Reverse Trolling Gone Astray

It is important to remember that conspiracy theories (not the ones that are about an actual conspiracy, but the BS outrage porn related conspiracies) do not get limited to one side or the other.  The entire point is to make you feel obligated to pick one side or the other, 100%.  When the reality is more nuanced than that.

For some examples of how reverse trolling may play out in real life:

Your cousin is insanely jealous of your being smarter than you.  Instead of being appreciative of being able to use you as a resource for aid, he’s more fond of trolling you.  A never ending game of one upmanship.  He corners you at the family reunion and tells you about the latest thing that was getting traction on Infowars.  The goal is not to just tell you about it.  He’s daring you to try to correct him.  Then after the practice and a lot of echo chamber positive feedback, the Attaboy!^TM, he nails you with the misinformation.  The logical fallacies -the strawman arguments, the switching the goalposts.  The confusion tactics.  All for that dopamine rush of feeling like he didn’t just outsmart you that day, he outsmarted you for the rest of your lives.  And that’s why you never go to a family reunion again.

Instead of a hypothetical, the next example is Scientology.  Things went along swimmingly for a long time.  The celebrity marketing was top notch.  Ordinary people hopped on board and dared others to try to correct them.  They, like all cult puppets, had the secret knowledge you would never understand.  The Attaboy!^{TM on steroids}.  The only way you would ever become enlightened as them would be to join them.  And then came the unexpected roadblock.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Chanology

A widely publicized pushback.  A sustained effort.  An off ramp for those already to looking to escape and exposure to others on why you should escape.

And now we have the same thing happening with a new set of background information.  The Epstein Files, the economy cracking, the Ice raids.

And South Park.

Consumers of viral news, the ones that think that there’s actual meaning to the misinformation they parrot, have the attention span that f a goldfish.  Now they need to put up with what’s shaping to be an entire season long f South Park dedicated to the controversial policies of the current Trump Admin.

Anti Scientology activism called it foot bullets.  I’m sure that was used before, but back in the day when I followed what was going on they used that phrase constantly.  And the Epstein Files stuff is the gift that keeps on giving and giving.  A seemingly endless supply of content that is being talked about as being deliberately aimed at eliciting another self inflicted wound.

Reverse trolling the reverse trollers.

I’m not just a matter of opinion level but an objective known truth level this paints a dark picture.  Regardless of the actual content of the files that we may never know the extent of we do know some important things are certain.  There’s a cover up.  The story changes almost daily.  And a bunch of the die hard base are not dealing with it well, either doubling down and repeating the changing story or posting about the issues that reveal their cognitive dissonance.  Throw in a heaping helping of Streisand Effect foot bullets that haven’t curtailed the interest; it’s made it stronger.

When South Park first came out the 20ish year olds I knew swore by it.  The best, funniest show ever.  Even then they failed to realize that a lot of the content was satirical.  Being a Cartman is not supposed to be a good thing.  Now, they have to deal with their idols and ideas are being mocked.  Trying to avoid having to defend some of the most vile people on the planet.  It’s kind of sad, really.

Gematria, The Cybertruck of the Grifter Economy

 

Fairly recently I shared how Zach allowed himself to be interviewed by Ben from the YouTube Ben A Minute channel.  That was three weeks ago and it was time to follow up, to get a sense of how much was Prozac…er…pro Zach, and how much was negative.

For the Cliff Notes version to not have to watch the entire video or read the previous post here, Ben was willing to be openly against the side of gematria having meaningfulness while not being openly hostile to Zach during the conversation.  In turn, Zach was remarkably well reserved and had no reason to launch into a patented rant.

An added layer to the context of the conversation, Ben is openly anti MAGA.  So in addition to Zach supporters there’s the potential for Qanon supporters to have taken notice and asserted themselves in the comments.  And I admit, I got tired of looking through the 1200 comments for anything resembling a pro gematria stance.  There’s just nothing there.  Well, except of course the obligatory thank you note from Zach.  Like the obligatory letter you sent the company that sat you down for a job interview.  And even that was met with a form letter, “Thanks for coming in.  We’ll keep your resume on file.”  Thanks, but no thanks.

Overall the bottom tier of the grifter economy is dying.  The gematria view counts have been suffering for years.  Gina Colvin, the head of what I called the Weird Shit in the Sky group?  Her YouTube channel is gone.  And I can’t find any new content from her flunkies that is asking around for what happened to her channel.  Actually, she had at least one more channel which is also gone.  I just don’t know where to turn to get quality chemtrail, Niburu, and alien ships hiding in shitty photography content any more.  Even Zach’s favorite AR-15 toting, shirt selling compadre is only good for a video every few months instead of regular content.

I’d like to think myself and some of the crowd I hang around on social media with had something to do with it.  But, it may simply be that late stage capitalism has accelerated to make gematria obsolete.  Gematria is indeed the Tesla Cybertruck of the conspiracy grifting world.  Came out about a decade ago with bold promises of secret knowledge meaningful to everyone’s life.  The financial hook lured in even those who knew it was “a bunch of bunk” with the ability to side hustle a couple of sports pick Patreon subs.  And now it’s just on autopilot, trying to get the last couple miles out of it and hoping you can unload it from your life.  It’s not like we ever see videos of someone proudly showing up at a college campus to sell the idea of gematria to young and impressionable college age kids.

The middle tier in turn is also suffering.  And although this post is highly repetitive of old content about the death of the gematria community, that’s something sort of new.  More observable results are in.  People are not quite so quick to assert how much they adore Trump.  Even without verbalizing it, your mere presence as someone who went on record that a second term in office was bad news makes them think twice about being so open about it.  After all, if you were smart enough to prepare yourself for the worst of this you have the coping mechanisms to mentally and emotionally deal with it.  Whether you wish to help them is up to you.  I suggest you consider waiting until they’ve sold the Cybertruck instead of just claiming they did.

The Last Dog

 Robert Reich has his last class:

https://www.thelastclassfilm.com/

How do you educate youngsters in a world gone mad that’s done everything to let them down?  And like me, how do you cope with being older and no matter what you do its never enough to satisfy the greed of the few?

Sarah Kendzior has her last roadtrip.

Taking time away from being prescient about this administration to give her children a last glimpse of beauty while it remains.

Nearly every day arrives with more of the bad news I’ve become accustomed to.  Desensitized, oh hell yes I am.  That’s what you get when you watch videos about the end of The Bronze Age, the fall of the Netherlands with their crypto-tulips and…population collapse.  Like what’s going on here:

https://youtu.be/QYA9i0KC0tE?si=sH_-EdZud_NWfzqj

I’m far beyond the point of tears welling up, much less crying.  But when I hear things like people having pets instead of children, it’s frustratingly relatable.  I suppose I’m just bitter still.  An oddball at high school, surviving by pretending I wasn’t as smart as I am.  That stopped working by my mid 20’s.  Too long in contact with generations trained to detect and divert anyone more intellectual than themselves.  It became too much of a burden, so isolation it was.  Isolated except my dogs.  When I finally bought a place of my own the only real requirement was a fenced in yard.

I had two at the same time previously.  I did adore them and cherish the memories.  But this is about The Last Dog.  Hereafter called LD.  The dog I wasn’t going to get, but couldn’t help myself.

To get to the point right away, that way I can focus on the trip down LD memory lane, affordability of a pet is now a serious issue.  I had consciously made the choice to not have children or even a steady companion.  Finding a girl willing to tolerate me long term seemed out of the question.  At least my budget allowed a dog.  And I wanted a real dog.  One big enough to scratch on the head without bending over much.  No little yappers for me.  After the first two I told myself, that’s it.  Things are going really badly in the world and the expense and time to treat a dog properly.  Nah.  I’m done.  Until the day that the idea of fostering LD was brought up.

