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- mali1, on 04/17/2008, -20/+344Whoop dee ***** doo
- meruru, on 04/17/2008, -7/+147And before this we hit 666,666,666 people and 66,666,666 people and...
- youtellme8, on 04/17/2008, -26/+162"To many people this means nothing." To me it means at least 4 billion people too many on this planet.
- zombird, on 04/17/2008, -12/+131Is that the day we get our national ID cards?
- ninjasaurus, on 04/17/2008, -3/+117But Digg wasn't around then so it couldn't be submitted!
- basevillin, on 04/17/2008, -1/+88In other news when someone counts to 1000 he passes 666 2/3rds of the way through.
- Namaha, on 04/17/2008, -2/+85616.
- rficwizard, on 04/17/2008, -1/+80Everyone who was alive at those moments has died. That's a pretty solid correlation.
- loker269, on 04/17/2008, -2/+65My time card at work is number 666...everyone that sees me punching at the time clock says they want that number... This does in fact make me the anti-christ! Please do not be afraid I work 9-5 like everyone else and hate my boss just as much as you do...
- BigManOnCampus, on 04/17/2008, -3/+60Welcome to earth, now keep away from my food.
- h1forlife, on 04/17/2008, -1/+55Who cares, its not like anything happened when the population hit 666 6,666 66,666 666,666 6,666,666 66,666,666 or 666,666,666
- leodavinci, on 04/17/2008, -10/+64Well, why don't you take the first step towards that population reduction by removing yourself from the planet? I'm right after you.
- gavinonymous, on 04/17/2008, -1/+42"The fragment supports the reading of some Greek New Testament manuscripts that read 616 instead of 666. Why would someone making a copy of the Revelation scroll make such a number change? “Perhaps the change was intentional, seeing that the Greek form Neron Caesar written in Hebrew characters (nrwn qsr) is equivalent to 666, whereas the Latin form Nero Caesar (nrw qsr) is equivalent to 616.” A Latin copyist might have thought that 666 was an error because Nero Caesar did not add up to 666 when transliterated into Latin. He then changed 666 to 616 to conform to the Latin rendering since it was generally accepted that Nero was the Beast. In either case, a Hebrew transliteration nets 666, while a Latin spelling nets 616. Nero was the “man” and either 666 or 616 was his number."
- inactive, on 04/17/2008, -0/+39i thought the world wasnt going to end until 2012?
- senorcool, on 04/17/2008, -1/+36thats his favorite number i think.
- MattJF317, on 04/17/2008, -2/+362,666,666,666?
- inactive, on 04/17/2008, -1/+34With the birth rate being what it is, the population will only be 6,666,666,666 for about 0.3 seconds.
- inactive, on 11/13/2008, -1/+33nope... it's when we get rfid implants
- inactive, on 04/17/2008, -2/+33DO NOT WANT
- malex, on 04/17/2008, -1/+28Dugg down because even if I believed in the Book of Revelations and Numerology, the number of the beast has nothing to do with the estimated global population. The article is being silly.
- RussellDovey, on 04/17/2008, -0/+25Yeah, but on April Fool's day your "pull soul halfway out of boss's body" prank pwns everyone else's.
- cyks, on 04/17/2008, -0/+24I am afraid you know too much basevillin.
- jacobu9, on 04/17/2008, -1/+24LEELOO DALLAS MULTIPASS!
- AlgnPelotudo, on 04/17/2008, -0/+23yeah, you have a point there.
- ligyron, on 04/17/2008, -1/+21So you think. I happen to know that anyone that spoke of what happened at those moments in history were executed
- aaaleman, on 04/17/2008, -9/+29The party of the Beast?
- P1um, on 04/17/2008, -3/+21I would love to be th 6,666,666,666th baby. "GET ME A RING POP OR ILL SEND YOU TO THE LAKE OF FIRE!"
- ShuttleDisaster, on 04/17/2008, -6/+24Help control the human population...have your children spayed or neutered.
- Satanael, on 04/17/2008, -2/+19Only 8 years or so ago they declared 6 Billion people, right? And, the growth is exponential. How long until we're growing by 1 Billion every year?
- djdole, on 04/17/2008, -0/+16Nope, it'll be April 13, 2036 with the 99942 Apophis news update.
Supposedly better odds there than getting aids from unsafe sex with a hiv-positive person. (1 in 500)
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_373.html - KidVicious, on 04/17/2008, -4/+20I'm just interested to know how you arrived at 2.6 billion as the 'correct' number of people on Earth.
- schnikies79, on 04/17/2008, -0/+16How about just having less children instead?
No need to kill people when it would easier to reproduce less. - hazard99, on 04/17/2008, -4/+19666 means nothing. Its hebrew numerology...
- ribo, on 04/17/2008, -0/+15it will mean... nothing..? lame. buried.
- affanjam, on 04/17/2008, -0/+15wait how'd you do the upside down 6's??
- bradallen18, on 04/17/2008, -0/+15i was hoping someone would bring this up.
- dubloe7, on 04/17/2008, -1/+15unless its in binary, then you're only counting to 8.
- AlgnPelotudo, on 04/17/2008, -1/+14hardon collider
- inactive, on 04/17/2008, -1/+14I wonder when the pop. was 666, shouldve ended then
- STKD, on 04/17/2008, -1/+13Just to add to that (which is completely correct), there was an article not long ago that reported the number found in the oldest bibles isn't even 666 at all. Which makes a lot of satanist/metal types look pretty foolish really.
- Darkhacker, on 04/17/2008, -0/+12I'm sure it's just a number he pulled out of his ass, but it's probably a decent estimate. We need less people due to energy needs, food production, and things of that sort. Unfortunately people are still pumping out kids and it usually lies in poor nations where they can't afford to feed the people they already have, as well as religious wackos who want to get their numbers up.
- woody56292, on 04/17/2008, -0/+12too late it already did. wait now's it back to 6,666,666,666. hooray party again. wait incoming birth...
- smurf22, on 04/17/2008, -9/+19666 doesn't even mean the devil in numerology. It was the name of a Jew ( his name escapes me at this moment) who persecuted Jesus. I wish religious nuts would learn more about their religion before talking.
- LemmingJesus, on 04/17/2008, -0/+10Never stops people from submitting ancient stories everyone's already heard before.
- lacreme, on 04/17/2008, -0/+10stfu
- reshep, on 04/17/2008, -0/+10ahh i wanted to post it =[ .
QI FTW - dubloe7, on 04/17/2008, -1/+11for those who don't get it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/616_(number) - ShempRider, on 04/17/2008, -0/+9I see what you did there.
/*****. i have no clue. - zephyear, on 04/17/2008, -10/+19hadron collider
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