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Hello good people, please note that this is my six hundred and sixty-fifth post on this fine board and, as follows, the next one will be my six hundred and sixty-sixth. Yes, ____________ 666 the mark of the beast_____________At first I thought...what the heck its just a silly superstition I'll just let it pass without any great to do. But then I thought... wait a minute what if my innocent post somehow bestows ill fortune on the fellow Awader who was the object of my 666 post. It would be unthinkable to live knowing that my flippantcy had caused such ruin. Maybe...I then thought...I could address this cursed post to no one and get pass this damnable number without bringing down great tragedy and destruction on a single poster, but No!...A post to no one would be a post to everyone and the results might be a calamity of untold breadth. So I sit here now in a quandary. I must somehow get pass this post and go on with my life. I don't want to mark any of my friends here with any mark of any so-called beast. But time for me now passes slowly and my hands grow itchy. Maybe this is not such a good time, boys and girls, to cross the milum. 
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Milo honey, I invite you to post to me. Goddesses, however modest, fear not the Beast.  And we can't have you NOT POSTING! So do your worst...or as they say of the debate over male full frontal nudity in movies: Get it out, get it up and get it over with.
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Sweet milum, why don't you do Ted's trick, and make a blank post? Or--we could all stand on our heads to read whatever your next one is; that would make it your 999th. Here, use this as your subject title: Stand on Your Head to Read This--Beware!.
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Or you could subscribe, at least temporarily, to the notion that 666 was somehow a misreading and that the nasssty nummmber is 616.
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any one here know some hebrew?
numbers in hebrew, like roman numerals are letters, I, V, X, L, C, D, M...
so in hebrew, words could read l'chiam, represened by 2 hebrew characters, means as a word, "to life" but the same characters in hebrew also mean 18--
i have wondered why 666, and what word(s) do the numbers mean (if any)?
i can't think of any english words that can be formed out of meanful roman numerial (MIMI isn't a proper number,nor is LID,) but i don't know latin.. are there latin words that are also numbers?
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DCLXVI
Domitianus Caesar Legatos Xti Violenter Interfecit, or "The Emperor Domitian violently killed the envoys of Christ"
per Robert Graves
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milum:
Heaven forfend that you curse anyone on this board thusly. Were I in your position I would abandon my milum persona, create a new one, mulim perhaps, and enjoy another 665 posts before again confronting this apparently insoluble dilemma.
Or you could take to heart the teachings of the late what-the-heck-was-his name, science fiction writer, who wrote The Number of the Beat. Heinlein!!
Heinlein maintained that the number of the beast was not 666, but instead 6 to the sixth power, with that number in turn raised to the sixth power. That's 10314424798490535546171949056 posts.
HELL! Not even Dr Bill is likely to reach that number!
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Once, on another board I frequent, someone posted their 13th post in a thread, making 666 total posts in the thread.
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13th post in a thread, making 666 total posts
Did they break a black cat?
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