[gB dAvId x]

Thats right, 06:06:06 and the date will be 06/06/06

[offroadin]

Why are so many people obscessed with this date? Its just another day

[ninefivezero]

I'm going to eat some babies.

[BrentN]

National emo beat down day?

[mistawiskas]

Life is what you make it.

[SoulAssassin]

This is getting out of hand people

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/m666.html

Why 666? You mention the most common interpretation, gematria, the Hebrew numerological system. Check out the Staff Report about numerology, the mystic association of numbers with poetic concepts, at www.straightdope.com/mailba g/mnumerology.html.

In the bible, six is traditionally a number of incompleteness, failure, imperfection. God creates the world in seven days, so seven is the number of fullness, completion, perfection; but six is short of perfection. The number six repeated three times (three is also a mystic number) therefore connotes failure, lack of completion, hence evil or wickedness.

A variant reading of the text, incidentally, says the number of the beast is 616, but 666 has more rhythm and is a better symbolic number.

If the dragon is Rome, the beast is most commonly understood to be the emperor Nero, who reigned from 54 to 68 AD. (Not Julius, as you suggest.) The beast makes war upon the saints--Nero engaged in deadly persecution of the early Christians. The number 6 is associated with the beast, and Nero was the sixth emperor of Rome (Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero--yes, I know Julius Caesar technically wasn't an emperor, but he was a Caesar.)

And, finally, under gematria, in which numbers are assigned to letters, 666 is the sum of the numbers of the name Nero Caesar (NRWN QSR) in Hebrew. Presumably this would be why you have to be wise or "have understanding" to reckon the number--you need to know Hebrew gematria.

[Scrubbin_Bubbles]

This story is from our news.com.au network Source: AAP

6/6/06 not such a bad omen: priest
June 05, 2006
PREGNANT women concerned their children would be born on the same date as the devil's number, 6/6/06, have been put at ease by claims from a priest that the date has in fact already passed.
According to Jesuit priest and director of the Catholic Film Office, Dr Richard Leonard, the re-release of the 1976 horror movie The Omen was unnecessarily worrying women due to give birth on the date.

In the film, a diplomat's child born at six in the afternoon of the sixth of June turns out to be the embodiment of the antichrist.

The significance of the 666 number comes from a passage in the Bible's Book of Revelation which warns "calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person", Dr Leonard said.

The passage says the number is 666.

Dr Leonard said mothers-to-be should ignore the date, because when Christianity took over the Roman calendar, in the 4th Century, the monk who compiled the dates got it wrong.

"We assume that Satan knows that the sixth day of the sixth month in 06 was in fact the 6th June 2002," Dr Leonard said.

"I take evil far too seriously to think The Omen is telling me anything realistic or important."

Historians backdated to confirm the timeline of activities in 1582, and it was discovered the dating was four years out, Dr Leonard said.

He said the mistake had not been corrected and that going by the original dates, 6/6/06 had been four years ago.

[Sweatervest]

Wait, so its actually 2002?

[ivanolo]

Numerologically, wouldn't 06/06/2004 be the date we should've been concerned with? 2006 adds up to 8.

[Goofus Maximus]

I wonder if people of the Roman Empire got all worked up over this in the REAL 6/06/0006... The year 6 A.D., that is...

Kind of like people talking about the new millennium in 2000, when the new millennium REALLY started on 2001. (Due to Romans not having the number ZERO, so we went from 1 BC to 1 AD)

[HEAVY-D]

So is it 06:06:06 am or pm?

[hans5849]

am, if your on military time

[Pope John]

Originally Posted by Sweatervest

Wait, so its actually 2002?

No, it's 2010.

Which only gives us 2 years before the end of the world, right?

[Scooby]

Originally Posted by Goofus Maximus

I wonder if people of the Roman Empire got all worked up over this in the REAL 6/06/0006... The year 6 A.D., that is...

666 was made known in the new testament, which came after jesus, who was crucified sometime between 27 and 36 CE.

[Pope John]

I don't know why the book of revelations is grouped with the new testament. It seems more fitting in the old testament.

[Scooby]

Well i think it had more to do with when it was written rather than where it fitted :P

Not to mention it was dictated to John by Jesus.

[randomtask]

God creates the world in seven days, so seven is the number of fullness, completion, perfection; but six is short of perfection. The number six repeated three times (three is also a mystic number) therefore connotes failure, lack of completion, hence evil or wickedness.

...

A variant reading of the text, incidentally, says the number of the beast is 616, but 666 has more rhythm and is a better symbolic number.

So Is that why number 7 is said to be a lucky number, yet 13 is an unlucky number? 6+1+6=13