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.
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