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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

First, consider that the word "TACO" contains the same letters as "COAT," proving that tacos are meant to cover our hunger, just as coats cover our bodies. Now, take "TACO" and assign numerical values using the standard A=1, B=2 system:

T = 20 A = 1 C = 3 O = 15

20 + 1 + 3 + 15 = 39

Now, divide by the number of traditional taco toppings (lettuce, cheese, tomato, sour cream, and meat = 5):

39 ÷ 5 = 7.8

Which is suspiciously close to 7.77, a number often associated with jackpot winnings in slot machines. Clearly, tacos were designed to be the ultimate prize of the universe.

But it goes deeper—flip "TACO" backwards, and you get "OCAT." If you say this out loud, it almost sounds like "Oh, cat!" Proof that tacos and cats are spiritually connected. This explains why internet culture revolves around both.

Finally, consider the fact that "Tuesday" has 7 letters, the number of days in a week. If you remove the number 2 (since Tuesday is the second day of the workweek), you get 5—exactly the number of traditional taco toppings! This proves that Taco Tuesday was destined by the cosmic order.

Are we living in a taco simulation? The evidence is undeniable.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago

I remember when these guys were just a random house in a neighborhood where they had signs or painted walls that depicted their current conspiracies - usually teamed with various dead appliances and vehicles on the property. Now these people are winning elections.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

This isn't satire. This is someone I know. And they're batshit crazy. Constantly posting stuff like this. They also have massive "I'm the smartest person in the room" energy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Some context for you or anyone that isn't familiar. This is something called Gematria. Languages like Greek had no separate symbols for numbers, they just assigned values to letters. So you could "add" the values of the letters of something and get a number. It's basically a shortcut for the typical crazy conspiracy shit, and it picked up steam among the Qanon crowd around that time.

This is basically a free space on a bingo sheet, but is/was she into Qanon conspiracies like jfk Jr returning?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I'm actually not too sure on the Qanon thing. Probably? I usually see a post every Superbowl that the Superbowl is a satanic performance. Just as delusional as this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

It's called schizophrenia, and there's medication you can take for it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Religion is really good at capturing those with mental illnesses and especially those without insight.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It’s numerology.

Which is like… astrology with numbers.

And you might not be surprised it’s wormed its way in some of the way-more-crazy parts of Christianity.

Also? A solid argument for why you shouldn’t mix crazy and meth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Yeah I know what numerology is... Had a "luck" to encounter and debunk a certain pseudoscientist who tried to connect gematria and stuff with the origin of the alphabet or sth.

Also yeah I'm not surprised, the Bible is famously vague and self-contradictory, leading to thousands of interpretations of it. I only hope this guy is not doing some sort of preaching to attract similarly crazy ppl

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago

When I'm in a schizophrenic rantings competition and my opponent is an American Christian:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

If you make random insane meaningless connections to things that don't exist and call them your reality and believe in them absolutely ... you are called insane.

If you make random insane meaningless connections to things that don't exist from a Christian Bible (or any other religious texts) and call them your reality and believe in them absolutely ... you are called religious.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

But like...why position 2120 and position 32? They go through this whole "code," but they leave out pieces of information that should be relevant.

Sorry for your friend. I have heard other people who are into gematria speak, and it's just pitiable what Christianity has done to their brains. And it's a shame, because they're obviously great at recognizing patterns, but they're wasting their talents on meaningless "codes" that very definitely don't do anything in the way of proof.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

It's all so clear now! Clear that this guy is bad at math.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Someone hook this guy up with the Time Cube guy!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Pretty sure he died a while ago, sadly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

It’s a tragedy that folks like this who need mental help will never get it, making connections between random things is something I've seen a lot in the heaviest drug users, my family included.

The brain is a wonderful, fragile, little machine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Time is a flat circle

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago