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Sunday, October 19, 2025

6-7, 4-1, And Brain Rot

Qanon - Intellectual Round Tripping

There’s been much talk about the warning signs of a huge AI bubble. A lot of that has to do with the morbidly rich playing around with their excess hoarded cash in a giant pissing contest to get more. Because you not having affordable health care doesn’t help their ranking in the list of top global assholes. Within that framework is a lot of fake activity. A big circular pool of fake transactions that all make the players involved superficially look healthier economically than they really are. And when charted it looks something like this:

The fraudulent activity that you’re not allowed to talk about is called round tripping. And you can pick lots of valid articles to read about it with an unbiased Google search. For example:

https://financialcrimeacademy.org/red-flags-in-round-tripping/

You’re not allowed to talk about it now because it’s awfully close to hitting home about what Trump was actually charged with. “Look at how awesome my businesses are! Sure I deserve a better insurance rating! Look at how poor I am! Sure I deserve to not pay taxes!”

Since being declared a terrorist for even insinuating that there’s something wrong about it, I won’t even mention Trump’s self contained bubble of fake economic double talk. Let’s make up a small scale example.

Your brother wants to get a loan to buy a house. And if his landscaping business looks healthy he can get a great rate, something necessary to make it work in this several generations of economic insanity that means ordinary kids today will never get a loan. He cuts your grass for free, but you both agree that you’re going to pay him a million dollars a week to cut your grass. On paper. In return, you pay him a million dollars a week to keep his records. You do bookkeeping work for the church, so that superficially looks good.

If the books are only superficially glanced at then the revenue on the income statement looks awesome. It’s just the questionable lack of cash on the balance sheet to support the revenue that’s a problem.

And this entire cult pyramid structure is an intellectual round trip. And Qanon and Qanon adjacent activity like sports gematria scams plays a bigger part than you may be willing to admit. Anything for a piece of that sweet online grifting bubble pie.

Regardless of which side the online grifter chooses to target the assets of emotionally supercharged unthinking drones are available. The broadest and not nuanced brush stroke I’m willing to paint is that pro right tends towards anything money related, particularly not paying taxes. Pro left is the resistance that points out the evils of the pro right, who cowardly crumble with a, “Well, there’s nothing I can do about it without you giving me more money.” And you have the moderates who play both sides of the fence.

Eventually, the conspiracies for the extremes build up. And extremism is a word that gets used more and more now. Going to school for a career that is labeled as independent is a tough wake up call when thrown into the real world. Your lawyers, accountants, economists, investment bankers, and landlords are told there is a code of ethics. On the surface the code is unbiased. That CPA isn’t just a certified accountant. That CPA is an INDEPENDENT auditor. Judging the books on the merit of the numbers alone. That landlord is following the edicts of the FAIR HOUSING ACT, not making decisions based on skin color. That lawyer will be disbarred if he doesn’t follow the rules. And if you want to be an ordinary and mostly moderate just trying to feed the kids, well, what are you supposed to do for advice when in practice the advisors are constantly covering up bad numbers because the government is constantly covering up bad numbers? You’re not simply allowed to be peacefully left alone. The online push for extremism to pick a side requires a lot of response to outside stimulus to finally pick a side.

The potential whistleblower has to deal with the Qanon intellectual round trip. There’s always that background noise of hOlY sHiT tHeSe MoThErFuCkErS aRe ViOlEnT aNd CrAzY. Maybe in public I should just go with the flow. Not call them out. Not even give the slightest hint that I’m anti Trump in even the most basic of circumstance like tariffs not actually working. I don’t want to be the guy that has the crazy man with the hammer trying to beat him to death. Let somebody else arbitrarily labeled as the terrorist liberal be that guy. An emotional currency traded on social media activity with no numbers or facts to support anything. Go up the food chain to Fox News. Hey, I don’t need to support the really weird shit like Pizzagate. But the coworkers are all talking about what they heard on Fox News. I’m not dumb enough to give the Pizzagate story any serious credibility. But maybe I can skate by with calling liberals libtards or woke DEI hires and I can fly under the radar.

And the more the cycle of unchallenged intellectual round tripping goes unchecked, the higher the chance that the belief in the extreme views becomes more ok. It started with, “But what about my investments?” and gets pushed towards, “Yeah, let ICE go ahead and throw my neighbor in jail. His skin is just the wrong color.” A self perpetuating intellectual bubble. Qanon for intellectual intimidation. FOX for Trump is good for the economy and your investments. And Trump as the guy willing to contradict himself on a daily basis and commute the sentences of criminals, lie about crowd sizes, and drop hints that he genuinely admires Hitler. The toxic narcissist is a great source for unfiltered and self contained intellectual round tripping.

