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.

The Hellhole Formerly Known As Twitter

Refuse to call it anything but the original Twitter, call it X, call it Twixter, or call it out for the Hellhole it is now, there’s no doubt the place is nothing like it was before Elon purchased it.

Those with the intelligence and empathy to have true concern have been trying and failing to decode Elon for some time.  To be clear, that’s not a gematria decode - I said empathy.  That task is near insurmountable as he is a human weather vane, impossible to predict with a rapid storm front that changes its nature several times a second.  Whether by accident or design policy changes regarding the operation of our favorite Hellhole always seem to end up favoring those that seek to use it for propagation of misinformation, disinformation, propaganda containing those previous two, and grifters.

I shared a lot of the story of bot invasion yesterday.  The part that was most disturbing is that in the old Twitter days you would receive a notification when any other account followed you.  A prime feature of functional social media is the attempt to bring together people that think alike, to form groups of shared interests.  Despite a previous lack of contact defined by geographic barriers.  The chance for me to clearly see that Elfreda, the Sylvan Goddess, followed me, wants to CamChat and give me the easy opportunity to say, “oh yeah baby, I’d tap that!”, click on the handy follow back button at the top and start the good times rolling.

What attention seekers like Musk fail to realize is that one who truly has empathy and gives a damn about what’s going on around them realize that empathy also includes caring not just about the effects on yourself, but the possible outcomes of poor decisions by those in charge.  Since I never received notification that Elfreda followed me, somehow she (or rather, it) was allowed to bypass a normal, sensible process and just magically follow me.

Sure, I’m smart enough to recognize that the only post this account has put up since creation of the account in September 2023 is this one.  And I’m smart enough to recognize the red flags and soft block of hard block it.  Even without the experience of having to waste my time on five dozen of similar accounts in recent history I’d know that nothing good would come about from engaging with what is…to me…an obviously fake and unserious account.  But never let your Dunning-Kruger stop you from realizing that it can and does affect other people without the IQ to recognize the pattern or the life experiences to have them take pause and get a little dose of healthy skepticism.

Elon is a perfect example of how powerful money is, where it gets to a point of having money instead of being right is the top priority.  The money itself isn’t that important.  It’s how that money gets him what he really wants - the attention.  Even colossally bad financial decisions about his fluctuating net worth is still attention.

In the unlikely event that top tier corporations return to Twitter because the policy of allowing porn bots to follow people magically proves the Hellhole is good for business, I’ll be the first to publicly acknowledge how wrong I was about Musk.  In the meantime I expect a lot more head shaking, eye rolling a WTFing, as his pet projects are all dreams that are scientifically viable, but economically horrendously difficult to implement.

The two pieces of media that come to mind are Mel Brooks, The History of the World Part I and a Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode.  In History, Brooks as King Louis XVI makes colossally bad decisions and shrugs them off with a simple, “It’s good to be king!”  Totally unconcerned about the downtrodden and impoverished people he rules over.  The Simpsons and Springfield are attacked by all the giant advertisements and the solution was to just not look.  Unfortunately, although we will never get over the colossal failures of the Hellhole’s creator and keep looking like deer stuck in the headlights, also not looking at his ads isn’t a fix since he’ll just create alternative to main stream advertising.  Like porn bots that magically appear.

Know Your Grifter Tactics - Copy and Paste

 

If you were to go to the hellhole formerly known as Twitter and dig down into the conversation you would find that there was a minor excuse for what passes as a conversation between two people.  The first step was for this account in the screenshot to post a vague prediction regarding August 3, 2025.  Gematria is great at just a couple of things, and one of them is an excuse to make fake predictions that always fail because nothing ever happens on the chosen date.  Nothing extraordinary or if it is extraordinary there’s no explanation why those with the magical knowledge didn’t have more detail than, “Something big is about to happen.”

Notice there are two separate but identical replies and more importantly two separate people that were replied to.  This is a red flag for deeply unserious content, as if the idea of picking a random date a year and a half in the future isn’t a red flag enough.  It’s a recruiting message.  And it’s the social media equivalent of Nigerian Prince mass email tactics.  Send out a couple hundred million emails.  Only pay further attention to the few people that bite.  The advantage of the social media variation is that your target demographic, those with a confirmation bias come to you instead of the effort of putting together a long list of emails.

Gematria has always been good at this.  Making something totally ridiculous become a search for deep underlying secrets that don’t exist.

And our story gets better.  Content like this also attracts scam baiters.  So knowing how scams and scam baiters operate I put this to a little bit of a test.  And I’ll be the first to admit it is not conclusive and the results are somewhat speculative.

So how can you tell if these messages, certainly less than a minute apart are completely bot driven to auto reply or if there’s a real human behind it?  I have had a lot of bot issues lately, having a network of bots with 4.8k accounts they are following and all created between August 2023 and January 2024 follow me on the hellhole formerly known as Twitter.  Soft blocking the five dozen of those yesterday and the one that appeared last night took more minutes than I wanted to.  But I’m getting beyond the point and just venting.  So I put my scam baiter shoes on and sent mister copy and paste replier a message asking what happens on August 3, 2025.

