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666 (Six Six Six): The Devil's Number? The Number Of The Beast?

666 woman's car-free birthday

A woman born weighing 6lbs 6oz on 6 June at 0600 BST, and who is 66 on 6/6/06, is refusing to drive on her birthday to help avoid accidents.
Retired East Sussex nurse June Dumas said despite her birthday being on the day of "the number of the beast" she had grown less superstitious with age.

"[But] I've had a few nasty accidents in the past," she said.

The 666 phenomenon comes from several popular versions of a disputed passage in the Book of Revelation.

The profile of its connection with the Devil was raised by the cult 1976 horror movie The Omen.

Mrs Dumas, born at Brighton General Hospital in 1940, said her late mother, a psychic, had always warned her to "watch herself" when she turned 66.

The woman from Hove said she had become less superstitious as she got older, but she still saluted single magpies, and avoided walking under ladders.

She said: "It's a bit eerie and I'm not sure what to make of it all, but I plan to take things really easy."

Casino visit

And Mrs Dumas added that she had planned to do all her jobs on Wednesday so she did not have to use the car on her birthday.

Mrs Dumas said she had come through her 26th birthday in 1966 without any problems and added: "I hope [this birthday] passes just as well."

A modern-day remake of The Omen has its worldwide cinema release on Tuesday.

Mrs Dumas will celebrate her birthday with a visit to a casino with her partner, Paul, where she said she expects to lose a fortune.

"I used to be a superstitious person but as you get older you tend to think that what will happen will happen," she said.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sout ... 048322.stm
 
6-6-6 (and Let's Toss in a Few More - 66666)

An American network television newscaster a few days ago intoned that the 6-6-6 calandar combination occurs only once a millennium. Not once a century, mind you, but a MILLENNIUM.

So what about June 6, 2016, 2026, 2036, 2046, 2056 and every year of the 2060s?

As I wrote above, the fact that the Anti-Christ WAS NOT born on June 6 in that otherwise-fascinatiing year of 1666 means that I'm not very much worried this time either.

And have we so soon forgotten all the front-page newspaper coverage announcing the birth of the Anti-Christ on February 2, 1962?
 
coldelephant said:
"Just saw an article in Fortean Times Breaking News section today - the number is 616 and it means the Emperor Caligula."
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But why would John have so publicized a dictator defunct for more than 50 years when he penned his Revelation?

(Multitudinous millions of people lived in abject terror of Josef Stalin during the final three decades of his lifetime, but they don't any longer these 53 years later.)

P. S. Once again, the variant numbers "666" and "616" have been well-known to Christian theologians since the late Second Century AD. The is nothing new here.
 
666 Is Today The Day?

As im sure you are all aware, today is the 6th of June 2006, thats 6-6-6 if we abbreviate it!

So has anyone given birth to the anti-christ? I assume a Cesarean doesnt count, thats cheating! Its gotta be natural!

But i remember reading about a recent discovery of an old testament, said to be the oldest in existance has 666 as 616 so do we have the numbers/dates wrong?



btw my wifes expercing, baby due in 2 weeks, I was routing for a the birth to be today, I dont think ill be lucky though, id even suggested "BEAST" as a name, surprisingly she wasnt impressed!
 
I can't see what the fuss is about. 999 were a brilliant punk band!

Oh, hang on. I'm holding the kid upside down...
 
Actually, caesarian should be fine...I mean, surely the son of satan should rip his way out of the womb? Or in the nice modern world, have it done for him... :twisted:

More Pimms Damien?.......Hmmmm.....
 
surely a caesarian is cheating, its like playing roulette, betting on 6, then placing the ball in the 6 slot on the wheel.


BTW: 999 were and still are a good band, they play my hometown regually still! :)
 
Surprised there hasn't been any weird news storys about cults doing.... well, weird things today.
 
OldTimeRadio said:
coldelephant said:
"Just saw an article in Fortean Times Breaking News section today - the number is 616 and it means the Emperor Caligula."
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But why would John have so publicized a dictator defunct for more than 50 years when he penned his Revelation?