Today, I SHOULD be going to the local No Kings rally. I’ve convinced myself and genuinely believe if somebody asked me to I would follow my moral compass and say yes. But even I am not immune to cognitive biases while being functionally aware of their impact far more than the average person. Instead of asking around to see if someone else is interested, I’ll probably just do what I do every weekend. By myself like every weekend. Because my personality IRL just screams out that I want nothing to do with Trump and the cycle of intellectual round tripping he and the other morbidly wealthy grifters have created. And I don’t want anyone who doesn’t want to risk the unfair arbitrary label placed on them to think the cRaZy QaNoN and MAGA crowd to instantly get the trolling attention.

Sunday, October 12, 2025

The Gematria Community - A Failure In Socialization

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Keeping with the recent theme, it’s time for a semi-regular reminder about the nature of gematria in theory and in practice. Updated from its early days about 10 years ago to what’s going on now.

Then

It was off to the races. Decades of the education system being dismantled. Decades of selling “The American Dream” as the goal to prove your worth in society. A romantic partner (ultimately returning to the opposite of the gender you were born as), a family (ultimately returning to your own genes creating the kids instead of adopting someone of the wrong skin color), a house (ultimately returning to something newer generations can never afford), a picket fence because a little quaint nostalgia needs to kick you in the ass later in life when it all goes south, and a puppy or kitten or both (ultimately returning to another abandoned shelter pet that can’t be afforded). The math for the more ordinary people didn’t work without both parents being employed. The time kids were at school was a sort of cheap day care. And as the school boards were filling up with ultra conservative types believing more in prosperity gospel than vaccines, climate change, or the basic laws of physics the lack of real thinking was downplayed in favor of bullying those around you into recognizing you as the alpha in the pack. And the more money you had was the proof that you deserved to be that top dog.

Entering into the fray we have the Alex Jones types of the world. Where screaming as loud as possible about the evils of the world is the best way to get a podcast up and running. Because railing against the wealthy elites and sucking your audience dry to make you wealthy being contradictory makes all kinds of fucking sense. It’s only natural, whether it was gematria or some other scheme, that someone like a Zachary Hubbard would arise. Where being AN EXTREMELY LOUD, CONDESCENDING DOUCHE BAG is the leader of a “community”. And god I hate to use that word community to this day, because the ultimate goal is that nobody, absolutely nobody else, was supposed to have any actual role in the community. The rhetorical style clearly shows that when he says, “I’m the only person that matters in the truth community!”, he means it. Everyone else is just throwing out free advertisement for the king. Sure, you might get a lot of Attaboys!^TM thrown your way early on, but as soon as you challenge Cartman’s authoritah you WILL be put in your place. You retard, you. Did I mention the condescending rhetoric yet?

As the greatest example of conspiracy theory light content, gematria fit in well with all the so called truth seeking community activity. The fundamentals, the actual creation of matching gematria was so easy a moderately smart person could do it. And those moderately smart people weren’t getting the proper intellectual stimulus and looking for an outlet. And that outlet was the leaders (another word I hate using since it’s a misnomer) in the so called truth community needing to be AS LOUD AND OBNOXIOUS AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE DOUCHE BAGS GET MORE ATTENTION. And that’s why the Internet isn’t such a great thing. There’s more money to be made faking a quick fix to financial problems than by trying to catch up for decades of educational neglect with teaching people to actually think for themselves. So the topics presented were the most lurid possible. Just copy what Alex Jones and other loud mouths were talking about. Did I mention the condescending rhetoric yet?

As I’ve proven above via my gematria calculator screenshots, in theory one could use gematria to spread a nonpartisan and friendly narrative. And holy fuck could the world use a little getting along and cooperation right now. The triple match, according to most gematria “standards” (yet another word I hate using in this context) should be compelling standing alone. Imagine what someone with my high level of gematria expertise could do given the time to flesh it out with more magical connections. BUT THAT’S NOT OUTRAGE PORNY ENOUGH. In case, dear sheeple, I forgot to mention the condescending rhetoric yet, you need to pick topics that are as belligerent as possible. Crisis actors in school shootings, every celebrity dies by ritualistic pagan sacrifice, covid is a hoax and don’t you dare make me get a vaccine that might save someone else’s life. Did I mention the world needing a little more cooperation yet?

