03-05-2005 13:03									#1
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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/th...sp?story=634679

	03-05-2005 13:06									#2
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That cheeky Satan! He's fooled us all this time!

	03-05-2005 13:08									#3
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Wasnt there a Mazda 616? :|

	03-05-2005 13:48									#4
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quote: Originally posted by Saras Wasnt there a Mazda 616? :|

That was the Mazda 626. 616 is the area code for a small slice of Western Michigan . . . just north of the towns of Nazareth and Parchment.

	03-05-2005 14:03									#5
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Teh Armageddons!!1

	03-05-2005 17:13									#8
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I was debating a while back that this breakthrough in Egypt wouldn't spark off a second renaissance. Turns out it could spark off the second coming

Great... so we find out the number of the beast and it's probably already too late... those dispensationalists are gonna be pretty pissed.

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Yanzi was telling me that 666 is a lucky number in China...

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* chegitz guevara points at the fundies and laughs! "HA ha!"

	03-05-2005 22:29									#11
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Good to see that there is really something new that comes from these tablets. I hope we'll learn plenty of other things that'll rock our perception of the ancient world

	03-05-2005 22:31									#12
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What I like best is that it's direct proof to the fundis that their texts are fallible.

	04-05-2005 03:57									#13
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quote: Originally posted by joncha Teh Armageddons!!1

Best. Gifimage. Ever.

	04-05-2005 05:00									#14
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara What I like best is that it's direct proof to the fundis that their texts are fallible.

We've had that for a while though. This is just another stool on the **** heap...

	04-05-2005 05:18									#15
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quote: They and satanists responded coolly to the new "Revelation". Peter Gilmore, High Priest of the Church of Satan, based in New York, said: "By using 666 we're using something that the Christians fear. Mind you, if they do switch to 616 being the number of the beast then we'll start using that."

A realist!

	04-05-2005 13:40									#16
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This is really old news.
All good studies I've read about revelations 13 say that some texts say it's 616 but mosts texts say 666.
apparantly another text has been found that reads 616 and some ignorant journalist jumped on it.

Besides that, 666 is not the number of satan. It's the number of men. Oh, and 616 is most obviously a copyist error.

And if you wonder if the bible is infallable, it's not. it's written by fallable humans.

	04-05-2005 14:20									#17
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quote: Originally posted by CyberShy And if you wonder if the bible is infallable, it's not. it's written by fallable humans.

Fundy protestants have yet to understand it.

	04-05-2005 15:44									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Spiffor Fundy protestants have yet to understand it.

I've been called a fundy more then once on this board.
Though that means nothing since according to some people everybody who disagrees with them is a fundamentalist.

Oh, I should make clear that I believe that the message of the bible is infallable though.

	04-05-2005 15:50									#19
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quote: Originally posted by CyberShy I've been called a fundy more then once on this board. Though that means nothing since according to some people everybody who disagrees with them is a fundamentalist. Oh, I should make clear that I believe that the message of the bible is infallable though.

If you believe that the message is universal, but that the wording, and specific details aren't, then you're not a fundamentalist. By my definition at least.

I mean, do you think that it is God's word (and thus right) to stone adulterous women to death at the gates of the city?

	04-05-2005 16:40									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Spiffor I mean, do you think that it is God's word (and thus right) to stone adulterous women to death at the gates of the city?

I think we're departing from the topic.
Though, to answer your question. In those days it was the best way to deal with problems in society.
Though it's not applicable to our time.

But the bible even clearly states that itself.

	04-05-2005 17:21									#21
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quote: satanists responded coolly to the new "Revelation". Peter Gilmore, High Priest of the Church of Satan, based in New York, said: "By using 666 we're using something that the Christians fear. Mind you, if they do switch to 616 being the number of the beast then we'll start using that."

	04-05-2005 17:40									#22
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quote: Originally posted by Dracon II Yanzi was telling me that 666 is a lucky number in China...

Rainbows are upside down in China as well.

	04-05-2005 17:41									#23
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What a drab and uninteresting looking city. Is there no color in China as well?

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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin What a drab and uninteresting looking city. Is there no color in China as well?

Of course not. The first thing we communists do when taking over a country is remove all the color.

	04-05-2005 17:57									#25
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Don't the numbers signify (greek) letters?
Or was it the letters were translated to numbers?

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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara Of course not. The first thing we communists do when taking over a country is remove all the color.

I believe it.

Skopje & Pristina were full of those dull unpainted concrete boxes which typified communist architecture. It's like even paint cost to much money for those commies.

	04-05-2005 21:02									#27
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quote: Oxyrhynchus

Is there a place called Oxyrhynchus?

	04-05-2005 22:26									#28
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quote: Originally posted by paiktis22 Don't the numbers signify (greek) letters? Or was it the letters were translated to numbers?

Something close to that :

http://www.felicity.com.au/paper-end.htm (actually a quite funny page)

quote: In the Greek numerical system, the first eight characters of the alphabet, plus a special symbol for 6, represented the number 1 to 9. As John, then, sat working at his writings on the island of Patmos (Revelation 1:9), he looked out towards Asia Minor and saw within his purview one of the strong contenders for the faith of the people, the cult of Attis, a cult, like Mithraism, especially abhorrent to Christians for it so nearly resembled their own! The number 616, tattooed on the foreheads and hands of stubborn idolaters, translated, meant ATTIS (the Greek letters adding up as 1+300+300+5+10 = 616). It was even given in the dative case, as would be required in a votive inscription.

	04-05-2005 23:28									#29
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what the hell?

	04-05-2005 23:36									#30
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Hmm.

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