So, apparently I am, as all of you are, minions of the Anti-Christ, the son of Lucifer Himself.

Sweet. Is there a dental plan?

No, but he's offering cool titles, like "Executive Sub-Assistant To the Prince of Powers."

"(Ever wonder why George Herbert Walker Bush Sr. left the 'Herbert' out when naming his son? . . . )."

Call me a prophet, but it seems to me that if George Herbert Walker Bush's name is George Herbert Walker Bush, and George Walker Bush's name is George Walker Bush, then that means that George Herbert Walker Bush is NOT George Herbert Walker Bush, SENIOR, and George Walker Bush is NOT George Walker Bush, JUNIOR, . . . BECAUSE THEIR MOTHERFUCKING NAMES ARE DIFFERENT, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, there are just some pet peeves that send me over the edge.

Ummm... I hope I got that right and that "Prince of Powers" doesn't refer to, uhhh, Jesus.

Good Simpsons moment, though.

No, prince of powers, as far as I know, is not used to refer to Jesus in the bible. Usually it's 'Prince of Peace.'

I too am a servant of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.

I don't wanna to be the minion of the anti-Christ. : (
Have you noticed they all have really bad hair-coloring jobs?

Speaking of minions of the anti-Christ, there's this pos who recently shot and killed a sheriff's deputy, who has horns tattooed on his dumbass forhead. Blech.

I will always read after I edit and before I hit post.
I will always read after I edit and before I hit post.
I will always read after I edit and before I hit post.

Well, as excited as I was to learn I'm an unholy minion of the Lord of Doom, I'm not sure where the guy turns an "e" into the Hebrew letter "heh" (it should be "yod"), "o" into "ayin" (it should be "waw"), or "u" into "ayin" (it should be "waw"). Also, the "sh" in Hebrew is a single letter, "shin," rather than "shin" "cheth."

Also, the guy is either a satirist, or an ignorant douchebag.

Also, while I don't know anything about ASCII, I do know that "1617 = 1+6+1+7 = 15 = 1+5 = 6" is - how shall I put this? - wrong.

Ace may have me beat on the D&D geekery, but I think I can out-geek him when it comes to dead languages.

I wonder how long it took him to come up with something that vaguely spells George Bush in Hebrew that adds up to 666.

That spelling, by the way is utterly ridiculous, and nearly unpronouncable. It would be sort of like spelling Ariel Sharon as Haeriyel Schurown - you can sound it out correctly, but it's nowhere near a straightforward transliteration.

And notice that there's no W - because there is no W in Hebrew! (For transliterations they use vov-vov, I believe.)

Hey, I'll be anybody's minion, if the perks are right. I've got to say, though, that times are tough in the minioning trade these days.

But I thought they found some manuscripts that say the number of the beast is actually "616." Even my very old Living Bible - Paraphrased makes that notation.

I'm so confused...

Oh wait...I bet if you add in "Walker, " it comes up with 616 as well. There's no way around it.

And he would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling Jew kids!

Doesn't anyone else remember the same BS about Reagan? Ronald Wilson Reagan - 6 letters in each name. I recall some nutcase making the same argument. Some people have too much free time.

When do I get my minion tshirt?

And in the endtimes,
look not to the moon, for it shall be as darkness,
blotted out with the hairy wings of flying creatures,
and their minds shall burn as fire,
screeching to each other warnings of an evil wizard: invader of nations, warmer of globes.
And logic shall be as their poison.

This is, like, the coolest thing I've heard all day.
Now, admittedly, Bush doesn't :quite: make the grade for evil supervillain, aesthetically speaking--he's simply too plain and wholesome looking. I suppose if he got himself one of those little goatees like the evil Spock from a parallel dimension. . .hey, Wolfowitz looks a lot like Spock! HE can grow a goatee--and Bush can just go for the whole full-body suit and mask a la Darth Vader or Dr. Doom. The Vader electronic voice-box would do a lot for him, too--frankly, there's just nothing sinister about a Texas accent.

Classic Nostradam. I almost wet myself.

"there's just nothing sinister about a Texas accent"

You've obviously never been pulled over in Texas at night by a sheriff...

'Cept that, current scholarship has the so-called "Number of the Beast" as 616.

So I guess Bush is alllll right then.

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Ace may have me beat on the D&D geekery, but I think I can out-geek him when it comes to dead languages.

Since when is Hebrew a dead language? Or ASCII?

(Reads -- or rather, stares at -- crazy numerology stuff. Thinks.)

Gosh, people sure do like to put stuff on the internet.

Hey, by the way, my first name has six letter, my middle name also happens to have six letters, and my last name has six letters. That's right: 666. So.

YOU MAY CALL ME EMPRESS OF DARKNESS, MORTAL INSECTS.

My birthday is 6/6/6x, can I at least be part of the evil aristocracy? I'm not asking for much, Riddermark possibly, or a small duchy somewhere.

Ace himself blogged about 616 a while back.

My birthday is 6/6/6x, can I at least be part of the evil aristocracy? I'm not asking for much, Riddermark possibly, or a small duchy somewhere.