Now

Well we really did it. Now we have political leadership that doesn’t just not call out the lack of cooperation and condescending rhetoric (if I haven’t mentioned that yet), it embraces it. It employs it. It abuses the power at every chance. Because there’s a lot more money in insider trading on a broken stock market than by passing cooperative legislation that might, oh, maybe lead to kids not getting shot and killed at school? Yes, we really did it. We’ve manufactured the biggest cult in history. A cult that we’re supposed to simultaneously revere the LOUDEST AND MOST OBNOXIUS DOUCHE BAGS and fear their possibly not yet mentioned condescending rhetoric. Don’t you dare challenge my anti immigration goon squad. They are embracing their highly cooperative right to earn money by destroying the lives of others. Others that in many publicized cases have done nothing but show cooperation and friendship. In their actual not internet communities.

The gematria “community” doesn’t really exist any more. The cult, learning the psychological tricks like endless gaslighting and effective use of projection has made gematria unimportant. They didn’t think big enough. They didn’t actually cooperate even the slightest among themselves for a long enough period to have any true staying power. The stragglers might post an occasional piece for nostalgia; their white picket fence. Some have residuals from unsubscribed Patreonage. But mostly they just stick to a bit of sports decoding and take solace in their 50%ish success rate. Probably yearning for the days when the could SCREAM ABOUT HOW SMART THEY ARE on the Internet.

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Gematria Vs. Real Numbers - Motivated Numeracy

Motivated Numerancy

Maybe instead of continuing to complain about how not very bright and extremely gullible some people are, somebody out there needs an explanation based on actual scientific results and data. Something geared towards the person with an interest in a statistical analysis about the highly polarized lunacy that pervades our political discourse, how we are psychologically driven towards extreme partisanship. The above linked paper is for you. I will share a couple of graphs and some of the basics here. But I encourage you to sift through as much of the paper as your actual level of science and comprehension of statistics allows you.

I dare say that someone who is captivated by gematria will not bother to actually try to understand this. They are either fully aware of the psychological tricks and are being actively manipulative, or they are in the thrall of someone who is. Someone who has been training them to double down and remain closed minded. While what the research seeks to do is show that as soon as Liberal Democrats vs. Conservative Republican is thrown into the discourse bias takes over. Our brains shut down and cease to function in a rational manner.

For purposes of a non political issue to focus on a fictional experiment was outlined. Creams to treat rashes must be tested as you don’t want to end up using something that might actually make the rash worse. Even a neutral “didn’t do anything good or bad” resultant particularly desirable. The product should actually work and show in a statistically large enough sample size that it had a benefit.

Focusing on the top two charts for now, study subjects were asked to identify from the data the effect of the skin cream. Did use of the skin cream make the condition better or worse? Please read the paper for detail of the fallacies knowingly involved in making an assessment based on the simplified data. And instead focus on the politically supercharged gun control variation below. It’s essentially the same scenario as the skin cream, but with guns. Also note that randomly “better vs. worse” column headings and “increase in crime vs. decrease in crime “ headings were assigned.

What the hell is numeracy? It’s the ability of someone to get meaningful information from numbers. When the data was summarized, as predicted people higher in numeracy were more often able to correctly assess the data for the skin cream scenario. However, as soon as politics was thrown into the mix, not only did political polarization increase false assessments, it was worse for higher numeracy. The bottom right chart, the high numeracy conservatives think gun bans increase crime, the high numeracy liberals think guns reduce crime.

Your confirmation bias based on political belief is an off switch to even remotely trying to analyze a set of data points. As soon as more or less GUNS are mentioned, the brain goes on vacation. I’m sooooo smart. This is soooo easy.

If you are unlucky enough to get cornered in a fake debate with a gematria user, let them know about this study. Challenge them to read through it and get back to you when they can rationally and calmly explain that they understand it in a manner that demonstrates they actually do. Don’t let them waffle around with Whataboutism? as it has nothing to do with this. Kobe Bryant = 113 doesn’t have anything to do with skin cream or gun bans in this context. They will not have the slightest clue what this means. Science literacy has been attacked deliberately for decades so the masses do not understand these things.

My MLB Playoff Predictions.

On Bluesky, I’ve finished making my wildly not popular playoff predictions. And I’m not going to bother with the last division series game later tonight. Since the entire process was just to make a background for this post it became beyond tedious. Perhaps now a few people on Bluesky will see this and get the point. Other than that it was just another couple of minutes chore everyday for a bit. And maybe I did get a new found appreciation for how tedious the life of an internet grifter must be. At least those grifters are looking at what’s trending and basing their material on what’s a hot topic instead of what’s actually accurate news.

