It’s OK To Be Wrong! (No, No It Isn’t)

One of the peculiar psychological aspects of gematria, and an exceedingly damaging one at that, is the mentality of it being perfectly fine to be wrong.  The marketing plan, whether openly admitted or not, is that this secret knowledge will allow you to make predictions.  It doesn’t matter if the it’s OK to be wrong mentality existed before involvement in gematria, or if the cult clique leader of choice egged you on into the belief-helping the tiny sprout of wrongness blossom into a tree of joining the being wrong about everything forest.

It’s severely downplayed now, you really don’t need dozens of different ciphers to “decode” a news story.  Anyone with a tiny bit of talent can operate with just the original four.  But thanks to the Gematrinator the life of the letter and word confirmation bias rules my life groupie it’s way too easy to disregard multiple times being wrong analyzing a single word.

Mathematically and statistically, one is wrong more often than right, even with just the base four ciphers.  For example, the word WRONG = 77, 32, 58, 22.  If you are searching for 58, (because we all know what that means, it’s evil!), you are already wrong three times.  But that’s OK.  You can also play around with prime numbers, transposition, being a hypocrite about whether you drop zeroes or not, even make up your own cipher.  Just to help with that temporary rush of endorphins that one time where you find three distinct words or phrases that matched the magic number of the day.

In the current highly polarized political climate this is a dangerous mindset.  The extreme views on both sides don’t work.  (E.g. the right wants unbridled capitalism with the rich not getting taxed, the left wants everyone to get free money without working for it.). A true long term economic solution almost certainly exists somewhere in the middle.  And our system of checks and balances has morphed into pitfalls and roadblocks.  The extremists on both sides constantly keep their base whipped up into the other side is ALWAYS wrong, our side is ALWAYS right.

And that’s why we have both Qanon and “Blueanon”.  Qanon is easier as they directly embraced use of gematria.  Social media was assaulted by grifters all attempting to sway the confirmation bias commoner into accepting that their particular version of alternate reality is the correct one to separate you from your hard earned money and waste your valuable time.  Blueanon seems to be a reaction where it has got a lot of “well, their wrong about these nutty ideas, so my nutty idea seems a lot more believable”.  

This isn’t a football game where both sides shake hands and come back next year and try again.  This is a “well, they obviously cheated, so I need to lash out and fix this retroactively.”  Taking the L is not an option.

A good part of the reason for this post is the Blueanon reaction to Qanon and how it’s becoming more common.  There is a distinct uptick in content suggesting that since they are liars, it’s ok for me to lie.  I don’t care who the enemy quarterback is, a lie is a lie.  You don’t have to be George Santos obvious - there’s always some kind of negative dirt hiding in your background.  This is why attack ads are far more popular in political campaigns.  And why I’m deeply regretting mention red pandas.

Politically, common people who would be much better off ignoring parties and concentrating on content refuse to take the L (can you say January 6th?). Yep.  It’s pretty much always been that way.  We’re just more exposed to it now with the good ole internet being a ready platform for grifters adding to the confusion.  And now people with no business being involved in political debates are constitutional experts, because the Internet told them so.  The other side is obviously wrong.

Newsflash.  Both sides are wrong.

And it’s not OK to be wrong.

Violent Event Denial

The long lasting legacy of Alex Jones - popularizing the word, that one word, that at this point raises the hackles of those with a decent grasp on reality.  It’s only four letters. But it’s kind of odd looking, so it jumps out at you, even with a cursory glance at the sentences and paragraphs it’s included in.  It’s the ‘x’ that’s in it, I’m pretty sure.  Just reaches out and grabs your attention since it’s not too common.

HOAX.

And since engagement is more important than actual substantive content, and repetition is an effective memory tool, the truthers love to repeat that word ad nauseum.

The classic multi person event is the Holocaust.  The classic single person event is the Kennedy assassination.  Either way, these are famous newsworthy events that the official narrative will be denied.

These are the kinds of things that allow a newbie truther to gain a sense of belonging.  Presentation of a new, even microscopic in significance, detail can gain them attention in their chosen cult of denial.  To sidetrack a bit off topic. Was Covid created as a bio weapon in a lab or a natural mutation?  Once it got out, spread and killed millions, shouldn’t some energy be focused on getting through the worst public health crisis instead of bickering about the origin?

Not to the truther.  It’s more important to whine and complain than actual solutions.  You’re edgy and cool now, and you didn’t even have to get a piercing or buy an exotic pet (I’m partial to red pandas).  You KNOW you’re edgy and cool.  Because some cult leader operating a sock puppet account on social media told you that you’re cool. You’re part of the team.

It starts of slow, liking photoshopped posts, then being encouraged to produce your own posts for continued pats on the back.  Eventually, hey, it’s all for the greater good. Go ahead and start creating your own bogus content. You’re edgy and cool.  Do what you want.

In the meantime, being part of the background noise, you’re interfering with others rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  Average-ish people that don’t give a shit about tiny little details on the origin of the virus, they just don’t want to die from it.  And unlike the truther have empathy and don’t want others to die from it.