You're just looking for gifts, aren't you?

It's not like your birthday is today, or anything.

Like mine.

Woo hoo! I share a birthday with Richard Gere and Debbie Gibson!

"Like mine."

8/31? Doesn't seem very anti-christ-ey.

*sigh*

It's not, dang it.

I'm working on trying to figure out a way to join the Minion Army without the necessary numerical connections.

Hey, I want to comment on this one.

Thanks Ace for the devotional literature for the day.

I also want to say I have been catching you on Rightalk.com when I can. I enjoy it.

First of all, are all the LLL's just losing it? This kind of thing just makes you wonder what in the world people are thinking about.

This is a fine example of making something mean whatever you want. As far as sixes go, let us go back to 3rd grade, 0+6=6, 1+5=6, 2+4=6, 3+3=6. You could probably add up anything and come up with six.

If George Bush were really the Antichrist, he would be in some interesting company, practically every pope has been called the antichrist, Leo Tolstoy called Napoleon the antichrist in War and Peace (p. 788-9 in my copy, where Leo does about the same thing as this fellow does, the only difference is that Leo Tolstoy does it with talent.), Saddam Hussein (imagine the libs' idea of George Bush visiting Saddam Hussein, sample conversation- Saddam as one antichrist to another, what is the best way to kill a hundred thousand people or so?), and of course Hitler, which may mean that this is another chance for the liberals to compare George Bush to Hitler. Now they are both antichrists.

Of course, I am waiting for some poor soul (wait, does the antichrist have a soul?) to confess that George Bush can't be the antichrist because (cue organ music and the scream of Dracula) "I am."

To close this off, I was out exercising the other day in the streets of Santiago, Chile, where I reside, when I saw this headline (my translation) "The antichrist will be born in 2006. All you losers, here's your chance.

I remember when Southwestern Bell changed the interchange in Hewitt Texas to "666-"

They freaked.

It's so funny when libs try to use religion.

Did any other of you dork/obsessive types actually check his math, and notice that the total is 665 and not 666?

Loose shit - I meant to say "to see if" it added up.

"I would challenge anyone to find another powerful world leader, either now or in the past, whose name adds up to 666 in Hebrew."

I think that the whole point of 666/616 is that it spells out NERO CAESAR!

But since when do moonbats let Bibical scholarship (or math or Hebrew transliteration or history) get in the way of insulting the President.

Is any of this going to be on the final?

>:(

I am a monion.

goo goo ga joob

Let me get this straight.. we're using an allegedly Jewish alphabet to prove that the numerological equivalent of a US president's name equates to the anti-Christ of a Christian Bible? Is this supposed to enlighten the Jews, astrologers, Christians or just the day-to-day ignoramouses?

And in the endtimes shall come a man,
and to this man a vision shall be revealed,
a vision of a handsome angel who comes to kiss this visionary on the lips.

And this will cause a great commotion in the pants of the visionary, a swelling shall be created and arise there!

And lo, though this man shall protest "Hey every guy gets a mulligan" these words will taste as bitter lies upon his lips and make other men to look away, and cause them to cough, saying 'homo,' though the coughing not be be real.

So it shall come to be.

"And this will cause a great commotion in the pants of the visionary, a swelling shall be created and arise there!"

So the antichrist was riding the NYC subway?

It's so funny when libs try to use religion.

It's even funnier when they try to use logic.

Later,
bbeck

bbeck: Logic? I haven't seen that one yet.

Last 3 digits of my home phone number are 666.

Once, when I was using my phone number as ID at the local video store the sales clerk did a double take on my phone number and said, "Oooh, six six six!".

I dead-panned "Yeah, I killed someone to get that phone number."

All of the libs used logic in Crawford, oh wait, I'm sorry, that was lodging.

Sobek... Hebrew is hardly a dead language. It has an increasing number of speakers annually.

But you pointed out most of the major flaws in the gematria (aka "Jewish numerology").

There isn't even a "G as in George" sound in Hebrew. There's a hard "G as in goat", but modern Hebrew annotates that foreign sound with a gimel and an apostrophe, as it does the "ch" as in "RiCHard" with the letter tzadi and an apostrophe.

James Baker III is a better candidate for antichrist, anyway.

I don't think we have had near enough fun with this yet.

bbeck: Logic? I haven't seen that one yet.

Trust me, Digital, when you DO see it you won't want to be caught with a mouthful of soda!

Later,
bbeck

Trust me, Digital, when you DO see it you won't want to be caught with a mouthful of soda!

Better a mouth full of soda than what that DUI moron up in the great white north had...

By the way, totally O/T...

While the conservative blogs are organizing a massive fundraiser, Michael Moore is...you guessed it...still just engaging in Bush bashing. In his daily must read, there's still not a single link to any relief organization.

Nor is there any link from his front page.

It's just the usual 'Bush is evil' crap and Cindy Sheehan. Guess the idea of helping out those red states is just too much for Moore to handle.

Okay, to be more precise, it's a resurrected language. Which is pretty cool, since it's the only one.

I was thinking in terms of classical Hebrew, which is every bit as dead as classical Greek.

