Finally, The Status Quo Remains Unchanged

That was certainly a change from the OJ verdict.  Within minutes my phone, and everyone else’s phones started chirping away with the results of the jury verdict in Trump’s fraud trial.  I got a couple minutes advance warning, enough time to check the trending hashtags on Twitter before the official announcement.  Without a real clue as to what it would be.  Both because the two sides echo chambers loaded with lopsided news didn’t address anything but their own side and its hopes and dreams.

And there was nobody in the preceding weeks and days that offered a gematria prediction on the outcome.

As vague as they might like to make it sound, the purpose of gematria narratives is pretending to predict.  Zach has his sports games.  The end of the world crowd predicts the end is soon every day.  Qanon predicts that arrests will come soon.  Cryptocurrency gematria lets you analyze the markets for financial success.  The focus is SHORT TERM predictions.  This Sunday’s football games.  The daily signs the world is ending means you better be ready for it tomorrow, just in case.  Although it’s up to four years away, that NEXT presidential election is super important, not one in 2136.  Our stock markets are permanently volatile now, especially crypto.  Read those signs and prepare for that price point midday when the last three digits are 6.66.

If you survive long enough and grow and mature as a member of the human race, you learn about the LONG TERM patterns with these gematria issues.  The success rate is minimal (around 50% for sports predictions) or even nonexistent (end of the world).  And you learn that these magical analyses have a common theme, two things that always appear.  Anger and fundraising.

Just like the sports games are double coded bullshit excuse for failed predictions, the trial outcome was predetermined in the minds of die hard right wingers.  If Trump was found innocent, yeah team!  A guilty verdict, the world is out to get me, it’s rigged!!  And the second result is better for the grifters.  An angry consumer is far less rational and easier to separate from his finances than someone who wants to think things over a bit before deciding.  Why anyone would be surprised that Trump immediately produced a fundraiser after the verdict is a mystery.  Really.  He did that.  Within minutes the fingers typety typed away a witch hunt woe is me fundraiser.

The misinformation researchers I follow on Twixter had the correct and more measured response.  The status quo really hasn’t changed because there’s still a lot of anger out there centered around the former president, because that’s exactly what he wants.  That’s his lifestyle and it’s all he knows.  And there’s a lot of smaller fish in the water loving how easy it is to capitalize on it.  Getting people involved in the perpetual negative feedback loop.  Angry about finances instead of an intellectual or moral cause.  Being separated from finances.  Being angry about finances.  Being separated of finances.  And getting their information where they shouldn’t on social media which is mostly either it’s time to dance in the streets or think about revenge.  No nuance or context or middle ground for compromise.

The actual gematria response has been pretty lame so far.  For example, a we need to get revenge narrative that’s floated out there is Skull and Bones nonsense.  SKULL AND BONES, which doesn’t even have a gematria value of 322, but since it’s me nickname is Order 322.  That’s represented by the 34 guilty counts because of 3 (2x2).  These are not coming from the minds of people with a long term intellectual commitment to a cause.  These are people treating the future as a football game where you get to complain about the referees and get drunk and beat up a fan of the other team in the parking lot, because…you didn’t like the number on their player’s replica jersey.

Enjoy your status quo.  It’s a bright and brilliant day for the status quo.  Maybe the best status quo of angry people we’ll have all year.

Gematria, Freedom Fries - The Political Power Paradox

Have you ever noticed that no U.S. politicians openly embrace gematria as part of their life?  It’s kinda just limited to not minding that some of their more vocal followers don’t mind that people are manufacturing fake evidence on their behalf.  Our best chance ever, George Santos seems to have decided that there was a line he wouldn’t cross and he’d say ANYTHING.  Except talk about gematria.

The reason is America’s number one asset.  Griping and complaining.  We are very, very good at that.  A couple hundred years of digging for dirt to disparage the enemy instead of looking for the positives on your side.  And the Freedom Fries Fiasco illustrates this well.

As gripers and complainers extraordinaire you need extreme measures to motivate the masses.  Get most of the country on board with the program when actual bullets start flying and killing people.  I’d argue that a good conservative political stance regarding Middle East oil interests validly includes efforts to maintain fossil fuel production.  Put the brakes on gung ho never use fossil fuels because of global warming problems.  Our tanks, planes, convoys, the entire infrastructure are sitting ducks when others are still fueling up things to Chuck things from as far away as possible instead of getting up close and personal.  But the world is a big place, and not everyone sees things our way.  And after we decided to put together a coalition to invade Iraq, France decided to take a pass.

You traitors.

Amidst our griping and complaining culture, we’ve gotten very good at boycotting, banning and disparaging “the enemy”.  Cancel culture.  So our well thought out plan to shame and strike back at the French was to rename French fries to Freedom fries.  (And to a lesser extent Freedom toast was a thing). This was short lived for multiple reasons.  It’s ineffective because the whole idea was frivolous and stupid.  There’s no actual boycott with an impact.  Just a name change.  And it was pointed out that the food is likely more to be of Belgian origin instead of French.  We had a couple months of gung ho pride followed by the shame of ridicule for decades.

And now imagine yourself a future where gematria really takes hood.  Like some of the still bigger users insist that millions of people need this magical knowledge.  How you are going to shame and ridicule your enemies effectively is totally impossible.  Your semi regular reminder here - based on gematria every person alive now, that lived in the past and will ever live in the future has evil gematria.

I’m not talking about pointing out that 88 has certain negative accepted connotations under certain context. I’m talking global boycott of your enemies because you need to teach them not to mess with you.  Any ban will need to:

1). Include every number.

2). Include every scapegoat instead of just arbitrary selection on a case by case basis.

3). Boycotting and canceling oneself. 

This is why we need an ancient underground reptilian race or spacefaring aliens to pop up and do the canceling since we do a great job of griping our way out of credibility.  Look at those silly hairless apes with their numbers not used for real math.  Let’s cancel them.

Analysis Of Old YouTubers #1 - Gematria Database

The Konspiracy (not a typo) world was a lot more fun before the 2020’s hit.  Crank and grift magnetism was rampant.  Coattail riding was at an all time high.  Cult leader wannabes were checking up on what Alex Jones was talking about, copying that source material and spreading it further to people way down at the bottom of the MLM pyramid.  And YouTube algorithms did nothing to help with odd recommendations showing up in suggested viewing.

One such account is (was?) the Gematria Database channel.  It’s been inactive for a couple of years now.

https://m.youtube.com/@KonsPiracy

And that channel links to his blog.  With both posts.  Although that is mercifully short the two posts are lengthy and done in color coding because that was his thing.  And we do know it’s a him.  We’ll get to that in a minute.

Going back to the beginning there are five old generic conspiracy videos.  Four parts to recap the Saturn Project which seems to be the standard astrology nonsense crank magnetized later into gematria decodes.  And they’re nine years old.  Which means it slightly predates when Hubbard first started his copying of the Alex Jones method.  Then there’s a long break.  But back to being active again after discovering the joys of gematria.  And that’s when there was a name change acknowledging the gematria . And that’s how we know it’s a him, as the most prevalent videos are reading from books.  Nothing but reading aloud from Hubbard’s books or Rambo’s blog posts.

Rambo used to be a fixture on Zach’s call in shows.  Used to be because as he presented things in a calmer and more respectful manner he didn’t go off on angry racist and death threat laden rants.  Which means since he was competition to the cult leaders authority he had to go.

In depth speculation is impossible with this scant information.  But I’m still going to do it.  So call it shallow speculation.

Probably when he first got going he was a teenager with enough free time on his hands to get curious about conspiracy topics.  There’s an odd video from nine years ago that stands out.  The Super Friends 911 Forshadowing [sic] video.  Which will get a separate section later in this post.  Although the astrology and Saturn content is mild and seemingly innocent, we know he’s been exposed to the thoroughly debunked 9/11 lies.  And he probably likes it, or at least did years ago.

Then a five year break.  Five long years of nothing until all of a sudden the database project shows up.  That appears to have a significant time investment put in to it.  And the time investment for the boring task of reading aloud from somebody’s book.  The view counts are interesting and likely show a pattern - waning interest in gematria, specifically waning interest in Hubbard’s style.

The most views are from reading from Hubbard’s book.  Kissing the leader’s butt always gets the views and the Attaboys!^TM.  By the time the Rambo readings come around the views have dropped to the couple of hundreds.  And by the end hitting two hundred views was a struggle.  An awful lot of work for a little bit of attention.

If the Rambo readings was intended to bolster engagement it backfired.  Could be he genuinely appreciated Rambo’s content.  But Zach was actively targeting Rambo then, using the usual shill/traitor/bad decoder language that he always pulls out when there’s competition for engagement.  The comments on the last two year old videos include some, “What happened to you?”  Which I find odd since his content was never significant enough to be worthy of loyal followers.

