666 Around the World
Other than the primary election for our state governor, 6/6/06 has been very unremarkable in my area, as far as I know. The day isn’t over yet, though. Bill Gates could very well reveal himself as the Anti-Christ if Harry Potter refuses to step up to the plate.
Seriously. No one knows who the Anti-Christ is or if he/she is real. Jeff Pearlman (quoted below) wrote a great article about 666 and its power over the course of our history since 1666.
Quoted from Nation:
By “the beast,” is the Bible referring to a three-headed, red-eyed ogre? Unlikely. Instead, most scholars interpret 666 to be the numerical code for Nero, the fifth Roman Emperor (54-68 AD) of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, who ruthlessly persecuted Christians. “The legend of the anti-Christ is that of an agent of Satan empowered to pave the way for the end of times,” says Phil Stevens, a professor of anthropology at University at Buffalo and an expert on religious symbolism. “The myth of the anti-Christ has been passed down through the generations. But to start with, it appeared to be simply a very disliked man.”
Not everyone shares the same doomsday attitude, as you will see with the snippets below.
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Hell, Michigan: Screams Ice Cream is selling cones for 66 cents and the Damned Site Inn’s dinner special will cost $6.66. So far, they have received over 1,000 tourists.
Hundreds of couples in Malaysia are rushing to get married because they feel that 666 represents a good omen. The Hokkien dialect pronounces the number six to sound like the word “luck.” Therefore, these couples are hoping for triple the luck.
The 666 Man: Peter Spyche’s unusual association with the number 6.
Ann Coulter is launching her book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, much to the delight of liberals everywhere.
An online gambling site has come up with odds (which stand 10-to-1) on whether 6/6/06 will be the start of the apocalypse. So far, so good.
Last but not least, the remake of The Omen opens today in theaters.
Yesterday was a very good day for me to, Deborah, despite spending all of it on site maintenance. I’m obviously not of the Devil’s spawn … unless there’s a delayed effect, of course.
By John on June 7th, 2006 at 7:28 am
I have spent many days doing nothing but site maintenance. Very tedious and sometimes frustrating. Hopefully that’s done for you now.
By Deborah on June 7th, 2006 at 6:34 pm
[…] Well, the press had a field day. Even respected authors, like Colin Wilson, could be found writing sagely in a UK daily newspaper on the subject. Our own Supernatural blog had a tsunami of traffic to Deborah’s post: 666 Around the World. […]
By » Spiritual Nirvana - Practical paths to Enlightenment on June 8th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
i am not sure if i believe in all that 666 stuff and the anti-christ stuff!!
By Emily on June 13th, 2006 at 9:40 am
6 is actually my lucky number, so i was very dissapointed to find that i am not in fact the anti christ. also, i was not allowed into the omen coz its MA and im not 15 yet.
By quiche on June 14th, 2006 at 4:04 am
I don’t, either, Emily. It makes for some good fiction, though.
Quiche, I don’t know what to say to that.
As for the Omen, it will be out on DVD soon. No worries.
By Deborah on June 14th, 2006 at 4:40 am
I have been shrouded with 666 theories and had to endure tauntings of being the anti-christ my entire life. Unfotunately for me, one of my former employees now works for a television station and “outed” me about my affiliations with the number 6. It was not long before other media sources grabbed the story and ran with it. To me, 6 means nothing. True, I was born 6-6-66 at 6:06 pm, and weighed 6 lbs. 6 oz. and I am 66″ tall. My last name has 6 letters in it, the middle two numbers in my SSN is 66, and my first car was a ‘66 Mustang I bought for $600 when I was 16. This year my duaghter will be 6, her first and last names have 6 letters each and she weighed 6 lbs. 6.6 ozs at birth. There are a few other 6 ties but they are things that are sort of stretching the relationship with the #6. To some it seems too coincidental, to me it’s just a number.
Peter Spyche
By Peter Spyche on August 4th, 2006 at 4:49 pm