Bot activity hasn’t been totally stagnant and does improve all the time.  But it’s unlikely a true bot would have been able to read my profile and figure out that I was trouble and should be ignored.  That’s what happened.  A true bot would have auto replied with the same canned, “It’s a bit hard to explain…” nonsense.  This is all happening less than an hour after these copy and paste replies were made.  So it’s unlikely someone else with scam baiting knowledge and a habit of searching Twitter for gematria related posts would have beaten me to it and scared the bot network off. (The word Gematria in boldface indicates it was a search result.  I search for all gematria related posts every day.  I doubt many other people have that level of self flagellation in their mental make up.)

So that leaves us with at least some conscious human activity.  As lazy as it might be to copy word for word instead of at least personalizing the message a little bit.  And that’s another great thing gematria does.  Even those that actually believe in it are posting meaningless gibberish disguised as facts and evidence.  Even the cult leaders high up on the pyramid scheme are posting meaningless gibberish every day.  All designed to create engagement above anything else.

Who knows where these two will fall on the spectrum.  Anywhere from figuring out that it’s more trouble than it’s worth, or getting sucked into the gibberish rabbit hole completely.  Maybe they like sports and that will drive their continued search for all things gematria through sports decodes.  Maybe they’ll pick up on the attempted revival of synchronicity that’s going on now.  Maybe it’s crypto.  Maybe it’s hatred of democrats and Obama is the Antichrist.  What we do know is that there’s a wide variety of cliques available to pick from with gematria.  While a Nigerian Prince email is stuck to the format presented in the first email, there’s no better substitute than a real person like an Alex Jones driving an ever changing narrative immediately.  Some real human activity - bridging the gap between a true bot and someone with some critical thinking skills that’s purposefully using psychological manipulation tactics designed to make the target feel smarter than they think they are.  The human bridges mostly fall in the mid level of the pyramid scheming.  Instead of asking for money right away do a little bit of a scouting mission to find out what makes the target tick.

A copy and paste like this —>shouldn’t<— work.  People asking the question about the magic date have a higher chance of not having previous experience with numerology and gematria and getting curious.  These two —>should<— do the gematria search I did and say, “Holy shit.  Why is that reply to the other guy the exact same as mine?!?  I mean really WTF!?!”  But if you’re asking the question about the magic date in the first place you probably aren’t big on researching instead of relying on your flawed intuition.

Gematria Sustainability

Without the gematria part, by itself sustainability is probably most often associated with fossil fuel consumption and resource depletion.  There’s been so many birthdays our helium is running low:

https://balloonsblow.org/helium-depletion/

While it could be used for some arguably better purposes than a practice of tradition generated by social inertia instead of actual value.  (Although a dog confronted with a leftover birthday balloon filled with helium can be vastly entertaining.)  And of course gas and oil will eventually run out other than if climate change finishes us off first.

The often quoted bad science relating to the apparent vastness (almost infinite, relatively speaking) of fossil fuel reserves doesn’t take in to account that the low hanging fruit has already been picked.  Thousands of years ago useful stuff was just lying around with minimal effort to utilize compared to modern mining operations.  Now it’s a self fulfilling feedback loop, the materials to make the equipment are necessary to get access to further sources of grabbing the equipment.

Gematria is showing signs of a sustainability problem.  If you have a group of fields in a plot of farmland you can leave some in a state of fallowing.  Let some natural organic activity return nitrogen to the soil without paying for nitrogen based fertilizer applications.  Before the internet we had forgotten about the grifting activity practiced by con men that we consider old timers now.  Back in era when you had to market your schtick like a traveling snake oil salesman.

The low hanging fruit of gematria is exhausted, and it shows.  The favorites are way overused and frankly quite boring.  Not just to the critics, but to the practitioners.  Gematria became its own worst enemy by repetition.  The same repetition that treats every video as an introduction to the craft instead of building on the past.

For example, it hasn’t even been 10 years from when the cult leader would throw out a Pi reference in a video, usually something related to a circle since circular things are super common, a bunch of comments from the fascinated flock would try to impress noble leader with their own Pi reference.  Some of the decline in Pi activity is from the shift to pro spiritual content.  The old Pi references are back at a time when science references coincided peacefully with religious and spiritual content.  Modern gematria use has been invaded by crowds that prefer to attack science to merge in all the dangerous ideas like anti vaccination content or any other medical issue.  Making a 227 gematria Pi reference only serves to bring the lunacy of 22 divided by 7 not being Pi to the attention of the debunkers.

Relying on two and three digit numbers for a lengthy time period wasn’t a sustainable long term plan, and likely wasn’t intended to be.  There isn’t anything new to add to sports decoding that hasn’t already been done.  The defenses, like with other internet grift, are overused.  Continually resorting to bold lies about your track record also brings down the marketability of other internet scam content.  The dropout rate has been higher than the new recruit rate, which isn’t an immediate problem for the top tier.  If you keep in mind that gematria content is not the top of the food chain when the conspirituality merging of right wing and left wing polarizing nuttery has co-opted gematria for their purposes.

It’s simply not possible for someone to have enough time, even with the required intellect and ambition to be a top tier scammer, to produce enough content for anything other than two and three digit matches.

The reason for this topic today is reflection on how difficult it is to find something remotely interesting to discuss as a critic.  My go to source of Twixter is an empty wasteland compared to the good old days.  I satisfied myself by being repetitious as well, with something I’ve done before appearing at the top of the blog since lack of research skills don’t allow the genuinely curious as to what’s wrong with gematria to dig deep down.

