A long, long time ago, kids had a special treat that is missing from the lives of children today. Breakfast cereal, promoted as healthy because the sugar was fortified with vitamins, would have a little toy surprise inside. Usually a cheap piece of plastic something or other that had a theme related to the commercials that were airing at the time.
One such toy was some sort of junior spy gear related to decoding. A decoder ring. And while the smarter kids (the kind that snooped for Christmas presents and pretended to be surprised on Christmas morning) were doing actual spy work - retrieving the toy and reinserting the cereal back in to the box with nobody being the wiser, “normal” kids would pretend to be secret agents for a bit. Or at least part of the squad of characters on Scooby Doo.
Well those kids that had their decoder rings. They are probably smarter than modern gematria practitioners. And it’s not because it should be hyphenated as “end-times”, it’s because the approach of conspiracy gematria is all wrong for obtaining anything meaningful. It’s reverse engineering, a target number is presented as having some significance. And instead of “decoding” anything it turns into a child’s game of forcing random shit to equal other random shit. It’s emptying the cereal box in the trash can to get the prize and walking away feeling proud of your quick fix for a couple of hours. If that long.
The 471 views of that phrase is misleading. There’s got to be some bot astroturfing going on there. Although less awkward sounding then I recently posted about numbers larger than two or three digits, you get the sense that overall that exact phrasing is unlikely to appear in the wild more than a couple times. Gematria’s practice of phraseshopping, nearly infinite substitutions being perfectly allowable, leads to a lot of wiggle room. Maybe call him DONALD Trump instead of just Trump. Maybe skip SICK and just call it sadistic. Skip calling him paid and just an actor. And it’s the reason you’re not decoding anything. Random phrases yielding random results.
As conspiracy theory lite, gematria has a function in the “turn you into a politically polarized zombie” pipeline. Regardless of your party affiliation you can substitute the polar opposite into your story. Then tweak a couple of words, maybe there’s a nice synonym out there. And nonsense respecting I’m Just In It For the Money politician will ever hear about it and request that you stick to real evidence and pesky facts. Having an adult in the room to talk effectively about trade dealings and war in Europe and immigration policy, these things don’t matter so much anymore. The children don’t want or need to be told, “Stop wasting cereal to get your shitty plastic decoder ring. At least be clever enough to get it back in the box instead of dumping it down the trash.”
But gematria isn’t done proving that it would prefer to do a bad job of pretending to get the cereal back in the box, unnoticed.
Because I found that phrase in social media, this morning. And as documented at the top it was there in all its lengthy and arbitrary glory. And then immediately ratified on its level of meaningfulness with the Gematrix.org recap of that phrase with
Decode It
Stuck in front of it.
One of these days I need to spend some serious time on matching the gematria of DECODE with its opposites like RANDOM BULLSHIT.
It’s a bold attempt to look cool, to put your phrase out there in the wild and then immediately show the gematria of a slightly different phrase. And without providing us with matches for 3504 to get context it’s also impossible to assess why 3504 meant something today (or yesterday). The bullshit is apparently so random that not even the author of the bullshit is able to share the significance of the bullshit. I’m reminded of one of Zach Hubbard’s old cronies, Jake. Who would take a news story and then add spy words to it to force the gematria into triple digits. “SIGNAL DECODE blah blah blah = 888” and such. At least we had more context there, since its placement was always adjacent to, “join a Patreon and lose money on sports betting.”
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