The evil plan worked.  And I knew before I even picked him up for the foster that the adoption was a done deal.  The big eyes and freakishly large tongue.  Including the first night in his new home, LD was never put in a crate.  And it was never a serious issue.  Sharing a bed with a 90 pound dog that was at a minimum neglected and probably forced to be outside including all kinds of bad weather, he was far too appreciative to deny him access to anywhere in the house he wanted to go.

LD is a senior dog now.  Fortunately this isn’t the eulogy yet.  Not only is he still hanging in there despite old dog problems, he still gives signs of enjoying himself.  Less frequent, less enthusiastic for sure.  But he’s still *living*, not just existing.

Fascists, economically are takers not makers.  And now I’m pretty sure I’m immune to the idea of ever allowing another dog in my life.  The desire is there, but even with the gnawing at my conscience about how I could give a rescue a better life for awhile, the takers have ruined it.  LD’s old age caretaking is way too expensive.  Forming a sort of social contract with a dog, a bond, would end up being a let down. Forget about taking a dog for a walk anytime after 10am during the late spring, summer and early fall where I live.  And that’s not even a place normally associated with high temperatures.  Just like would be parents pass on children due to the condition of the world, pets will be only something affordable to the better off.  Even if I magically got more solvent instead of settling for a modest retirement plan, it just doesn’t seem fair to the potential next dog.  Like LD now, the spirit being there, but the inability to run and stretch out and play in the grass.  Why would I subject myself to that?

At one point I did have an exceptional rough stretch and considered giving up on LD.  Pretty dark times.  Which I got over with more human contact than I’m used to.  Just in time to find out that I was right (again) and the world of the takers was reaching its tentacles throughout the internet.  I too can double down on a concept.  The one constant that keeps me going is giving LD the dignified retirement I doubt I’ll have.  And why should I expect to get a break in a world that facts don’t matter anymore.

Morbidly, I take solace in that the rich person hobbies of golf, skiing, hunting, boxes at sporting events.  Those things are already turning out badly (expensive) as temperatures rise.   Well, no sympathy here.  Fuck you.  If I can’t afford a canine companion because you want a trip to Europe every year…if I can’t walk a dog more than 15 minutes without baking his feet on the pavement.  Screw you.  You’re the ones that wanted to price fix and bubble and do insider trading your way to feel intellectually superior with your material goods.  You never have, never will know the companionship of an LD quality dog.

Don’t click this non existent link for a nonexistent fundraiser:  ⏹️

LD will be just fine.  He had someone that cared about him more than he cared about himself.

Know Your Corporate Grift - Subscription Scams

 

There’s nothing from that screen that clearly identifies the source, which is great for plausible deniability.  But here’s how I got there including the why I went there.

A sane thing to do in this regime is to suck it up and cut back on expenses.  Whether a resolution is in the near future or not, everyday life affordability is a problem.  As a middle class-ish type, I don’t need the cable package I have anymore.

An “employee” years ago twisted my desire to have my cable signal fixed into sending me another cable box.  And the attempted resolution to that had them subscribing me to a third cable box.  Both of those were sent back, which admittedly was at their (Comcast’s) expense. Yet to this day my monthly bill includes charges for three devices (boxes) when I only have one.

Now, I finally have the motivation to proceed with a final resolution.  I need to go to the brick and mortar store and I’m either switching to Verizon or maybe finally getting the bogus extra devices charges removed from my account and switching to the basic cable package.  There is a marked decrease in value received that I’m paying for for - the extra channels are increasingly useless.  The extra movies are about 95% inaccessible due to need for internet hook up on my TV, and the “Streampix” boldly touted as my labeled tier premium addition seems to be completely gone.  And the last straw, asking me to sign in when that screen comes up on the Xfinity app that I’m already signed in to.  Oh, you know my street address.  You’re just embracing the corporate strategy of making downgrades and lower costs as difficult as possible.

On a larger and more deadly scale this is how the health insurance mess exists in the U.S.  There’s enough material out there about Luigi Mangione and that whole kerfluffle.  No need to go into detail here about that.  But wondering if you will ever receive any real value out of a “subscription” to costly insurance coverage is a  huge concern.  Especially when the reigning voice in the administration seems to think vaccines can travel back in time.  (RFK has openly stated that vaccine research caused the Spanish Flu pandemic about 25-30 years before actual serious flu vaccine research began and was put in place.)

An easier subscription to drop is donations to livestreams for gematria sports picks.  The most recent video on Gematria Effect Sports was a month ago.  Anyone excited about paying to play is going through the Patreon subscription path.  Automatically getting a monthly deduction with essentially nothing of value in return.  Arguably my cable bill is a better value.  At least I can watch Fox News on my lowered tier and laugh at what clueless propaganda is coming out.  Once I finally get through the lack of customer service built into the system.

Just as big if not bigger than health care is the entire concept of capitalism.  Properly functioning capitalism allows the participant to feel like they have some skin in the game.  A reason to participate.  Enough people do well enough that they abide by a tolerable minimum standard of bullshit to keep interested.  And the lack of customer service built into the system is epically low.

Just another semi-random example.  Offering a career including pension is a thing of the past.  The company goes bankrupt or merges and structures.  Sorry, we aren’t The Gematria Motor Company any more.  Now we’re GM.  No more pensions.  Invest in 401k, he’ll even throw in a generous helping of employer matching.  Sorry, the stock market is the plaything of the morbidly wealthy.  You’re either risking losing it all on something terribly high risk (crypto) or lucky if you make a few bucks in safer investments after income taxes and accounting fees.  Employee owned company stock?  Maybe there aren’t payroll deductions, but that’s just a fancier way of saying pension with no assurance that the company will be around long enough.  That’s life in the gig economy with carrots being constantly dangled.  The 🥕 of today will be genetically modified and will be unpalatable in just a few years.

Lots of people have the skin in the game that they have invested in relationships and lives and children and a home, watching their subscription to the U.S. getting increasingly less valuable.  And to be clear, things are the same everywhere, it’s just that the unraveling of the U.S. market dominance is morbidly fascinating and high profile.  The phrase “banana republic” is being used as a possible outcome.  I think carrot republic sounds a lot more appropriate.

Oh yeah, the non zero chance that the social security taxes paid for decades turn retroactively into just another income tax are a lot of fun for trying to sleep at night for the working classes.

Dear AI: Not Just For Your Homework

 

Stanford article on AI and therapy

AI tells man to kill himself

James Cameron is likely not happy that his dystopian vision of killer robots taking over the world is less and less likely.  People, by and large being complete idiots, are doing a wonderful job of just focusing on the answers they want to hear instead of the right answer.  All a sentient AI needs to do is promote the most arbitrary and useless sign of wealth imaginable as the greatest thing ever and people will fall over themselves to collect and hoard it.  Foregoing food, water, housing, friendship and sex to be the bestest hoarder there is.  Because <sarcasm font> having more dust bunnies than anyone else means obviously you are super smart and wonderful.</sarcasm font>

Little Johnny may have started with just using ChatGPT for help with his homework.  Instead of learning why X²+Y=23 he just pops the answer down, and moves on.  Feeling proud that he’s mastered AI while doing the same thing some of his other classmates have done.  Missing out on the real value - the chance to understand and evaluate things on his own.  To think critically about exactly why dust bunnies are a really stupid idea for an economic basis.

Having accessed the slippery slope of being made to feel smarter than he is, Little Johnny is a prime candidate to be lonely and confused as to why things aren’t working out well in life.  The kind of person who will get relationship advice from an AI LLM that is deliberately (or accidentally, I suppose, yet there’s a lot of evidence suggesting that the $ involved in AI shows it’s deliberate) forcing out wrong answers.

Somebody put this Gematrix result up on social media recently, with the highlighted ovals being added by me.

People asking a gematria calculator for answers directly.  Not even asking Zach or the Gematrinator or someone in the Negative 48 crowd for advice on how to interpret the inevitably ambiguous results.  And that’s what Little Johnny is doing when the cognitive dissonance takes hold.  Just pumping in random phrases into a calculator and matching them with equally random results framed as magic numbers.l and deciding to believe what makes him feel best at the moment.  And what makes him feel best is heavily influenced by his recent search engine history.