Anons Everywhere

And the first few are actually real!

Qanon remains the champ for now.  Combine some shady YouTube channels with some attention seeking larpers and the inevitable grift of that and watch your movement grow.  Especially when foreign powers can just put some bright minds in front of a keyboard to stir the pot up instead of expending a lot of the propaganda budget, voila!  You just never know what they’ll latch on to next, although the Donald Trump saved the world theme is still big.  Polarization is the key.  Keep us fighting amongst ourselves instead of picking serious politicians.

BlueAnon is something I’ve touched on before.  What if you want to apply the same tactics but target the super gung ho liberals?  You are fighting the evil conservatives!  Give me your money since I’m the expert evil fighter!  Look at my awesome social media presence and ignore that I’m just as bad as the Q’s regarding meaningful content!

StewAnon is BlueAnon with the fortunate requisite rhyme built in to the founder’s name.  There’s a fundraiser for balloons in the history, so there’s all I need to know.  You’re not really fighting evil conservatives without a balloon, highly symbolic of wasting natural resources like our dwindling supply of helium.

TruAnon is the inspiration for today’s topic.  Why shouldn’t other countries share in the fun?  Q inspired turmoil in Germany.  And although Queen Romana has got her foothold in Canada they NEED TruAnon.  Qanon style content regarding Trudeau.

That’s enough of the real ones.  Let’s make up some more.

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GrooAnon.  Groo the Wanderer is an amusing comic series about a dim witted mercenary swordsman.  Violent and not very bright.  That’s a perfect combination for an Anon movement, but wait.  It gets better!  A recurring theme is beating the joke of using the word mendicant to death.  Violent, dim witted and begging for money.  That’s some serious predictive programming content there.

ClueAnon.  Picking the one that rhymes as the poster child for board games conspiracy.  Ever notice that in Monopoly, having a monopoly is a good thing?  Corporate greed is fun.  Risk - conquering the world is fun, there are no civilian problems to worry about, just armies that apparently don’t need to worry about logistics.  And of course in Clue itself murder is fun.  The game ends and you have no clue what the sentencing is like, which is the real origin of its name.

DoAnon.  Transvestigation can identify anybody that’s misgendered.  Usually it’s claiming the opposite of reality, but sometimes they try to add a little bit of physical characteristics in to spice up the story.  Adam’s apples, cheekbones, that kind of stuff.  But they’re hairdo - an untapped resource.  A man bun is actually a woman bun, you morons.  You can arbitrarily claim any hair style to be what you want, which is what they do already, but without the Anon part.

FewAnon.  Qanon when it first started, it was cool to be a Q.  Proudly throwing out your Qship with a WWG1WGA and other Q identifiers.  Boldly proclaiming that you have nothing to hide about your membership as you are UltraQPatriotMissle45 which is surely not hiding behind a keyboard.  Eventually these folks got called regularly and there was literally a directive to claim, “There is Q.  There are Anons.  But there is no Qanon.”  For these confused about their stance in what was once a proud organization totally not hiding behind a keyboard that went to nonexistent in a flash- FewAnon.  There are really like four or five of us max.  Everyone else is just a poser.

CooAnon.  Using the Birds Aren’t Real conspiracy as a springboard to present that pigeons are taking over the world.  Alternatively spelled CoupAnon.  And more correctly known as CuckooAnon or CooCoupAnon.

2Anon.  Oh you knew it was coming if you’ve been paying attention this past few years.  A problem with the gematria clowns - they aren’t Anons.  ONE doesn’t have the rhyme we need.  And doing gematria of 1 related things would be just plain stupid.  But 2, that’s twice as big as 1 and is OBVIOUSLY much more significant.  They’re working on it.  They’re probably stuck at 10Anon right now and don’t spend a lot of time shaving it below two digits.  Not they don’t try to make the evidence as insignificant as possible.

RueAnon.  For those that regret not getting into one of the Anon groups with more cachet than this one.

SueAnon.  For lawyers or conspiracies about evil lawyers?  Could go either way, as long as there’s a frivolous lawsuit in the making.

GlueAnon.  Batshit crazy Q style content dialed up to 11 because they are stoned out of their minds.

KazooAnon.  I don’t know what the inventor was thinking, those things are fucking evil.  

PooAnon/LooAnon.  For all the miscellaneous shit that doesn’t fit in the other Anon groups.

The Bad Cop, the Good Cop, and the Internet Grifter

Personal pet peeve time.  Brought on by personal experience of a couple days ago.  For the record, someone blew a red light, no big deal for me since I saw it coming.  The officer had a vehicle pulled over in the mini mart lot at the intersection with the light.  My light had just changed green, but instead of taking my turn I saw the second traffic violator was going way too fast to be able to stop.  He blew the full red light right beside a policeman who was already busy with another customer.

For purposes of this post, the Bad Cop is defined as one that doesn’t even try.  Drunk with power he just issues speeding tickets arbitrarily, like YouTube passing out community guidelines strikes.  He’s the famous bad cop that is the nemesis of those stating my pet peeve.  Listening to some people, every single one of their speeding violations is not their fault, but the result of being always in the wrong spot at the wrong time and the bad cop is out to get them.  Like a targeted individual with a persecution complex thinking he’s being gang stalked on the internet and not internet life.

