People Who Are Afraid of 666

[erpowers]

In recent days I have had to dial two phone numbers that included the prefix 666. On each occasions I wondered what the people who refuse to wear the number 666 do when confronted with phone numbers that include that prefix. Do they call the number? One of the numbers was to an apartment complex. If they look into living at an apartment complex and that complex has a phone number that includes that prefix do they refuse to live at that complex? The other number was to a store. If a store has that prefix do they refuse to call the store and refuse to shop at the store? Do they refuse to shop at just that location, or do they refuse to shop at any store within that company? If they live in a city that has two, or more phone numbers with that prefix do they move to another city? Do they think the world would be a better place if that prefix was not given out.

[giftedgirl77]

1. That's the short code for mom on my phone.

[okaawhatever]

3. ROFL nt

[zappaman]

13. !!!

[Segami]

56. LOL!!

[FreakinDJ]

2. Revelations was about Nero feeding Christians to the lions

It came and passed

[ProfessorGAC]

69. I Thought They Changed That

I saw something on History that there was a mistranslation and it was really about Tiberius. Was i dreaming that?

[951-Riverside]

4. 33

13

[rurallib]

28. never heard of 33 being superstitious

can you give us uninformed a short explanation?

[LongTomH]

5. At the company where I worked a few years ago....out tech support number was 6664.....

......which seemed appropriate! I always called them "Tech support from Hell!"

You will find that no airline has a flight 666, just as some building still don't have a 13th floor.

I do remember an old Twilight Zone episode about the 13th floor. Rod Serling should have done one on flight 666.

[frylock]

7. Flight 666 is the call-sign for Ed Force One..

piloted by one Bruce Dickenson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden:_Flight_666

[PeaceNikki]

11. 6664 would be especially interesting for Tetraphobics

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. That's just Herman's campaign material upside down.

[NCjack]

34. or, 999 is the number of the Austrian Beast. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

39. Australian? Or Austrian?

[NCjack]

68. Oops! You are right!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

70. Actually, I am far more to the left. :)

[Feron]

8. When I was a cashier...

and the total was $6.66, the superstitious would simply give an extra penny or buy something extra.

I guess they would get a cell phone with a non-666 number and refuse to live at a 666 address or unit.

[darkangel218]

27. That was my total after i met my bf.

I still have the receipt.

Satan approved.

[treestar]

9. It'd be interesting to find out

Could be the phone company doesn't use that prefix. Rather than deal with the consequences of attempting to use it.

I was in a hotel once that had that room number. An apartment complex might skip it.

[hrmjustin]

10. I don't care for that number and understand why people don't.

[Marrah_G]

16. The bible story used was not correctly translated

And it was written by a guy in a cave about the Emperor Nero.

[hrmjustin]

18. I am not a fan of the book of revelation but I still do not care for the number.

[foo_bar]

21. why? (I'm genuinely curious.)

I mean Revelation seems a bit... non-canonical, or it's hard to imagine Jesus going for that sort of thing, so what's wrong with the number itself? Is it the way other people appropriate the triple-6s as a subversive act, or is it just like a "bad luck" kind of thing?

[hrmjustin]

23. It is the mark of evil in the bible.

While I take revelations with a grain a salt I still do not care for the number.

[LiberalAndProud]

44. I know someone who doesn't like black cats.

It's not that she's superstitious. She just doesn't care for black cats because ... black cats. Fully understanding that the aversion is unreasonable, there it is.

Do you think your aversion to the number is a similar emotional response?

[hrmjustin]

45. Yes it is an emotional response on my part.

[Jamastiene]

53. My mother always crossed the windshield if a black cat ran across the road.

Later, when I was on my own, I got two black cats and my mother started changing her mind on them. Once she got to know Domino, there was no superstition left about them. Domino was amazing. Too bad her little life was cut short by cancer. She could have been the ambassador for black cats worldwide. She was so smart and so well behaved and lovable. Kodak was shy but she could have been a good ambassador too. I've had white cats too. I never noticed my luck going either way with black cats or white cats. I've had ups and downs in life regardless of the cats. Usually, in general, though, the cats make the downs easier to take and the ups are way more fun when the cats are playing. That is just my experience and how my mother became a fan of black cats after meeting and getting to know Domino.