The Alex Jones method on death.  Instantly declare it a hoax.  Whether a mass shooting or single celebrity passing, produce a massive amount of fake content (this is what the dictionary calls “lying”.  Float it out there, and enough shit on the wall - some of it will stick.

The effectiveness of the method involves lag time.  A shooting is newsworthy.  A celebrity death makes the headlines.  The more legitimate news agencies want to put out something right away.  Until more details arise, there’s a period of time that the truthers, many of them knowing full well the content they put out is bullshit, slam social media to try and keep the bogus narrative alive as long as possible.

Social media’s approach has long been “stop, or I’ll say stop again” as opposed to actually caring about content removal.  Which frankly is the way it should be.  Thinking that the Sandy Hook shooting didn’t play out the way we were told is not illegal.  You have a right to say that you don’t believe it.  But somehow, it’s impossible for them to recognize that there are large numbers of accounts that you just know when death is involved they are instantly going to say it - HOAX.  

All the big names in the circa 2018 gematria era did it.  Riding the coattails of Jones method it was easy to build a following just by going with the flow.  The same way a person targeted by a toxic narcissist in the work place becomes narcissistic supply, well if I keep stroking their ego they will put in a good word for me and I get a raise.  Or, at least I won’t get fired for challenging them.

Hubbard doesn’t seem too keen on giving the rotating flock of loyalists monetary raises.  He’s much more interested in keeping that for himself.  Getting them to do his dirty work as free advertisement.  Then when he finally gets called out weeks or months later dedicating some effort to posting content about how they are just a troll and even suggest they should be unalived.  Which is very much borrowed from the Alex Jones method.  Doesn’t matter.  There will be more 15 year olds joining social media that don’t want a red panda for coolness.  There will be more mass shootings.  Just need to get them trained on the lingo for a couple of weeks.

Violent event denial lingo:

Hoax, crisis actor, agent, false flag, psy-op, ritual sacrifice and any text in quotes indicating sarcasm like “attack”.  If your little boys and girls are dropping these terms, they probably aren’t just denying a single shooting.  They’ve joined the Every Shooting is a Hoax Club.  And by wearing the beginners “I have a severe cognitive bias problem” badge they are targeted to join the rabbit hole of all the other bad ideas.

What To Expect When Aliens Discover Earth

 If they haven’t already.

When the Great Filter discussions and thought experiments are made, they never factor much about human psychological aspects.  The most you get is a vague “intelligent life itself is the filter”.  Meaning that life is so competitive we are self destructive.

So what if we were visited by aliens?  A rich source of fiction surrounds the diametrically opposed views of:

1). Kill us/enslave us to take our resources.

2). They are also awestruck that intelligent life outside their own exists and wouldn’t it be fun to cooperate and be friends?

#2 is clearly out of the question.  The conspiracy theorist operates in a world of actively keeping the planet in a constant state of turmoil, whether they actually realize it or not.  The rich and powerful don’t give a shit about anything but maintaining being rich and powerful.  Bored out of their minds that being born into a life of privilege and having the quest for resources bypassed, they seek the one thing that the money can’t directly buy.

Attention.  And since the conspiracists operate by making their grift a cult - promotion of bad ideas is rewarded, promotion of anything resembling empathy is attacked, the rich and powerful have a ready source of pseudo-slave labor.  Fanboys love to pick shitty role models who will do anything for attention.  Start a pointless war on a whim.  Buy a social media site for the lulz.  Suggest that surgery to make your booty more luscious is what all females must strive for, etc….

Flying a fleet of warships across huge distances to steal our chemicals?!?  Nonsense. There a going to be more space rocks a lot closer to get minerals from.  If the aliens are that far advanced they’d more likely have a method of turning less useful stuff into more useful stuff we currently can’t comprehend.  If they don’t have super duper faster than light travel, we might have figured out how, oh hell, I don’t know, make bombs out of carbon ashes in a few million years.  Because that’s the kind of things our governments do.  Hey, scientist that made a way to clean up swamp water into potable drinking water.  That’s all well and good.  Somebody is going to make money off this.  I’d like to be in on that first stock issue.  But in the meantime, how the fuck do I kill somebody with clean drinking water?  And somebody will find a way because they will get attention.  It’s what we do.

As for slave labor, humans make shitty slaves.  Strangely, those enslaved do not enjoy being enslaved.  There is a distinct lack of cooperation in the human species.  Every civilization has had problems with getting too big for its britches and imploding.  There’s always too many people that don’t want to cooperate, stirring up trouble, looking for attention.  It’s vastly more difficult to get attention while being enslaved.  Or so I’ve been told.  No, the way to go is to be the enslaver, not the enslaved.

So what exactly does this mean to our tiny little piece of rock that probably has a bit more going for it in the raw materials being turned into useful stuff?  The Great Filter is cooperation.  Only by finding a common ground can life peacefully coexist with itself.  An advanced civilization out there among the stars must have figured that out.  Therefore, upon finding us they have two basic options.

1).  Ignore us as being to trivial to waste their time on us.

2).  And this is where it gets scary.  Monitor us to see if we become a threat.  “Hey Florg, they have nuclear weapons!!”  “Hey, Skizinx, don’t be a dumbass.  Do they have hyperdemocracy yet?  Of course not.  Get back to me when you’ve got real news!!”

