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Old June 6th 06, 12:07 AM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default I'm pretty sure this is a sign of the apocalypse...

Today is the 666, where is the beast? So That I Kill It...

-- 6-6-6 -- merely a curious number...

Is the Apocalypse Here? 666 Arrives

By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press

Is tomorrow's date -- 6-6-6 -- merely a curious number, or could it
mean our number is up?

There's a devilishly odd nexus of theology, mathematics and
commercialism on the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year.
Okay, it's just the sixth year of this millennium, but insisting on
calling it 2006 takes the devil-may-care fun out of calendar-gazing.

Something about the number 666 brings out the worry, the hope and even
the humor in people, said Reverend Felix Just, a professor of theology
and religious studies at the University of San Francisco. A Jesuit
priest, Just has taught both apocalyptic theory and mathematics and
maintains a "666-Numbers of the Beast" web site that contains history,
theology, math and precisely 66 one-line jokes about 666.

"There's absolutely no reason to be afraid of [the number]," he said.
"It is not a prediction of future events. It is not supposed to be
taken as a timetable for when the world is going to end."

It all started with Revelation 13:18 in the Bible: "This calls for
wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast,
for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six." The
beast is also known as the Antichrist, according to some apocalyptic
theories.

Many scholars, such as Just, say the beast is really a coded reference
-- using Hebrew letters for numbers -- for the despotic Roman emperor
Nero, and 616 appears instead of 666 in some ancient manuscripts. The
Book of Revelation isn't prophesying a specific end of times but "is
about the overall cosmic struggle of good versus evil," Just said.

It's not the date June 6 that's worrisome, but the signs in our society
of the approach of the 666 Antichrist, said the Reverend Tim LaHaye,
founder of a eponymous ministry and co-author of the best-selling "Left
Behind" series of apocalyptic novels.

"I don't think that people understand that 666 is not a good time,"
LaHaye said. He said he saw signs of an upcoming "tribulation period"
that will lead to the Antichrist's arrival in a movement toward
one-world government, a single economic system and single religion.

So people have looked for -- and found -- 666 in all sorts of places.
Believers in the number's power have used a biblical letter-numeric
code to convert the names of countless political leaders, including
many popes, to come out 666, marking them as that generation's
Antichrist. That includes Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy,
Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.

The math of 666 is also open to biblical interpretation and
manipulation. Just points out that 666 is the sum of all the numbers on
a roulette wheel. Other oddities include variations on pi and products
of prime number multiplication.

There's also something special about the number 6, which in the Bible
stands for man, said Brian Jones, a religion professor at Wartburg
College in Iowa.

"People need to lighten up about this," Jones said, adding that it's
hard to take tomorrow seriously as a day of reckoning. "Monday, we
always hate Mondays. Wednesday is hump day. Friday sometimes has the
13th attached to it. But Tuesdays and Thursdays, they don't ring for me
as days when bad things happen or good things happen. They're filler
days."

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Old June 6th 06, 01:50 AM posted to alt.astronomy
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Nothing will happen, WartHole!

Saul Levy


On 5 Jun 2006 16:07:56 -0700, "Warhol" wrote:

Today is the 666, where is the beast? So That I Kill It...

-- 6-6-6 -- merely a curious number...

Is the Apocalypse Here? 666 Arrives

By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press

Is tomorrow's date -- 6-6-6 -- merely a curious number, or could it
mean our number is up?

There's a devilishly odd nexus of theology, mathematics and
commercialism on the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year.
Okay, it's just the sixth year of this millennium, but insisting on
calling it 2006 takes the devil-may-care fun out of calendar-gazing.

Something about the number 666 brings out the worry, the hope and even
the humor in people, said Reverend Felix Just, a professor of theology
and religious studies at the University of San Francisco. A Jesuit
priest, Just has taught both apocalyptic theory and mathematics and
maintains a "666-Numbers of the Beast" web site that contains history,
theology, math and precisely 66 one-line jokes about 666.

"There's absolutely no reason to be afraid of [the number]," he said.
"It is not a prediction of future events. It is not supposed to be
taken as a timetable for when the world is going to end."

It all started with Revelation 13:18 in the Bible: "This calls for
wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast,
for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six." The
beast is also known as the Antichrist, according to some apocalyptic
theories.