[foo_bar]

46. so it's for non-Revelation reasons?

Is it because people around you take it seriously? I mean I try to avoid the number when possible and I'm a semi-atheistic Jew, but it's mainly because people act weird about it, not Hexkosiohexekontahexaphobia per se.

[hrmjustin]

47. It is revelations for me.

I take it with a grain of salt.

[foo_bar]

48. so it's like Pascal's Wager?

(re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager)

You take it with a grain of salt, but you're paying respect "just in case"? (I'm totally OK with that, we all have to calculate the risk:reward in holding any particular belief...)

[hrmjustin]

49. Well i am a believing Christian but in this particular case yes it might be something like...

...Pascal's Wager.

[Warren DeMontague]

55. Pascal was a crappy gambler.

[snooper2]

73. Yes, but he did try to warn the father in Pet Cemetery, People should always listen to Pascal

"The barrier was not meant to be crossed. The ground is sour."

[Warren DeMontague]

82. Not the Ramones' greatest song.

Unfortunately.

[Xithras]

51. 666 is generally accepted to be a reference to the Emperor Nero by scholars

Hebrew has a neat system that allows writers to assign numerical values to words or phrases, called Gematria. This isn't weirdo conspiracy theory stuff, but a well documented part of both Rabinnic and Kabbalistic writing going back a couple thousand years. In Hebrew, Nero Caesar is written as Nron Qsr in the Latin alphabet. The sum of those characters in Hebrew gematria is 666. If you read Revelation 13:11-18, it explicitly states that the number is the code for a mans name.

There's a lot of debate about what this actually means. One line of thinking points out that Revelation was written shortly after Nero died, and nearly all Roman currency still bore Nero's likeness. The thinking is that the "mark of the beast" is actually a reference to foreign currencies that enriched non-Hebrew religions. In Roman Judea, Roman coin was used to enforce the empires hold over its land. 666 is a reference to the forced use of funds by foreign authorities that do not worship God, and that the Antichrist will use money to exert control over the people.

On the other hand, there are many who believe that it's a direct reference to Nero himself, and simply symbolizes the rise of a ruler like Nero. They believe that those who follow the new ruler will carry the mark of the ruler, and will need to do so in order to buy and sell basic items required for survival. The closest example would be Nazi Germany, where all of the good jobs required that you join the Nazi Party (and, for what it's worth, there were MANY in Europe in the 1930's who believed that Hitler WAS the anti-Christ described in the Bible, and that the Nazi symbols were the Mark described by Revelation).

There are other interpretations as well, but all agree that the "666" has no actual meaning beyond its use as a code for "Nero Caesar".

[Adrahil]

64. Yeah, even if you accept Revelations as anything more than a made up rant....

... most scholars agree that the events depicted are oriented around Rome.

But we still live in a Demon Haunted World.

[snooper2]