And then one day we create hyperdemocracy, having overcome our near self destruction by the Great Clean Drinking Water Wars.  “HEY FLORG!!!!   Who’s the dumbass ass now?!  They have hyperdemocracy now!!”  “Alright, calm down. Skizo, what about super duper quantumdemocracy?”  

“Not yet.  But they finally stopped electing total douchebags as political leaders.”

“Oh holy mother fucking black hole singularity SHIT!!!”

And then they realize the time has come.  Having already figured long ago wasting resources on a fleet of starships was not on option.  Just to make sure we don’t revert to our warlike stupidity and can remain aloof in their quantumdemocracy life of utopian leisure and not being enslaved, they hold their most important Grandificent Council Meeting.  Where it’s decided to nudge the Earth backwards with their faster than light massless ray weapons.

“Those that nearly kill each other with clean drinking water are a threat we cannot take a chance on.  We must disrupt them, return them to their confirmation bias attention whore ways.”

“TURN ON THE GEMATRIA BEAM!!”

Anti-Vaxxers

The birth of gematria grifting is in part due to how much misinformation there is about vaccinations.  There isn’t much to rival health issues for being a constant source of opposing (stupid) views that seek to take advantage of those that refuse to take a time out and listen to actual medical experts.  Which means there a lot of practice out there for there grifters to use as a starting point.

Vaccinations are the victim of their own success.  And COVID-19 was a perfect demonstration of how woefully - psychologically -  unprepared global society is in trying to deal with a pandemic.  If you paid attention to actual experts you would have realized that the planet was actually long overdue for a major, new public health crisis.  The previous crises were so long ago the pandemic newbies who failed science class don’t have actual experience with the death and debilitating long term effects of some of the more notable vaccine mitigated diseases.

Health disinformation grifting follows the basic pattern of:

1). Discredit experts

2). Provide alternative information 

3). Make fundraiser for alternative 

4). Aggressively market alternative

Since people are not traveling around in wagons town to town selling snake oil anymore, the marketing is now on social media.  Being scared of nasty diseases that are mostly just a vague memory is a valid viewpoint, and not trusting vaccinations a undesirable yet understandable consequence.  However, the marketing is targeting the same group of cognitively damaged people, torn in different directions on which fundraiser is the best solution.

Gematria as practiced today is clearly self contradictory.  Always being allowed to ignore being wrong is self delusional.  Being wrong about vaccinations, now you’re interfering with others survival and health.  The gematria cliques tend to hang with just their clique.  Throw out an easily manufactured two or three digit number and you’ll get different commentary from the sports enthusiast, the spiritualist, the crypto bro and the personal synchronicity enthusiast.  Finding a common consensus within a single clique much less all cliques combined is impossible.

At least the anti vaccination crowd doesn’t pretend they can make predictions too much.  They do have a wide array of alternative beliefs that have their own cliques.  So like gematria having no consensus on what’s going on there’s no anti vaccination consensus.  It’s dependent on the disinformers fundraiser, which may even change over time thanks to memory holing.

Here are some often incompatible anti vaccination topics.  They can often be found by using the friend of the friend test if not directly in a social media account that fairly obviously is just spreading bad information:

Viruses don’t exist

Viruses exist but the current virus is a hoax

The virus isn’t dangerous, but the vaccination is what kills you

Vaccinations are to force people to submit to government authority

Vaccine side effects are worse than the disease

There’s something dangerous in the vaccine ingredients

Vaccines travel from one person to another (shedding)

When you see these types of statements think “WARNING WILL ROBINSON!!!  Danger!”  Is this person and his circle of “friends” trying to claim contradictory things like

The virus is just the common cold - and - virology is a lie?  Or, vaccines will kill everyone by <date> - and - there’s a nano chip in the vax to control your mind?

And do look for the fundraiser red flag.  “Viruses don’t exist, eat healthy and workout, you’ll be fine.  My book is available on Amazon!!!”  “Fauci lied and should be in jail, join my Patreon and you’ll get exclusive first looks at my blog and upcoming podcasts!!”

As I said, the discrediting the experts path for health issue grifting is a well traveled road.  Scam diet fads, pseudo-science alternative medicine, supplements.  These things have been around for a long time.  Viruses will do what they do best.  Mutate and bypass the human bodies immune system and be a problem.  There will be another global health crisis (unless global warming finishes us off first).  When that happens, there will be grifting.  The only question is when it happens next, not if.

Thar Cumin’ To Git Ar - Well, Pretty Much Everything

In the so called Truth Community, the psychological projection is fucking relentless.  A semi regular reminder - at its core projection operates on the “I’m rubber your glue” principle.  Merely getting in the first shot is far more important than actually having a coherent argument, and endless petty bickering about non issues ensues.  There are two basic forms “I’m <positive>, you are my opponent, therefore it follows you are <negative>.  Since conspiracy theorists dwell in the world of constantly being factually wrong, the other format prevails.  Usually without the negative being said, as it’s psychologically implied - “You are fat and ugly.”  Therefore by default I am not fat and ugly, even though I’m hideous.  More directly to the point - “I am a truth seeker, therefore you are a lying piece of shit.”