“How can the dead revive the dead” and “Is every day now K God” could have been rhetorical questions.  A conversation centering on zombie movies perhaps, brought on by zombies generated from a Voodoo ritual instead of biting and infecting.  Ah, Clarence you are forgetting something old chum.  How can the dead revive the dead?  But asking a gematria calculator how plants grow is so utterly pointless when the result can mean, per the above, “Women have no value” or “Jewronavirus”.  Holy shit GematriaGPT…why, I am a bigot and a misogynist.  That totally solves my problem of figuring out how fruit grows!!”

I do actually kind of like the idea of gematria chatbot.  But only one that gives the answers exclusively as numbers.  How do plants grow fruit?  2755.  No matches, just 2755.  Paving the way for a society that speaks exclusively with small numbers.  People hardly ever have honest conversations about important topics anymore, so why not?

Short Term Vs. Long Term Gematria

Benaminute Gematria video

One of the cool things about debunking gematria is how easy it can be.  Like when the superstars do it themselves without you having to work for the logical fallacy.  Right at that start, Zach (courtesy of Ben’s editing) presents us with how often you see 47 coming up.  Like it’s the big warning sign that evil is afoot.  And courtesy of Ben and Zach we see 47 is so important that it’s not important, because you are allowed and encouraged to drop the zero in 407 to make it 47 and 74 counts as 47 because of course it’s the same digits.

You can see 47 because it shows up all the time “in the wild.”  Not because anyone had to put it there.

And if you’re allowed to use dozens of ciphers and alter numbers you don’t like it gets even easier.  As often said here, the real challenge with conspiracy theory gematria is to not find a match.

Truly short term gematria is like a TV show that would present a number of the day.  Get the interactive crowd talking about the current bad news, which is always in ample supply.  Get ready to ❤️ the comments section and do some replies, the gematria Attaboy!^TM.  You found today’s magic number of 47 in something I missed!  Good job!👏🏼!  You get a cookie!

Truly long term gematria is something like 666, the old classic that never goes away.  It’s not as easy to force even with what alteration methods qualify as real gematria (whatever the fuck that is.). But not impossible.  And it surely does catch your eye when it does show up.  Even if it’s something stupid like fidget spinners.  FIDGET = 666 in reverse Sumerian, so fidget spinners were a short term gematria hot topic.  And nobody talks about them anymore.

Both approaches are used, with each having its advantages and pitfalls.  If someone with sufficient functioning brain cells is around too long they will start to notice how cognitive dissonance is being forced on them.  Wait a second there mister short term gematria guru.  You said HULK = 56 and HULK HOGAN = 56 (they do including some offbeat ciphers for HULK HOGAN).  And that’s important now.  But you used to tell us that 56 was Freemasons and Jesuits.

 

And that’s important it; was Covid and whatever else was in the news back in 2020.  The forced cognitive dissonance of how Hulk Hogan wasn’t mentioned then and hardly anybody bothers talking about Jesuits now.  And I can’t remember the last time someone randomly suggested that the Freemasons were up to no good.

And … Event two o one = 56.  Sweet fucking….<sigh>

The long term 666 stuff.  As said, that’s harder to produce and you’re forced to branch out into side gigs like associated words, the gematria of the word ANTICHRIST being a notable example.  Naturally ANTICHRIST does not equal 666, because that would actually make sense.  The result is your brand gets stuck on a one trick pony.  And the world didn’t end like you predicted a zillion times over the past several years.

Well, those of us with superior pattern recognition skills have seen this pattern before.  The hypocritical weather vane and rebranding.  Now it’s Number Games the not a Trump fan and the number 47.  The 56 stuff, call that a middle term gematria number.  Even though I found the screenshots I used here from a one month old video the 56 list has pretty much run its course.  The odds that 47 will be consistently the number of the day over a longer period have dramatically increased.  Did you know, and prepare yourself for a shock if you didn’t, that Trump is the 47th President?

And if you’re allowed to spell out words as numbers and spell them wrong that FOURTY SEVEN = 555 in Satanic gematria?!?  I don’t know what it means either, but triple digits are MAGIC.  The prices of your groceries won’t be affected, but there’s still the magic.

Miscellaneous Stuff - July 2025

 Just some random things as I travel around places I both should and should not be poking around in.

North Korea has apparently gotten a lot of deep fake assisted remote workers funneling money to the homeland weapons programs.  The hazards of not thoroughly checking up on credentials.

https://now.fordham.edu/university-news/americas-best-remote-workers-might-be-north-korean/

I just saw a video on this.  And they even boldly target cybersecurity firms.

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Look up the story of Percival Redwood for a fun true crime movie plot.  A early 1900’s woman posing as a man as well as other frauds in the lifetimes.  A nice companion piece to contrast with the modern high tech scam above.  Why go for a fake friend nobody ever sees when your doing your gematria story when you can live the life up close and personal yourself?

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The name of Gematria Effect News is officially being rebranded.  The YouTube channel is now “Number Games”.  He even scored a softball question interview with the Benaminute YouTube channel with the angle being they both dislike Qanon.  Zach gets to have followers of his comment about how it was so nice to be platformed by someone not as antagonistic as the recent GIVE ME A PREDICTION!! hosts.  Ben’s commenters all talk about how his system is pseudoscientific claptrap.  But they appear to have separated on decent terms and we get more.  Ben didn’t talk about the sports betting angle.

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Remember I said how Superman really leaned in hard on the woke anti-Trump theme?  South Park said the opposite.  Oh who am I kidding.  South Park said, “James Gunn, hold my beer.”  If you are genuinely concerned about the issue of free speech you should be paying attention to this recent activity.  Superman, South Park, Colbert’s late night show being cancelled are all warning signs.  I also saw a Facebook reel of Hollywood celebrities teeing off on the current insanity.  DeNiro, Rob Reiner, Rosie Perez, Martin Sheen, etc…

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Of course the passing of Ozzy Osbourne and Hulk Hogan are big topics for gematria decoders.  Ozzy is of course satanic.  Prime candidate for some sort of Antichrist commentary.  Hulk Hogan, well there’s always been wrestling content.  Both of them were already performing.  Ozzy leaning in to the bad boy devil worshipping persona.  Hulk leaning into the champion of the little person persona.  I doubt it’s just my personal confirmation bias, but an apparent genuine sign of the times.  Ozzy is genuinely revered at least musically and being a trailblazer there.  The Hulkster, not so much.  Your results may vary since my algorithms are slanted anti right wing.

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I’ve recently watched and enjoyed Australian comedian Jim Jeffries bit about gun control.  Like he says in the bit, he makes gun nuts feel uncomfortable because he makes some good points.  It’s confirmation bias oriented.  Just because you like guns is a pretty weak argument by itself.

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Supposedly, and now that I’ve heard it stated out loud I agree, the cryptocurrency conversations have given up on the idea of a global digital currency.  It’s all just speculative investment stuff.  A close historical parallel is the Dutch tulip rage.  The morbidly rich, fueled by the Dutch economic dominance era, displayed their wealth with flowers because Ferraris hadn’t been invented yet.

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The talk about Tesla Cybertrucks is dominated by wording about how it’s the modern day Edsel style flop.

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There’s Nancy Pelosi stock tracking activity out there.  I’m pretty sure it’s useless unless you have the ability to time your trades to hours if not minutes.  And with sufficient capital to make it worthwhile.  Insider trading info rules.  Unless you’re the sacrificial lamb like George Santos who actually gets a jail sentence.  Perhaps a pardon is on the way.