Many scholars, such as Just, say the beast is really a coded reference
-- using Hebrew letters for numbers -- for the despotic Roman emperor
Nero, and 616 appears instead of 666 in some ancient manuscripts. The
Book of Revelation isn't prophesying a specific end of times but "is
about the overall cosmic struggle of good versus evil," Just said.

It's not the date June 6 that's worrisome, but the signs in our society
of the approach of the 666 Antichrist, said the Reverend Tim LaHaye,
founder of a eponymous ministry and co-author of the best-selling "Left
Behind" series of apocalyptic novels.

"I don't think that people understand that 666 is not a good time,"
LaHaye said. He said he saw signs of an upcoming "tribulation period"
that will lead to the Antichrist's arrival in a movement toward
one-world government, a single economic system and single religion.

So people have looked for -- and found -- 666 in all sorts of places.
Believers in the number's power have used a biblical letter-numeric
code to convert the names of countless political leaders, including
many popes, to come out 666, marking them as that generation's
Antichrist. That includes Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy,
Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.

The math of 666 is also open to biblical interpretation and
manipulation. Just points out that 666 is the sum of all the numbers on
a roulette wheel. Other oddities include variations on pi and products
of prime number multiplication.

There's also something special about the number 6, which in the Bible
stands for man, said Brian Jones, a religion professor at Wartburg
College in Iowa.

"People need to lighten up about this," Jones said, adding that it's
hard to take tomorrow seriously as a day of reckoning. "Monday, we
always hate Mondays. Wednesday is hump day. Friday sometimes has the
13th attached to it. But Tuesdays and Thursdays, they don't ring for me
as days when bad things happen or good things happen. They're filler
days."

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BACK TO THE BUNKER

By William M. Arkin
Sunday, June 4, 2006; Page B01

On Monday, June 19, about 4,000 government workers representing more
than 50 federal agencies from the State Department to the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission will say goodbye to their families and set
off for dozens of classified emergency facilities stretching from the
Maryland and Virginia suburbs to the foothills of the Alleghenies. They
will take to the bunkers in an "evacuation" that my sources describe as
the largest "continuity of government" exercise ever conducted, a drill
intended to prepare the U.S. government for an event even more
catastrophic than the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The exercise is the latest manifestation of an obsession with
government survival that has been a hallmark of the Bush administration
since 9/11, a focus of enormous and often absurd time, money and effort
that has come to echo the worst follies of the Cold War. The vast
secret operation has updated the duck-and-cover scenarios of the 1950s
with state-of-the-art technology -- alerts and updates delivered by
pager and PDA, wireless priority service, video teleconferencing,
remote backups -- to ensure that "essential" government functions
continue undisrupted should a terrorist's nuclear bomb go off in
downtown Washington.

But for all the BlackBerry culture, the outcome is still old-fashioned
black and white: We've spent hundreds of millions of dollars on
alternate facilities, data warehouses and communications, yet no one
can really foretell what would happen to the leadership and functioning
of the federal government in a catastrophe.

After 9/11, The Washington Post reported that President Bush had set up
a shadow government of about 100 senior civilian managers to live and
work outside Washington on a rotating basis to ensure the continuity of
national security. Since then, a program once focused on presidential
succession and civilian control of U.S. nuclear weapons has been
expanded to encompass the entire government. From the Department of
Education to the Small Business Administration to the National
Archives, every department and agency is now required to plan for
continuity outside Washington.

Yet according to scores of documents I've obtained and interviews with
half a dozen sources, there's no greater confidence today that
essential services would be maintained in a disaster. And no one really
knows how an evacuation would even be physically possible.

Moreover, since 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, the definition of what
constitutes an "essential" government function has been expanded so
ridiculously beyond core national security functions -- do we really
need patent and trademark processing in the middle of a nuclear
holocaust? -- that the term has become meaningless. The intent of the
government effort may be laudable, even necessary, but a
hyper-centralized approach based on the Cold War model of evacuations
and bunkering makes it practically worthless.

That the continuity program is so poorly conceived, and poorly run,
should come as no surprise. That's because the same Federal Emergency
Management Agency that failed New Orleans after Katrina, an agency that
a Senate investigating committee has pronounced "in shambles and beyond
repair," is in charge of this enormous effort to plan for the U.S.
government's survival.

Continuity programs began in the early 1950s, when the threat of
nuclear war moved the administration of President Harry S. Truman to
begin planning for emergency government functions and civil defense.
Evacuation bunkers were built, and an incredibly complex and secretive
shadow government program was created.