72. Here is a list of exchanges you should avoid calling then, (no NPA is 666), but NXX can be

1 201 666 WOODCLIFF LAKE NJ 07677 BERGEN VERIZON NEW JERSEY, INC.
2 201 666 WESTWOOD NJ 07675 BERGEN VERIZON NEW JERSEY, INC.
3 202 666 WASHINGTON DC 20024 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA VERIZON WASHINGTON, DC INC.
4 202 666 WASHINGTON NAVY YARD DC 20374 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA VERIZON WASHINGTON, DC INC.
5 202 666 WASHINGTON DC 20003 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA VERIZON WASHINGTON, DC INC.
6 203 666 BRIDGEPORT CT 06605 FAIRFIELD LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC - CT
7 203 666 BRIDGEPORT CT 06608 FAIRFIELD LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC - CT
8 203 666 BRIDGEPORT CT 06604 FAIRFIELD LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC - CT
9 204 666 WINNIPEG MB LES.NET (1996) Inc.
10 205 666 AL
11 206 666 SEATTLE WA 98104 KING INTERNATIONAL TELCOM, LTD. - WA
12 206 666 SEATTLE WA 98154 KING INTERNATIONAL TELCOM, LTD. - WA
13 206 666 SEATTLE WA 98101 KING INTERNATIONAL TELCOM, LTD. - WA
14 207 666 BOWDOINHAM ME 04008 SAGADAHOC NO NEW ENGLAND TEL OP DBA FAIRPOINT COMM - ME
15 208 666 COEUR D ALENE ID 83814 KOOTENAI FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS NORTHWEST, INC. - ID
16 208 666 COEUR D ALENE ID 83815 KOOTENAI FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS NORTHWEST, INC. - ID
17 209 666 TRACY CA 95376 SAN JOAQUIN CF COMMUNICATIONS, LLC DBA TELEKENEX - CA
18 209 666 TRACY CA 95377 SAN JOAQUIN CF COMMUNICATIONS, LLC DBA TELEKENEX - CA
19 209 666 TRACY CA 95304 SAN JOAQUIN CF COMMUNICATIONS, LLC DBA TELEKENEX - CA
20 210 666 SAN ANTONIO TX 78244 BEXAR SOUTHWESTERN BELL
21 210 666 SAN ANTONIO TX 78219 BEXAR SOUTHWESTERN BELL
22 210 666 SAN ANTONIO TX 78220 BEXAR SOUTHWESTERN BELL
23 212 666 NEW YORK NY 10025 NEW YORK VERIZON NEW YORK, INC.
24 212 666 NEW YORK NY 10026 NEW YORK VERIZON NEW YORK, INC.
25 212 666 NEW YORK NY 10027 NEW YORK VERIZON NEW YORK, INC.
26 213 666 LOS ANGELES CA 90071 LOS ANGELES U.S. TELEPACIFIC CORP. - CA
27 213 666 LOS ANGELES CA 90017 LOS ANGELES U.S. TELEPACIFIC CORP. - CA
28 213 666 LOS ANGELES CA 90014 LOS ANGELES U.S. TELEPACIFIC CORP. - CA
29 214 666 DALLAS TX 75242 DALLAS NEW TALK INC DBA GET A PHONE FKA CONNECT PG TX
30 214 666 DALLAS TX 75270 DALLAS NEW TALK INC DBA GET A PHONE FKA CONNECT PG TX
31 214 666 DALLAS TX 75201 DALLAS NEW TALK INC DBA GET A PHONE FKA CONNECT PG TX
32 215 666 MORRISVILLE PA 19067 BUCKS AT&T LOCAL
33 216 666 OH
34 217 666 CHRISMAN IL 61924 EDGAR AMERITECH ILLINOIS
35 217 666 GEORGETOWN IL 61846 VERMILION AMERITECH ILLINOIS
36 217 666 RIDGE FARM IL 61870 VERMILION AMERITECH ILLINOIS
37 218 666 COOK MN 55723 SAINT LOUIS QWEST CORPORATION
38 219 666 IN
39 220 666 OH
40 224 666 IL
41 225 666 LA
42 226 666 KITCHENER ON Fibernetics Corporation
43 228 666 MS
44 229 666 GA
45 231 666 MI
46 234 666 OH
47 236 666
48 239 666 FL
49 240 666 MD
50 248 666 WATERFORD MI 48327 OAKLAND AMERITECH MICHIGAN

[AlbertCat]

77. I still do not care for the number.

How do you feel about

((7X15)+(758.4+1134.6) / 3)-70 ?


or

DCLXVI?