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Pitcher Luis Ortiz has been suspended and is being investigated for gambling.  The basic plot is two wildly bad pitches separated by a long time frame were flagged by a gambling watchdog organization.  I’ve watched a YouTuber who does baseball content completely ignore the proper issue.  Fortunately some comments addressed it.  Every pitcher has one “get away from him” every once in awhile.  But, it’s the massive amount of money wagered prior to them that raises the eyebrows.  You can now make sports betting microbets, like if the first pitch of a half inning is a ball or strike.  Like insider stock trading, if you have inside knowledge that it will definitely be a ball you have a huge edge.  I believe the investigation is centering around why just these two pitches were wild and the lack of betting on other Ortiz first pitches.

The Isabella Has Cancer Scam

Or I suppose the more formal would be something like the Fake Tug At Your Heart Edited Comment Scam.  Here’s your viewing material:

Chalk this up to a long history of YouTube and all social media not caring about content moderation.  Any safety and security measures are lip service.  Bots are everywhere and apparently not just dismissed with a shrug of the shoulders and a, “Well what can you do?”, they seem to be embraced.  More clicks.  More views.  More likes.  More algorithmic sharing.

I already expect some of you are leaning into the defense that will be used if challenged directly.  “How dare you insinuate this poor, sick girl is not real you MONSTER!!”  Which is all part of the scam.  I’m gonna go on a little overdue side quest here to explain about what organized crime doesn’t get about long term macroeconomics and science.  If you are a bandit warlord, and you raid the village for food every day you run the risk of the village dying off and no longer able to create a surplus for your demanded tribute.  Substitute pizza shop in the run down section of town no longer able to pay the protection money.  If the shop has something go wrong, like unexpected medical issue for the owner, it could fold and therefore your protection money source is gone.  And if the neighborhood has a reputation for blood being squeezed from stones, you get an empty shop.  There are too many competing warlords.  All of them think they should be paid and the others should be ignored.  Instead of a shop owner sickness being the straw that breaks the camels back, now it’s climate change expense that will prevent economic viability on top of the tribute.  And science and human ingenuity can only go so far when one political party is dead set on breaking shit as much as possible and as fast as possible to get their tribute today.

And on to the actual scam… of course AI is involved.  All the fun stuff that makes life easier for scammers gets boosted.  In fact, I’ve known about Isabella for over a month now.  That in itself is one of the red flags.  At first I wasn’t going to say anything, there is a principal in complaining about grifters that you don’t give them extra oxygen.  Well, Isabella isn’t going away any time soon, so let’s go over the red flags.

My first experience was on a Veritasium video.  This one is from Kurzgesagt, their trademark cartoon bird shown in the screen shot.  Wildly popular, each individual getting millions of views.  Quality content aimed at the smarter crowd.  So while a lot of gematria type bullshit, how exactly do you trick smarter people into believing what you are up to?

Volume.  Mass mailing your Nigerian prince email.  And then let the suckers come to you and prove they are suckers by biting at the bait.  You don’t bother wasting your time with a gematria video that has a couple thousand views on a good day.  You get one that has millions and see who bites, like subscribing to your fake channel.  Although the people dumb enough to be involved with gematria are a higher percentage chance of falling for stupid shit, the volume more than makes up for it.

That’s a bad sign that this comment is a month old.  In theory YouTube could have noted the suspicious nature.  In theory Kurzgesagt could have someone moderating and deleted it as soon as things turned weird.  But there it is.  Clicking in to Isabella’s channel- the same video story, the same picture as was used with the Veritasium video from before.  There’s no doubt in my mind the picture is fake.  At best it was hijacked from somewhere else.  It’s more likely completely AI generated.  Isabella and her doctor are both pretty.  Indeed, for a little girl DYING of cancer, not just being treated for it, Isabella looks pretty darn good.  It’s strange to see a girl dying for several months minimum look that fine.

And the video, the last video the dying girl will ever make, is actually 4 months old and from a different channel than Isabella’s personal channel.  The same video as when I found her through Veritasium.  Playing some very kiddish video game hike narrating with a voice that sounds…robotic.  No updates from concerned parents or other family.  Exceptionally noteworthy is nothing from this other sister that the diary is shared with.  And Isabella’s channel was created June 3rd, 2025.  To house one video and one video only from 4 months ago?!?  🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩🚩

And the comments are insane.  There’s an obvious mismatch between what the responses are compared to the comment.  A comment that has plainly (edited).  That’s how this works.  The bot says something early, possibly deeply relevant to the video.  (The Veritasium comment was about church architecture and changed to dying of cancer.  And that was on their “Most dangerous building” video from two months ago.  I did report that one and it’s gone now.)  Then the switch, the poor little girl dying of cancer and after racking up likes and replies this weird mash up of twisted commentary is left behind.

And some of the commenters KNOW this is fake.  This guy (Isabella must have used a different picture) is about to talk about cancer.  They’ve seen it before.  And at least 63 people upvoted that comment, likely because they’ve also seen it before.  For a little girl dying of cancer, Isabella sure gets around to posting comments on videos a lot.

Also note that the playing the game on the “last video I’ll ever make” video is locked down from commentary.  The author doesn’t want some goody two shoes to spoil the comments by pointing out the scammy nature on the one piece of material that took some effort to create.

As for me not being the monster I would expect to be painted as, well good luck having pediatric cancer advancements in the near future.  Tax cuts for the wealthy don’t mix well with pediatric cancer funding, hurricane warnings, on the job safety, education including funding for public broadcasting, etc….  These things are going to be gone sooner than you think.

Welcome Back, Lack of Truthseekers

https://youtu.be/f4u62mbibqI?si=ki6CrqaXKhlDWoSN

The linked video is an example of the kind of Epstein content that my YouTube algorithm feed throws at me.  I’m not ashamed to admit that I enjoyed it.

1). It brings up how an actual conspiracy is occurring that it involves the rich and the powerful doing whatever they want.  Because of course they can just pay their way out of any corner they’re put in.  In contrast, and this will reappear later in this post, conspiracy gematria as conspiracy theory lite stories focus on “made up shit”.  Things that aren’t really things like a cabal rigging sports games down to the second and school shooting crisis actors.  The working class talking points that make gematria deciders feel important doing investigative journalism that uncover how ordinary people are part of the secret instead of just the actual conspirators involved in the coverup.

2). People that fall for conspiracy theory content continue to not process contradictory evidence even remotely close to being a valuable voice in an adult conversation.  They’re weather vanes, changing directions completely at the whim of their leader, even if it means the leader has reversed course without a caveat of admitting that what was said before was wrong.

Epstein is big news right now.  Few things would give me more pleasure than to not have to read any more about it.  The idea that something so heinous went on for so long is disturbing.  And since conspiracies do not keep to one side of the bipolar political spectrum there’s content from both camps.  And what makes this story different and gives it some staying power it has is that there’s a common ground.  Release the files.  Hold the monsters accountable.  Finally, something resembling a line in the sand that some MAGA folk can’t stomach to be part of anymore.  And those that remain loyal still have to toe the line and support the king.

Starting at about the 14:45 point of the linked video, these are the conflicting stories we have to contend with:

1). The story is true because Clinton and the evil Democrats are all involved, while the Republicans are pure as the driven snow.

2). It was made up and AI used to make fake news stories to make Trump look bad in the run up to the election.

3). There’s definitely something newsworthy here and the current regime is going to release all the info.

4). There’s nothing to see here, stop talking about it.

5). It’s back to fake news created by Obama, Biden and Comey.

It’s one thing to contradict yourself years apart.  It’s obvious that something weird is going on when the story changes within a matter of days.  And if you’re a “Truthseeker” you really ought to stop being such a pussy and try to figure out the truth about what’s going on.  At least with the gematria aspect, famous for being able to spin the story supported by fake evidence of tiny little numbers, you should be able to muster up some kind of gematria decode for one of the conflicting stories.

But, since it was always about money instead of “truth”, there aren’t old stories.  There wasn’t any huge trove of Epstein content, detailing how important it was and how it would continue to be important.  I searched for ‘EPSTEIN GEMATRIA’ on YouTube and the too hit of actual gematria and Epstein was a six year old video from the time when Epstein was arrested.