Sovereign citizens are firmly anti-government.  I’m special, therefore your society rules don’t apply to me.  Often I see that they tend to just focus on the government of the country they reside in, but this extends to complaints about the so-called “global elites”.  That is, when they aren’t yammering on about a fictitious cabal and the Illuminati.  As there are tons of average-ish people trying to muddle through their mundane lives, the conspiracists drag down the quality of life by insisting that it’s ok for Sovs to not pay heed to society’s rules, and if you are just going to be a sheep then I’m obviously better than you.

Sovs, as firmly anti-government, are far more likely to be pro gun.  The evil government is trying to take them, and the 2nd Amendment says you can’t.  But it’s not just the guns, the evil government is trying to take away our free speech.  You can’t censor me just for telling the truth!!  That’s Alex Jones rhetoric.  And while you’re here listening to Infowars, the evil government is trying to take away everything from you.  So, buy some protein powder and that will solve everything.  And here’s some lovely militia groups in the chat.  What could possibly go wrong with infringing on average-ish sheeples rights along the way?

Here are some things Sovs actually do and have down.

 Court - Admiralty Law, etc... 

There's a lot of weird stuff about how courts don’t apply to Sovs since they tip their hand they aren’t legitimate courts, like “fringe on the flags means it’s Admiralty Law”.  Or it’s a foreign government.  Or the government is a corporation and commercial law applies.  Or whatever else they heard that supposedly means the court holding their case doesn’t count in regards to whatever they did wrong.  Spoiler alert - it never works.  Sovs are more likely to deny counsel and try to defend themselves. Spoiler alert - that never ends well.  In fact, the sovereign citizen movement is 50+ years old, and since it’s never worked, as soon as the lingo shows up they instantly lose, courts being so fed up with their time being wasted.

Name changes
In the never ending contradictions in the conspiracy world there is overlap, and this also applies to court cases.  Now, you are either not violating a law because you are in the commercial court since the government is a corporation, or you are talking about the wrong person.  This paragraph gets a special shout out because it’s a bit sillier.  You’ve got the wrong man, because my name is JOHN SMITH, not the “John Smith” on my birth certificate. Or John Smith, not the “John Howard Smith” on my birth certificate.  Etc…. My birth certificate is illegitimate, because you aren’t my government.

  

Traffic stops
The go to fundraiser for Sovs is a seminar.  Get a couple hundred people at a couple hundred bucks each to park their butts in a seat and teach them useless tricks for getting out of trouble you got into…that don’t work.  What you’re doing wrong is that you didn’t announce your Sov status properly - you need a special license plate!  So there’s a nice side gig of paperwork and license plates to have a bogus get out of jail free card.  What actually happens?  Naturally you get pulled over for an illegitimate license plate.  Then if we’re all lucky you resist arrest and lots of law enforcement time and resources are wasted.

Don't pay taxes
Well news flash, the actual number of people that enjoy paying taxes is about zero.  But this is the big one.  Just like a gambling addict confronting gematria for the first time, there’s likely a potential Sov confronted with not having to pay taxes for the first time.  Curiously, a state funded fire department putting out the fire at their house is just fine.  But, only as long as someone else pays for it. In the US, the IRS is trained to recognize the Sov lingo and instantly classify them as a contentious non payer.  Taxes being hated like guns and uncensored speech being adored are universal, and not wanting to pay taxes is not going away.  There’s a lag time between recognition that non payment is counter productive and when the “bright” idea was fed to you at that seminar you paid $300.  Once it catches up to you the problem is magnified with late penalties and interest.  This applies to all taxes so it’s not just your income tax.  Real estate tax collectors have to put up with this nonsense, too.

Don't pay anything
So you bought that sweet F350 you had your eye on for awhile and you didn’t count on getting laid off?  That seminar said it wasn’t legitimate debt!  Woo Hoo!  Free vehicle!  Why stop there?  Those utility bills - utilities are government regulated!! Gotcha!  Sov ringleaders will throw out non payment of anything, because of course everything should be free in our Utopian world.

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I’m not going to link it, since the Wikipedia article is easily found.  There is a correlation between non payment spurred on Sov thinking and terroristic threats.  What’s outside the scope of Wikipedia is how the grifting on the internet is a never ending quest to pull away someone from one clique into the clique you have.  Since none of the get rich quick schemes ever work, there are multitudes of other bad ideas to pick from.  There are now, always have been, always will be grifters looking for an easy source of cognitively impaired marks.  There are social media accounts that are designed to literally promote a wide array of disinformation just to see which shit thrown out there sticks on the wall.  Getting lost in the inevitable hypocrisy and contradictions is the “rabbit hole” people keep talking about.  

Sovereign Citizens - Thar Cumin’ Ta Take Ar Guns!!

In the United States, the issue of gun control is extremely divisive.  Therefore, it’s perfect for grift magnetism.  As a reminder, recently we touched on some background, and if you’re new here, there are a few posts to glance.  I will take some space up with getting more political, philosophical and preachy than I normally do, therefore this is heavily opinionated instead of sourced proven facts.

