Tuesday, June 06, 2006

The Day of the Beast

"Woe to you, Oh Earth and Sea, for the Devil sends the
beast with wrath, because he knows the time is short...
Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the
beast for it is a human number, its number is Six hundred and
sixty six."


Revelation 13:16-18:
"Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell who does not have the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of his name. This calls for wisdom: let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number. Its number is six threescore six"


Are you ready for the rapture?

The hour is upon us! You do not want to miss the Rapture! The time of the tribulation will be beyond anything imaginable! Think of the horror when EVIL WILL COMPLETELY TAKEOVER! The whole world will be controlled by SATAN HIMSELF!

Well, George Bush would be flattered to think he could control the whole world, wouldn't he.



Once every hundred years The Beast rises to wreak havok on the fragile, weak minds of mankind. Well, okay, not really. But at least once every hundred years the poor guy gets his one day of complete recognition.

Apparently the End of the world Biblical interpreters have conjectured that June 6, 2006 and June 6, 1906 (06/06/06) are "days of the Beast" and have prophesied that the Antichrist will reveal himself on the latter date. So far I have yet to see the Antichrist. However, the night is still young yet... Today is California's primary election day. Millions of Californians will head to the polls to cast ballots in hundreds of contests. California may be going to hell in a hand basket as we speak.


But with that said, what about June 6, 2106? 2206? 2306? And so on? I guess they presummed that today would be the day the world would end as we know it and didn't even think we'd have a future to worry about it. Come to think of it, we are doing a pretty good job on our own distroying our world without The Beast. Maybe he/she is just bidding his/her time, knowing that we would destroy ourselves in due time and the joke is on us. Then again, where's the fun in that?

Here's a little 666 trivia for ya:

In Chinese, '666' sounds a lot like the words 'Things going smoothly'. It is considered one of the luckiest numbers in Chinese culture. It can be seen prominently in many shop windows across the country, and people there often pay extra to get a mobile phone number including this string of digits.

Apple's first computer, the Apple I, was priced at $666.66.

666 is a nickname for Benzene Hexachloride, a powerful insecticide and pediculicide. Its chemical formula is C6H6Cl6.

Similar to the Roman numeral occurrence, combining one of each of Japan's coin currency yields 666 (500, 100, 50, 10, 5, 1)

In the United States, '666' is a brand name of cough syrup.

666 is the port number used by the game Doom (by id Software) when playing against another player via TCP.


In Unix and similar operating systems, a file permission of 666 (which is not uncommon) grants all users read and write permissions on the file.

666 is also the value of the kilohertz frequency of the Bodenseesender, a big AM radio station in South Germany, which is receivable at night in all of Europe. It is also the frequency of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Canberra station.

666 is the sum of all the numbers on a typical roulette wheel. (A typical roulette wheel is numbered from 1 to 36, with one (in Europe) or two (in North America) zeroes. See the point on triangular numbers, above.) The Devil's playground!

The full name of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan contains six letters each in his first (RONALD), middle (WILSON) and last (REAGAN) names, thus earning him the nickname "666". Additionally, when Reagan moved to California following the end of his presidency, he asked that his house number be changed from 666 to 668. And here I thought it was just alzheimer's.

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