Best guess and the final conclusion.  A true believer in conspiracy content and gematria specifically for the better part of a decade.  And finally now that the bad press on gematria is building up he’s finally given up on it if not all conspiracy content completely.  But probably just the gematria and he’s lingering around somewhere, just moved on to a more lucid scam and doesn’t openly talk about it.  In fact, he’s perfect to move on and take up a different scheme.  He’s not destined for a leadership role.  He only steals ideas from more popular sources - reading from books and the garish Gematrinator colors.

Now, back to the Super Friends.  By far the most popular video based on view counts.  And including myself alongside the time stamps of two of the comments there’s still activity in 2024.  And it’s, to put it kindly, a remarkably stupid video.  The content is merely a clip, but the title is ridiculous.  Mercifully short it’s easy to see that there is zero foreshadowing.  The big goose egg.  The villains tip over some famous landmarks, but the Super Friends save everything.  Nothing is destroyed, and the target list - the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, one of the Twin Towers, a bridge (Brooklyn?!?) and there certainly wasn’t a villain created giant robot on 9/11/2001.  Like gematria it’s an insult to anything remotely related to actual truth seeking.  But old misinformation doesn’t get removed.  It lingers on for the off chance that a newly susceptible cognitively biased person that likes cartoons might stumble on it and think it has any relevance.  At least the second most recent comment addresses the stupidity and will have to do in absence of a YouTube context warning link.

Popularizing Gematria

Thinking back to last week when I saw a short video posted about Aether.  The main point was that in the early 1900s Aether was removed from the periodic table because the government didn’t want you to know about it.  Just like weed curing cancer and other stuff that they don’t want you to know about because it ruins your fun and they’re evil.  Back then, we can assume this was not as yet undiscovered atomic number at the higher end of the table.  But somehow tucked away in the middle of the table between two existing elements.  Which of course doesn’t actually work since elements are defined by the number of protons.  So Aether being between say, Fluorine and Neon at 9 1/2 protons gets its magic properties from having the impossible 1/2 of a subatomic particle.

In entertainment fictional elements abound.  And since gematria is in a phase of throwing weird stuff around as marketing ploys someone should try something different.  Who knows when the next Aether will be popular.  Most of the fictional elements aren’t explained in the depth of a scientific analysis.  They’re just there.  They are usually a metal with a cool sounding name.  And they usually are made for stabby fantasy things like swords or sci fi starship hulls and space armor.  Most importantly, like fictional and impossible mid table Aether, they’re just there.  And that means you can make up what they do to your hearts content.

Gematria cult leaders love making stuff up.  Otherwise they wouldn’t be doing it every day.  The go to make stuff up thing seems to have fizzled out.  The new cipher.  The newest that I’m aware of, the composite number cipher, doesn’t have much traction.  Only the creator seems to be making any content for it.

What I’m about to suggest, don’t go crazy on it.  You’re not going to create a new entire language like Tolkien painstakingly making Elvish.  Take a cue from making up an element in the middle of the periodic table.

Make up a new but ancient lost letter.  Somewhere between F and G would be nice.  That one magic letter that suddenly will make decodes make sense without fudging the results.  Make a new symbol to represent it.  Promote the search for it retroactively to your unleashing its discovery.  The painful trials and death traps that you as the modern Indiana Jones had to suffer through to find it.  It’s not about the loved ones lost along the way or the being targeted by the dark society entrusted to keep it secret, it’s the journey along the way that’s important.

And what you’re doing is writing a real book.  Not another recap of personal anecdotes and synchronicity of the overused couple of stories that make a bit more sense.  We are kind of bored with the 9/11 numerology.  Give is a new letter to fall in love with.  A love letter.  Give us Furiosa instead of Mad Max.  We love Max, but isn’t it time for a change?  A real change?

And maybe, just maybe, someone will be inspired.  Someone will actually learn to do real research and one day <GASP> find an actual new letter.  And those decodes actually decipher things instead of just throwing things around hit and miss all willy nilly.

The dangerous trek is not filled with pits containing snakes or poisoned spears.  It’s learning critical thinking skills.  It’s learning the way science works, building on what happened before, instead of just making up something that has magic properties to bail you out when the orcs attack.  It’s learning that something truly awe inspiring and potentially useful like an actual missing letter would be takes work and not just a Google search to find out what you want to hear.  It requires actually being right about something instead of forcing the narrative to match what you want it to be.

In the meantime.  Enjoy being right after the fact.

Gematria Is Corny

 Last Week Tonight:  Corn

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MI78WOW_u-Q&pp=ygURbGFzdCB3ZWVrIHRvbmlnaHQ%3D

And not in a slightly fun bad Dad joke way.  Corn has gotten too big for its britches and needs to be taken down a notch.  CORN = 50, 23, 58, 22 in the four base ciphers and it would be only fitting if arbitrarily it was declared to be different gematria values to teach it a lesson.

In theory, you could turn gematria sports decoding into a fun little weekly contest where you just have an office pool where you pick five games and the winner gets the prize money.  Which is exactly what’s been done.

https://x.com/freetofindtruth/status/1794924633055215782?s=46&t=wob6xnQtbxqGI-vqY_S2xg

However, historically getting people to calm down and just use it for entertainment is difficult.  There’s too much money in bigotry to let a confirmation bias gold mine like gematria get used for fun only.  Like John Oliver’s not liquid gold gematria gold can be repurposed for other things.  A number and word fuel substitute used as an additive to existing other grift and propaganda.  It’s just not fun enough to talk about Phoenician baby killers wearing purple without throwing in the occasional gematria decode on why Donald Trump is the greatest thing ever.

Like actual corn, gematria can (again, in theory) lay in fallow.  Which is pretty much what it did for decades until it was uncorked about 10 years ago, rebranded to be attractive to modern audiences who contain a lot of people that have no legitimate business on the internet.

And gematria needs lots of fertilizer to make it work.  There’s a lot of shit that needs to get thrown around on a daily basis to keep the crop going.  The right balance, the proper formulation needs to be there, encouraging existing stalks (potential stalkers) to keep at it with the repetitive content aimed at first timers.

There are other competing crops or maybe you should consider them weeds to address.  While gematrifying things there’s the lure of planting soybeans, alfalfa, flat earth or sovereign citizen seeds.  A pesticide, known as the angry rant attack the competing grifters video (aka The Shill Game) might need to be used.  And used often.  And you don’t even get that far if you competing with other corn growers.  Do you go for dent corn or popcorn or traditional corn?  Do you do traditional NFL sports decode corn, a lesser used sport corn or even focus on spirituality and synchronicity corn?  

And what do you do about getting the government subsidy money?  The big megachurches have a lock on the big corporate bucks.  A huge field planted that gets way more attention than some random weirdo on the internet looking for a couple dozen Patreon subscribers as a side hustle.  Gematria fields rely on the psychology of conformity with the mass appeal.  The bigger fields offer much more tribe members to conform with while the smaller fields can’t make up their mind on exactly who the enemy is.  Is it corn earworm, the grasshopper, the Freemasons, the Jesuits or Satan?  Those bigger fields usually cut out the middle man and go right for the big S.  Everybody can get on board with that.

And there’s the gematria version of blue babies.  Nitrogen run off ruining oxygen in the water supply is instead cutting off actual scientific expertise, family and friends and anyone that wants you to touch grass and live in reality again.

Know Your Grifter Tactics - Topic Selection and Illusory Correlation

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

Get ‘em while they’re young.  Groom those kiddos into developing illusory correlations.  Don’t worry, they’ll be fine when they get older, more educated and see through the illusion.

For no rational reason, or guided by some dark, primal force beyond human comprehension, a force so terrifying that to even utter two syllables of its name has driven entire continents insane, I remember an old kids rhyme.  Not just a rhyme, there’s some music to it.  You can look that up on your own:

Oh little playmate

Come out and play with me

Bring out your dollies three

Climb up my cherry tree

Slide down my rainbow

Into my house front door

And we’ll be best of friends

Forever more, more more

And loads of variations can be found.  Apple tree instead of cherry.  Rain barrel.  Cellar door.  Jolly friends.  The kids around different areas probably stuck with a variation they first heard.  And that didn’t really work for me because the part about the dollies bothered me, being a manly little boy child.  I do remember the parody that made me giggle every time.

Oh little enemy

Come out and fight with me

Bring out your weapons three

Climb up my torture tree

Slide down my cannon

Into my dungeon door

And I will lock you up

Forever more, more more

This also had wide variations with different noun substitutes, but that’s what we sang.  But don’t worry.  As I got older and more educated I grew out of it as my emotional IQ got raised above the level of a cockroach. Or, I grew out of it as it stopped resonating with me since I learned my Second Amendment rights were being infringed on and my cannon would be taken away from me.  Alex Jones educated me on that.