When life is properly viewed as a competition for resources, there are two basic approaches.  Make stuff to use.  Or take stuff others made.  In a more peaceful society there’s a balance of making some kind of valuable product and taking the stuff other people made in an agreed upon exchange of value for value.  Naturally, some are better at this than others, which is fine.  But across the spectrum there are plenty who make it their mission to clearly take more than they give, even to the point of saying, “I’m just taking your stuff, and you get nothing.”

Our technology has advanced so much that the tools for taking make it easier and easier for the takers.  During the Cold War era post WWII, there was a global boom in education, the more functional societies determined to do what it takes to keep pace with the bad guys determined to take your stuff.  Every major tech improvement has government’s thinking, “Ok, this using lasers to play a copy of a movie is cool, but seriously, how do I kill someone with this?”  And the reply, “Hmmm….I can make money off this, so yeah sure…I found just what you’re looking for.”  Social media is more indirect.  It’s all fun and games until you get tired of Farmville and want to hang with that group that has violent tendencies.

In the old days, a society would be isolated enough that if they chose a bad idea to the solution of a problem it didn’t affect anyone but themselves.  God is angry?  Through a virgin into the volcano!” Then when the crops still fail because the plant disease wasn’t cured, or they die out completely because the plague didn’t end - game over.  Thanks for playing.  Proper science builds on mistakes, learning what was wrong, fixing it for next time.

Technology has been all about getting more resources with less human input.  In theory this is fine when trying to feed hungry populations.  Sadly, attention is underrated as a resource being competed for.  Always has been.  Always will be.  Debating the tough issues is good.  But when the debate generates into “shut up or I’ll kill you”, we no longer have a debate.  We have a skirmish that could blow up into a war.  People do a shitty job of hero worship.  People who are clearly takers instead of makers rise to the top of the food chain by getting fake credibility to their bad ideas.

Enter somebody like Alex Jones.  Decades of “how dare you infringe on my constitutional right to defend myself” getting twisted into “how dare you infringe on my constitutional right to take your stuff and infringe on other peoples constitutional rights!!”

Sovereign Citizens existed long before Alex, and universally show the lack of empathy of the takers of the world.  More on this in the next part, but needless to say there’s a word for a society of all takers - anarchy.  A society where everyone exposes the Jesuits because they are rigging sports games?  How exactly does that work?  Who runs the sewage treatment plant?  Who cuts the grass in the HOA?  Did you pick up on the silly logically fallacious idea there?  Sound stupid?  Yes, I’m coming off like a low grade moron.

That’s what you get when bad ideas thrown out there get attention.  As a non gematria example - let’s throw out a Scientology historical nugget.  L. Ron made books and bought them.  Just to keep them on the best seller list.  Whoa!!  A hot seller!! This must be good!!  Eventually this lead to numerous human rights violations and the implosion of the cult.  Which still amassed enough money that they’ll be a pain in the ass for some time.

And somebody else will come up with something.  It may sound ridiculous, but there are some things we can count on:

1). It will take advantage of weapons and computers (which may be synonymous) as great equalizers.  Everyone’s a bad ass.  Everyone’s super smart.

2). Somebody with a clear lack of empathy will start talking to people with poor critical thinking skills.

3). The smart people with empathy will be discredited, in advance because psychological projection is one of the top orders of the day.

4). Innocent people just trying to get by will suffer.

I promise that this is out of my system for awhile, next up - the actual sovereign citizen beliefs.  Which is apparently summarized as “how dare you infringe on my constitutional right to not be a part of society except when it’s convenient.”

Sovereign Citizens - Prelude

There’s a lot to unpack about the sovereign citizens and how that fits in with grift and crank magnetism.  Even excluding this prelude this is likely going to take two full length posts about it.

Since the cranks deliberately misinterpret things part of the planned order of posting the other ideas in the collection of bad ideas we start here with an unsaid point from where I left off with the previous post.

As a non-conspiracy theorist you are allowed to be angry about about the things wrong with the world.  If you’re like me, a dedicated agnostic, you can realize that in the realm of confirmation biased based topics, there are some things that aren’t too bad, at least at times.  Namely religion.  I would much rather have a church member calmly talk to me about God’s Love than someone spouting off material that ends up being the kind of things that get mentally I’ll people fired up to go to a school and start shooting.  I will go to a church as a social function, never trying to convert anyone to my side.  If, however, you start calling Sandy Hook a false flag and make baseless claims about crisis actors, I may counterattack.

What Alex did with Sandy Hook and subsequent shootings was marketing with psychological tricks.  Eliciting an emotional reaction and targeting the audience to with whatever it took to bypass anything resembling critical thinking.  He used two of the most hotly debated topics - the US constitutional rights of self defense and guns plus free speech.

I consider my desire to live in a world where children living in fear of being shot at school an infringement of my rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  Now, lying on the internet is so normalized, it creeps into all aspects of our lives- the workplace, the schools, interactions with neighbors.  Misinformation on the internet has short circuited peoples ability to see that lots of people, quite simply, lie there asses off.

Fortunately we have a few signs of hope.  Maybe some of these big lawsuits (Jones defamation, Fox News defamation, Trump’s myriad problems) will produce a long overdue wake up call that there are consequences to promoting bad ideas.  And to be clear, in the circles of people I follow they mostly recognize that both sides (liberals as well as conservatives) engage in a lot of activity simply as fundraising instead of actual intelligent policy decisions.  The first rule to remember, social media was never and never will be a good source of factual news coverage.

