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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 04:00 PM
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Beast's real number devalued to 616 (once more without feeling).
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11134

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Satanists, apocalypse watchers and heavy metal guitarists may have to adjust their demonic numerology after a recently deciphered ancient biblical text revealed that 666 is not the fabled Number of the Beast after all.

A fragment from the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, dating to the Third century, gives the more mundane 616 as the mark of the Antichrist.

Ellen Aitken, a professor of early Christian history at McGill University, said the discovery appears to spell the end of 666 as the devil's prime number.

"This is a very nice piece to find," Dr. Aitken said. "Scholars have argued for a long time over this, and it now seems that 616 was the original number of the beast."

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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 04:01 PM
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1. fucking beast i'm telling'ya man, chowder-head can't get nothing right...
:thumbsdown:
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 04:30 PM
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5. Il est tres bete.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 04:36 PM
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7. nunc est bibendum...
:beer:
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 01:06 PM
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21. La plume de ma tante.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 11:55 PM
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23. feles mala! cur cista non uteris? stramentum novum in ea posui...

mater memento mori, purgamentum init/exit purgamentum...............
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 12:05 AM
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25. Your spies are well placed indeed.
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 04:05 PM
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2. And I was wondering all about Satan showing up. Didn't show up in '66
either.

I was 14 years old, and I think I would have noticed.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 04:32 PM
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6. Adam Sandler and Janet Jackson were both born in 1966.
Give them time.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 08:33 PM
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16. um
well, some of their films and exploits seem to fit the bill....
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 04:37 PM
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8. Didn't show up June 6, 1906, either. 6/6/06
Or June 6, 1806, etc...
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 08:03 PM
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15. 6/16/16?
We'll have to wait and see.
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 04:10 PM
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3. I know some folks that are going to have to get their tattoos fixed.
:bounce:
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 04:29 PM
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4. At least they didn't tattoo "FUCK" on their knuckles.
Or did they?
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 04:49 PM
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11. No, no fuckles.
Most of 'em got that on their foreheads.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 04:46 PM
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9. *snort*
lovely

:7
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 04:47 PM
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10. The Beast is from Grand Rapids?
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 05:48 PM
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12. Fuck.
I had been counting on Kalamazoo.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 01:35 PM
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22. I know a junkie in Kalamazoo.
He's a nice guy. I used to work with him and his pit bull, Brodie.
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 06:12 PM
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13. I thought 248 was GR
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 07:46 PM
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14. Why do I even give a shit about such idiocy?
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 11:58 PM
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24. ah, utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam total suffodiant...
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Liberalynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 10:13 PM
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17. Does this mean, The Beast
Edited on Mon Jun-05-06 10:28 PM by Liberalynn
wasn't Ronnie? :wow: Mr. I never met a :nuke: I secretly didn't want to toss, or a child I didn't want to starve, himself, wasn't the "Source of All Evil?" (to steal a term from the T.V. Series, Charmed)


You know Ronald Wilson Reagan?
6 6 6

Damn. I lost the bet. All my money was riding on him. Figures, Ronnie, would screw it up for me. Even from beyond the grave, "there he goes again!" Well maybe it could still work out to be Reagan, if you only use the first letter of his middle name. :shrug:


Oh well at least hopefully that means, the world isn't going away tomorrow.

That's good because I am anxious to purchase the first season of NCIS tomorrow and drool over Mark Harmon and Michael Weatherly.

Not to mention that I hope that we will eventually be treated to the news that Karl Rove, and Dick Cheney have been indicted, and that impeachment proceedings have been started against the Shrub. Ah things to live for and look forward too! Even the tiniest bit of hope that it might happen is enough to keep me totally grateful for every moment I have here on this earth. ;):woohoo::toast: :party:
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 12:38 AM
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18. psychic, powerless, another man's sac
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liberaltrucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 12:42 AM
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19. Actually, it's 666 US-616 Canadian
:rofl:
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 01:03 AM
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20. Once again, Satan is under attack.
Like moths to a flame Christians can't help themselves when it comes to devaluing Satan.
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 12:08 AM
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26. 616 = Bush as the Antichrist!
Birthdate: July (6+1=7th month) 6

Like I am so fucking scared...not...


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