Why this irks me is that I haven’t had a speeding ticket in decades.  Like a lot of people I bend the rules a little bit and pay attention to my speed and to avoid too much ire from those behind me settle for a couple of miles per hour over the speed limit.  For purposes of this post a good cop is defined as one that tries to follow the job description.  (Difficult for conspiracy theorists to understand as that job description includes some empathy.)  They don’t let everyone get away every time for fearing they ruin the (fake) good cop reputation of being a nice guy.  Instead of bothering with someone that’s 3mph over the speed limit they save it for the 25 miles per hour over the limit in a 15  mph school zone of the rich bastard who thinks he’s too important to only drive 65 mph in his sports car.  The typical rules don’t apply to me people.

Even with a lot of personal and other anecdotal evidence there are a decent number of people like me that do not get traffic violations handed out willy nilly by Mr. Bad Cop.  And mathematically it always amazes me how those that insist Mr. Bad Cop is out to get them share their stories regularly about how they got unjustly cited again.

I really don’t believe them because of the math.  The next step in the logic process is to admit that some cops are Mr. Good cop that, that would rather have you calm the fuck down and not run over a child in a school zone some day.  Even if the ratio is massively lopsided with Bad Cops outnumbering Good Cops 90% to 10% your chances of being ticketed by a bad cop are 100%.  Barring  extenuating circumstances like lunch break or already servicing another customer in the mini mart lot.  If you are violating the traffic laws around a Good Cop your chances are 100% for getting cited.  And even those that bend the rules too much because they didn’t leave the house on time to make it to work by 8am at least subconsciously know they won’t get a speeding ticket for being within a reasonable approximation of the limit if not within the limit entirely.

So let me get your story straight Mr. Targeted Complainer.  All cops are evil, so your response is to, what, purposefully violate the law as a gesture of defiance to the grand Bad Cop conspiracy going on that doesn’t pull over lots of people?  They’re all in on it too?  Maybe even reporting your whereabouts to the Bad Cops and laughing at you behind your back?  Closeted Bad Cop lovers who are bribing the Bad Cops to avoid the same fate?  Knock it off.  Some cops are not only Good Cops but overall decent quality human beings.  The Bad Cop stories make news because they’re sensational.  You do hear Good Cop stories, but our love affair with the painful and evil in society means you don’t hear unexceptional Good Cop stories of how the police finally arrested the shoplifter plaguing the Mom & Pop gift shop that couldn’t afford a security camera.

Now we turn our attention to the Internet Grifter.  A Bad Cop that doesn’t care about his reputation as a Bad Cop.  Internet scammers are now pretty easy to find.  You don’t get a lot of money from your targets unless you…wait for it…ask for money.  At least Mr. Bad Cop has a flimsy excuse for forcing money out of you.  Strangely, unless he’s trying to coerce a smaller amount as a personal bribe he’s getting fines for the benefit of the department instead of his own wallet.

So let me get this straight.  You’re supporting someone you know has been accused of being a grifter.  Credibly accused.  And your solution is to support them financially?  Where 100% of the tile your money goes into their pocket?  When maybe if you bought lunch you might get a benefit for yourself?

A lot of scams have a hurry up and make a decision now aspect to it.  Get down to the Walmart and buy that gift card NOW and give me the code on the card NOW.  For whatever reason.  Yet strangely the sports gematria join my Patreon gives you the opportunity to do a little actual homework and see what you’re getting yourself into.  Homework that shows Mr. Bad Cop who has no intention of doing anything but keeping your money.  And the kicker is that people with good intentions think they are looking for Mr. Good Cop.

Actually, you don’t need to give someone your money to be a good person.  Charity is ok if it’s a decent charity and not one of the many scammy charities.  But you can start by showing a little respect for others around you.  And in addition to the 100s of dollars saved not having to pay the speeding ticket you can not run over a child in a school zone.

Meme of the Month - May 2024

There’s nothing scientific or literate about gematria.  In the header I’ve long had the comment about how gematria is not even high enough on the crank magnetism food chain to qualify as pseudoscience.  As a special present I updated the header this morning, adding:

GEMATRIA DECODING = 135

COGNITIVE BIAS = 135

And both in ordinal.  Very easy to argue that if you had to pick one cipher that would be the one.  So many videos start off just referencing A=1, B=2, C=3….  Without even getting into the many other ciphers, things that aren’t gematria that are claimed to be gematria, number alteration tricks and all the other BS that goes along with gematria decoding.

For anybody that this helps understand, you’re welcome.  To the grifters catching up on what’s new here, you are also welcome.  Being science literate is what lead me to instantly recognize that the ring leaders were full of shit.  Gematria decoding is bait.  An introduction to conspiracy content that you can actively participate in by “decoding”.  But what it’s doing is giving you a dose of your own cognitive biases making you think you’re smarter than you really are.  Anybody can make any narrative out of a given basic set of facts (e.g. news story + people’s names).  And you can play around on the calculator and just find something that suits your purpose like the GEMATRIA DECODING/COGNITIVE BIAS matc here.  But the real gauge of how badly your cognition and critical thinking are damaged is how many wrong answers you ignore.  Just with the four base ciphers there are more misses on GEMATRIA DECODING/COGNITIVE BIAS than there are hits.

