Why is there a current obsession about 6/6/6?

[muriel_volestrangler]

Poll question: Why is there a current obsession about 6/6/6?

[saltpoint]

1. I'm either not that aware of it being an obsession, or it's something

I'm not paying attention to.

There are some key primary races to be decided on that day.

And there's talk of a new James Taylor album for an early June release.

[swag]

2. Beast's Real Mark Devalued to 616

Year old repost from:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3189753

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11134

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Satanists, apocalypse watchers and heavy metal guitarists may have to adjust their demonic numerology after a recently deciphered ancient biblical text revealed that 666 is not the fabled Number of the Beast after all.

A fragment from the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, dating to the Third century, gives the more mundane 616 as the mark of the Antichrist.

Ellen Aitken, a professor of early Christian history at McGill University, said the discovery appears to spell the end of 666 as the devil's prime number.

"This is a very nice piece to find," Dr. Aitken said. "Scholars have argued for a long time over this, and it now seems that 616 was the original number of the beast."

. . . more

[heidler1]

5. One nice thing about religion is facts make no difference

because there is no absolute proof of any part of it. You might be able to find out who said, what, where he said it, when he said it, but can you prove that he believed it?

[Bill McBlueState]

14. well, that's inconvenient!

It means Europe had its armageddon on 6 January 2006, and here in the US, we're in for a big treat on June 1.

Dang, I had some stuff I wanted to get done tomorrow.

[genieroze]

15. Oh well, the omen should have been released tomorrow. lol

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[rurallib]

3. Isn't there supposed to be an Ann Coulter book available that day?

:evilgrin: :evilfrown:

[stellanoir]

4. stupid superstitions

it applies only to the chemical carbon nature of form and chronic demonization of Pan. IMHO

It's stupid. That doesn't mean that some folks won't employ scare tactics as they so often do though.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. cause it only happens once every 100 years.

duh

:shrug:

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Did 5/5/5 get this coverage?

Or 4/4/4 etc.? We're getting these every 13 months at the moment.

[LeighAnn]

7. Next year: 777

Remind me to buy some casino stock this time next year.

[derby378]

9. 6/6/06 = National Day of Slayer

I kid you not.

http://www.nationaldayofslayer.org/

The creative will find constructive uses for blaring Reign in Blood from their car speakers at top volume. I believe the story of Jericho's walls comes to mind.

[Book Lover]

10. That is why I love metal

We don't take ourselves seriously :-)

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. I said Other

because June 6 2006 is not causing even a ripple of interest in the town where I work, which is one of the reddest towns in Arkansas. They don't even gripe about the fact that a hamlet named Parthenon has the zip code 72666, and I have several clients with 666 in their phone numbers. I spend much of my day booking appointments, and no one objected to having a bug spray on next Tuesday.

[SixStrings]

12. Maybe because of threads like this one below?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x895089

Not exactly 06/06/06, but the inference is there.

[trotsky]

13. Considering that more than half of the US population thinks

a literal creation happened, I'm not going to underestimate our stupidity. There's a significant number of people who actually think the Book of Revelation foretells the future.

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. Because a lot of people are really, really fucking dumb

[lvx35]

18. Its a once in a lifetime thing.

And I'm a huge number fan. I'm the guy who always notes the time, adds up the digits and sees what it is. So I'm excited about 6-6-6 and 7-7-7

[greyl]

20. Every fraction of a second of your life is "a once in a lifetime thing".

Correct?

[lvx35]

21. Hehe. true, but I just like some numbers.

Its 8:50 pm right now and I don't like that time. I like 8:53 and 7:23 and 6:07 for instance. I cannot explain why I just do.

[greyl]

22. I'm partial to 9:14. ;)

AM or PM, because my first car was a 914.

[greyl]

19. because of our Christian culture of titillating superstition generally.

Have you known of any missed oppurtunity for superstitious people to assign importance to upcoming dates? (as opposed to history)
If the DU Meeting Room still existed, I'm sure it would be humming with at least a half dozen threads on the topic.

I suppose the movie advertising has some influence on the notability of the issue, but I really think it would be an issue in some circles regardless.
Compare The Omen with Independence Day for example.

[Nikia]

23. According to Jack Van Impe, I am 666

In one of his books that I remembered reading in early high school when I was interested in end time theology, he said that 666=names and places associated with the beast. He said that each letter of the alpahbet got a value (A=6, B=12, C=18, and so forth). He produced the names of several places and people that were 666. Just for fun, I tried it out. I discovered that my first and last name with my middle initial=666 as did the town of my birth. Maybe, it was just an amazing coicindence.
I have married though and changed my last name to his making my name no longer=666. I also now live in a town that does not equal 666.

[Dervill Crow]

24. There are a lot of people who are not quite smart. n/t

[saltpoint]

25. Casting a late vote here for "A lot of people think Revelation is a

legitimate prophecy."

Although I don't.

I just don't place faith in something as wildly "screamed" as that book. Would that it had never been canonized. Absent stopping it all those many centuries ago, I would favor a Council be convened to vote it off the island.

It's bad news.