profile, and in the pinned message.  And of course it has stuff for sale at super high prices.  The $215 book is on sale now for $170.  Or, if you bought some other overpriced book and you’re a returning customer it’s only $28.

I’m guessing the bookstore doesn’t get a whole lot of traffic and relies on the occasional big hitter stopping by.  There’s only three items, and if you’re deeply invested in giving the Twixter account a follow it may seem like a good idea to get drunk and just buy the whole kit and kaboodle.  A truly deeply invested person probably thinks of the mystic math this way:

3 is a cool number, especially when there’s two of them.  And 8 is cool.  Because that’s two 3’s.  There’s four listings in the store, but one item is listed twice, so that’s three items.  Half of eight!  My rent is due tomorrow, so I need to buy two sets of all three (four) items and complain about my evil employer and landlord when the lack of money hits!  The friends and enemies numbers .pdf will prove it!  (Yes, you are right.  Your employer and landlord actually are evil, not just for the reasons that you think.)

In contrast Hubbard’s books, contrary to his complaints about lack of sales, operate as a hook.  Dirt cheap or even free.  Intended to get the user hooked on the system and show up in the comments section of videos talking about what a (cheap) eye opener it is for them. Then after a couple of Attaboy!^TM comments in return paint themselves as a target for further courting.  Your work is really good, you should make videos.  And donate a superchat to me next time you’re on my livestream to prove you’re really on board with the cult programming.  The number alterations are more subtle.  Prime numbers when the original number doesn’t fit your first try.  The same for transposing 47 and 74.  That star forward that was traded is wearing this jersey number now, but he used to wear 33.  Etc….   Keeping them hooked for a single sports season instead of looking for a big $200 pay out on an astrology based product.