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6 Jun 2006, 00:51
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so f*cking zen
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The End is Nigh
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6 Jun 2006, 02:01
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Re: The End is Nigh
2 hours 1 minute gone.
Horsemen sighted in the distance. Upon closer inspection, turns out to be just a couple of drunk Welshmen getting some sheep loving. Will update.
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6 Jun 2006, 02:03
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Klaatu barada nikto
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Re: The End is Nigh
It's a bit like 1999 all over again. :/
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6 Jun 2006, 02:04
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so f*cking zen
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Re: The End is Nigh
yeah, but COOLER this time
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6 Jun 2006, 03:44
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so f*cking zen
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Re: The End is Nigh
3 hours 44 gone and not a drop of mayhem in the air.
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6 Jun 2006, 05:14
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Re: The End is Nigh
I think our calendar system has altered slightly since Satan walked the Earth.
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6 Jun 2006, 05:25
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1up on you
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Re: The End is Nigh
oh gosh isnt this all exciting
I think ive just done a sex wee wee
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6 Jun 2006, 09:20
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Bored
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Re: The End is Nigh
i woke up dead on 6 this morning.
I'm tired now
CURSE YOU SATAN
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6 Jun 2006, 09:48
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Re: The End is Nigh
did you see 06:06:06 06/06/06?
actually, our calander system has changed a lot over time. I think they once skipped a month, and all sorts of weird things.
The only way something will go wrong is if someone thinks "what a bad day..." and starts doing stupid things
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6 Jun 2006, 09:51
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Re: The End is Nigh
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Originally Posted by Appocomaster
did you see 06:06:06 06/06/06?
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my bedside clock doesn't have seconds...
and my attention pretty immediately turned to the very attractive girl* sleeping next to me.
*girlfriend
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6 Jun 2006, 10:02
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nomen est omen
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Re: The End is Nigh
I had to write a cheque today and date it 6/6/06. It felt really weired. Anyway, I wonder how many people will be naming their new born sons today "Damien".
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6 Jun 2006, 10:07
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Perhaps most people already know this, and noone likes the faggot who starts throwing around facts when people are having a laugh, but its worth noting that 666 doesnt necessarily have anything to do with the devil. The relevant passage in the Bible is:
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"And he [the antichrist] causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their forehead: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six."
- Revelation 13:16-18.
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666 is the number of 'man', whatever that means. One of the more popular interpretations which I find plasusible is that 6 is the number of man, since man was created on the 6th day (Genesis). However, the book of Relevations probably has as many different interpretations as it has interpreters due to its highly allegorical style, so its hard to have much confidence in any particular explanation.
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6 Jun 2006, 10:31
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Re: The End is Nigh
Okay, I've planted a bomb underneath the White House, what now?
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6 Jun 2006, 10:48
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Re: The End is Nigh
Wait until 6:66pm!
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6 Jun 2006, 10:49
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Re: The End is Nigh
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Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
Okay, I've planted a bomb underneath the White House, what now?
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Just wait until they accuse an Arab or any other muslim for it.
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Originally Posted by JammyJim
Wait until 6:66pm!
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That's when they'll be showing The Omen in one of the cinemas around here.
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6 Jun 2006, 11:43
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Re: The End is Nigh
Why are people all hopped up about this particular time.
People weren't nearly as excited when it was 1:23 am on 4/5/06
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6 Jun 2006, 12:00
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Re: The End is Nigh
For some reason they're showing the omen are 6.06 instead of 7.06 which would be more 6.66.
Maybe they have to have it that early so it doesn't break the watershed lols!
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6 Jun 2006, 15:21
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Re: The End is Nigh
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Originally Posted by Toccata & Fugue
Acording to the Pixies (and they should know) Man is 5.
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I always felt that passage was a rather nice subtle reference to the idea that evil is essentially man-made and not some overarching thing imposed on us from on high.
Or maybe it's more biblical lunacy, who knows.
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6 Jun 2006, 20:39
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Re: The End is Nigh
just for the fun of it,
making the assumption that the crazies are right, and that 666 is supposed to be an indication of the arrival of the antichrist (which is entirely unsupported by the bible, but if the bible was at all relevant we would have no catholic church, now would we?),
is there some non-arbitrary way to interpret it?
i mean, at the time The Prophet wrote that down, we didn't have the modern calendar. years as we know them didn't show up until hundreds of years later,* and as apothos and appocomaster have both noted, we've dropped months and moved all kinds of things around all willy-nilly over the years.
now of course as everyone knows, god coexists in all places and times simultaneously (if that word has meaning in that context), and would have known what notation we would use to write down the date on the day of the birth of the antichrist. but He would also be aware that this is the 20th 6/6/6 to occur in this notation (though admittedly this notation wasn't used for most of them).
so what could 666 have meant in a non-arbitrary way? exactly 666 years after he had that dream? 666 cycles of the moon, 666 days? or better, some 'event' that would undeniably be signified by '666' by something other than a distance from some other date? the alignment of planets in our solar system would have worked if it was something like 1257, but oh well. i got nothin. only thing 666 really represents today (besides THE SATAN) is hotgay manthreesome.
