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[cactuswatcher]

Well, it's 06/06/06 which is demonic if you are gullible, equate the Revelations' "number of the beast" with the date and leave out a lot of zeroes. I don't remember exactly, but, my high school graduation was close to 06/06/66. Our mayor didn't show up much less turn into a giant snake. Our principal was about as popular as Mr. Snyder and about as grumpy. But, I think he was a hair smarter. Eep, 40 years since I graduated from high school; almost 40 years since I started to college. If this doesn't slow down I'm going to be old one of these days.
;o)

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[darbyunlimited.livejournal.com]

I'm a little surprised how everyone has forgotten about the discovery of a very early document (last year, I think), predating any other copy of Revelations, that had 616 as the number. We should have been in trouble last week!

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

We should have been in trouble last week!
Or those from England, last January.

I missed hearing about that document. I miss all the good stuff.

[anomster.livejournal.com]

Brian Lehrer of WNYC (NY public radio station) had a segment on this topic (http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2006/06/06) this morning:

"The Rapture
James Tabor, professor and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and author, The Jesus Dynasty (Simon & Schuster, 2006)
- on apocalyptic prophecy and the significance of 666"

They got several calls & emails bringing up the 616 discovery. 1 caller got through, & Tabor pretty much said, "Yep." Oh, & that 616 was closer to the numerical value of Nero's name in Aramaic/Hebrew characters.

Of course, the other thing is that Aramaic & Hebrew numbering systems didn't use decimal digits, and "six hundred sixty-six" wasn't six sixes in a row & has nothing to do w/the sixth day of the sixth month of the 2,006th year of the, ahem, Common Era. I don't think we need to worry about being in trouble, aside from the kind we bring on ourselves...

...uh-oh.