At its height, the grand era of continuity boasted the fully
operational Mount Weather, a civilian bunker built along the crest of
Virginia's Blue Ridge, to which most agency heads would evacuate; the
Greenbrier hotel complex and bunker in West Virginia, where Congress
would shelter; and Raven Rock, or Site R, a national security bunker
bored into granite along the Pennsylvania-Maryland border near Camp
David, where the Joint Chiefs of Staff would command a protracted
nuclear war. Special communications networks were built, and evacuation
and succession procedures were practiced continually.

When the Soviet Union crumbled, the program became a Cold War
curiosity: Then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney ordered Raven Rock into
caretaker status in 1991. The Greenbrier bunker was shuttered and a
30-year-old special access program was declassified three years later.

Then came the terrorist attacks of the mid-1990s and the looming Y2K
rollover, and suddenly continuity wasn't only for nuclear war anymore.
On Oct. 21, 1998, President Bill Clinton signed Presidential Decision
Directive 67, "Enduring Constitutional Government and Continuity of
Government Operations." No longer would only the very few elite leaders
responsible for national security be covered. Instead, every single
government department and agency was directed to see to it that they
could resume critical functions within 12 hours of a warning, and keep
their operations running at emergency facilities for up to 30 days.
FEMA was put in charge of this broad new program.

On 9/11, the program was put to the test -- and failed. Not on the
national security side: Vice President Cheney and others in the
national security leadership were smoothly whisked away from the
capital following procedures overseen by the Pentagon and the White
House Military Office. But like the mass of Washingtonians, officials
from other agencies found themselves virtually on their own, unsure of
where to go or what to do, or whom to contact for the answers.

In the aftermath, the federal government was told to reinvigorate its
continuity efforts. Bush approved lines of succession for civil
agencies. Cabinet departments and agencies were assigned specific
emergency responsibilities. FEMA issued new preparedness guidelines and
oversaw training. A National Capital Region continuity working group
established in 1999, comprising six White House groups, 15 departments
and 61 agencies, met to coordinate.

But all the frenetic activity did not produce a government prepared for
the worst. A year after 9/11, and almost three years after the deadline
set in Clinton's 1998 directive, the Government Accounting Office
evaluated 38 agencies and found that not one had addressed all the
issues it had been ordered to. A 2004 GAO audit of 34 government
continuity-of-operations plans found total confusion on the question of
essential functions. One unnamed organization listed 399 such
functions. A department included providing "speeches and articles for
the Secretary and Deputy Secretary" among its essential duties, while
neglecting many of its central programs.

The confusion and absurdity have continued, according to documents I've
collected over the past few years. In June 2004, FEMA told federal
agencies that essential services in a catastrophe would include not
only such obvious ones as electric power generation and disaster relief
but also patent and trademark processing, student aid and passport
processing. A month earlier, FEMA had told states and local communities
that library services should be counted as essential along with fire
protection and law enforcement.

None of this can be heartening to Americans who want to believe that in
a crisis, their government can distinguish between what is truly
essential and what isn't -- and provide it.

Just two years ago, an exercise called Forward Challenge '04 pointed up
the danger of making everyone and everything essential: Barely an hour
after agencies were due to arrive at their relocation sites, the Office
of Management and Budget asked the reconstituted government to identify
emergency funding requirements.

As one after-action report for the exercise later put it in a classic
case of understatement: "It was not clear . . . whether this would be a
realistic request at that stage of an emergency."

This year's exercise, Forward Challenge '06, will be the third major
interagency continuity exercise since 9/11. Larger than Forward
Challenge '04 and the Pinnacle exercise held last year, it requires 31
departments and agencies (including FEMA) to relocate. Fifty to 60 are
expected to take part.

According to government sources, the exercise will test the newly
created continuity of government alert conditions -- called COGCONs --
that emulate the DEFCONs of the national security community. Forward
Challenge will begin with a series of alerts via BlackBerry and pager
to key officials. It will test COGCON 1, the highest level of
preparedness, in which each department and agency is required to have
at least one person in its chain of command and sufficient staffing at
alternate operating facilities to perform essential functions.

Though key White House officials and military leadership would be
relocated via the Pentagon's Joint Emergency Evacuation Program (JEEP),
the civilians are on their own to make it to their designated
evacuation points.