In the future, at a quick glance it will appear that I made a correct prediction for every game in the wild card and division series rounds. That’s one of the big red flags right there something not legit was going on. That was 28 right and zero wrong. A record so unrealistic I doubt any would be gematria sports betting scammer would try to lay claim to. Something like 25-3 would be psychologically better. Close enough to perfection to be awesome without being a little bit weird. Like politics, it’s not about your record and character. You just have to give the illusion you are a better person than the competition. At least when you rely on fake news to pump up your own image when your talking points are complete BS.

Adding to the illusion:

On Bluesky, the age of the post shows in the upper right hand corner. That’s 10 months in the case of this gematria related top viewed post here. Plausibility is set up for the future. A quick fly by will show that all my picks were made in early and mid October. But it was simple using a scammer mindset to get that perfect record.

I just waited until the morning after the games were played, looked at my ESPN app and claimed victory. I even threw in some sports fan lingo to not make it sound too robotic and repetitive. The only thing missing was I didn’t take the time to insult anyone by putting in gematria numbers. My profile makes it clear that I’m not looking to run that kind of operation.

And that is one of the two main weapons of sports gematria schemes. Wait until the game is over. Focus on who won and produce a list of magical connections after the fact. It worked for Nostradamus, so why not update it for this day and age? A Nostradamus style prediction would be today claiming, “A lamb shall arise in the east and the winds will howl as the demon awakens from its slumber.” Then people years later will start filling in the blanks through their own biases. A gematria after the fact prediction just substitutes <QB name> = xxx, <All time record vs. opposing team> = xxx, <Final score> = xxx. And ignores the literal millions of things that make no sense at all.

This approach doesn’t work well for those that have structured their thinking logically. Claiming you’ve made a prediction when it’s clearly the morning after. Yeah, you are going to get called out on that.

If you’re not going to try that approach. Well, then you have to pick both teams before the game starts. Which runs into the same problem, the smarter people are going to pick up on that something is not legit. You are claiming to make predictions that are magical in nature, yet you never actually make a prediction. “The Broncos have the upset narrative with 46, but gosh the Eagles have a great record away in head to head match ups, so there’s that 17 narrative.”

Either system results in the same outcome. It’s what’s known as lying your ass off about your record when you put out new content in the future.

And that’s where gematria gambling content starts to get tricky when commandeered for propaganda purposes. The more outrageous the content = more views. Sports celebrities pass away all the time. Even that offensive tackle that only played two seasons has a name and number and a team name. Being disrespectful to their families and whatever legacy they’ve left behind is of no concern. It’s part of the rabbit hole, the pipeline that normalizes talking about death casually - whether it was natural causes or something spectacular when gematria gets used it’s turned into a supernatural forces of evil foretold their murder of this person because they love to mock the common folk. And you are that common folk. We know that because you are posting comments on YouTube videos indicating that you are actually basing wagers on someone reporting the results of yesterday’s game or who picked both teams to win.

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Mister Education

Due to copyright restrictions I’m unable to call him Mr. Ed. That sentence alone will likely get me banned from the Internet, but we’ve had a good run.

Basic education has not been too educational for decades, and boy howdy did it come back to bite us (the world) in the ass, didn’t it?!? After WWII the big favorites for top dog got nervous about each other. The atomic bomb didn’t just horrifically savage lives by the blast, it proved beyond any serious doubts that technology was outpacing government capacity to deal with properly socializing the angry masses. Russia chose the, “Hey we’ve always been an imperialist autocracy, so let’s just call ourselves communists and keep going that way.” The U.S., “Hey capitalism is GREAT for rich assholes ruining the lives of those that are exploited, let’s have slaves instead of calling them slaves” angle.

Whether you wanted to go with the mad scientist getting top notch funding for tech advance or the educate the masses so education could be privatized into a wealth extraction capitalist scam, the superpowers and smaller players did give us a bright and shiny moment of, oh about 25 years from 1948-1973ish. The American dream idea. Mom and Dad got decent paying jobs. But they actually had to spend time at work and it’s perfectly natural that SOMEBODY had to socialize the little brats. So let’s underpay teachers, but talk up how great it is to be involved in the education. And let’s make sure that toxic masculinity, unscientific religious values, and racist/xenophobic/bad economic & political info gets equal voice because FREE SPEECH DAMMIT! And guns because, REPRESENTATION WITHOUT CONFLATION MEANS I NEED MY EQUALIZER SINCE NOBODY LIKES ME!!! DAMMIT!!

The Internet finished off the last vestiges of humanity in an ultra competitive and toxic social environment. Throw little Johnny in front of a smartphone and now he’s smarter than everyone because of Mr. Ed. Or rather let’s call him Mr. Gematria because that’s what he calls himself. Calculus and Trigonometry? Totally unnecessary. History? We’re just going to change it. English? You don’t need to be great at English to not pay your bills, break alliances, parrot ludicrous tariff misinformation or lie about climate change. But a little gematria, yeah that’ll fix everything right up.