Know Your Grifter Defense Mechanism- Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover

Imagine this scenario.  A new to YouTube E-Begger sets their sights on stealing away a portion of an existing flock.  They don’t have any significant new content to offer.  It could be more repetition of old debunked flat earth stuff.  It could be tarot card readings.  Or it could be my favorite, sports decoding with gematria.  Being wrong in gematria is expected and happens all the time.  Even now the NBA playoff talk on Twixter is mostly arguing on who posted their winning picks in advance or if they waited until the game was over to hindsight it.

Within the marketing is an arbitrary scapegoat, a marginalized group.  LGBTQ+, race, offbeat religion, whatever.  And somebody that is part of that group finds the content and is pissed off.  And trolls them for it.

One of the sure signs of a disingenuous social media source is if they react with the “Don’t judge a book by its cover” mechanism.  An attempt to deflect and psychologically project that the “troll” is the problem, not the creator of the dubious content.

There is a case to be made for evolving to judge a book by its cover as a good thing.

https://www.napthens.co.uk/news/the-human-library-dont-judge-a-book-by-its-cover/#:~:text=According%20to%20evolutionary%20psychology%2C%20'judging,see%20as%20a%20friendly%20face.

But this isn’t about that.  This is about how you actually haven’t judged a book by its cover.  If you haven’t read the entire damn book you’ve read enough to get a really solid idea of the content.  It may be that it’s just not your style, your cup of tea.  Or it could actually just be a shitty book.

Your grifting champions know their book is shitty.  And the newer grifters model their anti troll content after the tried and true methods of their predecessors.  Accusing others of being judgmental to deflect is commonplace.  A self proclaimed non racist person who continually uses slurs that results in being called out for it that dares to use the “don’t judge a book by its cover” defense should also be called out for that.  No, I haven’t.  I’ve read a lot of the book and the cover is pretty accurate.  The same applies to wildly incorrect scientific content.  The trolls will mention what’s wrong, some overly enthusiastic troll will pull out the “you’re dumber than Marjorie Taylor Greene” style rhetoric and get hit with a don’t judge a book by its cover deflection.  The response should be to point out again that there’s more wrong than the current video of blog post.  The book is consistently wrong over and over and over.  But leave the part about MTG out.  Nobody is dumber.

A simple look through the comments will reveal that the followers are way more quick to judge others for cognitively biased based reasons.  They’re way more over judgmental than the troll quick to being accused as too quick to judge.

Sports Gematria Doctrine

 Sovereign Citizen - Wikipedia

Never been successful.  That’s a pretty low batting average.  What could possibly be worse?  How about gematria being so out of touch with reality that there’s never been a serious court case where gematria was even tried as a defense.  This is your regular reminder that conspiracy theory gematria is often conspiracy theory light.  The trailer to try and get you in the theater for the movie released next month.  The free sample at the wholesale club to try to entice a purchase.  The social media phishing process to see if you’re ready to graduate to bigger and better things like sovereign citizen ideas that can really get you in trouble when they fail.

Not the failing is an entirely bad thing.  If you can learn from your mistakes and grow as a person a little failure can be an eye opening and life altering experience.  If gematria wants to graduate to that next level, that level when police and courts start to think about how this person is another one of those violent and dangerous gematria clowns they need to up their game.

Not that they haven’t tried.  An angry Zach rant is always hugely popular.  And there’s a fair amount of trying to merge anti government militia thoughts into the fold.  Whether that’s militia movements trying to use gematria as conspiracy light or gematria grifters trying to prey on cognitively biased sovereign citizens there is cross pollination.  But what gematria is missing is a written document or set of documents.  The goal to be having such documentation filed in a court of law as a failed attempt that will fulfill the persecution complexes of those involved.

And sports gematria is the best, pun intended, bet.  No need to get a criminal case going when other conspiracies do a much better job.  A nice, frivolous civil suit will do just fine.  I’m not going to attempt to write a full doctrine out; I just have some ideas I’m spitballing here.  A full doctrine needs to come from someone like an angry teenager failing at school that thinks sports is rigged.  The kind of kid that writes a manifesto on the last few pages of a math notebook talking about how the Lakers playoffs were rigged again when the ritual was so clearly obvious.  Someone so scary that they’ll bump his Math and English scores up to a D- just to graduate him and get rid of him and not have to deal with the classroom interruptions holding him back for another tumultuous year.

There is a huge amount of sports is rigged content.  And a huge amount of they flipped the script/it’s double coded/I’m always right (after the fact) content within that.  Just cut to the chase.  Send a demand letter to Fan Duel, Draft Kings or whatever your favorite sports book is.

“I’m a gematria expert.  Sports is rigged and I’m always right.  Give me money or I’m filing a lawsuit.”

Wouldn’t that be fun and wouldn’t your family (since you’re a gematria fan it’s safe you don’t have any real friends) be so proud for you to be the first legal case about this?

It’s cost effective.  No need for a lawyer.  You’re defending yourself because you’re always right.  You may have to get that past a judge how highly recommends against it.

“It’s not just my opinion, I’m always right and Zach said so.  He told me in replies to my YouTube comments.”

It can borrow from other less frivolous conspiracy stuff that actually did make it to courts.

“This court has no authority over me, I identify as GematriaKing666, not the illegal name on my birth certificate of Myron D. Thwockpimple.”

And you can rely on your clique leader to not stab you in the back and support you throughout…

ZKH - “He’s nothing but a <bleep><bleep><bleep> who deserves a bullet in the head.”