A little basic education can go a long way towards developing at least some critical thinking skills to navigate the world around us.  Gematria and other internet grift are firmly in the camp where an illusory correlation is force fed.  Everything is dungeons and cannons and torture.  And a miracle solution that requires funding.  It *should be* easier to see with gematria.  It’s extremely easy to make a narrative about playmates, dolls and rainbows using the same numbers that are used for ritual sacrifices, the Antichrist, and war.  The same illusory correlations apply to other internet grift.  That’s the entire point of the chosen topic, to talk about the dungeons and enemies for outrage porn, to distract you enough by emotion before hitting you with the fundraiser.

Anything that relies on symbolism or metaphor quoted by the cult leader is an appeal to creation of an illusory correlation.  So much so that you can spend about two minutes at looking at a YouTuber’s video list and figure out that they’re into the gung ho into the terror and death instead of the butterflies and everlasting kisses.  And then there’s a 99% chance you’ll actual hear the word symbolism or a variation come out of their mouths during the video.  “By the way, since you’re too stupid to figure it out on your own the way that Michelle Obama is holding her fingers is symbolic of the Freemasonry Medieval Torture Ritual.”

One of Zach’s sports decoder groupies serves as an excellent example.  Early on, before being educated by not having money anymore by gambling losses, a decoder will personalize their illusory correlations.  Things that happened to them that day and synchronicity or things important to them over a longer period of time.  Our unlucky cult member was really into the Carolina Panthers.  And he’d call into Zach’s show during the topic du jour and talk about Cam Newton.

Yeah, bad idea.  Because during the forcing of illusory correlations, getting off topic with Zach is a really bad idea.  “Hey dum dum, your content is dangerously close to birthday parties and kittens.  Don’t you think it’s time to talk about human sacrifice, the Jesuits and weather warfare?”  The reverse of the Attaboy!^TM, where the cult leader throws you under the bus for daring to think independently on your own.  Because that’s how you learn and grow and get above childhood rhymes and become a functional adult.

The War on Zero

You’ve heard about the War on Christmas, right?  That’s not a war fought on Christmas Day, but the war that is being fought to maintain Christmas as the proper Christian holiday that it is.  I’m not taking sides here, just pointing out the obvious that billions of people have different views on whether that’s the “proper” thing to do.

Combine that with politics and you get the full load of topics discussed at family holiday feasts that ruin it.  Increasingly, especially ‘Merica, politics is treated more like a football game where it’s the end of the world if pouty little snowflakes don’t get their way.  (Using some of the lingo sure to ruin the holiday feast.)  Memorial Day is a perfect testing ground for the solution.  Turning the conversation away from something that should have meaning but gets trivialized towards something inherently trivial.  Gematria, specifically the War on Zero and whether you drop them or not.

Gematria to the rescue.  Because screwed up math ruins everything.  Actual binary is 0 or 1.  All the bickering about the War on Christmas and politics can be set aside and limited to holiday feast conversations about whether zeroes are dropped or not in gematria.  Certainly it doesn’t matter if the meal is prepared for 1, 10, or 100 people.  Or does it?  Since the answer is, “It depends” that’s a perfect substitute for talking religion or politics while stuffing your face.

Recent output has Hubbard posting on Twixter that 201 may be the most evil number ever.  Because certainly some numbers are more evil even though all are evil and there’s no need to worry about whether that’s 21 instead of 201 and you’re safer for it being less evil.  And the Gematrinator thinks 6,900 is just 69.  Because, sure.  Why not.  Usually there’s only one zero to drop.  And 69 is perfect for the upcoming Memorial Day holiday feast - somebody ate something.

Do not let them exclude you from the conversation by not inviting you.  Send them text messages if they haven’t blocked you.

If things go well, a thousand years (of next year dropping zeroes) Memorial Day will be known as memorializing the end of arguing over things that require context, subtlety and nuance and replaced with talking about complete bullshit, laughing it off, eating a big meal and watching the Memorial Day football games on TV, enjoying the game for the sake of a part of a pleasant social occasion instead of getting dragged through the mud.

Maybe years from now you and Dad and Grandpa can go out on the back porch after the game is over.  Smoke a cigar and drink a brewski and talk respectfully about the numbers between 0 and 1.  But there’s no way the world is ready for that right now.

An Odd New Type of Phraseshopping

Trying to balance pointing out the nuttier pieces of gematria grift with not making things worse by essentially giving a group leader wannabe free press, that can be a tough gig.  So when the new cryptocurrency cult is fully formed, people can look back to this date and point the finger at me as the source of the problem, because I’m going to do it.

Backtracking some to start off for any newcomers.  In the old days, before the rollout of several other options since gematria makes it ridiculously easy to make fake evidence for your arbitrary scapegoat, the evil empire was headed by the Freemasons.  Through in some Illuminati and NWO references to add to your database of evil numbers that are slightly more evil than the other numbers.  Within that structure there was the benefit of the ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY.  And the process of Phraseshopping was born among the early gematria grift crowd.  Because you get a whole lot of different numbers when you pick and choose which words of that phrase you do gematria on.

RITE OF FREEMASONRY, ANCIENT RITE OF FREEMASONRY, SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY, ANCIENT SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY, or just FREEMASONRY.  (They didn’t use the ACCEPTED part too much, which is understandable as they grew up loners and rejected outcasts.)

Forwarding through time and going through a social evolutionary process, Freemasonry and Illuminati activity dropped off in favor of the JESUITS and all the words associated with them.  And a couple of people pushed for adding random words to phrases that they assumed made the phrase cooler sounding.  Instead of ORANGE JUICE, you did gematria on SIGNAL CODE ORANGE JUICE MURDER.  Or slightly more sane sounding DELTA AIRLINES VIDEO SIGNAL MATRIX.  Tying together the mainstream news stories with whatever random cool sounding words to force the issue to the number you wanted.  And on a side note, the big user of that method thought triple digits was cooler than any other numbers.  Their own peculiar idiom that separated themselves from the other decoders.

Now, the background is out of the way.  Here’s what you’re allowed to do now.  At least for a couple of Tik Tok videos.

Based on the videos posted to Twixter temporally adjacent to this, the Taylor part is Taylor Swift.  It’s the creator’s last name.  And presumably he is pointing out that if they get married and she takes his last name for her’s then she becomes the Antichrist.  Or we can also guess that it’s even worse and instead of using actual names in the news you’re allowed to just simply make up a name to fit the point.  In the meantime, enjoy the cryptocurrency content in his profile.

Part of the reason to go through and maybe give this guy some oxygen for the fires he’s trying to stoke.  Zach needs a new enemy.  It’s extremely unlikely that this non Jesuit not sports related method will meet with his approval.  Instead of attacking the “flat earth retards” while playing the Shill Game he’s got a chance for promoting his brand by making a series of hate videos on how this guy makes the work look bad.  Which isn’t false, it just avoids mentioning how his work makes his work look bad.

I see I forgot to mention that another one of those videos on Twixter used Swift’s middle name.  Which if a flame war breaks out they’ll need to break out some more Phraseshopping ammunition.  Swift’s middle name is Alison.  Pretty sure you’re allowed to spell that ALLISON for legitimate Phraseshopping reasons.  And you can always just use the middle initial of A instead of the full name.  Or even T.A. Swift.  Or now substitute anyone else’s last name as hers, just in case they get hitched, in combination with misspellings and abbreviations.

Now I need to be going as I’ve got some important research to do.  I think I’m on to something big with the gematriots of 

SIGNAL CODE TAILOR ALISON SINCLAIR ORANGE JUICE MATRIX KELCE XRP

Return of the Incompetent Evil Empire

They told Vern down in R&D to knock it off on the tornado weapon, but the bastard just never listens.  The movie is supposed to come out first for predictive programming, not the other way around.

There’s a couple advantages of a gematria lifestyle to focus on here.  Even if your social media profile continually spews out misinformation, everyone learns to expect something stupid.  So it can always be claimed that any given post was just a joke.  Or an Ambien related misstep.  It doesn’t matter that commenters on this will take it seriously and join in with their thoughts.  And related, notice we don’t have any actual gematria.  Weather warfare topics are great for cross pollination across the crank magnetism spectrum.  Yak away about vaccines killing people, throw in a weather warfare post even if it’s off topic.  Bad weather, even extreme bad weather, happens somewhere every day.