Mr. Gematria’s YouTube channel is in its infancy right now. Testing the waters to look for what sinks and what swims. The three week old 9/11 conspiracy video has 2.6k views, the others from about 20 to 100 views. And just like yesterday’s story these paltry view counts are all that could be mustered with over 6k subscribers. I’d suggest the math doesn’t work, but the anti-science movement has ruined my education.

But he is trying. Along with the undying 9/11 BS, there’s a They Live gematria recap and other openly titled conspiracy theory material there’s the latest video about a day old. Super Bowl 60 & Bad Bunny. And if you hadn’t had a reason to sell your soul to gematria confirmation bias Qanon cult insanity, you get the high quality intro that Zach would be proud of.

Don’t forget to like the video, fuck faces.

And he didn’t even say, “Please?” like one would expect coming from a Mister. Although since education and even basic social skills aren’t called for in this day and age we can be sure that a gematria channel titled Mr. Fuckfaces is out there. Somewhere. Because nothing makes a person surrender they’re lunch money like being called a fuck face.

Just a short flyby on some of the video material, the gematria quality - sucks.

The actual calculator is serviceable and does yield “correct” gematriot. If that can actually be considered a real thing. But the narrative and especially the quality of matches and how they are presented is lacking. There’s Phraseshoppping aplenty, and the picture- that’s 72. Because you drop zeroes and rearrange stuff all the time and that makes all kinds of sense. If you want to teach the next generations of fuck faces to build hydrogen fuel cell reactors in their basement, you’re going to need them to park their butt in school and pay attention to a fairly simple reality that 72 and 270 are different numbers. At least long enough to get a large enough crowd you can divvy out Attaboy!’s to that can influence the next election.

Saturday, October 4, 2025

AI Slop Takes Up Gematria

There are a couple other channels out there that share the same format. Those are biblical gematria, and frankly not my cup of tea. Too legit. But this one, that’s got all the warning signs of low effort AI generated content. And it also looks like there’s at least a pause if not having been abandoned as not working out.

Looking through some of the stats we see some contradictions. Created in late June 2025. Over 4000 videos. 93 subscribers. Yet the oldest videos are from two weeks ago. Typically put out dozens of short videos in a single day, none of which comes close to approaching the 93 subscriber count. Some don’t even have any views. Basically, it’s a dead zone that hasn’t found its footing and nobody cares about.

The content does match the channel subscription, that being a genuine mix of real math (Fibonacci series, logic problems and math, infinity) and bullshit math (gematria, dream numbers). It’s going to need a serious boost of propaganda money generated astroturfing to take off though. Even a genuine talking point of confirmation bias clouding judgement in gematria isn’t getting any traction.

Gosh I hope I didn’t stay there too long and give that video its first view.

Rounding out the list of red flags we have thumbnails of pretty girls of which there are only four repeated over and over, and a robotic sounding AI voice doing the narration. You never see a human doing the narration. This is part of what makes me think that the reason the latest video was 4 days ago. There just isn’t a market. It’s not…obnoxious enough. Sure it was easy to set up and crank out thousands of videos in a short time, but without viewers, what’s the point. Nothing gets engagement like a loud mouth spouting rage bait that will give your comment a like even though it’s hateful and would cause you to get popped in the face if you said it at your local bar, gym, library or Wal-Mart.

AI stealing jobs is one of those tricky issues that adults in the room should be discussing. Back at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution it was cheaper to have a machine do labor intensive manual jobs. More and better machines, less humans to pay wages for.

We’ve reached a sort of “Holy Shit!” phase of late capitalism. Education and training that goes extinct far sooner than a career and retirement planning can support is shifted to, “How do I buy gas for my car and afford to feed my kids TODAY?”

If you weren’t on the gematria bandwagon a decade ago, it’s too bad. Not even low effort AI slop is going to resurrect a new age. At least until some new crazy and probably violent weirdo comes along.

Sunday, September 28, 2025

Picking Both Teams - The Gematria (H)Edge

Gematria, that wonderful and glorious intellectual cop out. Although there is a huge social impact long term by encouraging short term thinking over long term planning, Gematria outside of sports doesn’t have quite the zing of some barely basic realities - like literally always being wrong as soon as you make a decision based on the numbers in your favorite gematria calculator. Sure, you might want to prepare for that 1000th time someone predicted the Rapture will be tomorrow, or maybe your lonely because your incredibly bigoted and finding out your favorite fascism based target has bad gematria. But sports gematria, that has a regular schedule. And other than weather related delays or similar burps that game will be played.