[Iggo]

12. It's just a number, but I enjoy how it pisses some people off.

In fact, I enjoy it a lot.

[NCjack]

35. Some more fun: 666i is the number of the imaginary beast. nt

[A HERETIC I AM]

50. 666i is also the Infiniti of the beast

[IDemo]

63. The i666 is the phone too exciting for even Apple to release

[snooper2]

75. I cheated :)

(I like the millibeast the best 0.666)


666 Biblical Number of the Beast
660 Approximate Number of the Beast
DCLXVI Roman Numeral of the Beast
665 Number of the Beast's Older Brother
667 Number of the Beast's Younger Sister
668 Number of the Beast's Neighbor
999 Number of the Australian Beast
333 Number of the Semi-Beast
66 Number of the Downsized Beast
6, uh..., I forget Number of the Blond Beast
666.0000 Number of the High Precision Beast
665.9997856 Number of the Beast on a Pentium
0.666 Number of the Millibeast
X / 666 Beast Common Denominator
0.00150150... Reciprocal of the Beast
-666 Opposite of the Beast
666i Imaginary Number of the Beast
6.66 x 102 Scientific Notation of the Beast
25.8069758... Square Root of the Beast
443556 Square of the Beast
1010011010 Binary Number of the Beast
1232 Octal of the Beast
29A Hexidecimal of the Beast
2.8235 Log of the Beast
6.5913 Ln of the Beast
1.738 x 10289 Anti-Log of the Beast
00666 Zip Code of the Beast
[e-mail] E-mail Address of the Beast
www.666.com Website of the Beast
1-666-666-6666 Phone & FAX Number of the Beast
1-888-666-6666 Toll Free Number of the Beast
1-900-666-6666 Live Beasts, available now! One-on-one pacts!
Only $6.66 per minute! [Must be over 18!]
666-66-6666 Social Security Number of the Beast
Form 10666 Special IRS Tax Forms for the Beast
66.6% Tax Rate of the Beast
6.66% 6-Year CD Interest Rate at First Beast Bank of Hell
($666 minimum deposit, $666 early withdrawal fee)
$666/hr Billing Rate of the Beast's Lawyer
$665.95 Retail Price of the Beast
$710.36 Price of the Beast plus 6.66% Sales Tax
$769.95 Price of the Beast with accessories and replacement soul
$656.66 Wal-Mart Price of the Beast (next week $646.66!)
$55.50 Monthly Payments for Beast, in 12 easy installments
Phillips 666 Gasoline Used by the Beast (regular $6.66/gal)
Route 666 Highway of the Beast (where he gets his kicks!)
666 mph Speed Limit on the Beast's Highway
6-6-6 Fertilizer of the Beast
666 lb cap Weight Limit of the Beast
666 Minutes Weekly News Show about the Beast (airs daily from
Midnight to 11:06 a.m., on Cable Channel 666, of course)
666o F Oven Temperature for Cooking "Roast Beast"
666k Retirement Plan of the Beast
666 mg Recommended Minimum Daily Requirement of Beast
Lotus 6-6-6 Spreadsheet of the Beast
Word 6.66 Word Processor of the Beast
Windows 666 Bill Gates' Personal Beast Operating System
#666666 Font Color of the Beast (the gray in this table!)
i66686 CPU of the Beast
666-I BMW of the Beast
IAM 666 License Plate Number of the Beast
Formula 666 All Purpose Cleaner of the Beast
WD-666 Spray Lubricant of the Beast
DSM-666 (rev) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the Beast
66.6 MHz FM Radio Station of the Beast
666 KHz AM Radio Station of the Beast
66 for 6 A Beastly Score for an Innings (in cricket)
6 for 66 Bowling Figures of the Beast
6/6/6 Birthday of the Beast (but in which century?)

[RoBear]

14. First three digits of Topeka KS zip codes

Home of the satanic Fred Phelps and his minions.