 

 Then there’s a couple of videos from recent days and a one year old video of Zach’s.  Most of it is Epstein content without gematria.  And all told there’s hardly any concerted effort like spreading the Kobe Bryant death story to show anyone keeping at it and recognizing how important the Epstein gematria was and would be today.  A six year old video with 155 views.  Then there’s outrage porn is out of the news and disappears even though essentially (supposedly) the magical predictive code had a lot of solid leads.  The gematria “truthseeker” community was too busy and incompetent to do anything but talk about what Alex Jones and his crisis actor false accusations was promoting.

Psychological projection at its finest.  Keep accusing others of what you are doing and it can come back to haunt you.  Well congratulations boneheads, you got whipped up into a frenzy about Constitutional rights while caring more about the economy and now you don’t have either.

Superman and Independence Day

I don’t remember and don’t care to check if I did or never got around to it.  But it’s been a blur.  It’s hard to keep up with all the casual cruelty, and the “business as usual” doubling down by the perpetrators.

I’ve always been the black sheep of the family and never big on get togethers and celebrations.  Hanging around a few people in my immediate family I care about.  Never knowing if one of the others is a potential problem, just waiting to explode.  Better to just not go, or it least have a ready excuse to leave ASAP.  Fortunately, for the past several years if there has been a get together for the 4th of July I haven’t been invited.  And I think it’s more likely that there wasn’t even one.

What I do like to do is to take my dog for a walk.  And it’s because of the new Superman movie that these thoughts bubble up to the surface again.  And we'll get to that soon enough.  And I’ll even take a break here to point out that there will be spoilers.  So get ready to skip after this if you can’t handle that.  

So, because of fucking climate change, if I’m going to walk my elderly dog it’s got to be early in the morning.  Which just like a 4th of July barbecue not happening suits me just fine.  Less contact the better.  And as I went on my roughly four block route, my superior pattern recognition skills noticed something.  An extreme lack of flags on display.  Three in total which included two at the same residence.  Two houses out of dozens.  Whether it’s a repeat or this is the first I mentioned this:  There’s no longer a need to display the Confederate flag as your symbol of hate.  The standard Stars and Stripes will do just fine.  And the double downers are maybe a little more cautious in public with the overwhelming evidence that something is seriously wrong with this administration.  And the incorrectly labeled “loony leftists” don’t want to be instantly associated with… those other people.

SUPERMAN
Remember, spoilers.  Lots of them.

I’ve read a lot, mostly cheap horror novels in abundance.  And spy novels including big names like Ludlum, MacLean, John Gardner’s Bond  But my real passion is film.  Movies either served as my escape from what was my escape from the cruelty and injustice of the world.  Where the good guys win in the end, precisely because it doesn’t happen enough in real life.  Either the escape, or movies with a commentary on culture focusing on the current issues.  Think of it like an hour and a half to two hour long version of some Star Trek TOS or TNG series where they sneak in a message about racism or the no win proposition of war.  Think…you know the word…woke.

I wasn’t necessarily planning to watch the new Superman in the theater.  At least not until I heard about the right wing uproar over it.  That made me say to myself, “Oh hell yeah, I HAVE to see it!”  Like a blog where you can immortalize your thoughts a movie is a combination of seeking profit and the opportunity to relay a message.  Successful movies do both.  Come to the theater to watch Barbie, leave laughing and if you’re paying attention you might just finally have your pattern recognition skills pick up on the message about the evils of stereotypes.  Unless you’re more into doubling down and trolling on the internet because you think Kevin Sorbo has more relevance.

James Gunn has pretty rapidly acquired a deserved reputation for knowing what he’s doing.  Guardians of the Galaxy was heavy on the quirky escapism and a surprise hit.  Would that be what was going on with Superman?  It’s difficult to believe the fascist furor would be over that.  There must be a message.  And Gunn leaned into it.  He leaned into it fucking hard.

Sure there’s escapism, hell it is Superman after all.  But traditionally Superman and Captain America have been popular for escapism as well as being firmly anti-Nazi.  Lex Luthor, a well written for the first time and a very believable Luthor, is clearly all about the money and power.  <Trump>.  There’s a war between officious countries boiling over.  Funded by Luthor, the aggressor not above committing human rights violations, and the poorer neighboring country just trying to survive.  <The US, Ukraine and Russia.  Or maybe Israel and Palestine.  Or maybe both>.  Krypto the dog is a bit of an asshole.  But Superman loves him more than he’ll admit and gives himself the excuse for modesty by having promised his cousin Supergirl that he’d take care of the mutt.  <Cooperation and empathy>.  Superman’s Kryptonian parent’s message get’s twisted and weaponized against him.  <Social media influencers suck -but see below>

And loads of other little stuff along the way to remind you that this is the right Superman to address Summer of 2025.  The Superman we need now, and more.  A movie so woke that you may need to really think about flying your flag and if you’re doing it for the right reasons.

The Supergirl reclaiming the dog bit is an epilogue to provide some last comic relief after good, of course, triumphs over evil.  But there’s one last tear jerker moment to follow.  Artistic license gave the writing team a chance to tweak the origin story.  The original story is the planet Krypton is dying. Supes parents send him away to save him.  In this version, that’s not quite the reason.  He’s given a message from his parents that he was sent to Earth to…. and the sappy first part about how they adore him breaks off.  The real message which didn’t even need to be lied about was he was better than Earthlings.  He should easily be able to subjugate them with his powers.  But since he was raised right by human parents, he doesn’t know this.  He grew into being a good person, nurtured properly with love instead of a quest for power and money just because he could do that.

An early scene shows the Kryptonian parents half of the message as inspiration for Supes to heal.  Later the damaged message is restored and this crazy powerful god among mortals has self doubt.  Later when in need of a hiding place Supes returns to his human parents for love.  And coming full circle at the end Superman has rebuilt the earlier damage to his Antarctic Fortress of Solitude, the robo-nannies ask if he wants to hear if he wants to hear his parents message.  Oh yes, please.  And the play the clips from his earthly parents.  The ones that supported him and nurtured him and he now realizes his Kryptonian parent’s message was irrelevant.  He grew into a good person because he always was a good person.  He just needed a push in to the right direction.

And wrap it up with a nice end credit scene.  Very brief, very simple.  But you get the point.

He’s fine.  Superman is doing just fine.

Decode It!!

 

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.”

Insulting Your Intellect - Gematria and Larger Numbers

 

That’s the proper use of gematria on social media.  You don’t actually do the gematria, you just reference how in the manner it’s practiced by bad actors it ends up being complete gibberish.  And the following is a recap of how astroturfing by MAGA trolls has helped put a gang of incompetents in power.  Instead of actual adults in the room negotiating peace treaties, trade deals, bipartisan legislation or anything meaningful, we have gibberish speakers dumbing down the content to own the libs and keep the base riled up.

It’s fairly well known that conspiracy gematria has a fondness for rather small and therefore insignificant numbers.  As much as they would love to have a genuine example of finding a lengthy Pi match to a large number of decimal places:

31415926535897323846

Like Chief Keef would say, “Ain’t Gonna Happen”.  That number is WAAAAAYYYYYY too fucking big.  The vast majority of gematria, the useful range is two and three digits.  Even four digits is pushing it for them.  That usually requires some form of cheating instead of a straight up type the word into the four base ciphers and see what happens approach.  So when I saw the % quoted in that Bluesky post I allowed my curiosity to wander and see exactly what kind of gibberish Gematrix.org had available.  At Gematrix you can type in a number and have it spit out search results of words and phrases, sorted by the frequency of the searches.  And for 13618 we get a result of, “That number is waaaaayyyy too fucking big.”