Whether by accident or design, gematria merged into the grift magnetism cultural as something like “conspiracy theory light”.  A youngster that may finally get fed up with the at times laughably wrong sports predictions has been exposed to some other bad ideas.  And some of them make gematria look like a blessing instead of the waste of time that it is.  That’s where things like sovereign citizens fit in.

The concept has been around forever.  The financial hook is that you don’t have to pay taxes.  Sovereign citizens have a good chance of joining a militia type organization. (Type…not an actual militia that has any intention of defending the country when invaded by a foreign power.)

So that’s enough prologue for now.  Some more specific and historical background to come.

What Flat Earth Brings to the 3D Tabletop

The attempts for science minded people to get through to the crowd that think the Earth is flat are well worn paths.  As with all conspiracy theory debates, the approach to getting through is dead wrong most of the time.  Trying to use math and telescope related type data is an instant turn off, the FE believer will mostly shut down science based arguments.

It’s no surprise that the majority Flat Earth believers identify as spiritual or religious.

https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/handle/2346/82666

Quite simply, the extremely religious people are more prone to close off any attempt to convince them they are wrong about science and social topics.  They have their answer already.  The deity will protect them.  Vaccines?  Don’t need them.  God will protect me.  Wars?  My side is right.  We’re a nation founded on God.  Yours is wrong, mine is right.  Obviously, my political party is right for the same reason my football team is the best.  Because….reasons.

The evolution of grift magnetism incorporated religious thoughts.  The con artists found out that slapping the name of a deity on a product of dubious practical value was great for sales.  Miracle spring water, magic healing crystals, indeed any alternative medicine idea.  All these have a ready made supply of people willing to credit an alternative to what actually helped them.  I prayed to get better, and I got better.  Even though it’s really just that my immune system took hold and fought off the infection.

What the Flat Earth grifters did do for the evolution of the health scams - add bad science to the mix.  Finally, instead of just the golden hammer of, “It’s God’s Will”, throwing around sciency type words (incorrectly) gives you the best of both worlds.

Needless to say, the contradictions abound.  There’s no consensus on the exact model for the flat earth, in part because spiritual and science thoughts don’t mix well together.  Is it a flat disc with “Antarctica” surrounding the habitable land?  Is it an infinite plane? Is it a bit three dimensional with a couple miles of rock underneath the tabletop?  Is the hollow Firmament what’s going on?  These questions are never fully answered when the FE crowds gather to have a fun seminar.

What those gatherings are - a bunch of people who didn’t do well in math and science in school, religious minded dabblers in alternative science, and those that organized the event getting paid an entrance fee and selling you useless shit.

The Gematria clowns used the two pronged attack of pro religion and anti-science in the early years.  Mostly it has evolved following the Alex Jones method of just throwing a ton of shit at the wall, see what gets the most engagement, and throw that type of shit at the wall, leaving the least interesting shit lonely and unadopted at the shit shelter.  This can be seen in a very clear example of their system being rigged to never fail - zero.

The claim is made and even worded, when convenient, that zeros don’t count in gematria.  Currently, 201 is a super important number since THE JESUIT ORDER = 201 and the cult leader said it’s important.  Why this isn’t 21 instead of 201 is never explained.  But hey, gematria and hypocrisy go hand in hand.

These days, the sciency stuff is just an occasional blip on the radar.  There used to be more things like number of protons, neutrons and electrons and the never ending bullshit “Pi rituals”.  I suspect that those table scraps were left to the flat earthers while there’s a strong clique of spiritual gematria activity.  And the flat earthers and gematria crowd really don’t like each other, using it to their mutual advantage by the occasional dogfight trying to lure away their respective bases to turn to their collection of bad ideas.

Just like gematria, if someone is into Flat Earth content they are more than likely hanging out with a set of bad ideas, some that are far worse for society in general.  Just to throw an example out there-

Flat Earth —> gematria—> other bad ideas —> Qanon —> congressional candidate embrace Qanon —> Qandidate defies all rational thinking and gets elected because base isn’t smart enough to know better —>Qandidate posts right wing extremism on social media on a daily basis that makes national MSM news—>other grifters jump in to get a piece of the action —> cycle repeats endlessly.  Qandidate must be right.  They’re a Christian Nationalist - they said so.

5G Is Coming To Get You!…or maybe not

The misinformation related to 5G is firmly rooted in science denialism.  Not being sure which topic of the list of related bad ideas, I’ve settled on this because flat earth nonsense, the reigning champion of science denial, has been beaten to death.  In fact, if you apply the friends test to someone talking about 5G, it’s impossible to not find someone yammering about both of them?

Why is this a problem?  Just like finding antonyms with matching gematria, the science denial is self-contradictory.  Not as blatant as in a single post, but a red flag is that Person A blabbering about 5G radiation killing you, or even causing Covid, person B is that close friend that thinks the earth is flat and hates NASA.  That GPS that let your pizza delivery person find you is getting a signal from satellites orbiting the globe.

