Gematria: The Antithesis of Wikipedia

Also known as Fun With Polysemes.

Example of a homonym: The bear brought its sharp claws to bear in its life and death struggle with the kitten.  

Nothing removes context quite like gematria.  Wikipedia may not be perfect, but at least there are some well intentioned people trying to give accurate information.  Meanwhile, recently the Gematrinator put out an hour long video on how there is synchronicity between Princess Di’s death, the recent big Afghanistan earthquake, and Formula One racing.

And the big reveal, the opening gunfight to get you hooked at the start of the movie so you’ll settle down, Formula One is racing.  And Diana, on the day she died was racing.  A good old fashioned polyseme, the ugly cousin to the homonym.  A word with multiple distinct but related definitions.

A more appropriate example in honor of conspiracy gematria gibberish would be, “She fell into the well after her aneurism from studying polysemes too long, but Polly seems well, now.”  Well is a homonym.  Polysemes and Polly seems are childish word play more appropriate for puns and Dad jokes than supposed serious discourse on occult oriented pseudo intellectual nonsense.

And gematria does this all the time.  The full range of full blown homonyms, to polysemes, to even stretching something that really pushes it.  It’s a miracle there wasn’t a Racine, Wisconsin reference thrown in because it sort of sounds like and looks like racing.  If you really stretch it.

The context that Diana was in a rapidly moving vehicle as opposed to deliberately putting on a helmet and hopping into a McLaren is pretty important to the actual story.  At least the video got a Wikipedia context box because of the Diana death content.  A fitting punishment despite being for the wrong reason.  The real context that’s missing is the blatant hijacking of both tragedies.  Hijacking Di’s death and quake victims to get a little clout.  Look, all.  I’m an occult master with a database.  I have no gladiator combat of a bear/kitten death match for you.  But, I do have my niche as the only major gematria name that bothers with car racing and some other outrage porn for you to indulge in.

And what makes the gematria angle even worse, the numbers lose whatever context the wordplay doesn’t.  1700 and 17 are equal.  43 and 34 are equal.  103 equals 27 because 103 is the 27th prime number.  And there absolutely is some of that nonsense within the video.

Which begs the question.  Since 1700 and 17 *are* different numbers.  27 and 103 *are* different numbers, horse racing and a heart racing *are* different racings - 

 Do you even know what the word synchronicity means??