Hi John
I found this Gematria Calculator on the internet. I was wondering if you knew about it and what do you think of it?
[Link removed out of morbid fear of any association with the website in question]
Ah yes the GEMATRINATOR! (He seems to be fashioning himself, questionably... as the Terminator of Gematria)
I am unfortunately acutely aware of this site and individual. The man seems a capable programmer, I will give him that. However, he doesn't appear to have even a minimal understanding about mathematical probabilities. He has several dozen different systems running all at the same time and with that much data you can find whatever message you want.
Which, as it turns out, he does.
He believes there is a grand cabal all throughout the media hiding a sinister worldwide agenda AND they are secretly bragging about it, using his invented forms of English gematria. I am not making this up. He claims that the gematria (I remind you, the gematria he invented) can demonstrate this.
The idea itself is monstrously preposterous. It is a conspiracy of sublime stupidity. All it can really demonstrate is how easy it is to find anything you want or subconsciously fear in a data dump of that size.
He is exactly what critics will be looking for to show how gematria is total nonsense. And his sort of gematria is complete nonsense.
Biblical gematria however uses only the number systems used in the ancient manuscripts and does not alter or manipulate the text and does not require an ocean of cherry picking to find its math. That all starts in the very first verse, which is why biblical gematria is very much a horse of a different color.
Thanks for the opportunity to rant.
John