The gematria cult leader that must appease the masses is painted into a corner. If not explicit, it is at a minimum implicit that you have secret knowledge. That you basically have super powers. And even you are better at the magic than other mystic infused gematria psychics. So how do you get by with the more than occasional wrong pick, especially with picking a whole bunch of games? And you know you’re going to get grief during the playoffs and need to make some sort of narrative for every game? You settle for being wrong LITERALLY every time by picking both teams. You settle for the 100% chance of being both right and wrong every time in a two participant contest. Actually, like a roulette wheel having 0 and 00 if the sport has the potential for a tie, you are guaranteed to be wrong more often, unless you want to be the trailblazer that starts making tie narratives.

https://gematriaeffectsports.blogspot.com/2019/12/nfl-week-17-sunday-december-29-2019.html?m=1

That’s the source material, an old blog that Hubbard hasn’t used for years. The playoffs are getting closer as the regular season rolls s drawing to a close. Watch that master pick both teams.

There is little value in taking the Packers. Carefully Nostradamus style vague wording instead of just simply stating a variation of, “The Packers will win tomorrow.” And then the hedge. The gematria edge since you can always find a counter when dealing with one, two, or three digit numbers. “*If the Lions do lose they’ll….” Congratulations. You just picked both teams.

“Browns would improve…”. “The narrative for a Bengals upset…”. Even less clear than the previous example. Simply putting out that there is a narrative that the only teams involved each have a chance to win. Hardly a prediction.

Another leaner, and totally typical that it leans towards the favorite. But adding, “most likely” to pro Bills talk doesn’t change how there is also, “The best narrative for a Jets upset…” wording to follow the leaning on the heavy favorite.

And it’s like that every week, week after week. Then if you are caught up in the flashy fast paced chatter on the videos, like the partial positive reinforcement from slot machine winning spins, you forget those losses and remember the wins. Especially when reinforced with the typical sports betting without gematria proclamations of making a killing, sticking it to the casinos, and being right all the time. Never, ever mention that when you pick both teams you are also wrong every time.

This is why you never see any actual proof. The only evidence is the gematria and the claims of the cult leader. The blog post is a day before the games. True belief in the system would be verifiable by posting actual betting slips for just one team the day before. And that happens - never. The income is not from belief in the mystical knowledge, it’s the subscription service selling the fake mystical knowledge. Heck, the skeptical crowd would even be impressed by a less than perfect record. Week after week of being right 75%-80% of the time, that would make a believer out of me. But take a step back and learn the critical thinking skills of the skeptic. There would be no need to sell picks if your system worked.

Now since Alex Jones style rage baiting with outrage porn is part of the mix it’s worth mentioning the Jews decodes. In the meantime, while little Johnny is learning how to develop his gambling addiction by picking both teams, the daily bad news is also double coded. This week we’re still seeing Charlie Kirk gematria. Every tragedy brings up gematria stories.

Gematria. Come to the community for the conspiracy theory lite gambling. Stay for the trip down the Alt-Right pipeline.

Saturday, September 27, 2025

The Reporter vs. The Grifter Spectrum

I envision sometime in the future, not knowing if it is the near or far future, when the low key gematria grift we see today has a revival. That’s basically what happened in the mid to late 2010’s. There was nothing new presented. Some effort was put into researching what happened in the past, it was tweaked to update to Alex Jones era circumstances, and it found a new audience that had never seen it before. The big question seems to be if it will continue to go after the same target audience it has now or if perhaps someone with the magnetism and charm can pull off a big Ocean’s movie style heist or if it will continue to be like the lottery it is today. (Lotteries being essentially a tax for people that don’t understand math who can’t afford yet another tax.)

There is no neat and tidy box to place your gematria disseminating weirdo. Unlike the gematria presentations that claim a completely binary outcome there is nuance and context. Truth = 113 and Dishonest = 113. The more they cry and proclaim that it MUST BE dishonest has no actual 1+1 = 2 proof behind it. You are perfectly fine with being skeptical of anyone claiming that gematria has real value in analyzing what most people call real life. But the nagging question remains - is the person a clueless idiot or a greedy and unscrupulous grifter?

Let’s take a side trip on someone that is obviously up to no good.

Checking through previous posts, we find they have a YouTube channel with gematria content. And the first pass- it’s not good. There are thumbnails of the Gematrinator calculator, so they are aware of our favorite insane number of ciphers available to cherry pick from site.

And neither LabubuDolls or Six Six Six result is our magical 225.

