Was Paul Stine a premeditated target based on Numerology?

[doranchak]

That is correct, Orachank, but that is if you take out the numbers of the license plate of this hypothetical Uber car and set them in whatever order that you would like. But if you try to apply Chaldean/Babylonian Numerology by reading the numbers of the Uber license plate left to right as most people in the West read - either it´s me, you or the Zodiac(except if you were educated as an Arab or Hebrew-speaking individual, where letters and numbers are written right to left) - the probability that will name will appear is quite unlikely.

It happens to (sort of) work under a particular numerological system (Chaldean/Babylonian), but if it had worked under any other system, it would have also been considered significant by those who are persuaded by numerological links.

For example, if Gematria had produced a suspect's name, someone might point out the rarity of that. But they do not point out that many other methods could have been applied. Nor do they actually verify whether other Zodiac-related words could be generated.

It is like a golf ball hitting a blade of grass. Yes, it was very unlikely for that specific blade to be hit with the ball. But one of the blades was certainly going to be hit.

[TomVoigt]

Thank you for being the voice of reason.

Taking something like the numbers on a license plate, making up rules to fit a pre-defined outcome (Ignoring the letter "Y", duplicating only the number 7), rearranging the outcomes (letters) in a specific way to manufacture the pre-defined outcome, is very weak / poor methodology to begin with. Add to that, the extreme unlikelihood that a murderer would also have somehow been looking for that precise scenario (a license number on a cab that could be thus convoluted) when there was no reason for him to believe any cab could produce such a result.

I never claimed to have proven anything. It was just something I noticed. Good grief.

[Marshall]

Thank you for being the voice of reason.

Taking something like the numbers on a license plate, making up rules to fit a pre-defined outcome (Ignoring the letter "Y", duplicating only the number 7), rearranging the outcomes (letters) in a specific way to manufacture the pre-defined outcome, is very weak / poor methodology to begin with. Add to that, the extreme unlikelihood that a murderer would also have somehow been looking for that precise scenario (a license number on a cab that could be thus convoluted) when there was no reason for him to believe any cab could produce such a result.

I never claimed to have proven anything. It was just something I noticed. Good grief.

Tom, my post had nothing to do with you and certainly was not directed at you. I'm saying, generally, these types of contrived things are absolutely meaningless and I commended Dave for his articulation of this. His analogy of a golf ball hitting a random blade of grass was a good way to say it.