The number of the beast
category: general [glöplog]
I found this surfing around today and thought I'd share.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=634679
Revelation! 666 is not the number of the beast (it's a devilish 616)
By Tom Anderson
01 May 2005
A newly discovered fragment of the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament indicates that, as far as the Antichrist goes, theologians, scholars, heavy metal groups, and television evangelists have got the wrong number. Instead of 666, it's actually the far less ominous 616.
The new fragment from the Book of Revelation, written in ancient Greek and dating from the late third century, is part of a hoard of previously unintelligible manuscripts discovered in historic dumps outside Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. Now a team of expert classicists, using new photographic techniques, are finally deciphering the original writing.
Professor David Parker, Professor of New Testament Textual Criticism and Paleography at the University of Birmingham, thinks that 616, although less memorable than 666, is the original. He said: "This is an example of gematria, where numbers are based on the numerical values of letters in people's names. Early Christians would use numbers to hide the identity of people who they were attacking: 616 refers to the Emperor Caligula."
The Book of Revelation is traditionally considered to be written by John, a disciple of Jesus; it identifies 666 as the mark of the Antichrist. In America, the fundamentalist Christian right often use the number in sermons about the coming Apocalypse.
They and satanists responded coolly to the new "Revelation". Peter Gilmore, High Priest of the Church of Satan, based in New York, said: "By using 666 we're using something that the Christians fear. Mind you, if they do switch to 616 being the number of the beast then we'll start using that."
Now that....is fucking funny!!! *Heabangs* six...one...six...is the number of the beast!
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=634679
Revelation! 666 is not the number of the beast (it's a devilish 616)
By Tom Anderson
01 May 2005
A newly discovered fragment of the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament indicates that, as far as the Antichrist goes, theologians, scholars, heavy metal groups, and television evangelists have got the wrong number. Instead of 666, it's actually the far less ominous 616.
The new fragment from the Book of Revelation, written in ancient Greek and dating from the late third century, is part of a hoard of previously unintelligible manuscripts discovered in historic dumps outside Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. Now a team of expert classicists, using new photographic techniques, are finally deciphering the original writing.
Professor David Parker, Professor of New Testament Textual Criticism and Paleography at the University of Birmingham, thinks that 616, although less memorable than 666, is the original. He said: "This is an example of gematria, where numbers are based on the numerical values of letters in people's names. Early Christians would use numbers to hide the identity of people who they were attacking: 616 refers to the Emperor Caligula."
The Book of Revelation is traditionally considered to be written by John, a disciple of Jesus; it identifies 666 as the mark of the Antichrist. In America, the fundamentalist Christian right often use the number in sermons about the coming Apocalypse.
They and satanists responded coolly to the new "Revelation". Peter Gilmore, High Priest of the Church of Satan, based in New York, said: "By using 666 we're using something that the Christians fear. Mind you, if they do switch to 616 being the number of the beast then we'll start using that."
Now that....is fucking funny!!! *Heabangs* six...one...six...is the number of the beast!
618, the neighbour of the beast.
grand rapids...
and here I thought it was 83457.
Yo... Mr. Truck!
I have a couple photos to email you. "Best of Snoopy" and "Ghost of Breakpoints Past". What's yer address?
I have a couple photos to email you. "Best of Snoopy" and "Ghost of Breakpoints Past". What's yer address?
This makes Dungeons and Dragons even more Satanic, since it's much more likely to roll 616 with three dice than 666!!
615.99, the retail price of the beast.
I always wonderd though. When this beast comes would it then shout. 616!!! or perhaps the explanation is even more intrquing. What is bill gates home phone number and social security number i wonder? o__0
And gargaj is right, windows xp home N edition is 615.99$ I knew there was something evil with this other than the useless mediaplayer.
and for 615.99euro you can spend a couple nights at the bilderberg hotel. The plot thickens. Who ever heard of a 666 pricetag anyway.
And gargaj is right, windows xp home N edition is 615.99$ I knew there was something evil with this other than the useless mediaplayer.
and for 615.99euro you can spend a couple nights at the bilderberg hotel. The plot thickens. Who ever heard of a 666 pricetag anyway.
kill the beast! spill its blood!
hooray for jesus figures! \o/
hooray for jesus figures! \o/
Of wich the coolest by far is this one \o/
Come on, everyone knows the number of the beast is 31337 ;)
The number of the beast indeed is 4711 - The smell of old men!
8455
half of the beast:: 313 DETROIT
raver:
ROLF you silly man, 313 is not half of 616!!! it's 308!!!
(are you coming to st.petersburg this summer?)
ROLF you silly man, 313 is not half of 616!!! it's 308!!!
(are you coming to st.petersburg this summer?)
715517
7051 1507 715517!
random: i know, i just hoped noone notices=) // is there a PARTY this summer again? //
i'm shocked that nobody said yet that the number of the beast is pi... so:
the number of the beast is 3.14159266...
the number of the beast is 3.14159266...
1337! 1337! 1337! beware!
Number of the Beast... wasn't that Impulse's BBS? :)
reddor: no, that's not pi
Its really bad though. Now i have to wait for iron maiden to correct the error, and rebuy the album =/
6,4232469, the natural logarithm of the beast