Isaac Newton, Color, and No Gematria

A hot shot cognitive studies guy posted this on Twixter.

I’d have left it alone except for the last sentence.  I’m one of the top people that wastes far too much of my free time on conspiracy theory related gematria.  My immediate reaction was thinking it’s highly unlikely.  If that was true I would have heard of it before this was posted last week.

No citation given, a red flag for dubious claims.  So I’ll look for one myself.  The search is easy, Googling “Isaac Newton gematria”.  And the results reveal a classic it’s not a real thing set of results.  Missing:gematria | Show results with: gematria.  If there is a source it’s your standard some random stranger has a blog or YouTube video that mentioned it once for attention and it’s hardly widespread, even within the realm of those that love misinformation.

So turning to the king of dubious sources on gematria , here’s what you find about Newton on the Fee To Find Misinformation blog:

http://freetofindtruth.blogspot.com/2014/08/33-isaac-newtons-temperature-scale-and.html?m=1

Now there’s your color wheel and chromatic scale reference.  Heating iron until it’s red hot, and red is certainly a color.  But nowhere, anywhere do you find even a dubious claim that Isaac Newton was a fan of gematria.  If it’s not good enough for Hubbard to do more than one blog post which doesn’t reference Isaac Newton actually doing gematria —> this could be the only lone wolf out there on Twixter, now a notorious source of bad ideas and unchallenged misinformation.  (Or at least when it’s challenged, that challenge is challenged because that’s what free speech absolutism gets when run by an attention seeking hypocrite.)

When you accept the results of including gematria with Isaac Newton instead of the default top hits you get things like awkward rambling phrases on gematrix.org and making gematriots of things he wrote.  But going back to what you do find with gematria missing - Isaac was into some stuff that qualifies as what misinformation researchers call by the technical and accepted name of “weird shit”.  Our old friend alchemy is in there.  I find the most interesting to be what he wrote about the year 2060.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton%27s_occult_studies

Interesting also is that Newton suffered a nervous breakdown while studying alchemy and notes were lost in a laboratory fire.  Adding his state of mind to alchemy related writings brings their relevance into question.  And a nice lab fire is the old time equivalent of “YouTube deleted my video”.  A license to make up whatever you want about the missing material.

2060 writings by Newton (probably) became the news story rage for a day in 2003.  Of course having to deal with old timey weirdos with no internet for an outlet he came across a lot of end of the world predictions.  And he certainly didn’t have gematria helping him to find the proof that we have today, that based on whatever happened yesterday, or at the very latest earlier today the world will end…soon.  These predictions were all over the place and he wasn’t a fan.  So he concocted an analysis that showed it wouldn’t be any sooner than 2060.

That reminds me of my old posts regarding actress Stacey Travis (fair use disclaimer) and the penchant of gematria clowns always insisting every death was a sacrifice, and a predictable one based on the salacious details reported after the fact.  Chosen somewhat at random as a minor celebrity, an active actress but not known for big budget film roles.  Lots of TV.  Whenever there’s no big name deaths like an OJ Simpson the kind of person that would have to do in a pinch.  And you can literally do gematria to prove that any day is a good day for Stacey or any other celebrity to not die.  And you’re right way more often.  Isaac beat me to the punch by predicting that a lot of days would be good days for the world to not end.

Another note to finalize this.  The comments are also questionable, with the OP suggesting that orange isn’t really a color.  If you’re going to post that Newton was a gematria fan you might as well go ape and put out other questionable content.  Because the day that orange, which is still a color for now, stops being a color.  That’s the day that Stacey Travis dies and the world ends.

Just another case of gematria doing what gematria does best.  A license to make up stuff that is presented as fact instead of the fiction it is.  The only twist here is not actually doing the gematria, just referencing it to poke at a well know scientific name.