This is my 666th post and I'm very excited. I wanted to make a landmark out of it, hence this post. I don't believe in Satan but I love how easily this number offends folks. Anyway, I'm going to soak it in for a while. I'm seriously going to hold out as long as possible. At some point I'm going to have to post about something and then it'll all be over for me. Interesting side note, I posted that message at 4:20 on my computer. haha Now if I could only include 69 somehow my life would be complete. Ohhhhh, stupid numbers.
i tried basking in the glory of my 666 post for as long as i could,,but it didn't last long,,,a heavy metal singer died & i had to give it up in memory of Kevin Dubrow... good luck,,,see how long you can hold-out!!
someone posted something earlier that 666 is not really the number of the beast, right. something like 616? whoops....
Been a point of debate and interpretation for a very long time, like pretty much everything else in that book. I seriously doubt if there's a definitive answer, given centuries of re-writing and re-interpretation. Believer or not, there's some pretty amazing giant monster action in Revelations. Maybe I'm wrong but as I recall the contemporary "666" craze started with a bad book by Salem Kirbin in the early '70s, a quasi-religious apocalyptic fantasy. Then Seltzer's "Omen" book came out, and a bit later, the ad campaign for the movie, which sort of predated teaser or viral marketing with big black billboards that only said "The Omen is coming" in big letters with a small scrawled-looking "666" in a lower corner. The popularity of the movie invigorated interest in the passage of Revelations that refers to "the number of a man" etc. and subsequently it became an unquestioned tenet of both popular and some Christian culture that 666 was the number of the devil or the New World Order or the bar code system or whatever it is that one might ascribe it to. Unless I'm mistaken, the number wasn't a big deal in the popular imagination before the early 1970s.
In honour of officially turning evil, I present to you, the following bit of classic pulp sexploitation: I see no reason not to keep up the tradition.
Re: Yeah, that was probably me ... Among the Dead Sea Scrolls (IIRC), they found the earliest extant version of that verse of Revelations, and it quite clearly tells us the Number of the Beast is 616. They did a whole piece on it on RadioLab. There are some other odd mistranslations ... for example, Joseph's 'Cloak of Many Colors' turned out to actually say 'cloak with long sleeves' - not so poetic. And then there was the Devil's Bible, a series of misprints which left out one word and was left with "Thou Shalt Commit Adultery."