Being correct about anything related to gematria is never much of a necessity, so that’s not really a big surprise. Even the simplest sniff test shows that whatever the motivation is to post blatantly bad gematria, we don’t need to take anything they have to say seriously. Including non gematria related topics.

There are two main products for gematria. Gaining attention or money. And our nuanced scale has a gradient or spectrum of belief in the actual gematria part. And very simply at its most black and white it’s whether the focus is on the attention part or the money part. Attention can be limited to an individual seeking solace and comfort in analyzing Bible phrases on their own. It can extend to a tribe of like minded individuals. It can get pushy where two opposing tribes could get opposite meanings and fight (hopefully a friendly discussion) over interpretation.

The money side. That’s always had a fair number of people, especially during the NFL season like now, who don’t really give a damn about the gematria other than belief in the false hope it might give them an edge on their gambling. Their lottery tax is the inevitable Patreon subscription where it’s pay to play. The supposed master can provide their expertise.

Being a gematria grifter requires some effort to be successful. For starters, posting gematria that actually equals what you claim it does is a great start. It requires advertising. And that’s blog posts and regular YouTube videos. And hooking lots of clueless attention seekers into the mix. They are getting the Attaboy!^TM in exchange for their time. More Attaboys will be given if you just make sure to sell your soul to the cult leader for at least this sports season. In its current form it requires rage baiting. Some people on the scale are fixated on the idea that “All liberals are evil”, or “The Yankees are allowed to cheat because I love them” or “Trump is great”. Or the polar opposite of those. Conspiracy theories are equal opportunity employers, it just so happens that at this point in time hard right wing conspiracy thinking dominates the landscape.

For example, there’s a glut of film critic content on YouTube. Everyone fancies themselves a great critic and not all of them are right. Some are just bad critics. Some don’t care about the criticism part and just want to pump up the view count for advertising value - making an entertaining video based on cinema (think MST3K on a small scale). Some are focused on being controversial just for views. Some use that rage baiting to branch out into selling merch. Some are good critics that can explain their position, and maybe even cite legit references. Some are good critics with no audience just doing it for fun. And some are so obviously asking for money so frequently it’s insane to believe their audience hasn’t caught on that it’s more about the money than the message.

These same ideas of YouTubers as critic fight in to gematria YouTubers as journalists. And the makers of the videos have audience members that all fit into different parts of the gradient. The unfortunate side effect is the same psychological pressure to continue to be more extreme as the world around us gets more extreme.

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

You Can’t Be Both Wet and Dry

Robert Reich -The Sleeping Giant

Heather Cox Richardson video

Although both pieces are titled about the Sleeping Giant Awakening, I’m choosing to focus on a single line from early on in Heather’s video.

You can’t be both wet and dry.

As you go through the linked material, and if you’re concerned about what’s going on in the U.S. and by chain reaction the rest of the world you absolutely should, keep in mind that there are things that I’ve pointed out about conspiracy theory gematria for almost a decade now. There isn’t much satisfaction in, “I told you so”commentary when things get really bad before an awakening.

The promoters of gematria in the sports scam and Qanon glory days want you to think you CAN be both wet and dry at the same time. Which naturally in gematria and with the golden rule of cherry picking they do both equal 16. However, in the real world it’s not so simple. The same way those two competing in a single game NFL teams cannot both win, being either wet or dry are mutually exclusive.

The starting point is poor decision making on your source of information. Once that person is elevated to cult leader status they can and do proclaim mutually exclusive thoughts to be simultaneously true. Perhaps not simultaneously as much as having to abide with the hypocritical contradictions in a short period of time.

By all appearances, Trump recognizes his physical health is failing, even as he struggles to understand his limited mental capacity is also failing. There’s been a whirlwind of contradictory evidence in an extremely short time frame. Like the Epstein story changing every couple days for a prominent example.

The narcissistic populist politician will get away with the tactic of being all over the map, with some caution about the time frame. Throw enough shit against the wall, then see what’s sticking. Focus on that long enough to get elected. But the shit sticking or sliding down are mutually exclusive. You can’t only deport the worst criminals and also deport innocent grandmothers and children. You can’t be both a failed businessman with loads of objective evidence like bankruptcies and bailouts and a genius at running the biggest economy in the world - with a tariff policy every smart and sane economist knew wouldn’t work. You can’t give tax breaks to the rich and have money left to fund schools properly.

Personally, I’m trying very hard not to say, “I hate being right all the time.” I can only really speak for myself, but I’d like to think that the awakening has similar minded people. There’s no need to jump right into admission of being wrong. After decades of mental investment in bad information that can be hard to do. But you can’t give tax take that step in the right direction. Actually think about not supporting someone who has dedicated their life to changing their mind daily, like they had a gematria calculator telling them what they want to hear.