But fear not: Each organization's COOP, or continuity of operations
plan, details the best routes to the emergency locations. The plans
even spell out what evacuees should take with them (recommended items:
a combination lock, a flashlight, two towels and a small box of washing
powder).

Can such an exercise, announced well in advance, hope to re-create any
of the tensions and fears of a real crisis? How do you simulate the
experience of driving through blazing, radiated, panic-stricken streets
to emergency bunker sites miles away?

As the Energy Department stated in its review of Forward Challenge '04,
"a method needs to be devised to realistically test the ability of . .
.. federal offices to relocate to their COOP sites using a scenario that
simulates . . . the monumental challenges that would be involved in
evacuating the city."

With its new plans and procedures, Washington may think it has thought
of everything to save itself. Forward Challenge will no doubt be deemed
a success, and officials will pronounce the continuity-of-government
project sound. There will be lessons to be learned that will justify
more millions of dollars and more work in the infinite effort to
guarantee order out of chaos.

But the main defect -- a bunker mentality that considers too many
people and too many jobs "essential" -- will remain unchallenged.





William M. Arkin writes the Early Warning blog for washingtonpost.com
and is the author of "Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans,
Programs and Operations in the 9/11 World" (Steerforth Press).

Warholian Information here... Connect the Dots with a NEAR EARTH
OBJECT... 2006 LD1... and you know why they are send to the bunkers
again... Sssssssttttt dont repeat this information before the ennemy's
of the USA.


Saul Levy wrote:
Nothing will happen, WartHole!

Saul Levy


On 5 Jun 2006 16:07:56 -0700, "Warhol" wrote:

Today is the 666, where is the beast? So That I Kill It...

-- 6-6-6 -- merely a curious number...

Is the Apocalypse Here? 666 Arrives

By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press

Is tomorrow's date -- 6-6-6 -- merely a curious number, or could it
mean our number is up?

There's a devilishly odd nexus of theology, mathematics and
commercialism on the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year.
Okay, it's just the sixth year of this millennium, but insisting on
calling it 2006 takes the devil-may-care fun out of calendar-gazing.

Something about the number 666 brings out the worry, the hope and even
the humor in people, said Reverend Felix Just, a professor of theology
and religious studies at the University of San Francisco. A Jesuit
priest, Just has taught both apocalyptic theory and mathematics and
maintains a "666-Numbers of the Beast" web site that contains history,
theology, math and precisely 66 one-line jokes about 666.

"There's absolutely no reason to be afraid of [the number]," he said.
"It is not a prediction of future events. It is not supposed to be
taken as a timetable for when the world is going to end."

It all started with Revelation 13:18 in the Bible: "This calls for
wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast,
for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six." The
beast is also known as the Antichrist, according to some apocalyptic
theories.

Many scholars, such as Just, say the beast is really a coded reference
-- using Hebrew letters for numbers -- for the despotic Roman emperor
Nero, and 616 appears instead of 666 in some ancient manuscripts. The
Book of Revelation isn't prophesying a specific end of times but "is
about the overall cosmic struggle of good versus evil," Just said.

It's not the date June 6 that's worrisome, but the signs in our society
of the approach of the 666 Antichrist, said the Reverend Tim LaHaye,
founder of a eponymous ministry and co-author of the best-selling "Left
Behind" series of apocalyptic novels.

"I don't think that people understand that 666 is not a good time,"
LaHaye said. He said he saw signs of an upcoming "tribulation period"
that will lead to the Antichrist's arrival in a movement toward
one-world government, a single economic system and single religion.

So people have looked for -- and found -- 666 in all sorts of places.
Believers in the number's power have used a biblical letter-numeric
code to convert the names of countless political leaders, including
many popes, to come out 666, marking them as that generation's
Antichrist. That includes Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy,
Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.

The math of 666 is also open to biblical interpretation and
manipulation. Just points out that 666 is the sum of all the numbers on
a roulette wheel. Other oddities include variations on pi and products
of prime number multiplication.

There's also something special about the number 6, which in the Bible
stands for man, said Brian Jones, a religion professor at Wartburg
College in Iowa.

"People need to lighten up about this," Jones said, adding that it's
hard to take tomorrow seriously as a day of reckoning. "Monday, we
always hate Mondays. Wednesday is hump day. Friday sometimes has the
13th attached to it. But Tuesdays and Thursdays, they don't ring for me
as days when bad things happen or good things happen. They're filler
days."