* what i meantersay is that earth didn't start rotating around the sun until recently.
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6 Jun 2006, 20:54
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Re: The End is Nigh
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just for the fun of it,
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* what i meantersay is that earth didn't start rotating around the sun until recently.
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There's only one of me.
I'm confused by that.
[the rest makes perfect sense, as you're just unpacking what I said].
I think from this basis we can quite logically prove that the bible is wrong and should be burnt.
666 can't mean anything gay; the bible is* very anti gay stuff.
*apparently. I can't remember precisely reading the passage, but I might have looked it up once out of curiosity. Apparently eating sea creatures is as bad, btw.
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6 Jun 2006, 23:01
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Re: The End is Nigh
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Originally Posted by Appocomaster
There's only one of me.
I'm confused by that.
[the rest makes perfect sense, as you're just unpacking what I said].
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I am not certain if you meant it this way, but what he referred to was obviously that until very recently (400-500 years ago or so?) it was widely accepted that the Sun was orbiting the Earth, and not the other way around. Then Nicolaus Copernicus came with the idea of a heliocentric system, and the Earth started orbiting the Sun. So this part makes sense as well
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6 Jun 2006, 23:17
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Re: The End is Nigh
acropolis is a non-retroactive fallibilist. It's an interesting approach.
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7 Jun 2006, 00:00
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Re: The End is Nigh
after writing that sentence, i noticed it could very easily be misinterpeted as saying that time didn't start until a few hundred years ago.
that wasn't at all what i meant, and the obvious solution was to footnote in as confusing a manner as possible.*
*this could be interpreted as me being intentionally confusing or me being self-deprecating about screwing up a footnote.
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7 Jun 2006, 00:06
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Re: The End is Nigh
Well that was shit.
Happy 7th all.. :|
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7 Jun 2006, 00:22
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Re: The End is Nigh
what, no apocolypse?
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7 Jun 2006, 00:39
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Re: The End is Nigh
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Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
Okay, I've planted a bomb underneath the White House, what now?
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No use, Jack Bauer will take it out in about 24 hours.
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7 Jun 2006, 06:58
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Re: The End is Nigh
Wouldn't it be great if satan rose up today and was all set to destroy the world and then someone went "no wait dude, you got the dates wrong, we switched to a gregorian calendar about four hundred years ago" and he was all "oops, sorry folks, see you on the 6th of June 3006!"
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7 Jun 2006, 08:39
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Re: The End is Nigh
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Originally Posted by qebab
I am not certain if you meant it this way, but what he referred to was obviously that until very recently (400-500 years ago or so?) it was widely accepted that the Sun was orbiting the Earth, and not the other way around. Then Nicolaus Copernicus came with the idea of a heliocentric system, and the Earth started orbiting the Sun. So this part makes sense as well
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I'm pretty sure in QI they said someone else discovered it first.
However, I can't remember who, can't find it on google, and can't be assed to watch series 1 + 2 again to find out who it was.
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7 Jun 2006, 09:26
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Re: The End is Nigh
More like Johannes Capper am i rite?
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7 Jun 2006, 09:33
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Re: The End is Nigh
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Originally Posted by Appocomaster
I'm pretty sure in QI they said someone else discovered it first.
However, I can't remember who, can't find it on google, and can't be assed to watch series 1 + 2 again to find out who it was.
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Well, actually the theory has existed since 800 BC or something. Copernicus was the one to introduce it to "modern" Europe. Johannes Kepler later discovered that the planets were orbiting the sun in elliptical shapes.
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7 Jun 2006, 09:55
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Re: The End is Nigh
I'm so outrageously good at the internet that I fit in my witty replies seven minutes before the post they're replying to appears.
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7 Jun 2006, 10:14
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nomen est omen
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Re: The End is Nigh
Sure enough, as I metioned earlier on during this thread, the Metro reports that a baby born yesterday at Southmead Hospital, Bristol, has been named "Damien". He weighed 6lb and 6oz, and was induced for 6 days. The Omen is apparently the couples favorite film.
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7 Jun 2006, 10:54
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Re: The End is Nigh
wasn't it 616?
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7 Jun 2006, 18:25
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Re: The End is Nigh
Yesterday I saw Ann Coulter on tv and realized that the anti-Christ was already among us and quit worrying.
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