theology

2:37 pm on Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

666 is described as “the Number of the Beast” in Revelations 13:18:

Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

It was also the number of U.S. Route 666 before Gov. Richardson took action in 2003. The Devil’s Highway was renamed “because of the fear that the devil controls events along United States route 666.” Also, people kept stealing the road signs. 666 is pretty neat: it can be written as the sum of the first seven prime numbers, and is speculated to have originated in Babylonian mythology. A common interpretation is that 666 is the number of the Antichrist. Unfortunately, the Bible is vague on how to convert it into a name or mailing address, though several translations have been proposed.

If the letters in “Anush Emelianova” are assigned to their corresponding numbers on a phone’s keys, the result is:

2 + 6 + 8 + 7 + 4 + 3 + 6 + 3 + 5 + 4 + 2 + 6 + 6 + 8 + 2 = 72

72 is the atomic number of hafnium. Clearly, it is necessary to take “half” of 72, which is 36. Egads! The sum of the first 36 numbers is 666!

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 + 14 + 15 + 16 + 17 + 18 + 19 + 20 + 21 + 22 + 23 + 24 + 25 + 26 + 27 + 28 + 29 + 30 + 31 + 32 + 33 + 34 + 35 + 36 = 666

I am the Antichrist. QED.

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