Some time a century or so ago some archeologists found an area in the middle east where there were a cluster of large mounds. It turned out to be an ancient dump. So they boxed it all up and shipped it back to England where researchers spent the next century fishing out small sraps of parchment and trying to fit them together and seeing if they could find anything beyond reminders to buy eggs on the way home. Well, one of the things they reconstructed was the oldest extant copy of the book of Revelation. And it turns out that in that copy the number of the beast is actually not 666, but 616. (Which is my telephone area code, unfortunately.)
Sorry.
Bet Iron Maiden would be sick if they took an archeology course.
Technically, the Antichrist isn't even mentioned in the book of Revelations, only in John 1 & 2.
I'm using the popular conflation of the Antichrist and the Beast that most people have heard growing up. Whatever the case is with the numbers (a lot of scholars believe that both were used due to alternate spellings of the Roman Emperor's name), I doubt we'll see 616 replacing 666 in the popular imagination anytime soon - 616 is just not as sexy.
German speaking and living in the area code of the Beast? You're Hitler!
(Mark me down for one more point in the Godwin's law competition...)
Yeah, I can confirm that 616 is not all that sexy, though there are worse places to live for sure.
Congrats on the Reductio ad Hitlerum.
I hope you'll wear sackcloth and give us some sure-fire recs for your 1,260th visit...
Is not a book in the Bible. It is Revelation. Extreme Pet Peeve.
The 616 variant was known to at least one early church writer, but evidence for the variant was not found until recently. Here is the only known scrap of Revelation which has the variant. My guess is that the number could have been tweaked to create a new AC, although Nero makes as good an AC as any.
I know of what I speak, I live in the Area Code of the Beast.
I guess I always assumed that the original number was 616, and that they changed it because Mazda threatened to sue the religious folks for infringement shortly after they started producing the Mazda 616 Coupe. Some religious scholars objected to the change, and to this day, this particular automobile is referred to as "The Japanese Rotary-Engine Two-Door Subcompact of the Beast."
Apparently, current wing-nut theory has it that the growing protests in the Middle East will result in new transitional governments dominated by communists, which will all unite to form a "new caliphate" from which the AntiChrist (i.e., Barack Obama, or someone who "looks just like him") will emerge - leading to global nuclear war, followed by higher estate taxes.
I guess my question is, why should the AntiChrist have to "emerge"? Why not just make an announcement on Twitter right away, and then start the job and get on with it? All this "emergence" stuff seems like a lot of unnecessary fuss.
Simple - without the emergence thingy there would be no time period for those doing the prognosticating to feel smarter than everyone else who hasn't seen behind the veil of world events and to build a following.
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Bwahahahahaha.
Craig
Sorry.
Bet Iron Maiden would be sick if they took an archeology course.
I'm using the popular conflation of the Antichrist and the Beast that most people have heard growing up. Whatever the case is with the numbers (a lot of scholars believe that both were used due to alternate spellings of the Roman Emperor's name), I doubt we'll see 616 replacing 666 in the popular imagination anytime soon - 616 is just not as sexy.
German speaking and living in the area code of the Beast? You're Hitler!
(Mark me down for one more point in the Godwin's law competition...)
Congrats on the Reductio ad Hitlerum.
I hope you'll wear sackcloth and give us some sure-fire recs for your 1,260th visit...
Is not a book in the Bible. It is Revelation. Extreme Pet Peeve.
The 616 variant was known to at least one early church writer, but evidence for the variant was not found until recently. Here is the only known scrap of Revelation which has the variant. My guess is that the number could have been tweaked to create a new AC, although Nero makes as good an AC as any.
I know of what I speak, I live in the Area Code of the Beast.
you are right sir, and 19 out of 20 times I would have skipped putting the "s" on the end...
I know because I've read it in the original Spanish....
Apparently, current wing-nut theory has it that the growing protests in the Middle East will result in new transitional governments dominated by communists, which will all unite to form a "new caliphate" from which the AntiChrist (i.e., Barack Obama, or someone who "looks just like him") will emerge - leading to global nuclear war, followed by higher estate taxes.
I guess my question is, why should the AntiChrist have to "emerge"? Why not just make an announcement on Twitter right away, and then start the job and get on with it? All this "emergence" stuff seems like a lot of unnecessary fuss.
All those anti-Messiahs look alike.