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Old June 7th 06, 07:59 AM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default I'm pretty sure this is a sign of the apocalypse...

Just another attempt for you to DOOM AND GLOOM it, WartHole! Nothing
will happen with 2006 LD1.

Saul Levy


On 5 Jun 2006 19:41:09 -0700, "Warhol" wrote:

BACK TO THE BUNKER

By William M. Arkin
Sunday, June 4, 2006; Page B01

On Monday, June 19, about 4,000 government workers representing more
than 50 federal agencies from the State Department to the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission will say goodbye to their families and set
off for dozens of classified emergency facilities stretching from the
Maryland and Virginia suburbs to the foothills of the Alleghenies. They
will take to the bunkers in an "evacuation" that my sources describe as
the largest "continuity of government" exercise ever conducted, a drill
intended to prepare the U.S. government for an event even more
catastrophic than the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.



Warholian Information here... Connect the Dots with a NEAR EARTH
OBJECT... 2006 LD1... and you know why they are send to the bunkers
again... Sssssssttttt dont repeat this information before the ennemy's
of the USA.


Saul Levy wrote:
Nothing will happen, WartHole!

Saul Levy


On 5 Jun 2006 16:07:56 -0700, "Warhol" wrote:

Today is the 666, where is the beast? So That I Kill It...

-- 6-6-6 -- merely a curious number...

Is the Apocalypse Here? 666 Arrives

By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press

Is tomorrow's date -- 6-6-6 -- merely a curious number, or could it
mean our number is up?

There's a devilishly odd nexus of theology, mathematics and
commercialism on the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year.
Okay, it's just the sixth year of this millennium, but insisting on
calling it 2006 takes the devil-may-care fun out of calendar-gazing.

  #5  
Old June 9th 06, 04:37 AM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default I'm pretty sure this is a sign of the apocalypse...

Who said something will happen??? The Mark is only 666 Mark, that will
be tatooed on the fronts of the Anti War'ols... the stupied unbelievers
of the war'olian message... sure this is a sign of the apocalypse...


Saul Levy wrote:
Nothing will happen, WartHole!

Saul Levy


On 5 Jun 2006 16:07:56 -0700, "Warhol" wrote:

Today is the 666, where is the beast? So That I Kill It...

-- 6-6-6 -- merely a curious number...

Is the Apocalypse Here? 666 Arrives

By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press

Is tomorrow's date -- 6-6-6 -- merely a curious number, or could it
mean our number is up?

There's a devilishly odd nexus of theology, mathematics and
commercialism on the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year.
Okay, it's just the sixth year of this millennium, but insisting on
calling it 2006 takes the devil-may-care fun out of calendar-gazing.

Something about the number 666 brings out the worry, the hope and even
the humor in people, said Reverend Felix Just, a professor of theology
and religious studies at the University of San Francisco. A Jesuit
priest, Just has taught both apocalyptic theory and mathematics and
maintains a "666-Numbers of the Beast" web site that contains history,
theology, math and precisely 66 one-line jokes about 666.

"There's absolutely no reason to be afraid of [the number]," he said.
"It is not a prediction of future events. It is not supposed to be
taken as a timetable for when the world is going to end."

It all started with Revelation 13:18 in the Bible: "This calls for
wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast,
for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six." The
beast is also known as the Antichrist, according to some apocalyptic
theories.

Many scholars, such as Just, say the beast is really a coded reference
-- using Hebrew letters for numbers -- for the despotic Roman emperor
Nero, and 616 appears instead of 666 in some ancient manuscripts. The
Book of Revelation isn't prophesying a specific end of times but "is
about the overall cosmic struggle of good versus evil," Just said.

It's not the date June 6 that's worrisome, but the signs in our society
of the approach of the 666 Antichrist, said the Reverend Tim LaHaye,
founder of a eponymous ministry and co-author of the best-selling "Left
Behind" series of apocalyptic novels.

"I don't think that people understand that 666 is not a good time,"
LaHaye said. He said he saw signs of an upcoming "tribulation period"
that will lead to the Antichrist's arrival in a movement toward
one-world government, a single economic system and single religion.

So people have looked for -- and found -- 666 in all sorts of places.
Believers in the number's power have used a biblical letter-numeric
code to convert the names of countless political leaders, including
many popes, to come out 666, marking them as that generation's
Antichrist. That includes Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy,
Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.