Perhaps OT, but the "Herbert" in GHW Bush's name refers to George Herbert, the Renaissance poet who is one of the Bush family's ancestors. Herbert wrote some of the most beautiful devotional poetry in the English language. (Herbert's "The Collar" and "Easter Wings" are in most anthologies of English poetry.) How this dovetails with the Bush-as-Antichrist meme is beyond me - but no doubt the leftoids will find a way.

Yes, the website is serious.

Yes, the person who put it together is an ignoramus.

That doesn't mean it's not highly entertaining. As you can probably tell from some of the things I've linked to in my posts, I find wacko conspiracy theories very amusing, especially if they have a religious basis.

Let's be honest, mental illness in others can provide nearly limitless entertainment. Why else would we keep Seedy around?

Great.
All you guys get to be minions and all I get is a tambourine and a tape X to stand on.

IIRC there was a translation error and 616 is the number of the beast, not 666. Have to look for the link.

While most manuscripts of the Bible read six-hundred-sixty-six or 666 for the Number of the Beast in Revelation 13:18, some early manuscripts contain 616 instead. Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (5th century) and Papyrus 115 (3rd or 4th century). Irenaeus knew about the reading 616, but according to Metzger, Bruce M. (1971). A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. New York: United Bible Societies. ISBN 3-438-06010-8., p. 751, Irenaeus "says that 666 'is found in all good and ancient copies,' and is 'attested by those who had themselves seen John face to face.'" The minuscule manuscript 2344 (11th century) identifies the Number of the Beast as 665.

In May 2005 it was reported that scholars at Oxford University using advanced imaging techniques had been able to read previously illegible portions of an early (third century) version of the Book of Revelation, part of its Oxyrhynchus collection of papyri. The fragment gives the Number of the Beast as 616. Scholars now believe the number in question has very little to do with the devil. It was actually a complicated numerical riddle in Greek, meant to represent someone's name. "It's a number puzzle -- the majority opinion seems to be that it refers to [the Roman emperor] Nero."

"IIRC there was a translation error and 616 is the number of the beast, not 666."

Dernit! Does this mean I can't call myself 'Baron bitterman'? I already ordered business cards! :(

Hey, I like this! My first, middle and last names all have six letters, and I voted to elect Bush (okay, to re-elect him). I haven't shaved my scalp to check for that Damien-style birthmark yet, but I may finally have found a venture where I can be a big success. I'm going to phone my mom and tell her that I'm on my way to the top.

Or plunging to the bottom. Which direction do evil minions go, anyway?

I have found the true identiy of Bush at a site of prophecy far superior to Nostrodamus (imdb):

Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!

utron, if it turns out that the number of the beast is really 616, just use your middle initial.

that's gotta work.

While most manuscripts of the Bible read six-hundred-sixty-six or 666 for the Number of the Beast in Revelation 13:18, some early manuscripts contain 616 instead.

Clearly, the 616 confusion is due to a disinformation campaign engineered by Karl Rove, whose been working at it since the early days of the Christian church.

"I was thinking in terms of classical Hebrew, which is every bit as dead as classical Greek."

Not quite as dead. Tens of thousands *attempt* to read and speak ancient Hebrew on a daily devotional basis. Only absolute losers like me and, I'm assuming, you, read, let alone try to speak, ancient Greek.

Knemon, studying classical Greek doesn't automatically make you a loser. I'm sure plenty of healthy, well-adjusted individuals learn the language, although I didn't actually meet anyone like that when I was taking courses in classical Greek.

Studying Homeric Greek, of course, is a whole different matter. That ought to qualify you for a Purple Heart in the geek wars. Menin aeide, thea, Peleiadeo Akhileos oulomenen...

Bah, 666 is so last millenium... didn't they read that it was 616? (Just wait, they'll discover that 616 is the area code for one of his family's homes)

Of course, numerology is used by Jewish scholars, so this must be a secret Zionist plot.

I am now going to wash my brain out with soap for thinking like a DU/Kos/Mikey Moore type. Blech!

"Not quite as dead. Tens of thousands *attempt* to read and speak ancient Hebrew on a daily devotional basis. Only absolute losers like me and, I'm assuming, you, read, let alone try to speak, ancient Greek."

Unless you're Greek Orthodox, in which case classic Greek is at the exact same level as classic Hebrew. Actually, I don't know much about modern Hebrew, so I don't know how comprehensible classic Hebrew is to a modern Israeli, but I know trying to speak classic Greek in modern Greece is about as useful as speaking Beowulfian English with a Japanese accent to someone in, say, Omaha.

*When do I get my minion tshirt?*

Too late!! Got mine in charcoal grey at Ace O' Spades. The Death card t shirt is now an ''out of print'' collector's item.

Now hold on there just a New York second. I'm the GD anti-Christ, you honky putzes. Marcos Zuniga told me so after one of my posts at the Daily Crotch.

Gee... the quatraine from Nostradamus could have pretty well applied to Nixon/Kennedy in the 1960 Presidential Election, as well.

Amazing, isn't it, how these latter day prophets can write predictions that will fit nearly any era!

Just my $.02
DRK