The evil empire has really outdone itself for incompetence this time.  Not even halfway through the year and there’s seven storms already that each cost over a billion dollars.  The original, even though it was the second highest grossing film that year, only took in half a billion total.  That’s one fucking expensive ad to constantly kill people and ruin lives for a movie.  Sure some of the damage is other not a tornado…excuse me… not a weather warfare tactical cyclone related damage, but wind is pretty energetic and blows stuff around a lot.  Everywhere.  Oh no!  Hail in Colorado killed livestock!

 https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-hail-storms-damage-towns-kill-horses-cattle/#:~:text=Colorado%20hail%20storms%20severely%20damage%20several%20towns%2C%20kill%20horses%20and%20cattle,-By%20Dillon%20Thomas

If they put that, or kill off a puppy in the movie, I’m boycotting it.

Let me explain the masking process to you.  It’s convoluted because it’s happened over a long time.  Starting with what you are SUPPOSED to think about the T.O.P. story of the day.  T.O.P. = Tornado Outrage Porn.  Your artificially manufactured scapegoat is the government, who are the puppets of an evil cabal that is playing around with energy weapons.  They use these to ruin your life, because you need to donate money to a sports betting Patreon or buy somebody’s magic healing crystals instead of getting vaccinated because your government doesn’t care about you.

Now, the reality.  Yes, your government doesn’t care about you, because it doesn’t function right because of pitfalls and road blocks instead of proper regulation with checks and balances.  People who have money like to have even more money.  And they’re willing to spend a little of their stash to keep the gravy train flowing.  Within the framework of government money and rich people there is something called insurance.  Insurance’s job is to  cover you in times of need deny your claim by any means possible and keep the money you gave them.  Rich people also like burning fossils fuels because industrial automation is way more efficient than human labor.  Mistreated human labor, aka economic slaves, get pissed off easily, too.  Burning fossil fuels for a long time has screwed up the entire global weather patterns, which includes making lots and lots of wind.  Wind breaks stuff.  Insurance won’t pay for it all.  Your evil government has a bad day and tries to step in and mitigate the damage.  This makes insurance look bad. So they push internet grifters into climate change denialism so they can block regulations in the future to keep burning more fossil fuels.  And your sports bets are still only right 50% of the time while all the money you wasted on insurance premiums is 100% gone.

A quick translation is:  The tornado nonsense is anti science rhetoric from a petty grifter.  If you want anything resembling real information, ignore that account and look elsewhere.  And we’re screwed as a planet.  Not like totally destroyed as a species screwed, just things in the future are going to be really, really, really expensive we can’t pay to fix it because nobody wants to spend the money on fixing it screwed.

Lichenthropy and Its Debilitating Effects

Lycanthropy, the much more well known version of someone acting unlike themselves, requires a specific event to trigger the change.  The moon rises and the afflicted have a radical physical change.  There may or may not be a radical mental change.  Some lycanthropes embrace the violence and freedom of the feral form and act in a manner that makes those around him, during the non wolf phase, say to themselves, “By golly, that guy is an asshole.  I’ll bet you he’s a fucking werewolf.”  Others are more sedate, some who know they have a violent alter ego going so far as to devoting enormous energy to try to control the condition.  Chaining oneself to a tree is a good indicator of that type.

Lichens are a symbiosis of algae and bacteria where instead of two radically different forms competing for attention and acting differently they peacefully coexist.  Lichenthropy is the coexistence of a mind that coexists in a vegetative state of blissful ignorance, happily unaware of scientific things like symbiosis, and a violent state of reaction to science topics that make them think, for example, bacteria do not even exist.  The trigger to change between these two states is the internet.

Your vegetative state lichenthrope muddled through everyday life.  Subconsciously realizing that when the occasional phrase drops from their slack jawed maws indicates they said something conspiracy related and produces the fluoride stare by those surrounding them that maybe they gave it away.  That the fluoride stare makes others say to themselves, “By golly, that guy is an asshole.  I’ll bet you he does a lot of gematria.”  Whereby they rush home to the safety of their computer, post on their blogs or make a 45 minute video to explain why their screen name of @nucleartruthdropper56 is justified.

The debilitating effects are NOT so much regarding the lichenthrope.  They are the effects of those that surround the lichenthrope.  The employers that lose an hour of employee on the job time for the lichen to rush home to make the 45 minute video.  The families that have to separate the lichen from the annoyed members who don’t want anything to do with them at holiday gatherings.  The parents trying to balance financially supporting their offspring with “letting them be themselves”.  Tired of the lichen giving his money away to grifters, but still hopefully one day they will stop being a lichenthrope.

As with lycanthropy, sunlight stops the violent state.  Rather nicely.  Separated from the internet and the pull of bad influences and touching some grass for awhile can return the lichenthrope to a peaceful vegetative state.  But as soon as the Head Lichen drops an Attaboy!^TM their way it’s off to the anti vaccination, gematria, and flat earth races again.

It’s rumored that a group of top lichenthropes have infiltrated all aspects of government via infecting internet spaces.  Politicians are already at least halfway to Lichenthropy without direct infection of bad ideas.  The money and power are probably part of the infection process.  Top researchers are working on it.  Let’s hope they figure it out before we become a mere licheness of our former selves.

The Prisoner Vs. Modern Conspiracism

 https://movieweb.com/christopher-nolan-next-movie-the-prisoner-controversial/

Rumor is that Nolan was looking to do a horror movie, but couldn’t find anything original enough to tackle.

And that’s the way the film industry works.  In the absence of something new to challenge the intellects of the audience you’ve got to settle for borrowing from old concepts and hoping to at least add a twist or two to make it fresh enough for the modern audience.

A serious modern conspiracy theorist, those that actually qualify as a believer, should have done some serious background check information of some old material.  The Matrix is stuck in there and constantly referenced.  X-Files gets a little bit of press.  But The Prisoner?  Not a peep.  It’s too old.  Even though by modern standards it should be analyzed thoroughly for every scrap of predictive programming fake evidence that can be gleaned from it.

As for Nolan’s planned remake, I expect it to suck.  But let’s wait and see if it even gets made first.  Nolan’s strength is his making a (needlessly?) complicated story come together for a twisty finish that makes sense.  How the heck do you do that with a miniseries that deliberately had no actual ending or making sense of the events preceding the ending?  If it’s not going to suck it will need to do one of two things:

1). Find a way to present the source material in a mind bogglingly Inception or Prestige style tale that blows our minds.

2). Borrow bits and pieces of modern thinking to resonate with what’s fresh in the minds of the age group that consumes modern film.

The first is unlikely as there were no original Inception or Prestige tales to mimic.  And even remakes that suck have to pay some homage to the source material.  And for the second, what’s the idea going to be?  Voter suppression?  Jan. 6 riots?  Government partisanship roadblocks?  Or, well, the original was all about a bizarre conspiracy that you never find out a resolution.  And people do love themselves some conspiracy stuff to talk about.  Whether it’s the nonsensical gibberish that produces diametrically opposed thoughts within in a single brain or the ordinary person struggling to get through daily life financially that has to deal with the aftermath of conspiracy thinking.

Like an early Liam Neeson, McGoohan portrayed someone with special skills that allowed him to navigate his forced world of imprisonment.  Films about ordinary people navigating the world by doing ordinary things don’t do well.  You may root for the humans in Barbie, but without Barbie to help them along, you don’t get your happy ending.  Ordinary people are…wait for it…

Trapped in a prison of self belief modified by external pressure to conform with the conflict created by others beliefs.

Although the original series didn’t have a true ending, common themes were present across episodes.  No. 6 has a strong sense of identity.  He has reasonable critical thinking skills.  He’s trying to escape from a physical prison, as bizarre and comfortable as it may be.  Deliberately open ended from start to finish.

And putting on my conspiracy mentality cap, I’ve arrived at the solution.  Getting into the heads of Nolan and the collective intelligence of the conspiracy grifter community.  And I really doubt you saw this coming.  A twist worthy of Nolan.

Everything is existentially related to ME personally.  I like to be entertained.  I like money.  I have a self proclaimed strong sense of identity.  Part of that identity includes cooperation.  Merging these is difficult, I should just be getting along with everyone and they love me so much they just give me money.  But I haven’t ASKED for it yet.  So Nolan needs to pay me money just for me to take the heat when his twist ending pisses off the group of people it doesn’t satisfy.  Note the part of the article about McGoohan disappearing after angry folks kept bothering him.  My life has been leading up to this.

And don’t forget that sarcasm is part of my self identity.  This magical thinking of conspiracy thinking - that ultimately some other worldly force will take control of your life and solve your problems with no effort.  That’s a prison that effort to escape from is worthy of attention.  People IRL are down and out in rehab, complaining about being homeless, at work wasting time not working and literally typing away on their smartphones about how down and out they are and what bizarre, at times not even human related, forces are out to get them and what even more bizarre solutions they expect.  Their personal belief resonating with their tribe who are equally irresponsible.

