666 (?)

11 Jul 07 in Uncategorized

The other day I was telling my friend my cell number and my number ends like this "666" And my friend looked at me and said "hah! thats evil!" and I know 666 is evil but I don't know why.... Can you guys tell me?
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Dominika
11 Jul 07

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast

About 666. ;-)

Attention seeker
11 Jul 07

tnx dominika!!!!!

Sugar Plum
12 Jul 07

666 The number of the beast (the devil). but your a bit young to watch The Omen...

PanterA
13 Jul 07

In the Bible, the Book of Revelation (13:17-18) cryptically asserts 666 to be "the number of a man", associated with the beast, an antagonistic creature that appears briefly about two-thirds into the apocalyptic vision. The author challenges the reader to figure out the symbolism of this number, a challenge that has inspired mystics and would-be prophets ever since. The number of people who have been proposed to be the man whose number is 666 is vast and ever growing; it usually does not demand much ingenuity to find several ways to connect one's political or religious opponent with the number 666, since there is no biblical restriction on how a connection between a man and the number may be established.

In modern popular culture, 666 has become one of the most widely recognized symbols for Satan or the Devil. Earnest references to 666 occur both among apocalypticist Christian groups and in explicitly anti-Christian subcultures such as that surrounding some heavy metal bands; more

PanterA
13 Jul 07

humorous allusions to the 666 symbolism (e.g., the Lemmings level featuring three 6's built upon "hellish" lava terrain) are mainstream. An appearance of the number 666 in contemporary Western art or literature is more likely than not a conscious reference to this number of the Beast symbolism. Such popular references to 666 are too numerous to list here.

It is not uncommon to see the symbolic role of the integer 666 transferred to the digit sequence 6-6-6. Some people take the satanic associations of 666 so seriously that they actively avoid things related to 666 or the digits 6-6-6. This is known (more or less tongue-in-cheek) as hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.

PanterA
13 Jul 07

In Chinese culture, 666 sounds a lot like the words 'Things going smoothly'. It is considered one of the luckiest numbers in Chinese culture. It can be seen prominently in many shop windows across the country, and people there often pay extra to get a mobile phone number including this string of digits.
666 is the amount of gold talents that King Solomon collected in a single year (see 1 Kings 10:14 and 2 Chronicles 9:13).
666 is the number of Adonikam's descendants who return to Jerusalem and Judah from the Babylonian exile (see Ezra 2:13).
The sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel is 666.

Attention seeker
13 Jul 07

wow thanx PanterA, Sugar Plum and Dominika