Sunday, September 14, 2025

The Architects Of Conspiracy Gematria

The Architects of Fear is the third episode of the first season of The Outer Limits. The entire series is currently available on Tubi if you want to catch up on this family member to The Twilight Zone. Personally, as I catch up on long forgotten initial viewings I find it to be an exercise in recency bias. My own personal recency bias, since nobody is truly immune to cognitive biases. I find myself framing the material in relation to current events. On the plus side, the main topic for Architects back in 1965 was nuclear war and although still relevant today is just part of the grab bag of other technology based challenges. And also, I have the critical thinking skills necessary to appreciate a deeper message beyond the, “Holy shit! Cool alien with a ray gun!” aspect.

The story itself is an exercise in the old question, does the end justify the means? Robert Culp gets to play the lead in a tale of scientists, well meaning as they might be, hatching a scheme to create a common enemy. A scarecrow, to use dialogue within the episode. A hideous monster to distract the warring populations of Earth before they blow themselves up with the genie let loose from the bottle of nuclear fission. Even more entertaining than our alien with the laser pistol is the schizophrenic episode during his transformation that will make you say, “Wow, Robert Culp. I guess Shatner wasn’t available.”

It’s a bit rushed as the time slot was an hour, but paced pretty well. I find it interesting in comparison to the second episode just before. Two consecutive episodes with injections being responsible for transforming physical appearance of people. (The previous episode was The Hundred Days of the Dragon about a foreign government planting a look a like in for the President of the U.S.).

If you pay attention to foreshadowing and you know the formula it’s obvious that something is destined to go wrong. The transformation is lengthy and painful for Culp’s character, Allen. He’s thrown away his marriage with a side story of his wife just finding out she’s pregnant, for The Greater Good. But it isn’t just enough to make him look like an alien. A cover story, with way too many moving parts is created. Weird looking spaceship created, set to land at a peace conference to drive home the angle that this is super dangerous menace. And, hey let’s foreshadow a working ray gun into that. The landing goes wrong, and a group of hunters that would have been too traumatizing to kill have their vehicle disintegrated by the laser.

And they naturally react like the fearful and xenophobic humans you would expect. Let’s give ordinary citizens lots of guns. What could possibly go wrong. Their gunfire ends Allen’s pain after an unrealistic unobserved journey back to the lab for a touching death scene with his wife. (Science fiction and fantasy are lumped together for a reason. You just get serums and spaceships instead of super strength and a wizard spell of invisibility.)

Although Allen gives his consent to the transformation after a fair lottery it’s certainly… wrong. What they’ve done to him does not go as smoothly as planned. His entire biology is altered and physically he’s not Allen, but it’s reinforced that his mind is still Allen’s.

The episode leaves us with the Serling style narration.

There is no magic substitute for soft caring and hard work, for self-respect and mutual love. If we can learn this from the mistake these frightened men made, then their mistake will at least be a lesson. A lesson at last to be learned.

I have the luxury of my self proclaimed arrogance on the subject of gematria to frame this according to my recency bias. Allen’s context, that his nuance and humanity is removed and he’s identified as the monster by appearance only is intentional. Do you, for example, really want the architects of fear being in charge of the decision making process when it comes to something like genocide? Your answer to that shows where you lean on in the fascist or not fascist spectrum.

The Architects of Conspiracy Gematria laid their groundwork in the hard right wing core of Alex Jones online content. Sure, as it started it was a side gig to hustle some bucks from sports betting. But once the bots got going it became twisted. The architects needed their laser gun. “You know, this sports betting angle isn’t stupid and violent enough. Let’s make everything anyone with a shred of humanity and decency a monster. Let’s remove all context and nuance and arbitrarily call everything we like (money and power) good and everything we hate (a soul and a conscience) bad.”

Do you really want someone who has aligned themselves with people that have literally picked both teams and called it a winning prediction involved in higher decisions? Those are the same people that contradict themselves every day on something like the Epstein files. Where the mutually exclusive thoughts of it being a complete fabrication, a Democrat hoax, Trump is an informant for the FBI and took down Epstein, and whatever you’re told to believe tomorrow can’t possibly be all correct.

It’s all a distraction to keep you away from realizing that objectively Epstein was a horrific monster. Closer to the serum transformation in Hundred Days than the manufactured monster in Architects. Keep you distracted from associating the rich and powerful people Epstein was actually aligned with as being recognized for the monsters they are.

You can try to think for yourself, or you can keep listening to the Architects of Fear. I highly recommend not listening to the Architects when the good intentions of our Outer Limits Architects is completely missing.