Qanon trolls have put this phrase near the top of the 13618 search results.  Most likely it was searched once and then Gematrix has an algorithm that randomly goes through adding on bogus searches.  Second most likely is that it was someone repeatedly searching for this phrase for some idiotic reason.  But, I can promise you that in the over 200 searches for that, there’s no fucking way two people independently decided to misspell FORTY and all that other crap to perform some magic gematria ritual.

A perfect example of gematria as a rabbit hole entry point.  You might get drawn in to an echo chamber with an offhand decode.  Then dismiss it as nonsense.  But tell me more about this celebrity death ritual, anti-trans stuff and racist shit I like to hear about.  And holy crap I can win lots of $$ gambling on football?!!?  (No.  No you won’t.)

They, in theory, could have spelled forty correctly.  In theory they could have used the correct Qanon slogan of WWG1WGA.  And in theory they could have substituted a more well known synonym for “vitiates”.  Then just alter some of the other gibberish to hit 13618 if that was the goal.  But astroturfing doesn’t need meaningful content.  Just engagement, and the more random hits the better.  The more fake traffic on a site the better for the algorithms.

Yes, the cost of your groceries is in part higher than it should be because of complete gibberish.

Rabbit Hole Entry Conspiracies

As a part of the dying middle class I’ve had the opportunity to engage with a lot of people on both sides of the wealth line.  Fortunately neither too much of the ultra wealthy or the ultra poor.  This works well for me because I have no desire to hang around anyone that admires wealth for the sake of wealth.  (8 people have more wealth than the bottom 4 billion people.). The manifestation of interaction in non internet life is mostly working class living paycheck to paycheck one medical bankruptcy away from poverty and better off people whose education is outdated compared to current social trends seeking to maximize what their savings does.

And that second class of better off, older (late boomer and early Gen X) people has proven to be surprisingly susceptible to RW propaganda.  They just don’t “get” how things have changed and the deliberate breaking of things to keep them interested in Fox News style ideas that don’t work are a fantasy.  They genuinely believe that if their investments don’t earn passive income of six figures a year, the poor people are stealing from them.  And these are the mid level of the conspiracy theory pyramid.  They’re the business owners, bank vice presidents, dentists, and doctors.  Smart enough to know the Earth isn’t really flat.  But if going along with rabbit hole entry conspiracy theories like flat Earth and gematria, it’s for the greater good if the evil intellectuals are brought down a notch.  Susceptible to the new outrage porn like furries using litter boxes, immigrants eating pets, and tariffs on islands with no people are OK.  All not real things.  All not challenged for being ridiculous even though they should be.

No amount of picking yourself up by your bootstraps can generate everyone having passive income that grows beyond working years and then gets passed on to the next generation for EVERYONE.  That’s classic Ponzi scheme thinking.  That’s how those 8 people get more and more wealthy by not actually generating any real value to society.  The ultra wealthy know how to break things real good and don’t mind, and even help purposefully generate, stock market crashes.  Call it a correction and someone who had a million dollars saved up will get back to where they were after a couple of years.  Never realizing or acknowledging that someone with an extra 1000 to save up can’t afford to have that wiped out because their car needs repaired.  Morale at the workplace is epically low.  Mental health in general is epically low.

These things are not new.  And as great financial powerhouses come and go the format remains the same.  But this time is different.  It’s a lot closer to the end of the Bronze Age and how natural disasters added to societal pressures and upended everything.  And that’s because of our old friend climate change.

The anti-science/anti-intellectual in the U.S. before the Cold War was over.  We got over the Great Depression with leadership making policy that actually worked.  Enter the rich assholes ruining everything.  Privatize education.  Return education to the wealthy.  Promise the middle class a future that there’s no way is going to happen.  At least not in the manner presented, free money for all and a life of luxury for all.  Someone, somewhere, is being exploited.  Education too expensive after privatization.  Education ruined by insistence that religious indoctrination is more important than science literacy.  Complacency about children getting shot at school.  Education ruined, ✅.

Now we have a large swath of working class people that are willing to believe that rabbit hole entry conspiracy content is real and meaningful, which it absolutely is not.  It’s not enough to just promote it, you are supposed to actively attack the people who are smarter than you.  “Shoot that messenger” with the right answer.  Be that scorpion that stings the frog giving you a ride across the stream.

There’s always been a movement away from science literacy.  Fringe ideas that don’t do any harm by belief in them.  If you think the Earth is flat and it’s not it’s not going to change the effects.  Your plane will still land.  Your phone’s map app will still work.  Gravity will still work.  No need to burn scientists as heretics for speaking about what actually is going on.

If your gematria decode leads you to believe your neighbor is the Antichrist, it might be bad for him and you if you get carried away.  But it doesn’t actually make him the Antichrist.  A counter decode can easily be made to prove you are the Antichrist, not him.

Getting into astrology isn’t going to change that evolution did stuff that made the world what it is today.  Belief that energy from the Aether isn’t going to change the skin color of people in other countries.  Buying healing crystals isn’t going to affect space junk building up in the atmosphere, asteroid impacts, or solar flares.

Not directly.  But those same people who think money grows on trees, they have massively misunderstood that this is the new age.  The new age of climate change economic distress.  The new, The Party Is Over Age.  Where dealing with a global virus epidemic is a walk in the park in comparison, economically.

I’ve noticed a distinct lack of American Flag flying where I live.  Either like me embarrassed at how massive numbers of people have allowed rich assholes who obviously have nothing but there own wealth and power to get to this level in stark inequality, or fans of them (still) who subconsciously recognize the Stars and Stripes has replaced the Confederate flag as a symbol of hatred.  This is not communism, conspiracy, welfare queens, immigrants or whatever scapegoats are dreamed up in the future.  It’s reality that no amount of gematria style prediction after the events are over will change.  Wealthy people get that way by deregulation, not paying their bills, and not cleaning up waste products.  Just because you are wrong about the investment Ponzi scheme, your children, everyone’s children, has to put up with what comes.

Gematria Genius Spotted

 

Taking to social media to announce your intelligence is an art form not elevated to its maximum capacity by huge swaths of people.  In the early days of conspiracy theory related gematria it blossomed with the new recruits having found something alien to the “normies”.  Instead of monopolizing the conversation at Friday Night Happy Hours at Joe’s Bar and The Grill Is Still Broken, you can throw out some fancy sounding schlock and get away with being as pretentious as you want.  The mere mention of gematria was cool.  It was hip.  And even if you didn’t wow all the mates in the echo chamber you were at least due an Attaboy!^TM from your cult leader.

That is, unless the plan is to become a cult leader of your own.  You may need to acquire a niche, and learn even more how to sound like an intellectual harass.  You may need to cultivate an entire alternate personality and stick with it.  Now, we aren’t here, yet.  No this one hasn’t yet flooded Bluesky with “interpretation of semantic gematria” lingo.  But this is a great start.  What that means (besides, “Look how smart I am!”), is something like, it’s not just that two words like DINGO = 86 and OOZING = 86, you have to dig in to the etymology and really analyze the connections.  Translation - you need to learn to cherry pick and focus on the hits and ignore the gazillion misses.

But as much as I’ve pretentiously whined about this persona cultivation this isn’t really all about that.  And actually it’s not even talking about analyzing instead of just fucking around and finding two immensely disparate words like dingo and oozing with matching gematria.  After all, instead of analysis we have one number and one word.  187 and echo.  No, gematria requires knowledge of words including their etymology and NUMBERS.  And within the timeline this genius has linked a video of Neil DeGrasse Tyson discussing dividing by 0 and other smart person math stuff.

And has gotten two likes for his efforts.  For proudly announcing 187 is prime when it’s not.

I was a young teenager when I learned the pattern recognition shortcut.  A three digit number, if the middle digit is the sum of the two other digits it’s divisible by 11.  11x17=187.  And for good measure let’s throw in that apparently ECHO doesn’t even equal 187.

Educating the youngsters of today for future leadership tomorrow.  The resume booster.  I told people on social media that 187 is a prime number and got two likes.  Please give me the nuclear codes.