I don’t make the rules, I just try to play by them, too.  And one of those rules is that your self identity is just that - yours.  You can try to influence others to adopt what you think are meaningful pieces.  But you are never going to find an exact clone of yourself.  You can’t force people to be a clone of yourself, a clone that remains intellectually imprisoned to boot.  There are no magic conspiracy solutions that have to do with vaccine shedding or Planet X or reptilian humanoids or gematria.  It’s just a movie that you’re choosing to spend money on instead of buying groceries.

Know Your Grifter Engagement Tactics and Logical Fallacies - Anecdotal Evidence

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

Over the weekend some people, myself included, had a discussion about a video regarding an earthquake that happened near Corona, California and the magical synchronicity that had occurred as the two conspiracists had just reached a point in their conversation about the coronavirus pandemic.  The video seemed suspicious *to me*, as I had a gut reaction that there would have been some shaking visible instead of the steady camera observed during the alleged earthquake.  I set off to the internet, found some footage of live earthquake camera footage that fit my expectations.  Yet still, I posted my findings on the message board to get feedback.  Some possible explanations were provided, notably a stabilized camera in case the video maker lived near train tracks.  (Or a highway or construction or other known constant recurring source of noise and vibration.)

But this does in no way, shape or form prove that the source video wasn’t faked.  As sure as I am that it is even after possible explanations, my cognitive bias of being exceptionally mistrustful combined with looking for trouble is not going to convince a jury with a standard of reasonable doubt.  But, it does mean the earthquake video itself is just anecdotal evidence.  There’s no direct proof that it was filmed during the earthquake instead of staged afterward.

There’s an old saying in the conspiracy critic world.  The plural of anecdote is misinformation.  I have mixed feelings about it, but I get the point.  If 100 people posted similar videos and none of them had some shaking going on, that would make it look even more suspicious.  Like 99 people saw the first one and thought it would be fun to copy it since the original got what they crave most - attention.

From a cognition standpoint, think about your friend sharing a remarkable story.  He had a dream that Buffy the Vampire Slayer appeared at his graduation ceremony and while getting dressed for that ceremony Buffy is on TV as his Mom just turns it on.  Because it’s EXCEPTIONAL it gets related.  If the TV is not on Buffy, there’s no story.  There’s nothing worthy of reporting.  And like our earthquake we really only have his word that the dream actually occurred.  Now if the entire class relates the dream story you may have a case of genuine supernatural influence.  If one small group of weirdos relates the story it doesn’t improve the quality.  It just makes it seem stranger that only the group of weirdos that hung out at lunch together might be looking for attention and it would be more fun to disrupt the ceremony for lulz.  You need statistical quantity and quality to be compelling.

This form of mass hysteria can maybe be best exemplified during the early pandemic days where there was a rash of vaccine injury videos.  People “forced” to be vaccinated against their will with uncontrollable fits of shaking without the benefit of an earthquake.  The first couple might be believable.  But then as more and more show up and you look through the timelines and they’re really into Malone and McCullough you get the sense they are just the weirdos who ate lunch together.  The anecdote when it’s fresh is an engagement weapon.  When overused it becomes more suspicious and the anecdote becomes its own worst enemy.

And gematria fills the bill of overused and suspicious, just because you resort to the use of gematria to prove your point.  Based on gematria tricks to force the number you want and the overwhelming database of daily bad news to pick from it’s impossible to not be able to create some kind of engagement outrage porn narrative on a daily basis.  Instead of just accepting the first video you see at face value, a little research will show that these people have amazing coincidences every day making them a god like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, the best sports gamblers who weirdly don’t make money on sports but ask you for money, and declare the end of the world every single day.  How many days the world doesn’t end it takes to get to the center of the Tootsie Pop is a mystery.

What gematria is doing to mess with your brain is insisting the unremarkable is remarkable.  Instead of a Tootsie Roll in the middle with f your pop there’s more hard candy, or even worse empty space.  Finding “56” or whatever number - including multiple times in one narrative - is absolutely no big deal at all.  Intelligent critics can and do make number lists proving the opposite of the low value gematria guru narrative makers all the time.

Know Your Grifter Target Audience - Zero Maturity Level

Gematria by itself adds little to serious conversations.

I know what you’re thinking as you compare the post title with that.  That’s not too bad, as far as insults go.  For my own sanity I refuse to dig deeper into that conversation than the couple of minutes I already did spend on it.  It seems like one party is pro Qanon and one is pro Tate.  Add in a side dish of Elon and there’s a salad of popular attention seeking wealthier than average attention whores who have generated enough outrage porn to get fanboys fighting over them.

The debunk of the gematria portion is fairly easy.  There is one Santa Claus.  There is one Donald Trump that is in the news everyday.  There’s one Elon, one Tate, and there’s only one Antichrist that we care about.  Startlingly close to making the opposite point of the intention, our gematria fan has latched on to using a superlative to describe something that gematria shows multiple valid answers for.  He’s not wrong, Tate’s name does equal 666 in the cheap ass multiply everything by 6 cipher, whatever they’re calling it now.  But reality fails as it’s impossible for one party to be more Antichristy than another when like the Highlander there can be only one.

That’s what you get with gematria, where literally anyone including beloved Doctor Who companions can be proven to be the Antichrist.  Conspiracy gematria has you think otherwise, as they continue to throw petty name calling out to prove their point while all that’s accomplished is proof of how easy it is to make any target become the Antichrist or Hitler.  They just disguise it as more Anitchristy or more Hitlery instead of climbing to the apex.  And as a social construct that leaves gematria with mimicry of what those with more influence do.  Which is pretty blatantly obvious baseless accusations and an endless stream of outrage porn.

And without getting into a chicken or egg debate or whether gematria itself is the problem or a symptom (likely the latter), these conversations pervade social media and society.  So much so that this mindset, a mindset that should be reviled, is admired.  At least long enough for politicians to score a fat paycheck while not just being unproductive, but actually counterproductive.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2024/05/17/jasmie-crockett-marjorie-taylor-greene/

Here’s the key part of that article about how congressional ideas are discussed.

Instead of structuring arguments logically and interspersing facts and evidence with a presentation made in a calm and respectful manner, we get a fiasco of declarations that the other side is a big poopyhead.  Like two year olds without the maturity level to understand what they’re saying, but grown ass people with no fucking clue of how to conduct themselves like an adult, much less acting like a person deserving of making rulings on how other people should act.

Greene acts like this all the time.  And she brings out the worst in others.  Daring them to drag the bar down to her level of ignorance and low maturity.  The same way outstupiding the grifting competition with your gematria story, outimmaturing your competition gets the most engagement.  Colossal douchebags are no longer just taking advantage of their ability to take advantage of superficial charisma.  In South Park, Cartman gains attention for faking Tourette’s as an excuse to act like a colossal douche.  Now everyone who is a colossal douche is admired BECAUSE they’re a colossal douche.  For the ability to lower people like me to lowering my standards for this post.  “I’m a bigger douchebag than you, so what?”  Ironically, many people that admire the humor of that South Park episode and the Douche and Turd episode fail to realize that it is mocking them.  Their ignorance of the never ending quest for immediate attention never leads to long term compatibility with others as they cavil their way around those around them.  Goaded by the grifters who know damn well they are a commodity available to use and exploit.

The Gematria Effect

We know what the Mandela Effect is.  That’s where you and a lot of other people think, in fact KNOW, with complete certainty that there’s a famous portrait of Henry the VIII holding a turkey leg.  Or that the cartoon series logo is Looney Toons instead of what it actually is, Looney Tunes.  We know what the Mozart Effect is *supposed* to be.  You listen to Mozart and your IQ increases.  We know what the Greenhouse Effect is.  The Earth’s cozy thermal blanket we wear in the middle of summer instead of waiting for winter to haul it out.  And there’s a list of a bazillion effects on Wikipedia, mostly because science loves themselves a good effect for naming stuff.

But what exactly is the Gematria Effect?  I have never heard an explanation from Hubbard.  I’ve never seen somebody pop into the comments of one of his videos and ask him what it means.  Google search brings up just the name of his site (and gematria stuff in general ignoring the News part).

And that means in the absence of a direct information from the source - we get to make up the definition.  Not a good idea on Hubbard’s part since it’s bound to be snarky, like figuring out that previously the real name of his blog was Fee To Find Misinformation instead of Free To Find Truth.

Simply naming it as the reverse of an existing, while startling accurate as it may be, is tacky, lazy and boring.  So calling it the reverse of the Mozart Effect and how gematria lowers your IQ, well we will take a pass on that.  Similarly, as a subset of the Greenhouse Effect is another passer.  The role gematria plays in global misinformation narratives certainly doesn’t alleviate climate change issues.