Kinda makes you think, doesn't it???


(BTW, I don't believe in the 666 fantasy or all the tales connected thereto. I once had a student who informed me if you added up the numbers for the letter in the German word for computer, they totaled 666. Can you imagine the amount of time and manipulation THAT little math exercise took?)

[Iggo]

19. Ronald Wilson Reagan.

6 6 6

[nationalize the fed]

25. 666 St. Cloud Road

was Ronald Wilson Reagan's last earthly address. Nancy still lives there.

She had the official address changed to 668.

Of all the addresses in the LA area he picked the mark of the beast. Strange.

[louis-t]

29. Odd they would even buy the house, knowing her fear of such things.

[NCjack]

36. Ronald Wilson Reagan's email address: [e-mail] nt

[ileus]

15. I drive Rt 666 every day....I used to use 0666 for passwords on customers equipment.

[LanternWaste]

17. I figure it's a lot like national borders-- both wholly imaginary, but we invest so much of ourselve

I figure it's a lot like national borders or politics-- all wholly imaginary of course, but we invest so much of ourselves into allowing it a meaning more concrete than most reality and from that, judge people who accept or deny those imaginary tenets.

[TlalocW]

20. A friend of mine moved to Tulsa

And when she went to get an Oklahoma license plate, the one they pulled out to give her had 666 as part of it, and they said, "Oooh... I guess you're not going to want this one, huh?" and she gleefully replied, "Nope! I'll take it! Not a problem!" She got a bunch of weird looks from everyone there.

TlalocW

[panader0]

22. There used to be a State Highway 666 from I-10 near Willcox Az

north to Safford. Several folks got upset and convinced the state to change it to 191.

[eridani]

60. There is a Highway O in Missouri that DH and I misread for 0.

Which inspired an updated Zen proverb--" Only the road that is no road is long enough to go nowhere."

[alarimer]

24. We use parking lot space #666 deliberately as a meeting point before work.

It's easy to remember.

[darkangel218]

26. I personally love 666.

I dial it every time I call my mom's cell ( my dad now had it).

666 forever!!!

[Glassunion]

30. I don't like even numbers

So that would include this number as well.

[Jamastiene]

57. I don't like odd numbers except 5 and 7.

Five is easy to multiply by and 7 is just pretty to me, lol. One, three and nine irritate me though. Three is annoying to me, one is the loneliest number, for sure, and when I see nines, I try to make them tens as soon as possible, because 10 is so much better to me. It's all just a numbers game, to me, though. It is not a big deal.

[brooklynite]

31. Easy...just turn the phone upside down...

[Comrade Grumpy]

32. ...should be twice as scared of 1332.

[louis-t]

33. Where I used to live, they had so many complaints

they finally retired the prefix.
My favorite 666 story: When I bowled on leagues, there was a night I noticed that both teams had 666 pins in the 8th frame. Someone said "play the 3-digit". I joked "naw, I don't want THAT money." The next day, the 3-digit was 666.

[pintobean]

37. The Four Horsemen

[MuseRider]

38. My first zip code was a 666

number. Every zip code I had through my lifetime until my last move 8 years ago was 666__.

It is just a stupid number.

[seveneyes]

40. I used to make it a point to gas up my bike at $6.66 when ever I could

Several attendants would ring it up as $6.65 and throw in a penny. My smile never scared them but something did.

[Jamastiene]

58. I bet you saved some decent money doing that.

I'll have to try that sometime, lol.

[LiberalElite]

41. I don't know about phone numbers but bet they wouldn't go near this building -

http://vno666fifth.com/

[Initech]

42. Not Iron Maiden fans I take it?

[LiberalElite]

43. And this winner had a problem when 666 was on his W-2:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/man-quits-job-666-w-2-article-1.1258283

-snip-
'666' on W-2: Tennessee man quits job when the satanic number appears on his tax form

Walter Slonopas, 52, a born-again Christain, who worked at Contech Casting was upset that his tax form had a ‘666’ stamped on it, but it was not the first time he’d been bedeviled by a 666 on company documents.
-snip-

[ballabosh]

52. Guy down the street from me is a cab driver

His cab number is 666. Cracks me up every time I see it. The devil's taxi.