These contradictions don’t get attention since the senses are dulled by taking things for granted the convenience of a technological society.  Cell tower radiation isn’t much different from your car radio or microwave.  What it is - a new talking point for grifters.  The flat earth is overused.  5G radiation is more fresh and exciting.

A fun side effect of 5G talking points is an opportunity to use bad statistics that easily fool the unsuspecting.  I give you, the bad map:

What it actually is - a map of cell tower coverage.  But be prepared to find someone claiming it’s any number of health scare topics.  Health issues are a primary source of science denial - with modern medicine being taken for granted.  Finding an unlabeled map is easy.  Altering it to caption it the way you want takes a bit of work.  I could make it say:

COVID CASES JULY 2020-OCTOBER 2020

Or

INCREASE IN LUNG CANCER 2019-2022

Or

CAR ACCIDENT FATALITIES CAUSED BY 5G 2023

Etc…

In some cases these fake talking points aren’t technically wrong.  There probably are more lung cancer cases in the red areas.  Yet, something is missing from the fake maps that is important.  The map is really only related to population density  not population.  A meaningful map would be labeled something like CAR ACCIDENT FATALITIES PER 10,000 ACCIDENTS.

Cell phone companies are <shocker> a business.  It’s only natural that there’s a bigger need for bigger populations.  There’s not going to be a gigantic red spot over Utqiagvik, Alaska for anything related to just population and not density.  Unless it’s vampire related.

The issues of social interaction with family and erstwhile friends over how to approach their addiction to fake news are challenging.  Do you take the stance of abandoning all hope and admitting they are hopelessly close minded and not worth the trouble?  Do you double down on your efforts to try to get through?  The grifters love the chaos and turmoil of the fake news cycle.  As Barnum said, a sucker is born every minute.

5G and the social interaction instability of rapid communication:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9332237/

5G directly causing COVID because radiation is scary:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8576388/

Neither of those like much of this post are written in easy to understand English.  See how easy it is to believe a nice little mislabeled (purposefully) map?  The summation of all this?  Statistically misleading maps are common enough that all, unless from a clearly trusted source should be viewed skeptically.  The correct answer isn’t written in English.  Do some actual research and find someone to dumb it down to an understandable level, admit the conspiracy theorist has a critical thinking problem and go from there.

Other Bad Ideas

I’m not trying to win friends or make any $ with this blog.  The information within is intended as a resource aimed mostly at the type of person, possibly very new to social media, who stumbles upon something that makes them say, “What the fuck did I actually just read?!?”

When properly viewed as such, life is a competition for resources.  What people do not get about life is that in addition to others trying to manipulate your thinking to get on board with their own agenda, is that your own brain is playing tricks on itself.  Effective humor often requires misdirection where your brain to be mislead until you are nailed with the punchline.  Sleight of hand magic tricks confuse the brain because someone has dedicated a large chunk of time to practice their craft, and the magician’s dexterity makes wondrous things happen.  Optical illusions are more direct - a certain visual pattern is displayed, the brain is not able to process what the eyes see and “fills in the blanks”.

The well practiced gematria guru misdirects your brain into thinking you are making successful sports picks when you aren’t.  The well practiced gematria guru doesn’t tell you it’s just a trick and does whatever it takes to back peddle, confuse and obscure that what he said doesn’t actually qualify as a prediction, or if it did it was wrong and by gosh that was the first time ever it was wrong!  The well practiced gematria guru lets your brain fill in the blanks on your free time, finding synchronicity where it doesn’t exist.  Then pats you on the back for being an important member of the cult, gaining what amounts to free advertisement for the current fundraiser.

In the spectrum of bad ideas, gematria in and of itself is not bad.  But whether by intent or accidentally, in practice it serves as an identifier of someone who has a cognitive bias problem.  Someone who is extremely racist, transphobic, closed minded - doesn’t have the critical thinking skills to navigate the internet without incurring more damage than good.  Social media sites do more pretending to care than actually caring, with responses coming off as more like, “I’m sorry I got caught, now what do I do to get the government off my back without me paying a stiff fine.”

The psychological aspects of conspiracy theories are not widespread knowledge in high school.  Psychology is a murky enough subject by itself, also with its fair share of less than honest people.  Those that understand the psychology of manipulating other people are more than willing to drop in on a gematria conversation to try and suggest that their bad idea is a better bad idea than the other bad ideas.

So it’s time to start talking about some of these other bad ideas over the next few weeks.  Psychologically, a parallel is found in Scientology.  L. Ron didn’t jump right into the absolutely batshit crazy Xenu story right away.  Years of indoctrination and abuse preceded hitting that gem.  Qanon thinking didn’t directly cause a bunch of less than brilliant people to try to overthrow the government.  But along the spectrum of bad ideas it became a springboard for exposure to some of the darker content out there.

Here’s a list of some of these crank magnetism topics I’ll cover.  As usual there’s overlap in crank magnetism.  One of the first things grifters need to do is discredit the experts, so science denial is a given.

1). Sovereign citizens 

2). Violent event denial

3). Flat Earth/Moon landing hoax (science denial)

4). Health and nutrition alternative medicine

5). Anti-Vaxxers

6). 5G 

I anticipate getting bogged down or distracted and end up combining some of those together and adding new ones.