Know Your Fake Debater Tactics - The Motte and Bailey

There’s a relatively famous “debate” that’s been circulating through critical thinking related social media.  Jordan Peterson versus a group of young atheists.

As difficult as it is for me to leave my personal bias against Peterson aside I will let you read his Wikipedia page.  Like a lot of influential high profile figures he’s controversial.  Often this comes off as controversial for the sake of being controversial.  The contrarian personality willing to “tell it like it is”.  Whether it’s because of actual belief in his words or just for money.  Well, that isn’t so important as he, like sports gematria grifters, got caught red handed in using a tried and true fake debate tactic - The motte and bailey fallacy.

This video summarizes exactly what the tactic is as well as use during the aforementioned debate:

https://youtu.be/lrdOamPIRGY?si=T5eT7MmPpjS7jvuV

The real life motte and bailey consists of medieval castle fortification that has a bailey, the fun part of town with all the perks of medieval squalor.  The blacksmiths, the shops, the inns, the massage parlors, the EV charging stations, etc….  You don’t want to ruin the fun in the town part of the castle by constantly having troops monitor your every move and deporting random citizens to a dungeon in Mordor.  So it’s lightly defended.  But when the shit hits the fan and Sauron’s orcs arrive at the walls you’ve got the motte.  It’s the opposite side of the coin.  It’s not much fun at all.  It’s the last resort to stay home and avoid being slaughtered without having to pack up and move to the Shire.  Eventually the orcs who aren’t interested in a full blown siege move on.  Hopefully because of boiling oil being poured on them.  Everyone loves a good castle siege movie with boiling oil.  At least every normal person does.

For Peterson it played out like this.  Pinned down to give a simple answer to a simple question he self assuredly delivered a simple answer.  A confidence born of being knowledgeable by a life of fake debating.  Gish galloping his way through using confusion via big words to claim victory that doesn’t real exist.  The debate bailey is the controversial high profile argument.  “Atheists worship without knowing it.”  When challenged he retreats to the debate motte.  A well practiced changing of the goal posts, or changing the subject of sorts.  The debate motte, whatever form it takes in any debate is an easier argument to defend.  And then the bait and switch happens where the motte and the bailey are conflated to claim the controversial bailey argument is proven by the advancement of the simple and intellectually inferior motte.

If you fancy getting into a debate with an irrational and deliberately deceptive person just for fun you don’t need to start off too high profile.  You can just find a sports gematria aficionado on YouTube and challenge them.  I even posted a video here a little bit ago.  Sports gematria is and always has survived on the premise of gematria having predictive qualities.  Almost all gematria has at least an undertone of predictive ability.  The controversial and fun bailey is the magical ability to make amazing predictions.  The motte is how the game has to be finished for you to find the connections with the gematria.  The only time predictions seem to work is the many times both teams are predicted to win.  The ultimate motte.  If you can pick both teams to win and have it count you will achieve a 100% win rate that is intellectually devoid of any true meaning.

Keep it simple.  Like the time Hubbard got trapped into debating gematria he was presented with his clear bailey.  “Will you make a prediction right now, live on air?”  You can embellish it a bit with some of the easier side dishes to the meat.  “A genuine, in advance prediction with gematria.  No picking both teams as having a supporting narrative.  No conditions.  No backtracking later with a ‘they flipped the script on me.’  Just a genuine, honest actual prediction of an event with some details instead of predicting something that happens everyday like earthquakes.”

That time Hubbard retreated to the motte in record tike.  Like he often does he starts firing off an old collection of greatest hits stories in the past that had nothing to do with making a prediction on the spot.  Whether you can correctly predict something RIGHT NOW and your previous track record are different beasts.  And the main opposition stuck to his guns and wouldn’t let him slide on retreating to the motte.  Alternatively, you can ask him if he genuinely believes making narratives for both teams is legitimately predictive gematria.  When pressed he probably will say yes, because it’s his go to disguise for the scam.  And part of the reason I like the linked video is Peterson’s use of the same argument.  You’re either a Christian or you aren’t.  You can’t be “8/12ths Christian”, an actual quote recorded and emphasized in that video.

Gematria Is No Longer Baseless

 

Buckle up kiddies and check out the lower right hand corner.  Now gematria for conspiracies is no longer baseless, it’s got more base than it can handle.  An entire new dimension of lunacy has opened up, where the mostly consistent global use of base 10 can be ignored and officially you can use Base 12.

The reality is, of course, that someone got a number they didn’t really like and decided to alter it into something more meaningful.  Um…less not meaningful?  Something familiar.  Something recognizable.  Something like 666 the hard way.

Yes, I see the problem.  A screen full of numbers that are almost useless.  Since it’s an entire phrase instead and f just a word or two the results are simply too big to be useful.  Normally the old school grifters would have resorted to Phraseshopping to solve the issue.  Pare it down and get a screenful of new material to cherry pick from.  Drop the first two words and you get WIN PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST=1313.  13 is pretty cool and double 13 is doubly cool.  Drop a couple more words and MIDDLE EAST PEACE=808 in Satanic.  And 808 is always 88 except when it’s not and 88 has been used a lot.  TRUMP=88.  And if you’re ending up using a fairly bullshitty cipher like Primes you certainly shouldn’t shy away from a bullshitty cipher like Satanic.

But, we can actually admire the new direction you’ve taken us.  Baseshopping.  Where now instead of word substitution we resort to number substitution via changing the base.  It’s reasonable to assume that if base 12 counts then any other not base 10 system counts.  Let me do some quick calculations.   Let’s see how many other bases there are.  How about infinite.  You can literally use any positive integer greater than one for a positional numbering system.  Some are just more common than others, like base 16 for computer nerds.  Here’s a calculator that gives you up to base 36 conversions.  Because you don’t get to just change base 10 to another base, you can change it the other way around.  For example base 10 to base 12 changes 666 to 476.  Yet another number you can lay claim counts as being Antichristy other than your new 942.

Now lots of the lower bases will yield weird results like binary will give you a long string like 100101101=301 in base 10.  And the higher bases will start pumping out letters in the results like 666 base 10 is LF in base 31.  For those who want to decode (L)aurence (F)ishburne into being the Antichrist and through in some Matrix pulling references - you’re welcome.  I can already tell you’re triggered by intelligent and articulate black men so knock yourselves out.  And since you’re fond about f spelling out numbers as words to change values for a new screen full of confirmation bias fodder I’m sure you can reinsert LF into the plethora of Gematrinator calculator ciphers and now Laurence is 88 in Satanic and 666 in Reverse Primes.  Of course there are a whole bunch of other unfortunate souls with the same initials.  So good luck figuring out who the actual correct one is.

And this is exactly why instead of any meaningful results you aren’t decoding anything.  You’re reverse engineering the desired result to get the desired fake evidence to justify the result.

Gematria Debunked About Two Weeks Ago

 

Grifters and attention whores (often the same qualities in one shell) love opposites in one respect.  Sometimes beating a simplistic cherry picked topic to death is the way to go.  Here, look at my list of 113 gematria!

 All that stuff can’t be wrong, I have a list that can’t possibly be this long unless it means something like mashed potatoes proving to Richard Dreyfuss that aliens are here!  And on the other side, the vague and obscure to let cognitively dissonant addled brains wander and fill in the blanks on their own.  Because although some of those words and phrases are direct, others like GREEN SCREEN are only “sort of” synonymous.

One of my all time favorite gematria side gigs is to screw around with antonyms and near antonyms.  It’s really a pretty simple process.  And although lots of time has been invested into the BULLSHIT=113 narrative an equal amount of time, or a lot less if you’re as talented as me, can easily produce a list of simple direct antonyms to counter the list.  VERACIOUS = 113.  And since I checked I found out that WITHIN TWO WEEKS does indeed have 666 gematria, but in the oddball Primes cipher.

