666
The whole thing of people being afraid of 6/6/6 is STUPID. Not wanting a total or change of $6.66.....STUPID. Not wanting to live at 666 Main Street......STUPID. Not wanting your child to be born on 6/6/6 because you're afraid he'll be "cursed"....STUPID.
People are misinterpreting Revelations. They're taking it literally when it wasn't meant that way. The whole book is an allegory, like Pilgrim's Progress or 1984. They're not to be taken literally. They're full of images and symbols and if John worked for me I think I'd be sending him on a drug test.
Revelations was written in the 1st century when Nero was persecuting practically everybody, but especially Christians. Could they write a book/letter about how terrible Nero was? Not if they wanted to live. Instead they wrote a "book of prophecy" with the devil's son as the main character. Nero's name in their system or their code or whatever came to "666."
For those who think that this date is the beginning of the end or the anti-Christ will be born today or something along those lines: "No one knows about that day or hour.......only the Father.........Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come." (Matthew 24:36-42)
With all of that said, today WAS, indeed, a wacky day with craziness everywhere and I'm glad it's over!
2 comments:
I would just like to also point out (because people are stupid and tend to forget) that it is 6/6/2006...
If it was a matter of being 6/6/6 then there would have been 20 ends of the world by now (1906, 1806, 1706)...
Thats what happens when you mix abstract numbers (which is really all the calender years are) and the humans desire to find patterns (even when there are none)
St John wrote Revelation when he was living on Patmos. There's a lot of funny mushrooms on Patmos.
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