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==Readings that will stun you with their honesty==
[http://www.numerologist.com/?gclid=CJKx3vC7qJsCFZQU4wod-yNnCQ This site] promises  "readings that will stun you with their honesty," but there's a rumor that [[Talk:Numerology|they give the same reading to everyone]].
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[http://www.numerologist.com/?gclid=CJKx3vC7qJsCFZQU4wod-yNnCQ This site] promises  "readings that will stun you with their honesty," but they've been know to give the same reading to everyone,<ref>http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/273/RipOff0273036.htm</ref>or give nothing at all.<ref>http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080715082902AA51gT2</ref>
  
 
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Revision as of 19:04, 26 June 2009

Pseudoscience Alert
This topic is a pseudoscience, and is not accepted by the scientific community as a valid discipline.
Although it may use scientific terminology, it does not use scientific methodology.
Remember: just because it sounds right doesn't mean it's actually right.

Numerology is the study of, or belief in, the meaning of various numbers associated with people or events.

Since the numbers are always studies in base ten, it is apparent that the whole "theory" hinges on our having five digits on each of two hands. Insect numerology would yield very different answers.

Another functional absurdity comes from playing with the numbers or digits in dates - which are utterly arbitrary human constructions, including when we choose to make up for the discrepancies in the length of the year relative to exact numbers of days (leap days, minutes, seconds, etc.).

Basically, numerology's "value" consists of the incredible woo experienced by people when shown that the number of letters in their names, when manipulated, show how important they are in the universal scheme of things.

Richard C. Hoagland often uses numerology in his attempts to prove that the Face on Mars is not natural.

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Gematria

Gematria is the Kabbalistic study of Hebrew words by assigning every letter in the alphabet a numerical value (increasing by 1 until 10, increasing by 10 until 100, and increasing by 100 until 900). For example, Chai, the Hebrew word for life, is spelled chet-yod, giving it a gematria value of 18. However, the gematria of words is often purely coincidental, and can be used to prove nearly any point (including how the "pi mistake" isn't really a mistake).

Readings that will stun you with their honesty

This site promises "readings that will stun you with their honesty," but they've been know to give the same reading to everyone,[1]or give nothing at all.[2]

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Footnotes

  1. http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/273/RipOff0273036.htm
  2. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080715082902AA51gT2
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