Okay, that one needs some work.

Time to get busy scrawling sports is rigged notes on the edge of your math homework.  Do what you do best, let your mind wander down the rabbit hole and avoid anything resembling actual evidence.  Actual evidence will ruin any chance at getting that ultimate goal of a totally frivolous lawsuit.

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.

Fake Etymology

 

After I found out that, HA FUCK YOU =666 I was thinking about doing nothing but potty mouth gematria for a post topic.  But this will do just fine.  Another trip down gematria memory lane to the pre 2020 insanity.

It used to happen a lot.  Goaded by a news story decoded by the top influencers, the loyalists would try to add their take on to that story.  Personalizing the words and phrases and even preceding the meat of the comment with, “That reminds me of…”, or some variation of that.  Fake etymology is part of that process.  So this kind truth seeking misinformation propagator gives us several examples.

“PayPal sounds like Pay Baal, and BAAL = 92.”  Which could prompt a reply, “And BAAL = 29 in the reverse reduced, the mirror of 92!”  And the inevitable cult leader response.

Attaboy!^TM. Plus the channel heart if you were doing a really good job of donating to the leader’s PayPal that week.

There’s already plenty of room for numerical misinterpretations in gematria.  Fake etymology and the That Reminds Me content adds a whole new layer to the crazy.  Not only are you allowed to ignore the numerical part you don’t like, you don’t need to agree or disagree with someone’s personalized interpretation of etymology or enunciation.  You’re allowed, even encouraged to get off topic.  And the more you outstupid the rivals, the more likely you’ll get that precious attention you crave.  A large swath of the target audience will recognize Baal, and instantly associate it with something that will be generally agreed on - Baal means human sacrifice.  Combining that with the mistaken perception that gematria is some form of magical and occult secret knowledge that makes more of a psychological impact than getting off the PayPal topic.  Or even realizing that the magic system allows something as vulgar and silly as HA FUCK YOU to be equal to one of the main magic numbers.

And don’t forget the multiple cases of redefining acronyms and initialisms displayed.  There’s an old bit of incorrect lore that nasa means “deceive” in Hebrew.  So an acronym is fair game.  And what was done with allah for arm leg leg arm head - that’s not even etymology.  Just like, “that reminds me of…” isn’t even gematria.  I personally think MAGA means Make America Grift Again.  But I’m not going to wear a hat because that will remind other people of what it means to them.

Know Your Gematria Manipulation Tricks - Random Rules

 

It seems like eons ago, but it was less than a decade.  The days when busting on Freemasonry with a couple of side dishes of Illuminati and New World Order was the rage instead of a different arbitrary scapegoat.  Those were the good old days when you could count on the Gematrinator to pump out an occasional new cipher or tout some alleged esoteric rule out to justify a decode.  And as these rules and changes to the rules (often just for a single decode) he’d do what a good psychic would do.  Read the audience - see what the middle level people in the MLM scheme took a shine to.  Promote the hell out of it for the extra attention.  And if it was ignored and didn’t take off, just dismiss it like a bad dream that didn’t really happen.

But these convoluted and often contradictory rules get out there on to the Misinformation Superhighway they don’t get challenged and the “Truth Community” has zero interest in finding anything resembling a coherent narrative.  Today if you want 11 to not be reduced to 2, that’s cool.  Tomorrow you do want it to be 2.  That’s even more cool.  This is the price that’s paid in the effort to outstupid others to garner maximum engagement immediately instead of long term fame and glory for doing something meaningful and impactful on the world around us.

One of the biggies in those bygone days of Freemason bashing was the master builder number.  A special number that supposedly was extra magical and used by the Freemasons who didn’t actually do a lot of gematria.  I think the story goes like this.  11 and 22 regularly show up in the ordinal ciphers as single letters, and you need an excuse to not reduce them to 2 and 4 respectively.  Then 33 is special to the Freemasons because of their 33 degrees or levels.  So that’s 33, not 6 when decoding more than one letter.  Or decoding one letter in some bizarre cipher probably concocted by some drugged out spiritualist or the Gematrinator himself.  The icing on the cake, Freemasons have the craftsmen reputation and *build* things.  And MASTER builder number sounds way cooler than hypocritical arbitrarily reduced or not scapegoat mocking number.

This morning, we have someone trying to outstupid the giants of yesteryear.  First of all there’s a case to be made for the alleged master numbers being just 11,22, and 33.  For example:

https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/master-numbers

This genius adds 44 to the list and implies with etc… that all the double digit numbers are master hypocrite builder numbers.  And then immediately proceeds to alter the unalterable 33 to 23 and 3+3.  That is some brazen make up your bullshit as you go along decoding.  If that doesn’t get the attention of Zach or Derek or whatever clique leader it is you’re trying to impress I can’t help you.  Or if you’re striking out on your own - make sure your stories are as lurid as possible.  That’s the key instead of the actual decodes themselves.  Arbitrarily changing rules is an attention grabbing you’ve reached the middle level of the cult pyramid quality that can earn you the glory jobs of attacking competing sports decoders social media and the target of a patented angry Zach rant in the near future.

Know Your Grifter Marketing - The Hypocrite’s Disclaimer

 

That’s all just peachy that you threw in that (hypothetical) in your video title.  It doesn’t make up that the entire audio portion of the video barely acknowledges the hypothetical part and plays out like the dark secrets talked about are a reality.

I think the single most common disclaimer is the Fair Use disclaimer, you can even find templates to guide you through creating one.  I have used copyrighted material, but it’s allowed because of the doctrine.  Personally, I don’t see the use for it.  It either falls under Fair Use or it doesn’t.  And you can put the disclaimer up when it doesn’t apply and legally it doesn’t change a damn thing.

A big subset of that is music.  YouTube creators can get away with a short clip of a popular song.  Play the entire thing - that’s trouble if it’s copyrighted.

Grifters use this to their advantage as an anti-establishment display of their bad assery.  You’re about to see bullshit, lots of people know it’s propaganda or factually wrong, but let me bring it to your attention that I’m doing something I shouldn’t be doing, and whining about the need to put a CYA statement to my material.  The Secret Underground Cities would have been a perfectly fine title without the hypothetical attached.

Instead of hypothetical, another common word to throw in is ‘allegedly.’  “Notice that politician is wearing red and black which I know means baby sacrifices…allegedly”. Hypocritically back pedaling on the “I know” versus the “allegedly”.  The correct translation is, “This part I’m saying about the color of the clothes, yeah, that’s bullshit, but it’s fun bullshit for the dim witted audience I have following my channel.  So YouTube, what exactly do you plan to do about it?” <wink wink>. 

In the gematria truth communities the overused one is celebrity deaths.  The video title will reference the name of the deceased.  The title will often include an RIP.  The start of the video may be, “Tragically, xxxxx passed away”, and then with the disclaimer out of the way the next half hour is about how the Jesuits sacrificed a 95 year old person who had it coming to them since they were just a crisis actor puppet serving their evil masters.  Death by natural causes does not exist in the conspiracy grifting world.

And don’t forget the cryptocurrency gematria fans.  It’s also very fashionable to put out a hollow and meaningless disclaimer there.  “I’m not a certified investment adviser.”  No shit, detective douche rocket*.  A certified financial planner doesn’t have the astrology of phases of the moon involved in any way, shape or form to their investment advice.

*  The use of the phrase “detective douche rocket” comes from a Taylor Tomlinson comedy sketch.  Its use is in this blog post was not authorized by Ms. Tomlinson but falls under the Fair Use Act.  This post is intended to educate people on internet scams and qualifies me a for a little leeway on use of copyrighted material until I get caught and I’m forced to take it down.

The Younited States

 

This has popped up a couple of times lately.  Not the entire phrase THEE UNITED STATES, the THEE part as an alternate to THE.

The gematria part is the easiest part to understand.  Phraseshopping.  THE is a perfect and common addition for adding or deleting to alter the gematria value to get additional chances to force the number to what you want it to be.  In the four base ciphers it’s an additional 33, 15, 48, or 12.  Why settle for limiting yourself to SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY when you can always pick what to accept and ignore with THE SCOTTISH RITE OF FREE MASONRY available to you?

It’s a short word and it’s not going to explode your bullshit decode into cumbersome four digit territory.  And it sounds normal.  Which is why when we turn to speculating on why these dumbasses chose to use it we are making the assumption it’s celebrity marketing misguidance.

Celebrities have a lot of tricks to make their ordinary(or not so ordinary) sounding name seem even cooler.  Kei$ha with her dollar sign, Cher with just her one name, Gaga being a Lady in addition to a Gaga, Cardi one upping Cher with almost a last name included.  So it looks like Megan Thee Stallion has lead our do your own research geniuses astray.

Right below this Google definition there’s a friendly tip that THEE is often mistaken for THE.  And a little graph showing how it was more common in the 1800’s, dropped off and recently is making a small comeback.  Way to go Stallion.  You fuckin’ rock.  Or rap, or hip hop or whatever you call it.

You remember I said how United States upgraded to *The United States* sounds normal.  Yeah, now substitute the actual meaning and try and refer to it as You United States and not sound like an idiot.  Way to go Stallone.  Thee fuckin’ Rocky. Or rapyou or hip hopyou or whatever Thee call it.

And naturally while talking about THE UNITED STATES our genius was talking about US politics.  Some gematria “evidence” about what’s going on.  And they’re more than willing to randomly type in words in a gematria calculator until they hit on just the right number than learn anything about the language behind the words.

Borgvertising

 

Yesterday I discussed the use of bots to invade social media threads.  Today I’ve got fresh material about gematria accounts that help spread misinformation.  Real humans with little regard to facts and evidence.  Real people that can actively fight back when challenged, bridging the gap between straight up bot spamming and rational and intellectual discourse.  A sort of conspiracy cyborg - it can react to death threats without sitting by ideally.

Starting off with the main players, the Twixter accounts aren’t terribly important.  Fairly typical embrace of multiple conspiracy theories.  But note that the Tom Numbers account proclaims that he’s the best in the world at simple gematria.  The Burtlin account has a varied array of conspiracy content.  You aren’t going to see a consistent theme.  So while bouncing around on various conspiracies he’s got a video from Tom Cowan.

Tom is quite the big name in the anti-vaxx scene:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cowan_(alternative_medicine_practitioner)

Alternative medicine translates to pseudoscience fake medicine that doesn’t work.  And the 5G making people sick instead of pathogens is Tom’s bread and butter.  “Breathing electricity” is not a real thing.  Even though Cowan gives a basic explanation of the process of breathing, the mere existence of a headline claiming we breathe electricity serves as a grift magnetism dog whistle.  Anybody gullible enough to display interest in that content is susceptible to other similar content.