We need to get inside his head, as dangerous and disgusting as that sounds, and try to take a guess at why the name was chosen in the first place.  The Gematria part is easy.  No need to waste time on that.  So it’s the Effect part.  And that’s like naming your high school band The <something or someone’s name> Project.  You know that if you were asked to join your mates to see Purple Mollusk you might not go if you had other stuff to do.  But if it was Purple Mollusk Cult or The Purple Mollusk Project, oh hell yeah.  You’d be down for that in a flash.

Superficially he’s extremely industrious.  Cranking out the content daily, but just tue run of the mill boring and repetitive stuff that makes long term following realize you’ve heard the Project’s most famous song so many times it bores you to tears now.  As far as creation of something significant worthy of an Effect moniker, that isn’t an impressive pedigree here.  Lazily copying what Alex Jones and other grifters had been doing and just tweaking it to through in a blatantly obvious fundraising hook with the sports angle.  Merging outrage porn with gambling.

And now we’re on to something.  The core value of laziness built into the system.  The psychological projection of being super important and being industrious on something worthwhile when at its core it’s meaningless gibberish.

He sat down with the Gematria half, pulled up the Wikipedia list of known effects and scanned through the G’s to see if Gematria was already listed and saw

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

A cognitive bias related effect which notes that if your brain figures something out on its own it remembers it better than if it’s told to you by someone else.

I know, I know - you said you weren’t going to name something as a subset of reverse of an existing effect.  It’s cognitively bias oriented.  That is what gematria is all about.  It’s next to Gematria on the alphabetical list.  Being “close enough” is what gematria is all about in the absence of statistically significant numbers.  It’s being force fed numbers repetitively instead of critically thinking things out on your own, that’s gematria being the opposite of the known effect.

But you may be forgetting that the word generation has another meaning other than to produce something; a collective noun to describe people born and living at the same time.

The Gematria Effect is the duping of the group of people living in the golden age of grifting and misinformation into thinking that they are perfectly fine searching for the wrong answers being thrown out at them for their consumption.  It merges the alpha male style thinking of being the coolest person ever with a desire for a quick fix instead of long term success.

And In This Corner Wearing the Blue Trunks…

 

Let me get you up to speed if you are new; a brief recent history of conspiracy gematria.  Skipping over the biblical roots and jumping right into the harassment era.

Around the time that Alex Jones was really hitting his stride with his Sandy Hook gold mine, Zachary Hubbard unearthed old material on how gematria was used by occultists to scam people.  Updating it to current times he rebranded it to pretend he could pick the winners in sporting events.  Other grifters said to themselves, “Oh boy, that’s cool.  I’m a gonna get myself a slice of that sweet, sweet grifting pie.”  Conspiracy gematria expanded into other cliques than sports, the more prominent ones being religion, we are living in a matrix, cryptocurrency and celebrity deaths and harassment (not really a clique, let’s call this one cliquebait).  And mixing and match all of those and other loopy nonsense.

Now since Alex Jones was aligned with political grifters and of course gematria being able to “prove” anything was getting a foothold, a not very cohesive group of people wanting to live action role play while grifting latched on to fake messages from someone called Q, and the homogenous mish mash of anything pro Trump was a good thing called Qanon was born.  And gematria became a part of that.

Competing grifters don’t like splitting their pie, so the not Q scammers and Q scammers would fire off occasional pot shots at each other.  Usually an attack video on YouTube.  Ignoring the basic tenet of gematria that it provides zero empirical evidence for any viewpoint.

Entire into the fray, the Resistance.  Resister/grifter gematria.  Qanon gematria would phraseshop, change numbers they didn’t like into numbers they did like and make lists of matches.  But not every cognitively biased person lies deep red on the political spectrum.  So it’s only natural that a BlueAnon would try to muscle in on the territory.

And that’s why we have that image.  I checked through the account’s posts and that’s pretty much standard operating procedure.  My personal perception is that accounts like these through in a large dose of, “I’m justified because the enemy does this all the time.”  Yes, they do, but a lie is still a lie.  And misinformation is still misinformation.  And gematria doesn’t prove anything.  In reality, all the resister gematria proves is how ridiculously easy it is to twist any topic into your narrative.  The echo chamber here is tinted blue instead of red.

Recency bias is a problem in addition to the blatant confirmation bias in gematria decodes.  And there’s a cognitive bias for everything wrong with our stupid brains.  I suppose this might be a version of priming bias where as Election Day draws nearer people who are already being assaulted can expect more and more bullshit from both camps and their gematria related bots and human disinformation traffickers that act like bots.  The AttaBlue!^TM and AttaRed!^TM machines will be going full blast soon.

Interesting related side note.  The Gematrinator used to spend most of his time on Organic Matrix issues and the adjacent synchronicity material.  Somewhere along the way he’s added Trump to the few accounts he follows on Twixter.  I’m not sure if this is a flag to indicate he’s pro Trump to appeal to that gung ho crowd, but that’s certainly an option.

Fictional Illiteracy

Functional Fictional Illiteracy

You have illiteracy to describe inability to read or write.  You have innumeracy to describe inability to comprehend some basic math.  You have gematriacy to describe inability of both reading and numbers combined together.  But what else is missing from the crowd that insists on doing their own research, laser focused on finding the wrong answer?  The inability to separate fact from fiction.

You can find them on the internet, although it’s highly recommended you don’t.  Best to be exposed in small doses instead of the dangerous concentrated form.  They WILL crop up on social media dropping some startlingly obvious at times clues to their just not getting it.

Some shitty anecdotal evidence:

I have a history of not being careful about what I say often enough to be a problem.  Like using the word “fabulist” in place of “liar”.  Reactions vary between understanding the $10 word, vague recognition based on context clues, dismissal of my statement without caring about it because I’m being an asshole for being condescending, to the occasional question of exactly what I mean by fabulist.  It’s not necessary to understand high falutin’ words to get through everyday life and is not illiteracy.

On the other hand, you have innumeracy which frustrates me.  Do not go to the grocery store and dare to ask for your meat to be in a fractional portion of an amount different than a half.  Depending on the worker there’s a distinct chance that converting a fraction to a decimal target number on the scale is iffy.  Similarly, when the sale price (which the employee seems to acknowledge) requires purchasing at least five pounds, the first attempt to approximate your request of “about five pounds” is slightly over they will ask if it’s ok.  That’s fine for ground meat where a little can be taken away.  But when five pounds is four whole chicken breasts is removal of one taking you from 5.4 pounds down to 4.1…don’t do it, saving the $5 on the sale price is more important.

That second example is nitpicking on my part and easily clarified.  The first is a clearer example that someone working the meat counter with the inability to access his phone’s calculator app may be numerically challenged.

There’s a lot of fiction that the conspiracy crowd insists is fact.  A lot of fictional illiteracy with refusal to admit that evil Hollywood elites simply want to park butts in the seats and make money for entertainment purposes instead of some awe inspiring message.  The overused conspiracist trope is “The movie, <insert title here> is actually a documentary.”  And then like a gematria decode they’ll point out a couple of things that sort of make sense to their main point and ignore the many others that don’t support or even contradict their point.  (We’re pretty sure they hate plot twists later in the movie that counter their point.)

Speaking of overused, what color pill have you taken?  Easily the single most common conspiracy theorist fiction is a documentary source - The Matrix.  There’s a reason that first movies are usually better than their sequels.  A first movie exposes something that’s almost never new, it just hasn’t been used in awhile.  A new generation isn’t overly familiar with it.  The sequel comes out soon enough that even the slower viewers of the first remember key points.  Without having to access their phones for the IMDB review.  The same access that the guy with the baritone voice warns you to avoid while reminding you to keep your mouth shut during the movie.

Movie interrupters are a great candidate for fictional illiterates.  Know it alls who prefer interrupting others who simply want to watch the movie unfold without others input.  But anyway…

Fictional illiteracy can be a form of psychological projection.  If you’re trained to accept that Hannibal Lecter was a real person and a very nice man, trained to accept that The Matrix is a documentary, trained to accept that everything in The Simpsons is a magical prediction, there’s a much better chance that a flawed documentary purposefully loaded with disinformation, will be accepted as fact.

It’s proper to view your gematria news decoders as makers of shitty documentaries.  As a more blatant example, as usual from the world of right wing extremism ,  2000 Mules is beloved by hardcore conservatives despite the movies obvious catering to their fictional illiteracy.  A gematria decode will take the current news story.  Then put a spin on it to appeal to the target audience, and that’s fine if it is purely for entertainment.  But the delivery and entire manner is presented as factual and there’s direct encouragement for the viewer to become a maker of shitty documentaries themselves.

