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 | "...that whole triple six thing and the beast is just palpable nonsense from a book (The Book of Revelations) [sic] that specializes in nonsense." Posting by "steppen0410e." |
| "This 666 stuff has devolved into silly superstition, and responsible Christians should eschew it, for the weightier matters of peace, justice, and love." An Anglican priest. |
| "Is it more comical, or tragic that in the 21st century a debate over the 'mystical' relevance of 3 numbers is occurring? It is difficult to remain objective and tolerant in light of such total rubbish." "Save1967." 1 |
"666" in history:
Every century has a date that can be written like 06/06/06: 1906-JUN-06, 2006-JUN-06, 2106-JUN-06... It is one of a dozen days each century when it doesn't matter in what format you record dates: the American standard of MM/DD/YY, or other "standards" like DD/MM/YY or the favorite of computer programmers YY/MM/DD. Programmers like it because it simplifies sorting by date and can be expanded to YY/MM/DD/HH/MM/SS...Either way, 06.06.06 is delightfully unambiguous.
Nothing much happened on the previous "666" date on 1906-JUN-06:
| A British "autoist" (car driver) led the Herkomer Automobile Competition between Vienna and Munich. |
| The National Liquor Dealer's Association in Louisville, KY commended the "work of those who fight the inglorious fight of intoxication and all its evils." |
| In a referendum in Smith Falls, ON, Canada the district decided to conform with church expectations and continue its ban on dancing, card-playing and theatre-going. |
| But no noticeable apocalyptic events happened. 2 |
Happenings on this century's "666"(2006-JUN-06):
There are some interesting events which happened on 2006-JUN-06:
| The Senate discussed whether to pass a Federal Marriage Amendment. It would have made history by writing discrimination into the U.S. Constitution. It would have permanently banned same-sex marriage everywhere in the U.S. Some religious and social conservatives expressed their belief that same-sex marriage could mean the end of American civilization as we know it. Debate started on JUN-05; a vote was taken on JUN-07. The amendment was defeated. |
| According to an E-mail that we received, the writer believes that "666," the number of the beast mentioned in the biblical book of Revelation, is really a date: 06/06/06 or 2006-JUN-6. He expected the rapture and start of the tribulation on that date. The date came and passed with no indication that rapture happened. |
|  A movie "The
Beast" involves the
discovery of proof that Jesus Christ never existed. "The authors of the
Gospels, writing 40 to 90 years after the supposed life of Christ, never
intended for their works to be read as biographies." 3 The screen play involves
apparently involves a momentous event on 2006-JUN-06. It is unclear what the
event is. The production staff were sworn to secrecy. The movie was released
on this date. |
| A remake of the 1976 move "The Omen" was also released on 2006-JUN-06. It involves "the story of a modern-day birth of an Antichrist figure in the form of an evil boy named Damien." 4 |
| Some bands, including AFI a pop punk group and Slayer, a trash metal band, scheduled albums for this date. Subsequently, the release of Slayer's album, "Christ Illusion," had to be delayed until 2006-AUG-08. |
| Ann Coulter's book "Godless: The Church of Liberalism" was released. It interprets liberalism as a religion with: "...its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe." Read reviews or order this book safely from Amazon.com online book store. Amazon.com reviewers mostly gave this book a rating of either 1 star (the minimum) or 5 stars (the maximum). |
| Hell, MI held a festival, complete with 666 T-shirts and mugs. 5 |
| This web site's prediction for 06/06/06 was that nothing much would happen. We were not particularly surprised when we were shown to be correct. |
With the epidemic of obesity, the life expectancy of children is probably less than that of their parents. Few people now alive will still be around to experience the next "666" on 2106-JUN-06
References used:
The following information sources were used to prepare and update the above essay. The hyperlinks are not necessarily still active today.
- "What do you believe?," Beliefnet, 2006-JUN, at: http://www.beliefnet.com/
- Jen Gerson, "Today, your number is up," The Toronto Star, 2006-JUN-06, Page C1.
- "The Beast," at http://www.thebeastmovie.com
- "June 6 focuses attention on '666' superstitions," http://www.brightsurf.com/
- Kimberly Winston, "Mark (of the Beast) on Your Calendar. The third time’s the charm, so the saying goes—but that doesn’t apply to the sixth day of the sixth month of '06," Beliefnet, at: http://www.beliefnet.com/
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Copyright © 2006 by Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
Originally posted: 2006-JUN-06 (06/06/06)
Latest update: 2007-AUG-25
Author: B.A. Robinson
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