(Multitudinous millions of people lived in abject terror of Josef Stalin during the final three decades of his lifetime, but they don't any longer these 53 years later.)
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Ah, but they still bring up Hitler, don't they? And if you do compare someone to Hitler or Stalin, they know what you mean. (A Google News search on Hitler brought up just under 5000 hits) There's a lot of typology and metaphor in Revelation and my interpretation has always been that John was warning of the possibility of another dictator, another persecutor of Christians. It's meant to conjure up an association, just as mentioning Megiddo (Armageddon) would resonate with an audience of his time the way Gettysburgh or Hiroshima would today.
 
Re: 6-6-6 (and Let's Toss in a Few More - 66666)

OldTimeRadio said:
And have we so soon forgotten all the front-page newspaper coverage announcing the birth of the Anti-Christ on February 2, 1962?
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It was a Friday...(the anti-christ was Friday's child 'loving and giving" :wtf:

And I'm narrowing it down...
1962 Ben Testerman Knoxville TN, tennis star
1962 Michael T Weiss Chicago IL, actor (Dr Michael Horton-Days of our Lives)
1962 Farrah Fawcett, actress, (Jill Munro - Charlie's Angels)

Cunning auld Nick has us looking in the wrong places obviously!

mooks awaitin' and out
 
Ah well it is all over for another thousand years and nothing bad happe...
 
I've just finished watching the documentary on Channel 4 about the curse of The Omen movie. This described how planes the actors were on were hit by lightening, one of the producer's assistants was decapitated in a car accident like the scene in the film, and other bits and pieces which could have been coincidences. Possibly the biggest coincidence is that the stories added more hype to the film's marketing machine.

One of the issues brought up, however, got me thinking. One of the guests discussed the section in Revelations which states that nobody would be able to buy and sell anything unless they were marked with the sign 666. He went on to claim that, in ancient Hebrew, the number 6 actually referred to the letter w, and therefore the sign of the devil was actually WWW, as in the World Wide Web.

I've read the other posts which refer to the letter W as being associated with the number 5.

Was this person's explanation just some cr@p to add credibility to the program and to suggest that the day of reckoning was imminent, or do the number 6 and the letter W have some sort of connection?
 
Human_84 said:
"Surprised there hasn't been any weird news storys about cults doing.... well, weird things today."
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I confess that back in 1999 I believed that at least some of the end times prophecies circulating at that time would prove to be self-fulfilling - that is, I suspected that some third world dictator would shock humanity by announcing that HE was the Anti-Christ and thus make himself front page news material for several months following.

Turned out, though, that the world wasn't quite so strange as I thought.
 
Time to open another can of worms. recently found documents suggest 666 isnt the devils number, its 616. so either 666 is a error, or the 616 is an error, or perhaps the 616 was changed to 666 to fool people what the devils number is? or is it both?

So perhaps all the goths with "666" tatoos on their heads have to get a black panther and 616 instead lol

heres some links

http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/POxy/beast616.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_ ... numerology)

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11134

http://www.escapeallthesethings.com/666 ... -beast.htm
 
I am astonished that there wasn't more made of this, here of all places. Have we all become so difficult to please that we leave something as well-known as the incidence of 666 to the Forteana newbies? I imagine that lots of us were like "nah, 666 is for lamers, everyone know's it's 616 anyway and I'm off to carry on building my Air Loom"

didn't the press people beam 666 on the sky above LA yesterday for the launch of the film? what a stroke of accidental genius. I can imagine the horror felt by some drive-by victim as he pumps his last drop of life blood into the gutter, gazing up to look for heaven and seeing the number of the Beast scrawled in fiery letters across the smog bank.
 