Call it what you like, conspiracy catnip, chumming the waters, baiting the hook, the intent is to use social media to replace the old process of mass emailing millions of people and concentrating on the ones gullible enough to respond.  And on social media, they come to you and make it obvious they’ve got some interest.  Even if they dismiss a singular idea like breathing electricity the echo chambers are filled with anti science content.  Some of it more destructive than others.

I call the process “outstupiding” the competition.  The purposeful creation of the rabbit hole that those who lack decent critical thinking skills fall into.

It starts off with the old idea that germs are a hoax.  Ages old superstitions still linger that what you can’t see with the naked eye doesn’t exist.  And your alternative medicine cure is what the fix is since you’re not focused on the (fake) problem.  But that’s not stupid enough.  It’s so old that just repeating that doesn't make as much of a splash unless you up your game.  So through in that it’s 5G cell phone activity that makes you sick.  Now that’s been talked about a lot since Covid.  So it’s time to outstupid that.  Now it’s still 5G, but because you’re breathing electricity.

And just like 2018 through the pandemic recovery there’s always gematria accounts latching on to the stupidest of the stupid.  That’s what it’s designed for.  Conspiracy theory light, attracting those who surf through the news headlines just to whine about the bad news of the day.  Being king of the gullible people might not be high quality attention, but it is attention, and it’s MONETIZED, attention.  There’s an incentive to keep outstupiding the competition.  Unregulated social media is a haven for spam loving scammers looking to outstupid the other grifters, never knowing what is going to be the next Ivermectin or Nigerian prince idea that really takes off.

Direct grift of gematria isn’t doing as well as it did pre 2020.  The same way that Hubbard and the other early leaders took advantage of their loyal lieutenants (who have mostly disappeared by now) as free advertisement, now they are the chumps being used by bigger influencers for free advertisement.  Someone that doesn’t solely rely on gematria, but adds it in to the mixture, making it a homogeneous mixture of bad ideas looking for the next big score instead of the repetitive niches the old school gematria clique leaders carved out for themselves.  The hunter has become the prey, so to speak.  And even those that hunt the former hunters are having a difficult time selling gematria as a worthwhile add in to their outstupiding detectors.  So look for more of this with the election getting closer.  “Gematria” accounts spreading a wide variety of baseless conspiracies because gematria by itself just isn’t stupid enough anymore.

Botvertising

 

That’s what it’s really all about.  Grift magnetism is one of the major driving forces behind misinformation and disinformation activity.  This is what the dark side of gung ho free speech advocacy looks like.

Let’s break it down.

The channel is a Qanon style content channel.  Whether the owner of the channel is putting out content he truly believes in or not is irrelevant.  The main followers, the mid level adherents in the MLM scheme hang upon his every word.  Every day there are several new videos with all the red flags of insincerity.  Inconsistency, hypocrisy, complaining about and asking for money among others.  These mid level followers post comments and replies, mostly the same core of dedicated cultists with a few newbie comments from apparent first timers.  And they all show heavy investment in their own cognitive biases.

This content screams, “I am gullible.”  And somebody has made a series of bot generated sock puppet accounts to make a crypto investment advisor the top comment.  49 total replies to the initial message.  With the bots having a lovely conversation about the obvious to the rational thinking world bogus get rich quick scheme.  $60,000 a week is over $3 million a year.

Naturally the channel owner is hugely hypocritical.  There’s talk about how he’s oh so smart.  And he’s a dedicated Christian, which is why the first bot conversation starter references supporting God’s work.  If the channel was legitimately concerned about the welfare of the crowd there would be some simple maintenance done.  Using the power of the channel operator to remove the fraudulent content instead of leaving it out in the open for some unsuspecting dupe to find.

But YouTube and other social media has created a grift hydra.  Even if this bot conversation is shut down many more are waiting in the wings to replace it.  Constantly searching for the best crowds to display the message of getting rich with little or no effort.  It’s not their job to regulate and vet advertisers.  No, these YouTube channels susceptible to bot conversations like this generate monetized content with ads before the video starts, and if the video is long enough some interruptions midway through.  And those are also dubious ads.  Today’s repeated ad is mushroom coffee to cleanse your kidneys.  Ordinarily you would be inclined to think that coffee beans are used for coffee and mushrooms are something different.  But they paid Google money to have the ad put out, so sure.  Wild claims that can’t be substantiated…free speech!  Within the framework of the hydra is a lot of free speech = no regulation content.

It becomes a free for all.  Of the competing grifts, who will be the lucky one to get the most fish after the bait is thrown out.  Long term commitment to a crowd of people is not necessary; it’s actually a hindrance.  Nenand, the original poster in the message chain.  That account was created just two days before this post.  He (it) has certainly popped up somewhere else along with the bot farm cronies.  Probably at some gung ho crypto currency accounts with dubious thoughts about how to trade crypto.

It’s no surprise that a religious oriented account is chosen for this.  Simply and matter of factly, despite all the good that may come from a being kind to others stance, the chances your confirmation bias message will not be researched or thought about critically are vastly increased.  And the channel this appeared on does dabble in gematria.  That’s an even bigger sign that you don’t care about actual evidence.