[Jamastiene]

54. Lucky for the guy who sold my little hovel in the jungle to me,

I actually like the number. This was listed as .666 acres on the sign out front when I stopped to look at it. Everyone around (mostly my family and people here in town, it's the Bible Belt) was telling me what a dump it was and how evil it would be. I looked into it and worked out an arrangement with the man to buy the place as a rent to own deal. I now own it. Now that I have the deed, I see that it is .684 acres, in reality. So, either he was joking on the sign or my eyes played tricks on me, but either way, I got it at a great price and other than one crappy neighbor (literally) up the hill, it's mostly ok. I need to train these people in the neighborhood that they need to treat their pets better and not leave them out in the heat and cold, but other than that, I think it's workable. I love the little hovel though. People went from calling it a dump to painting their houses the same color combination for the main color and trim that I had it painted once I owned it.

So, all in all, 666 has turned out to be the luckiest number in the world for me, because no more homelessness. I hated homelessness. That's way worse than any number on a sign that other people freaked out over. I wish I had asked to save the sign. I loved looking at it and laughing at how I knew people were acting. Somehow, I just knew this place would be mine one day. And now, it is. The American dream does feel good for those lucky enough to look past a number and other people's opinions. I may never achieve my dream of being the first ever mobile home featured in Better Homes and Gardens, but I have since learned that Better Homes and Gardens doesn't need to tell me this place is paradise. I love it here. I know it is paradise, even though it is in the middle of the Bible Belt. People have finally started leaving me mostly alone now, lol. They all think I am evil anyhow and that kind of protects me nowadays.

[Quantess]

59. I wouldn't be interested in speaking to someone who refused to dial a 666 number

So to me, having that as my number would be a plus!

[mr blur]

61. Superstitious drivel.

I mean, now come now, grow up , eh?

[ScreamingMeemie]

62. I was born on 6/6/70.

I always thought it would have been kind of cool to be 10 years older... of course, that was when I was younger.

[hatrack]

65. . . . need to grow the fuck up, and realize that leprechauns aren't going to break the fridge.

[WinkyDink]

66. Numerology has always been with us. Some (many?) buildings skip the number 13 in floors.

[Ms. Toad]

67. I remember getting a license plate with 666 on it

The worker just stood at the door to the plate room and held the plate out - he'd had that particular plate rejected so many times that he didn't even want to walk out with it since he figured he'd just have to turn back around and take it back.

My spouse loved it . . . and was disappointed to give it up when they went to 2-digit; 2-#; 2-digit plates.

[fadedrose]

71. Sort of like the 13th floor

which they made obsolete for the same reason that 666 may be made the same.

We'll just go from 665, then 667. It works on elevators.

[AgingAmerican]

74. Some sources say 666, some say 616

666 is just the most widely quoted number.

[unblock]

76. hexakosioihexekontahexaphobics?

[KamaAina]

78. Fundies would have had a tough time of it in Cockeysville, Md. back in the '70s.

The two phone prefixes were 666 and 667. (Ours was 666. ) Later on, 628 was added.

[Koinos]

79. Drove past a Motel 6 with the address "666."

Scary on several counts.

[LeftInTX]

80. I never heard of it until "The Omen"

After that everyone talked about it.

[Oneironaut]

81. Revelations is like the bad sequel that could only make it to SyFy.

[GoCubsGo]

83. I once had a grocery bill ring up to $6.66.

The cashier turned white as a sheet. I just grinned and payed her.

My sister once owned a house where the address was '666'. She had a blast with some of the superstitious delivery people. When she sold the place, the new owners had the number changed.