The math of 666 is also open to biblical interpretation and
manipulation. Just points out that 666 is the sum of all the numbers on
a roulette wheel. Other oddities include variations on pi and products
of prime number multiplication.

There's also something special about the number 6, which in the Bible
stands for man, said Brian Jones, a religion professor at Wartburg
College in Iowa.

"People need to lighten up about this," Jones said, adding that it's
hard to take tomorrow seriously as a day of reckoning. "Monday, we
always hate Mondays. Wednesday is hump day. Friday sometimes has the
13th attached to it. But Tuesdays and Thursdays, they don't ring for me
as days when bad things happen or good things happen. They're filler
days."


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Old June 9th 06, 05:53 PM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default I'm pretty sure this is a sign of the apocalypse...

You contradict yourself, moron!

Saul Levy


On 8 Jun 2006 20:37:12 -0700, "Warhol" wrote:

Who said something will happen??? The Mark is only 666 Mark, that will
be tatooed on the fronts of the Anti War'ols... the stupied unbelievers
of the war'olian message... sure this is a sign of the apocalypse...


Saul Levy wrote:
Nothing will happen, WartHole!

Saul Levy


On 5 Jun 2006 16:07:56 -0700, "Warhol" wrote:

Today is the 666, where is the beast? So That I Kill It...

-- 6-6-6 -- merely a curious number...

Is the Apocalypse Here? 666 Arrives

By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press

Is tomorrow's date -- 6-6-6 -- merely a curious number, or could it
mean our number is up?

There's a devilishly odd nexus of theology, mathematics and
commercialism on the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year.
Okay, it's just the sixth year of this millennium, but insisting on
calling it 2006 takes the devil-may-care fun out of calendar-gazing.

Something about the number 666 brings out the worry, the hope and even
the humor in people, said Reverend Felix Just, a professor of theology
and religious studies at the University of San Francisco. A Jesuit
priest, Just has taught both apocalyptic theory and mathematics and
maintains a "666-Numbers of the Beast" web site that contains history,
theology, math and precisely 66 one-line jokes about 666.

"There's absolutely no reason to be afraid of [the number]," he said.
"It is not a prediction of future events. It is not supposed to be
taken as a timetable for when the world is going to end."

It all started with Revelation 13:18 in the Bible: "This calls for
wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast,
for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six." The
beast is also known as the Antichrist, according to some apocalyptic
theories.

Many scholars, such as Just, say the beast is really a coded reference
-- using Hebrew letters for numbers -- for the despotic Roman emperor
Nero, and 616 appears instead of 666 in some ancient manuscripts. The
Book of Revelation isn't prophesying a specific end of times but "is
about the overall cosmic struggle of good versus evil," Just said.

It's not the date June 6 that's worrisome, but the signs in our society
of the approach of the 666 Antichrist, said the Reverend Tim LaHaye,
founder of a eponymous ministry and co-author of the best-selling "Left
Behind" series of apocalyptic novels.

"I don't think that people understand that 666 is not a good time,"
LaHaye said. He said he saw signs of an upcoming "tribulation period"
that will lead to the Antichrist's arrival in a movement toward
one-world government, a single economic system and single religion.

So people have looked for -- and found -- 666 in all sorts of places.
Believers in the number's power have used a biblical letter-numeric
code to convert the names of countless political leaders, including
many popes, to come out 666, marking them as that generation's
Antichrist. That includes Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy,
Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.

The math of 666 is also open to biblical interpretation and
manipulation. Just points out that 666 is the sum of all the numbers on
a roulette wheel. Other oddities include variations on pi and products
of prime number multiplication.

There's also something special about the number 6, which in the Bible
stands for man, said Brian Jones, a religion professor at Wartburg
College in Iowa.

"People need to lighten up about this," Jones said, adding that it's
hard to take tomorrow seriously as a day of reckoning. "Monday, we
always hate Mondays. Wednesday is hump day. Friday sometimes has the
13th attached to it. But Tuesdays and Thursdays, they don't ring for me
as days when bad things happen or good things happen. They're filler
days."

  #7  
Old June 10th 06, 06:46 PM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default I'm pretty sure this is a sign of the apocalypse...

proof it... Cow'ard..

Saul Levy wrote:
You contradict yourself, moron!

