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18 Nov 2012, 4:38 pm

For we Satanists, numbers are just numbers. We are amused by Christians who are superstitiously afraid of this number. And since we enjoy mocking irrationality in all its forms, we might use it to tease Christians, to show them how foolish it is to fear it.

Historically, 666 is the name of Emperor Nero reduced to its numerological value through Hebrew Gematria. In the New Testament it is referred to as the “number of the beast.” Satanists think this is quaint, but of no real value except for a record of the lengths people will go to force significance where none exists, objectively speaking.

So 666 is not part of Satanism per se, but since the public consciousness of it these days is as a Christian symbol of the “Antichrist,” we are happy to have addresses or phone numbers which include it as it stirs Christians to reactions which entertain us.


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18 Nov 2012, 4:43 pm

I've always laughed at the whole 666 gig. It can be useful though, when the bloody mormons and jehovahs come a-knockin'.


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18 Nov 2012, 4:48 pm

Just say “Shemhamforash” it will make them leave.


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18 Nov 2012, 5:17 pm

Satanist wrote:
For we Satanists, numbers are just numbers. We are amused by Christians who are superstitiously afraid of this number. And since we enjoy mocking irrationality in all its forms, we might use it to tease Christians, to show them how foolish it is to fear it.

Historically, 666 is the name of Emperor Nero reduced to its numerological value through Hebrew Gematria. In the New Testament it is referred to as the “number of the beast.” Satanists think this is quaint, but of no real value except for a record of the lengths people will go to force significance where none exists, objectively speaking.

So 666 is not part of Satanism per se, but since the public consciousness of it these days is as a Christian symbol of the “Antichrist,” we are happy to have addresses or phone numbers which include it as it stirs Christians to reactions which entertain us.

In the ancient near-east, numbers could be used as a figure of speech, though they had more fixed symbolic meanings than in Modern slang in any regional or national dialect in the English language. What 666 means is a man pretending to be God, but it emphasizes he is just a man.


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18 Nov 2012, 5:22 pm

616 is the real "number of the beast".

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... rus_2.html

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The latest volume includes details of fragments showing third- and fourth-century versions of the Book of Revelations. Intriguingly, the number assigned to "the Beast" of Revelations isn't the usual 666, but 616.


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18 Nov 2012, 6:34 pm

What do you mean by Satanists?

Cuz just saying that Satan is as much of a silly myth as the Christian God.


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18 Nov 2012, 6:35 pm

Most Satanists are actually Atheist and Agnostic


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18 Nov 2012, 6:43 pm

Nero was the beast and the Book of Revelations is totally bogus. It was written by John of Patmos and god only knows what kind of mushrooms he nibbled.

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18 Nov 2012, 9:01 pm

:lol:


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18 Nov 2012, 9:04 pm

Satanist wrote:
Just say “Shemhamforash” it will make them leave.


Please define that term.



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18 Nov 2012, 9:06 pm

This word is supposed to stand for the “secret” name of the Hebrew God. To utter it was considered to be the utmost blasphemy against this deity, thereby guaranteeing one’s damnation. It is also supposed to be the “word of power” spoken by Moses to part the Red Sea. So, Satanists use it for traditional blasphemy’s sake.


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18 Nov 2012, 9:10 pm

Thanks :twisted:



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18 Nov 2012, 9:19 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrSiIqCpxB8[/youtube] :twisted: 666


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18 Nov 2012, 11:10 pm

Good song.


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18 Nov 2012, 11:48 pm

Only the crazy christians give a damn about 666 and the like.


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18 Nov 2012, 11:49 pm

Ganondox wrote:
Only the crazy christians give a damn about 666 and the like.


They fear it in my religion it is a symbol of power.


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