For example - migrant problems recently make the news in a big U.S. city.  Point out the real issues of waste of resources for city officials to deal with it, point out the real issues of problems at the border and immigration policies.  Then ruin the entire movie by insisting that the purple clothes one person working on the city council wore and some gematria “proves” they are Phoenician baby sacrifices.  A fictionally illiterate person doesn’t need to accept the crazy part with the gematria.  It’s the other slightly more lucid disinformation along with the couple of facts that get added on along the way they will share and spread.  (E.g. maybe that someone on the city council’s brother is actually an illegal immigrant.)

Finally, the History Channel.  Once upon a time a factual one trick pony where you could spend a couple weeks in a row watching nothing but historical info on World War II.  Now it’s a haven for the fictionally illiterate who don’t mind seeking facts within aliens and conspiracy theories.  Because that content is super cheap and easy to make and now AI can crank out a Tik Tok video packed with just as much facts in a one minute time span as you get from an hour long fictionally illiterate History Channel show.

Know Your Grifter Unfair Advantages - YouTube Policies

Media Matters - Alex Jones Is Back

In spirit I’m aligned with the idea of Alex not being on the internet.  But like a toxic narcissist at work that feeds on the extra attention that complaints about them brings attempting to ban someone completely doesn’t work.

Ban evasion tactics were born almost immediately after ban evasion policies were dreamed up.  Once you realize that misinformation is a given part of human nature and existed long before the internet you realize that misinformation sources have been paying attention to what social media companies have been up to and pre planning actions to take advantage of it.

You want to ban books?  It brings more attention to them.  You want to get rid of Scientology?  It brings more attention to it.  You want to stop gematria related grift?  It brings more attention to it if you start a blog.  Although awareness of real or imagined atrocities must have awareness as a function of stopping the problem the “other side” will always seek out methods to counterattack.

Books —> radio—>television—>internet

As the methods of information spreading progressed the methods of misinformation have progressed.  And now apparently the psychologically astute that wield misinformation as a tool have learned from the past to anticipate what could possibly happen and pre plan suppression tactics.  A decade ago there were the cries of coming to take away our free speech, normalizing people to the thoughts that the government would be stealing away their voices.  Now, what do you do when the economics dictate that political fundraisers and social media advertising dictate that social media can’t go away?  Slap on a label that pretends to care and let the future sort out the aftermath.

Alex isn’t the problem, but a symptom of how easily people are manipulated.  An internet ban is the modern equivalent of starting a bonfire and burning a bunch of books.  A bunch of books that we still know about decades or even hundreds of years later.  Even the lower level grifters have their own websites now.  Constantly complaining about Big Tech censorship they damn well know doesn’t exist.  That gets merged into their, “Look at what an internet badass I am” appeal.  On a daily basis I find someone who is best described as being very low on the misinformation food chain complaining about how they themselves are being targeted by evil forces without any real damage done to them.  Why are they complaining?  The video they are watching was created by someone complaining about it.  And lots of times the evidence is easily faked or totally made up.  Even without advanced AI trickery.  For example, all you need to do is delete a couple of key user comments and stir the pot with a video about YouTube deleting comments.  Blammo!  Instant engagement!

There has finally been an uptick in gematria related misinformation on the hellhole formerly known as Twitter.  Not surprising as the U.S. election draws closer.  Another old tactic that can’t be banned.  The gematria itself remains a kind of weird and not generally effective in and of itself.  But you can always just create an account with gematria in the username and the dog whistle is heard.  You just know it’s going to end up being nothing but Trump is the greatest thing ever and the libs are ruining the world.  (They are, but not in the manner you suggest.)  And at least two of them are not posting gematria at all but are pretend political pundits with messages that amount to nothing more than F**k Joe Biden.  Ultimately it’s up to the consumers of the information to recognize that these don’t give any practical information, it’s just outrage porn.  And then these consumers need to take the next critical thinking step to recognize anything else put out by that source is untrustworthy.

The crank magnetism YouRube (not a typo) ads are already in place.  Waiting for the gullible outraged consumers to click away on their healing crystals, vision loss cures with vitamins, electric generators for the upcoming civil war and all the other illegitimate marketing that apparently the majority of people who prefer a totally unregulated market seem to want.  Just waiting to suck the finances away from the next generation who grows up filled with more bad ideas about what makes a YouTube presence a quality source of how to lead their lives.  I’ll give you a hint.  The solution will be to give them your money.

She Turned Me Into A Newt!

I got better.

In the timeless classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the villagers do their best to think like baseless conspiracy believers.  Confronted with the possibility of there being a witch in their midst, a wise knight queries them on what evidence they have.  And a peasant (John Cleese), seeking an Attaboy!^TM chimes in with how the foul witch turned him into a newt.  As the other villagers incredulously look at him as he’s obviously not still a newt he offers his excuse.

So RFK, Jr. had a brain worm.  But he got better.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/05/09/1250201358/rfk-jr-brain-parasitic-worm-tapeworm-kennedy

And the media articles range from the factual accounts of actual brain worm sufferers to the, “What bs is this?”  I personally think it’s bs, being far too convenient financially.  Like Trump’s net worth being low when he needs to pay taxes, but high when it comes time for favorable loan rates it was a problem for divorce settlement but now that a presidency would benefit him he’s fine.  But we mustn’t allow ourselves the luxury of assuming guilt when it’s possible for innocence.  Which is kind of the whole point of the Python witch hunt scene.  If one does have a parasitic brain worm it’s safe to assume you don’t want to just live with it.  So benefit of the doubt.

But what you need to know about for improving your pattern recognition skills is a filing system that can retrieve nuggets of wisdom like this as needed.  Giving someone a pass for a gaffe today doesn’t mean they continue to get a free pass when they make the same outrageous claims over and over and over.  When you get to the point where you successfully predict an excuse is coming up, you’re in big trouble already.  A serial fabulist is not going to settle down and suddenly change their ways without removing the brain parasite causing them to act like a lunatic.

The echo chambers of social media are designed for Attaboys! and not being challenged on outrageous excuses.  If your cult leader of choice practices gematria, even if it’s just dabbling in it instead of relying on it as the main tool, you are stuck in an excuse making trap.  Even if it’s not openly stated the point is to get you thinking that decoding today’s bad news has some impact on your ability to foresee the future.  And really bold and obvious actual predictions based on gematria are non existent.  The excuses are built into the system, starting with how even something as simple as a celebrity’s last name has dozens of values to pick from - accepting the one hit and ignoring the many misses.

There’s a reason that Hubbard’s critics have latched on to After the Fact Zach as the favorite nickname.  His YouTube content and blog posts are filled with decodes that were done after the news story was announced.  This bypasses the need to provide an excuse for a wrong prediction.  He certainly didn’t do a decode well in advance that said RFK was going to claim he had a brain worm.  Well, they all do it.  All the decoders look at the daily news and report it after the fact.  And the few times they predict an event it’s something simple like a single mid season sports game that nobody makes a big deal about.  The bold predictions of life altering events are always after the fact.

Ironically, the pervasive pattern that the echo chamber listeners are missing on is the DAILY excuse.  The entire point of their being there is the prediction of startling (yet vague) life changing events upcoming.  The daily lie is that decoding yesterday’s news never provides an iota of predictive outcomes for tomorrow.  And you have to wait until the day after tomorrow to find out what the cult leader said about tomorrow for your gematria fix.

It’s always amusing when a troll pins Hubbard down on his predictions.  Although we’ll practiced on retaliatory tactics like deflecting and every logical fallacy available he has often been caught saying:

1). I’m the greatest predictor ever

2). I never said I could predict anything.

It should be

3). I predicted Team A would win.  Team B won.  I got better.

The simplest challenge, if you can get a word in edgewise in a fake debate, is to point out there’s no reason for his internet presence at all without a claim to be able to predict the future.  The same for the synchronicity crowd.  Stunning beyond coincidental things that happened yesterday don’t predict exactly what happens tomorrow that amazes you.  Qanon is still waiting for something big to habben.  And certainly the daily Obama is the Antichrist numbers haven’t successfully predicted the end of the world.

And once the leader of the clique admits to the entire point is actually about predicting, challenge them to start predicting instead of waiting till the next day.  And watch that fail and watch the ludicrous excuses start flowing.  There’s going to be a lot of newts.

Zacho’s Basilisk

Roko’s Basilisk is a thought experiment where a bunch of nerdy people with an overwhelming sense of self importance and way too much free time on their hands took their best shot at a fifteen minutes internet fame.  It’s still argued whether the legacy of some people getting carried away and developing mental health issues is a real thing.