Saul Levy


On 8 Jun 2006 20:37:12 -0700, "Warhol" wrote:

Who said something will happen??? The Mark is only 666 Mark, that will
be tatooed on the fronts of the Anti War'ols... the stupied unbelievers
of the war'olian message... sure this is a sign of the apocalypse...


Saul Levy wrote:
Nothing will happen, WartHole!

Saul Levy


On 5 Jun 2006 16:07:56 -0700, "Warhol" wrote:

Today is the 666, where is the beast? So That I Kill It...

-- 6-6-6 -- merely a curious number...

Is the Apocalypse Here? 666 Arrives

By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press

Is tomorrow's date -- 6-6-6 -- merely a curious number, or could it
mean our number is up?

There's a devilishly odd nexus of theology, mathematics and
commercialism on the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year.
Okay, it's just the sixth year of this millennium, but insisting on
calling it 2006 takes the devil-may-care fun out of calendar-gazing.

Something about the number 666 brings out the worry, the hope and even
the humor in people, said Reverend Felix Just, a professor of theology
and religious studies at the University of San Francisco. A Jesuit
priest, Just has taught both apocalyptic theory and mathematics and
maintains a "666-Numbers of the Beast" web site that contains history,
theology, math and precisely 66 one-line jokes about 666.

"There's absolutely no reason to be afraid of [the number]," he said.
"It is not a prediction of future events. It is not supposed to be
taken as a timetable for when the world is going to end."

It all started with Revelation 13:18 in the Bible: "This calls for
wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast,
for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six." The
beast is also known as the Antichrist, according to some apocalyptic
theories.

Many scholars, such as Just, say the beast is really a coded reference
-- using Hebrew letters for numbers -- for the despotic Roman emperor
Nero, and 616 appears instead of 666 in some ancient manuscripts. The
Book of Revelation isn't prophesying a specific end of times but "is
about the overall cosmic struggle of good versus evil," Just said.

It's not the date June 6 that's worrisome, but the signs in our society
of the approach of the 666 Antichrist, said the Reverend Tim LaHaye,
founder of a eponymous ministry and co-author of the best-selling "Left
Behind" series of apocalyptic novels.

"I don't think that people understand that 666 is not a good time,"
LaHaye said. He said he saw signs of an upcoming "tribulation period"
that will lead to the Antichrist's arrival in a movement toward
one-world government, a single economic system and single religion.

So people have looked for -- and found -- 666 in all sorts of places.
Believers in the number's power have used a biblical letter-numeric
code to convert the names of countless political leaders, including
many popes, to come out 666, marking them as that generation's
Antichrist. That includes Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy,
Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.

The math of 666 is also open to biblical interpretation and
manipulation. Just points out that 666 is the sum of all the numbers on
a roulette wheel. Other oddities include variations on pi and products
of prime number multiplication.

There's also something special about the number 6, which in the Bible
stands for man, said Brian Jones, a religion professor at Wartburg
College in Iowa.

"People need to lighten up about this," Jones said, adding that it's
hard to take tomorrow seriously as a day of reckoning. "Monday, we
always hate Mondays. Wednesday is hump day. Friday sometimes has the
13th attached to it. But Tuesdays and Thursdays, they don't ring for me
as days when bad things happen or good things happen. They're filler
days."


  #8  
Old June 10th 06, 07:21 PM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default I'm pretty sure this is a sign of the apocalypse...

proof it... Cow'ard..

Saul Levy wrote:
You contradict yourself, moron!

Saul Levy


On 8 Jun 2006 20:37:12 -0700, "Warhol" wrote:

Who said something will happen??? The Mark is only 666 Mark, that will
be tatooed on the fronts of the Anti War'ols... the stupied unbelievers
of the war'olian message... sure this is a sign of the apocalypse...


Saul Levy wrote:
Nothing will happen, WartHole!

Saul Levy


On 5 Jun 2006 16:07:56 -0700, "Warhol" wrote:

Today is the 666, where is the beast? So That I Kill It...

-- 6-6-6 -- merely a curious number...

Is the Apocalypse Here? 666 Arrives

By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press

Is tomorrow's date -- 6-6-6 -- merely a curious number, or could it
mean our number is up?

There's a devilishly odd nexus of theology, mathematics and
commercialism on the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year.
Okay, it's just the sixth year of this millennium, but insisting on
calling it 2006 takes the devil-may-care fun out of calendar-gazing.

