666 is everything and everywhere

[Legolessed]

I was innocently getting a couple cents on one of those Bitcoin spinner apps when I decided to see how long it would take to refill your energy to the cap of 40,000. I figured out hat each second have you 1 energy and so I just divided 40,000 by 60 to get the number of minutes until my energy was full. It takes 666 minutes for my energy to fill. That can't be a coincidence xD. We have an app creator that enjoys a joke or two xD. But 666 is everywhere. 

[Sauron]

7 minutes ago, Legolessed said:

That can't be a coincidence

Yes it can, if you go through enough unit conversions, notations and approximations you can find almost any number anywhere. It's just your brain trying to see patterns in everything. What you actually get with the division is 666.66 recurring. It's just 2/3 x 1000.

 

666 is supposed to be "the number of the beast", but adding 6s forever isn't the same thing... there are theories that say 666 indicated emperor Nero iirc, who was a very antagonistic figure (for the writers) at the time of writing and might have been indicated as a personification of the devil. Numbers indicated specific meanings and names, the digits themselves are irrelevant. Only 666 (six hundred and sixty six) in that context can be considered to mean what the author intended.

 

The number has been wildly misused by holliwood and crappy horror so now people attribute it a general significance of "evil" whenever it appears anywhere in any combination of numbers and any context. I laugh when I see seemingly "possessed" people chanting "666" as if the devil out of all its names for some reason chose to go with the numeric version of "Nero".

[You_are_a_cunt]

I'm going to go ahead and point you to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast

Specifically, this:

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Although Irenaeus (2nd century AD) affirmed the number to be 666 and reported several scribal errors of the number, theologians have doubts about the traditional reading[13] because of the appearance of the figure 616 in the Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (C; Paris - one of the four great uncial codices), as well as in the Latin version of Tyconius (DCXVI, ed. Souter in the Journal of Theology, SE, April 1913), and in an ancient Armenian version (ed. Conybeare, 1907). Irenaeus knew about the 616 reading, but did not adopt it (Haer. v.30,3). In the 380s, correcting the existing Latin-language version of the New Testament (commonly referred to as the Vetus Latina), Jerome retained "666".[14][15]

Fragment from Papyrus 115 (P115) of Revelation in the 66th vol. of the Oxyrhynchus series (P. Oxy. 4499).[16] Has the number of the beast as χιϛ, 616.
Around 2005, a fragment from Papyrus 115, taken from the Oxyrhynchus site, was discovered at the Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum. It gave the beast's number as 616 χιϛʹ. This fragment is the oldest manuscript (about 1,700 years old) of Revelation 13 found as of 2017.[2][3] Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, known before the P115 finding but dating to after it, has 616 written in full: ἑξακόσιοι δέκα ἕξ, hexakosioi deka hex (lit. "six hundred and sixteen").[17]

 

Papyrus 115 and Ephraemi Rescriptus have led some scholars to regard 616 as the original number of the beast.[18] According to Paul Louis, "The number 666 has been substituted for 616 either by analogy with 888, the [Greek] number of Jesus (Gustav Adolf Deissmann), or because it is a triangular number, the sum of the first 36 numbers (1+2+3+4+5+6+...+36 = 666)"

Therefore, 666 is simply a mathematical oddity (the sum of the first 36 numbers), with 616 being in fact the actual "Number of the Beast"

[dmaes]

58 minutes ago, Legolessed said:

But 666 is everywhere. 

Just like people see the Illuminati in everything. People see what they want to see, making their believe in it bigger, making them see more of the same, and we have an infinite circle... The only number that will grab my attention are these, for it contains everything

@Sauron nice signature, but use <sudo !!> if you are a real Penguin Ninja...

[Sauron]

27 minutes ago, 101dmrs said:

 

@Sauron nice signature, but use <sudo !!> if you are a real Penguin Ninja...

Technically !! is a bash specific command, whereas sudo is a program and will work in any shell

[dmaes]

16 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Technically !! is a bash specific command, whereas sudo is a program and will work in any shell

Jeah, only used it in bash and zsh, and never tried it in grub(-rescue)-shell, initramfs-thing-shell-or-whatever-it-is-called, and the like.

Also !! in zsh wil be replaced with the actual command if you hit any key right after typing it, making it more powerful.

[You_are_a_cunt]

Ahem.

@Sauron @101dmrs

~stolen from XKCD~ huehuehue

[dmaes]

12 minutes ago, revsilverspine said:

Ahem.

@Sauron @101dmrs

~stolen from XKCD~ huehuehue

Yeah, you can find a lot of those, same for these --> 

[Sniperfox47]

15 minutes ago, revsilverspine said:

Ahem.