For the clicking on links averse, there’s a beneficial AI entity with one dubious not necessarily benevolent quality - those that are aware of it but don’t promote it suffer.  This dichotomy is the heart of the thought experiment.  The AI has deemed itself to be so important that bringing about its creation by affecting the past makes it ok to incentivize punishment of not bringing it to be.

After much pondering I’ve figured out what’s wrong with the entire Roko variation and my overwhelming sense of self importance has determined that it’s not Less Wrong, it’s Dead Wrong.  Diametrically opposed dead wrong.

We know from media especially movies with an overwhelming sense of self importance that malevolent AI seeking extinction of humanity is a lot more fun.  It’s far more logical that Zacho’s Basilisk has already taken hold and through massive misinformation and disinformation tactics is well on its way to becoming our new reality.  Having money and the associated fun with that is far more important than continued existence as a species.

The traditional mythical basilisk kills with its gaze.  Zacho’s basilisk kills with its whiny voice that constantly flip flops between stated positions and lies.  It lies a lot.  Politicians are key members of the ZB creation movement.

We have long passed the point where lying is simply normalized and leaving us numb and unaffected.  The basilisk voice leaves us compelled to realize the only way to keep pace is to also lie.  The more abrasive and bold the liar you are - the more you are revered.  The more resources wasted in combatting your lies - the ZB grows stronger.  George Santos was in the running for the title but didn’t make as an effective a moniker as Zacho, so there you have it.

Fairly recently Hubbard put out a post on the hellhole formerly known as Twitter about how he lost subs on his Patreon for attacking flat earth “tards”. Meanwhile, after some possible astroturfing, his membership shows as 2000 more than what it had been all of 2023.  Recently some convincing video about him speaking about already being married to his Sweet Lady was presented.  And now we’re back to it not being a thing, yet.

Seriously, if he secretly married the girl years ago like in the video commentary shouldn’t there be a correction to the comment instead of a ❤️?

It’s got to be the ZB.  The video footage of him claiming to already be hitched was a deep fake.  No better subject matter for an AI fake than Hubbard, just about any argument other than gematria is a more lucid and believable source.  A firm history of something being obviously wrong, but the source malingering like a well dig in tick.  And the ZB attracting what it really wants.  The resistance grifters.  Being malevolent AI requires some goody two shoes white knights getting involved.  And what better way to get them setting up their own social media talking about how you should give them money to fight the evil.  Pretty soon all anybody that’s not AI will do nothing but donate money and ask for money to be given to them.

Martin Gardner - The Mutilated Chessboard

Martin Gardner was a mathematician known for what is called recreational mathematics, puzzles, magic, and being cranky about pseudoscience.

His extensive writing about gematria…sorry.  Being invested in real math he wanted nothing to do with gematria.  Math and puzzles and in general Gardner’s world was filled with actual solutions to the questions.  Gematria, being the reigning champion of fake math and forcing the wrong answer to be viewed as correct is diametrically opposed to this.

My poor parents had their hands full with me as try as he might to hide them, Dad’s collection of chess books and Martin Gardner books as well as similar fare fascinated me.  Again with the facetiousness, they were just lying around on his desktop and on the bookshelf.

One of Gardner’s notable puzzles is the Mutilated Chessboard puzzle.

The challenge is this:  Take an ordinary chessboard, cut off two diagonally opposite corner squares.  Then get yourself some dominos, big enough to cover two squares at a time.  And answer this question, “Is it possible to cover the remaining 62 squares with 31 dominos?

The long answer, by trial and error, is to physically place dominos around and keep retrying until you get frustrated and bored and never get it to happen.  Which doesn’t prove you can’t, but intuitively you get a good idea that it’s not possible.  While you’re doing that you may get some critical thinking boosting and figure out the real answer.  A math based answer.  Or you flip the pages to the solutions section and read it and then it sinks in why the answer is NO.  You can’t do it.

The actual solution - each domino must cover exactly one light colored square and one dark colored square.  The corners you chopped off must be the same color.  So there’s 32 of one color and 30 of the other remaining, which can’t possible be handled by your 31 of each color dominos.

Or you can do a gematria style solution which is based on fake math and bullshit.  Gematria is all about convincing people to break the rules and that’s supposed to be a good thing.  Like Kirk reprogramming the computer simulation and being rewarded, the most ridiculous method of outstupiding your rival decoders is rewarded with the most attention.  So let’s run through some gematria style break the rules solutions.

1). 31x2=62.  End of story.  Yes it can be done.

2).  THIRTY AND ONE = 63 in both reduction ciphers, so that makes it doubly magically.  The corners cut off are the same color and are the same, so 64-1=63.  Bonus points for phraseshopping in the AND in THIRTY ONE.  Yes it can be done.

3).  The chessboard represents the eternal struggle between light and dark, good and evil.  Which are opposite sides of the same coin.  All the squares are the same color.  Yes it can be done.

4).  Chess is beyond my target audience.  That’s a checkerboard.  Checkers only cover one space at a time, fuck the dominos.  Yes it can be done.  Bonus points for getting away with not being challenged that chess pieces also occupy just one square.

5).  CHESSBOARD = 444 in the Satanic cipher.  Triple digits are cool.  The Satanic cipher is cool.  The Antichrist is coming, so that’s cool.  Yes it can be done.

6).  Cut one domino in half.  Yes it can be done.

7).  Cut all the dominos in half.  Yes it can be done.

8).  Cut all the squares off the board.  Let’s save time on a number nine and just cut all the dominos in half as well as cutting up the board.  Yes it can be done.

That could go on awhile because the gematria style solutions are only bound by imagination.  The only common factor is that deliberately getting the wrong solution and that making you a better person for being wrong has been achieved.  Appropriately, gematria does a lot of cutting in the process.  Large numbers are reviled.  They are chopped down into tiny bits with dropping digits and prime number lists all the time.  Which somehow makes getting the wrong answer much cooler.

A Favorite Old Book

Not the entire comment, but most of it.  It’s all the key points from an old favorite book.

Before this, and if I remember correctly *just* before this, comments were open.  Occasionally a Zachosphere flunky would pop in to drop a nastygram.  But this was the most lengthy and surprisingly coherent attempt at adding a comment to the blog.  It’s not worthy of being a posted comment without the context I’m providing here.

So a summary.  “Real truth seeking” does not include the frivolity of gematria.  And his debunk (superior than mine according to his own words) is not wrong.  But there’s already a research no-no.  He’s unearthed pretty much zilch, except one comment on a blog loaded with criticism.  A blog that includes similar mathematical analysis, for example tue ability to find words of just the right length and adding a negative modifier to them to produce contradictions between normal ordinal and reverse.  So he’s already managed to cherry pick and insinuate that all he could find was one post on antonyms without digging through an entire blog obviously focused on anti gematria content.

And he tips his hand, probably intentionally, by calling the post he was referencing was about -chilling antonyms.  The Rationalwiki article I originally wrote still refers to the antonym chart as -cool antonyms.  Oh, he knows exactly who I am.  Whether a Freudian slip or as I guess an intentional nod to let me know Qanon was aware of this material.

June 15, 2021 - less than six months after some overzealous gullible and violent people attempted to topple the government of the country they claim to be defending.  And the best they can do is try to through shade on gematria.  A straw man argument to distract from other disinformation presented in the comment that I might have been dumb enough to allow on the blog.  Nope.  No extra oxygen on the internet for your insinuation that these debunked ideas are true just because you think gematria is silly.  So to clarify and for the record:

Jan 6 was not a peaceful protest.  The election was not stolen.  Real children died at Sandy Hook.  The Cyber Ninjas had bs to work with and no choice but to give up.  Big Tech is not promoting gematria other than allowing monetized videos on dubious content.

Rereading an old favorite book is like rewatching TV shows in syndication reruns.  It doesn’t work unless you have forgotten parts, or pick up on something that you missed the first time around and have a eureka moment.  Or nostalgia.  And that’s what I get from readdressing this now.  The vindication that my being one of the first to be openly critical of the potential of gematria to add fuel to the misinformation ecosystem.  To foreshadow how what started as a way to rip off people for a couple of bucks on sorts betting could easily be used for other, bigger projects.  Like the megachurch of Alex Jones and the Qanon involvement in the incitement of one of the darkest days of American history.  Things average people wish they didn’t have to put up with and hope someone puts the effort in to it so they don’t have to.

The landscape in the misinformation/disinformation ecosystem constantly changes.  And Mr. Cherrypicker Strawman might have been right about gematria not being legitimate truth seeking, but for people like Mr. CS nothing is legitimate other than what gets the most engagement that day.  AI is getting better and better and playing with that is bound to be more convincing than SOCIETY OF JESUS=56.  I hope someone else invests effort in to minimizing the damage that’s brewing there.  People have been lying for a long time and there’s no reason to think that our nature will ever change.