The number is not evil. What the number represents is what is called a biblical and catastrophic flaw from a heavently perspective. The number is identified with man and governement in the book of Revelations of th Christian Greek Scripture. This number 6 three times represent gross imperfection. The significance of the tripple repitition is for emphasis as commonly occurs in the bible. The number six by it'self is one less than seven. Seven is the number for completeness thus six represents incomplete or "falling short" according to the Greek. Thus six hundred sixty-six means that something has grossly fallen short of completeness.
That is what the Cathars believed and for which they were slaighterd. Satan created the earth, God created heaven. Over a priod of about ten years about 1, 000,000 of them were killed. Many were burnt and it is said that one human bonfire was the biggest in history. If you wish to know more see Albigensian Crusades.
I walked past a house once whose street address was 668. The people had put a little sign under it saying "The Neighbor of the Beast."
I would be interested to learn more about where the name was derived from. Do you the sources for this?
Is 666 Evil? It is easy to tell when something is evil. One of the best ways to tell is if you can easily identify it as the number 666. It works every time. I have witnessed people actively confusing numbers like 665 and 667 with the number 666. It is a strange and dangerous game, even with a fresh pair battle shorts.
Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Woe to You Oh Earth and Sea for the Devil sends the beast with wrath because he knows the time is short Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast for it is a human number its number is six hundred and sixty six. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icAzyx8EsKU
To Exiled, If you want to find out you will have to do some digging. Here is one link, but it is not the source where I found this information. I no longer remember the source, only what it said. http://www.veda.harekrsna.cz/bhaktiyoga/questions.htm
bible = 66 books = devil wrote it fascinating number: http://www.whatabeginning.com/BBooks/EyeOpener/P.htm
Most of the apocolyptic gospels were left out of the Bible. This one was left in because the church mistook the author for the apostle John. It was actually written during Roman times, when Christians were being persecuted.
It's was evil beause "Ronald Wilson Reagan" has six letters in each name, 6-6-6. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
666 isn't evil , the people who created its myth only want you to continue to perpetuate that myth like your doing now. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Thank you CosmicTraveler!!! This has been one of the major points of this thread the entire time, I was simply waiting to see how long it would take for someone to make it!!! In other words...(as if I haven't said it already), its just a number, it is not a living thing, therefor it can not be evil. And it is not a symbol of evil either, though numbers can represent, they only represent what we make them represent. The history of this number...does not go back to Aleister Crowley like many think, he saw it on the forehead of an Egyptian Statue, but it goes back to even India where there are statues of some of the Buddhas that has this number on them. We are carbon based creatures, ALL OF US, thus Carbon= 6 protons, 6 electrons, and 6 neutrons. If this is the number of the Beast, then humanity is beastly. To me the number represents in history a challenge for the ignorance of those who are easily frightened by silly ideas. If one focuses on the number being evil and believes it is evil, then they are being ridiculous and limiting their awareness. Let me ask a few more questions to make the point: Is the Color Green Evil? Is the name John Evil? Is the water from the great lakes evil? Is a square evil? Is the Sun evil? Are questions evil? Are women evil? Is paper evil? Is the musical note A sharp evil? Is the letter X evil? Are all religions except one evil? Is the smell of raspberry jam evil? Are 90 degree angles evil? And the big point making question.....is knowledge evil?
The number 666 is significant for its properties, 6+6+6=18, 1+8=9 , 9 represents the 4 horsemen of the apolypse x2 with 1 left over in case re-inforcements are needed. 6^3 = 216, 2+1+6 = 9, which represents the 12 apostles -3. , or the 4 horseman as above. 9 also represents the Trinity -6 , the Trinity being obtained by dividing 4 horsemen in 12 apostles. For more information see your bible and search inder Numbers. Do not treat this esoteric information lightly or you may put your immortal soul into the hands evil spirits.
This stuff about 666 is silly. But I think this sums up the number: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/666_(number)