How To Lose Money With Gematria

In addition to some older material here, there is somebody that has dedicated a large chunk of their free time to monitor Zach’s shitty sports picks.  Having received emails with some comments I can tell he’s genuinely not a fan, however it’s difficult to tell if he is against the entire concept of using peoples cognitive biases against them, or if he is simply anti-Zach.

For context, there are a couple of parts of the back story that don’t quit make sense.  Ostensibly a troll that camps out on Zach’s sports Patreon, who constantly downloads videos from the protected “pay to play” area, edits them to isolate the more direct comments that indicate something resembling a actual prediction and documents all the other shenanigans that go on.  (Harassment, death threats, cover up excuses, etc….). So all you students out there looking for source material about how conspiracy theories degrade society there is a ready source of not doctored actual footage.

https://m.youtube.com/@SportsGematria

Before applauding him and declaring him the best thing to happen for the Zach haters, it’s worthwhile to mention that he’s not totally in the clear.  As for being a mole, this would require a sock puppet Patreon membership since Patreon creators can block anyone they want.  And sometimes the comments come from people in Zach’s crowd that create content that’s just as bad.  Still, it really can’t be all bad since instead of old deleted videos that Zach has a firm history of covering up, there is an up to date compilation of current futility.  Since the process involves an endless cycle of focusing on the nearest sports championship that’s upcoming, newbies have a resource for finding clear, objective evidence of what went wrong in the most recent shitty picks.

And boy did Zach strike out big time on March Madness. He somehow managed to get every game that yielded the final four wrong.  In addition to the more normal worthless advice just like somebody with average sports knowledge would use filling out their bracket making normal picks.  Like…making picks without gematria.

You can go through all of Sportsgematria’s videos and find similar documented futility.  And the comments include lots of venting from people that have gotten conned.  Just take them with a grain of salt since you can never know who simply wants Zach off their street corner that they are working, and who is a diehard anti-Zachist.

The comments section of every video is loaded with trolling like this.

Grift Magnetism

There is a lot of psychological projection in the conspiracy theory world.  Saying, “a lot” is an understatement.  It’s fucking relentless.  Even having the audacity to call themselves a community is some kind of bad joke that doesn't get enough attention from the, "How could people be dumb enough to believe that??!?" type of critic.

There is a term thrown around a lot that may not have the impact it should - Getting lost down the rabbit hole. Sure there's a lot to be said for honoring the famous Alice in Wonderland source, but it is the 21st century. Now that it's Malice in Blunderland we should be getting an update to magpies or raccoon trash bandits or something similar.

There is one thing the so called community gets right. There's a lot of shit wrong with the world. And people love to complain about the shit that bothers them. And grifters love to find people that complain, because for the psychologically astute they represent a handy supply of marks to exploit. Because the marks universally think they ate right about everything.

At a truth community level we are already at a point where it starts to not make sense. Getting lost down the raccoon can, the potential marks are presented with a dizzying area of misinformation. Since they often have serious problems dealing with reality the background noise includes a lot of contradictory misinformation. Grift Magnetism rears its ugly head.

When one grifter who has been running his three card monte scam finds out that some of his business being pulled away by the guy who opens a side of his trenchcoat and is displaying his huuuge....selection of fake Rolex watches that don't even work, he gets a bit unhappy that someone is muscling in on his turf. This is why flat earthers and gematria clowns tend to not get along. There's gematria content about GPS coordinates. And flat earthers seem to think the world is, well, flat. It can't be both. There's even gematria and flat earth content running simultaneously since the spiritual gematria clique merges The Firmament/hollow earth/there's a lot of shit wrong with the workd Jesus is coming because the Antichrist is here with numbers.

Getting lost down the raccoon trash can involves anti-scientific mental gymnastics. The scientific approach, when applied correctly, will show they are both wrong. The mental defense mechanism is to filter out the background noise and make an arbitrary decision on a case by case basis.

And boy do the Grift Magnetists love that. Hey, your gematria cult leader told you the Scamdemic is a hoax? I've hit you with viruses don't exist? How about you stop by our "Vaccine shedding needs to be detoxed by drinking your own urine group" for a visit?

I've been observing the truth community social media for a long time now. And if your social media truther friend is not directly posting contradictory grift magnetism content, you need look no further than the friends of that friend. This can be a starting point for deprogramming. You just need to be mindful of the closed minded defensive posture that will be immediately taken. Not surprisingly, gullible people don't like to admit that they have been conned.

Sadly, for the gematria community, the background noise is exhibited every day. Every decode has wrong numbers. With loads of ciphers, ridiculous variations of a non-existent rule book available, picking both teams to win a game since at a community level someone else found other numbers - every single match is countered by thousands of mismatches.

You want to waste your time on it for the fuzzy warm feeling the partial reinforcement makes you pick a sports game right 50% of the time? Knock yourself out. But there's a lot of shit wrong in the world you really don't want to be wrong about.

Like a con man leaving you holding the bag since you got convinced that a free and fair democratic election was stolen and you should take a gun to the capital and try to overthrow the government. The mark is always disposable after the grifting.