Something about the number 666 brings out the worry, the hope and even
the humor in people, said Reverend Felix Just, a professor of theology
and religious studies at the University of San Francisco. A Jesuit
priest, Just has taught both apocalyptic theory and mathematics and
maintains a "666-Numbers of the Beast" web site that contains history,
theology, math and precisely 66 one-line jokes about 666.

"There's absolutely no reason to be afraid of [the number]," he said.
"It is not a prediction of future events. It is not supposed to be
taken as a timetable for when the world is going to end."

It all started with Revelation 13:18 in the Bible: "This calls for
wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast,
for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six." The
beast is also known as the Antichrist, according to some apocalyptic
theories.

Many scholars, such as Just, say the beast is really a coded reference
-- using Hebrew letters for numbers -- for the despotic Roman emperor
Nero, and 616 appears instead of 666 in some ancient manuscripts. The
Book of Revelation isn't prophesying a specific end of times but "is
about the overall cosmic struggle of good versus evil," Just said.

It's not the date June 6 that's worrisome, but the signs in our society
of the approach of the 666 Antichrist, said the Reverend Tim LaHaye,
founder of a eponymous ministry and co-author of the best-selling "Left
Behind" series of apocalyptic novels.

"I don't think that people understand that 666 is not a good time,"
LaHaye said. He said he saw signs of an upcoming "tribulation period"
that will lead to the Antichrist's arrival in a movement toward
one-world government, a single economic system and single religion.

So people have looked for -- and found -- 666 in all sorts of places.
Believers in the number's power have used a biblical letter-numeric
code to convert the names of countless political leaders, including
many popes, to come out 666, marking them as that generation's
Antichrist. That includes Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy,
Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.

The math of 666 is also open to biblical interpretation and
manipulation. Just points out that 666 is the sum of all the numbers on
a roulette wheel. Other oddities include variations on pi and products
of prime number multiplication.

There's also something special about the number 6, which in the Bible
stands for man, said Brian Jones, a religion professor at Wartburg
College in Iowa.

"People need to lighten up about this," Jones said, adding that it's
hard to take tomorrow seriously as a day of reckoning. "Monday, we
always hate Mondays. Wednesday is hump day. Friday sometimes has the
13th attached to it. But Tuesdays and Thursdays, they don't ring for me
as days when bad things happen or good things happen. They're filler
days."


  #9  
Old June 11th 06, 03:59 AM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default I'm pretty sure this is a sign of the apocalypse...

It's incredibly simple, WartHole! "Who said something will happen?"
"...sure this is a sign of the apocalypse."

A direct contradiction from our IslamoNaziFascist jihadboi, and
another repeat to boot! Such stupidity from our one and only idiotic
moronic Moorish (boorish?) expert in everything!

Oh the stupidity!

Saul Levy


On 10 Jun 2006 10:46:04 -0700, "Warhol" wrote:

proof it... Cow'ard..

Saul Levy wrote:
You contradict yourself, moron!

Saul Levy


On 8 Jun 2006 20:37:12 -0700, "Warhol" wrote:

Who said something will happen??? The Mark is only 666 Mark, that will
be tatooed on the fronts of the Anti War'ols... the stupied unbelievers
of the war'olian message... sure this is a sign of the apocalypse...


Saul Levy wrote:
Nothing will happen, WartHole!

Saul Levy

  #10  
Old June 11th 06, 04:10 AM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default I'm pretty sure this is a sign of the apocalypse...

Now for my spitball here...

I have never pulled a trigger against a human being anywhere on earth
in my entire life... TheTruth

Saul Levy a écrit :

It's incredibly simple, WartHole! "Who said something will happen?"
"...sure this is a sign of the apocalypse."

A direct contradiction from our IslamoNaziFascist jihadboi, and
another repeat to boot! Such stupidity from our one and only idiotic
moronic Moorish (boorish?) expert in everything!

Oh the stupidity!

Saul Levy


On 10 Jun 2006 10:46:04 -0700, "Warhol" wrote:

proof it... Cow'ard..

Saul Levy wrote:
You contradict yourself, moron!

Saul Levy


On 8 Jun 2006 20:37:12 -0700, "Warhol" wrote:

Who said something will happen??? The Mark is only 666 Mark, that will
be tatooed on the fronts of the Anti War'ols... the stupied unbelievers
of the war'olian message... sure this is a sign of the apocalypse...


Saul Levy wrote:
Nothing will happen, WartHole!

Saul Levy


 




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