Ah well, the day has passed, and I seem to have made it to the next day without becoming Cthulhu's new chew toy. Go me! :D
 
I still don't see how the date (in dispute anyway re: NT era) has any relevance to the number 666 (or 616, 686, 664,668 etc). I don't recall the bible saying that this number was a date. :roll:

Go Devil Baby (ies).... ;)
 
Looks like thee guys might have saved our asses:

Dutch Evangelicals calls for pray-in against the Devil


Jun 05 8:27 AM US/Eastern



A Netherlands-based Evangelical organisation has called on Christians in 21 countries to hold a 24-hour prayer vigil against Satanic forces to mark so-called Devil's Day.

Some fear the date 06/06/06, which falls on Tuesday, signifies 666, the Biblical number of the Devil, and will usher in calamities and even the end of the world.

The Dutch-based organisation Ambassadors Ministries called its 24-hour prayer vigil from 6:00 pm (1600 GMT) Monday, saying it hoped some 2,000 Dutch Christians, mainly Protestants, would take part.

"We believe that the plans the enemy has for this date (June 6, 2006) will be destroyed through violent worship and praise. We are inviting the entire world to be part of this huge unity project," it says on its website www.ambasmin.org.

"The forces of evil are using this day," Mathijs Piet of the organisation told AFP.

"Through our action we want to stop them from achieving their goal."

The figure 666 is named the "number of the beast" in the closing chapter of the Bible, the "Book of Revelations", otherwise known as "The Apocalypse of John".

Chapter 13, Verse 18 of the book, with its apparent reference to the coming of the Devil, has long puzzled scholars and demonologists and fed the fantasies of conspiracy theorists and writers of ghost stories.

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www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/05/06060 ... vny6k.html
 
So, all those waiting for the Rapture can now get down and whack their collective asses for preventing their transubstantiation?
Forget internecine warfare, we're going to see Fundy Sects doing a turf war on each other!

Kewl!
 
ahhh, isnt that nice of them, praying for us.

personally, i think of anyone praying for me without my permission as assault. how do i sue them?
 
"New" News is Old Hat

RealPaZZa said:
"Time to open another can of worms. recently found documents suggest 666 isnt the devils number, its 616. so either 666 is a error, or the 616 is an error, or perhaps the 616 was changed to 666 to fool people what the devils number is? or is it both?"
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ONCE AGAIN, there is absolutely nothing "new" about the recent "news" that some early manuscripts of John's Revelation have "616" in place of "666."

BOTH numbers were known to the EARLIEST "Church Fathers" by the late Second Century AD! St. Irenaeus believed that the "616" variant was due simply to a scribal error. The inference here is that the "666" rendering was the much more common of the two even at that early date. (And Irenaeus wrote approximately 175 years PREVIOUS to the "616" manuscript which caused all the "news" (!) reporting.)

"616" is also footnoted in most good reference Bibles.

As I've written here previously I learned this "brand new news" in both Roman Catholic and Baptist religion class and Sunday School decades ago.
 
after some thought heres why nothing happened - lets assume the devils "number" is 666. the date we have recently had is 6-6-2006 - 2000 too much!
 
Why oh why oh why does the devil, satan, beelzebub, lucifer, the dark lord, cloven hooved one have to have a number?

Maybe the passage in the bible is another of those wonderous things that are 'lost in translation'. In other words a complete frigging cock up.

It is probably referring to some well off geezer having 666 (or 616) beast (or cattle). So he probably lords it over other people, thinking hes the dogs knob.

And all of a sudden its '666 is the number of the beast' etc.... and this bloke is the evil most hated thing ever, the opposite of god.

Just a daft thought....I think a lot of crap in the bible is probably a big cock up by the pissed up blokes given the job of translation. :devil: :_pished: :monster:
 
witchflame said:
Why oh why oh why does the devil, satan, beelzebub, lucifer, the dark lord, cloven hooved one have to have a number?
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So that they know where to deliver his mail?
 
My esteemed partner (back from golf! ;) ) has just added the songs from his PC to my ipod. Guess ho w many songs, exactly. ;)
 
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