@Sauron @101dmrs

~stolen from XKCD~ huehuehue

Everything is stolen from XKCD. There is an XKCD for everything.

[You_are_a_cunt]

6 minutes ago, Sniperfox47 said:

Everything is stolen from XKCD. There is an XKCD for everything.

If there isn't an XKCD for it, there's a What If for it.

 

[PlayStation 2]

You're lucky. The number 52 haunts my life.

[kelvinhall05]

I'm an atheist, so I don't really care....

 

 

 

Not trying to offend anyone, please don't take it that way.

[NinJake]

Have you seen the movie: "The Number 23"?

[Unhelpful]

13 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

 

Why would that offend anyone? It isn't offensive, just kinda out of nowhere for no reason. Kinda like "I'm a vegan" or "I do crossfit." Just why say it at all? It isn't a contribution, or relevant, in any way.

[kelvinhall05]

4 minutes ago, JoeyDM said:

Why would that offend anyone? It isn't offensive, just kinda out of nowhere for no reason. Kinda like "I'm a vegan" or "I do crossfit." Just why say it at all? It isn't a contribution, or relevant, in any way.

I had this one girl in my class last year who would get so triggered when I said something like "oh my God" for example. She'd, like, throw a fit in front of the whole class. 

[Unhelpful]

1 minute ago, kelvinhall05 said:

I had this one girl in my class last year who would get so triggered when I said something like "oh my God" for example. She'd, like, throw a fit in front of the whole class. 

That's kinda hilarious.

[Sauron]

22 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

I'm an atheist, so I don't really care....

 

 

 

Not trying to offend anyone, please don't take it that way.

Not that any major religion actually associates 666 with the presence of the devil as far as I know. It has meaning in the context it was written, that's about it.

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, Sauron said:

Not that any major religion actually associates 666 with the presence of the devil as far as I know. It has meaning in the context it was written, that's about it.

Yeah. I mean, it is the supposed "Mark of the Beast" but it's not denoting the presence of the devil, unless you get it printed on your skin along with (we assume) a microchip implant. According to the Bible, that's gonna happen when the Antichrist rises (basically a one world government with a secretly evil leader), bla bla bla. I believe in the Bible, but I'm not gonna  keep worrying about it, since; 

 

1. No idea when (or if in my lifetime) it will happen

2. Check out Vsauce's excellent video on why we find stuff creepy and spooky coincedences. Basically our brain looks for patterns and when it finds them where we expect there to be none, it feels creepy. But there's hidden messages in everything, as you can see below:

 

 

[captain_to_fire]

20 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

I'm an atheist, so I don't really care....

Same...

Spoiler

I would love to talk about the real deal about the Book of Revelation in this forum but the community standards forbids me to do so

5 hours ago, Sauron said:

The number has been wildly misused by holliwood and crappy horror so now people attribute it a general significance of "evil" whenever it appears anywhere in any combination of numbers and any context. I laugh when I see seemingly "possessed" people chanting "666" as if the devil out of all its names for some reason chose to go with the numeric version of "Nero".

We used to own DVDs with this kind of theme, two of which I can remember at the moment is the movie "The End of Days" and "Megiddo". I think the one possessed saying those words is from the movie "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" where the priest is asking the possessed Emily "What is your name?" and the girl replied "1 2 3 4 5 6" meaning the six demons that supposedly possessed her. Nowadays, movies like this are good for gory Halloween movie marathons though.

 

3 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Not that any major religion actually associates 666 with the presence of the devil as far as I know. It has meaning in the context it was written, that's about it.

In the documentary film "The Story of God" by Morgan Freeman in National Geographic S01E01 to S01E03, it was discussed that the number 666 is just numerology used by ancient mystery religions. I'd like to discuss further but CS limits me. 

[captain_to_fire]

Although if we're talking horror, the movie "The Ring" scared the shit out of me when I was a kid 

 

Edited August 28, 2017 by hey_yo_

[Legolessed]

Omg lol I just woke up to this. I know the movie I was making a really bad joke that my 3 am mind thought was funny. I don't actually believe this stuff. I just thought it was funny. 

[TVwazhere]

My favorite thing as a cashier was finding things in total prices like $12.34, $23.19 (Pixar movie reference, chocolate chip cookie if you know it) or $6.66, which happened a couple of times, and it's actually hillarious because people see that and then run to go buy something else. 

It's silly, but I'm not gonna say "no don't give me more money"

[MadModder]

42 is the only number that actually has any meaning. The rest of that numerology stuff is just nonsense.

[DoctorWho1975]

Torches blazed and sacred chants were praised
As they start to cry hands held to the sky
In the night the fires burning bright
The ritual has begun Satan's work is done
666 the number of the beast
Sacrifice is going on tonight