Just hope you don't see 6:66.....we are not suppose to, we should be looking for Jesus Christ instead of the Antichrist.
You could do a search on "Seeing numbers 111 and 11:11" on Google.
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"Unfortunately, I am too lazy to search for a source, but I have heard hear and there that 666 as the number of the beast is a mistranslation, and that it is more accurate that the number is 616."
I've heard this as well.
I wonder if Rapture Ready deletes topics once they've hit 665? Or maybe 500--just to be safe.
That is to say, if that many posts could be amassed on a Death Cult thread.
@Darth Wang:
This is in fact the case with most of the Book of Revelation, with the exception of those parts addressed to specific congregations and generic content (the last verse is a simple benediction, for instance, and another warns not to alter the Book of Revelation).
Like many other dissident works (for instance The Mikado, The Crucible, or Enemy of the People), Revelation was meant to be a damning criticism of society at the time, and John the Revelator risked being tried for blasphemy or sedition*. Like Gilbert, Sullivan, Miller, and Ibsen, he decided to write his work in code: The Mikado is about Victorian hypocrisy, The Crucible is about McCarthyism, Enemy of the People is about Victorian morality and the reaction to works warning of its dangers (like Ibsen's plays Doll's House and Ghosts), and Revelation is about the Roman Empire at the time.
* Even in civilised countries, free speech is not without risk: I recently read (http://atheism.about.com/b/2006/06/30/atheist-acquitted-on-assault-charges-after-being-harassed-by-local-christians.htm ) about an atheist who was attacked and charged with assault because his daughter refused to recite the Lord's prayer.
We used to watch the digital clock on the Fire Control System intently.
In addition to the time, it had the Julian date for logging purposes. That’s the numerical value of the day, counting from 1 to 366. So right before lunch on 21 April, it’d be 111 11:11:11 for a second. 10 August, late that night, 222 22:22:22
One guy i served with SWORE that if nuclear war broke out, it’d show 666 666:666. Got upset when i wouldn’t stop laughing…
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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