Well if you’re going to use a cipher that ignores the history of actual gematria and was clearly created in the 21st century, then you’ve opened the door for me to remind everyone that the word Truth itself = 113 in the capitals added (nee Francis Bacon) cipher.

As for being vague, especially when calling out the Antichrist for being all Antichristy and a big meanie, you can’t get much more vague than “within two weeks”.  Granted it does make sense since Trump did vaguely suggest he’d make a decision on whether or not to kick off World War III, “within two weeks”.  Unfortunately, conspiracy theory gematria has beaten to death that lots of other people and things have been Antichristy like Barrack Obama with lots of gematria gymnastics and anything that equals 111 getting supercharged to 666 with the multiply by six cheat code of the Sumerian cipher.  It gets a little tiresome to hear that the Antichrist has been confirmed and this time I mean it, immediately followed by a request for donations.  The next donation request will certainly be, “within two weeks”.  If there’s a competition for the most overused and most likely to be present on a list of multiple gematriots, there’s no doubt the only two serious contenders have been 113 and 666.

People who don’t mind a little lack of coping with their cognitive biases and the ensuing pursuit of making sense of contradictions are finding a lot of solace in knowing their depression and lack of true friends will be resolved, “within two weeks.”  Each day that goes by gets closer and closer to the, “within two weeks”.  And then there will be a news outlet that mentions that at that two week deadline Trump said that.  And therefore there’s a brand new two week time clock.  It’s Groundhog Day for the self flagellating blame everyone but yourself for everything that makes you miserable crowd.  Each day, each hour, each minute, second, and tiny fraction of a second that passes by starts a new, “within two weeks.”

Well, live by the vague source material, and die by the source material.  Wouldn’t it be nice to stop focusing on vague promises about the future?  Like admitting your employer that offers company stock funded by payroll deductions doesn’t really expect to make good on any long term offer of a pension?  Wouldn’t it be nice to have closure now?  Like being able to say, “Why don’t you estimate the stock value now, discount it with the present value of money tables and just give me the signing bonus today instead of me waiting?”

From a gematria standpoint, there is that closure.  No need to wait for that closure.  No thought or effort needs to be invested in Antichrist matters; these have been decided and finalized in the past.  The Antichrist is a done deal and the quest is over, with a nearly opposite phrase to WITHIN TWO WEEKS.  Within the same recently established Primes cipher:

Now go have some time travel paradox cognitive dissonance fun sorting out how two weeks ago the Antichrist appeared, “about two weeks ago” before that.

New Movies!!!

New FAKE movies.  Because that’s what this hyper polarized, politically supercharged, AI infested, grifting world really needs right now.  Just like your dignified retirement or a sensible gematria narrative these movies have approximately zero percent chance of getting made.

Once there’s an intellectual property that has the three main prerequisites met, a sequel, spinoff, or cheap imitation is inevitable.  First, the concept doesn’t need to be brand new, but it at least it had to lay low in the background like a field in fallow.  Next, there has to be a big name star.  The better the actually talent or the biggest asshole off screen the better (think Bill Maher or Tom Cruise.  Yes, Maher isn’t actually that big of a star, but he sure projects like he is). Finally and most importantly - did the original make money?  If no, move on.  If yes, somebody in a boardroom somewhere will green light it.

Now for example, Blade Runner 2049 or Indiana Jones Dial of Destiny.  An explanation for why the hero has visibly aged.  The idea that an IJ movie with a decent script laid low for awhile.  They didn’t succeed, but someone in some boardroom + money = ??!?!??!?  Give it a shot.  Usually a sequel shows up a couple of years after the first, and hopefully your Kevin Sorbo isn’t already washed up.

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Original - Runaway

Not every old Tom Selleck movie can have Judy from Lost In Space (Marta Kristen -Terminal Island), but it’s got Kirstie Alley and Gene Simmons.  Tom is a policeman in charge of dealing with robots gone bad.  Instead of what he’s normally used to dealing with - malfunctioning robots, Gene is a very bad person making bad robots for his nefarious purposes.

Updated - Runaway Drones

Tom and Gene are back and since they’re creaking along now they are mentoring young upstarts to take on challenges of the 21st century.  Gene is building drones for political assassination, Tom is trying to develop a protection system of miniature flak guns to shoot down tiny commercial drones.  And throw in eco terrorists who are using drones to drop herbicide on golf courses.

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Original - Single White Female

Jennifer Jason Leigh is psycho and obsessed with Bridget Fonda.  Many hijinks ensue, deadly hijinks.

Updated - Single White FEMA 

Cutting costs almost always means underpaid and overworked, so after staffing cuts Bridget resigns in disgust instead of buckling to the dictator’s bad decisions just for the sake of a paycheck.  She actually enjoyed the sense of helping those in need.  Jennifer is the sole employee appointed to staff FEMA during the nastiest hurricane season in U.S. history.  Many hijinks ensue.

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Original - Fire and Ice

A tepid animated good versus evil story with an evil ice queen at odds with a hero and the noble king of Fire Keep.

Updated - Fire and ICE

Climate change bad.  ICE deportations bad.  The original relied on animation to cater to the inner child.  Reality caters to the arbitrary and costly decisions of real life with no adults in the room to talk about sensible solutions.  Produced by and for adults with the IQ of a sponge and attention span that matches.  That’s why the plot revolves around how climate change is a hoax and ICE deportations are supposedly not random excuses to kidnap and incarcerate people that don’t match your skin color standards.

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Original - Planet Terror

Quentin Tarantino’s double feature homage to grindhouse movies, complete with fake trailers for movies that started as a joke and actually got made.

Updated - Planet Tariff

Donald Trump’s homage to the Smoot-Hawley act, but without Rose McGowan and Bruce Willis.  The penguins on not inhabited by humans islands are pissed and looking for payback.  Danny Trejo is a taco restaurant owner that arms the penguin military with machetes.  The steel for the machetes was slapped with a 2,963,048% tariff, leaving the U.S. without a supply for their own counter machete program.  The penguins kick ass and develop a gas that turns zombies back into real people and give Bruce Willis a new lease on the twilight years of his life.

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Original - Galaxy of Terror

Robert England as not Freddy Krueger.  Weird low budget sci fi at its campy best.

Updated - Galaxy of Tariff

The SETI program, not having produced any tangible  results about if we are alone in the universe is now headed by obvious Trump appointee loyalists.  And in its own dumb way the plan is brilliant.  Can aliens resist the idea of investigating - can Earth humans possibly be that dumb?  When a tariff is placed on all alien life in the galaxy (double for alien penguins) surely that will make them come and make a deal before they…uh…well that’s not important.  What is important is that aliens won’t pay tariffs much the same as no humans on uninhabited islands will pay tariffs.

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Original - The Purge (franchise)

Rich people have to bunker indoors during the one night a year that all crime is legal.

Updated - The Binge (prequel franchise)

Explains how history is ignored and how letting gung ho capitalist deregulation with ultra wealthy idiots in charge has worked 0% of the time.  A mix of a tiny bit of fact (like 10 is bigger than 1) with an awful lot of fiction (like in gematria 10=1 if you want it to.)

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Original - Doctor Who and the Daleks

Peter Cushing as the Doctor from the long running but now overstayed its welcome (again) TV series.

Updated - Doctor WTF? and the Daleks

Time travel stuff is fun, but thoroughly impractical with all the paradoxes and stuff.  Here, the Daleks master plan is just to wait it out while humans self destruct.  The doctor, in true U.S. Democrat form doesn’t do anything about it.  He simply shows up at times in Earth’s past and utters, “What the fuck?”, hops in his Tardis, and moves on.  Given a soul stirring monologue for the ending is the only real variety.

“What the fuck?  What the actual fuck, Earth?  I mean really, your planet is on fire right now.  Why the fuck did I even bother with you?  Look at all the hints I gave you.  The stories of fascism being bad, genocide being bad, anti intellectualism being bad.  And you decided to make us the worst of what we were and are.  What the actual fuckety fucking fuck you fuckwads.”