Topic: Mysteries of Life
Well it's that time of year, it's those numbers adding up and down and across to form the number of the beast. The beastly number of fear, that number by which he shall be known. The antichrist. June 6, 2006. Or 6-6-06. Please try to ignor that number zero in there, it's zero after all and therefore doesn't exist. It's 666 time! Woohoo. A new Omen movie opens on 6/6/06 and the new book in the "Left Behind" series goes on sale on the same date. Time to get your numerologically driven, Book of Revelations based fear of the unknown and unknowable on and party like it's the time of judgment. As Yul Brenner says to Charleston Heston in the Ten Commandments, "Where is your God now Moses?" Prepare to have the fiery pit of doom open up and brace yourself for the mewling, howling demons of Cthulhu to chew on your flesh. Doom is at hand. Dante's Inferno has just had a number of new circles built and ready just in time for the tourist season. Heck, if you didn't make the last comet out of here with the rest of the Heaven's Gate bunch you've missed your last ride out. Yes indeed, great fun for one and all. I of course plan to stay up all night so I don't miss the start of it all. Well, maybe not actually. The mini hype for this date is rounding up and it'll be like any other day when it's all said and done.
Perhaps somebody might mention that you shouldn't worry and be nervous since well let's see, where to begin. Ah let's start by saying that the calendar isn't and wasn't a thing set in stone at the time of Christ or even at the time that the Book of Revelations was written. So, all things being equal you really really aren't here on 6/6/06. Who knows what day it really is based on the calculations of the writers of the Book of Revelations. That part doesn't even really matter anyways since nobody is really certain what the dudes writing the Book were talking about. Perhaps they were talking about the Roman leader of the time, doesn't matter which time, they were mostly quite nasty to Christian folks and other nonroman folks. I mean, long before black folk in Africa were keeping slaves and selling other black folk to white folk on ships or to arabs or wherever they could find a market the Romans were carting people of all colors off as slaves to you know, slave away, die in mines, die in the gladitorial ring and the like so to folks who weren't Roman citizens life ws pretty spotty. Spotty enough so that when your local mystics and writers of holy books got together they would naturally make their version of the most evil person on the earth the antithesis of Christ and probably make him a Roman leader. But it's all a matter for a good argument which you can see on the History Channel tonight or in the near future.
The antichrist has been variously named throughout history and you'll recognize many of these guys. Napolean, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, George Bush. Yup, anyone who has done anything has been called the antichrist once or twice. The fact of the matter is that people like to have labels for things. They want to know who the bad guy is and they want to feel that there is some order in the world. So labels and stories about the end of world and how it'll turn out alright in the end for the good guys is all anyone every really wants. So we get to scare ourselves with stories of devils and demons and antichrist dudes and we device ways to identify him and them. Some folks, usually of the mentally ill variety even claim to be the devil, a demon, the antichrist, santa clause. It's all about being not right in the head.
Now June 6, 2006, which isn't as potentially evil as was June 6, 1966 or even June 6, 666, anyways, that day would be a good day to not go to the Mall or the subway or be hanging around in any gathering of people. Seems to me that it's the sort of day and idea that might prove too tempting to your random crazy person or deluded bunch of crazy people. It wasn't that long ago that some nutjob thought he could be a vampire if he killed somebody and drank their blood. So the idea that some folks might go into a Mall and start shooting people in the name of the devil isn't that far fetched. So, a day to stay home. Perhaps I'll even see if any of the news networks will even remember that June 6, 1944 was D-Day, the day that the Allies invaded Hitler's Europe. Probably be a day where the 'news' will talk about the new Omen movie, the new book from the Left Behind series and the party in Hell, Michigan. Such is life.
Posted by gilbert davis
at 1:49 PM EDT