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666

North Miami Beach, FL 06-07-2006
A.H. Schectman

I realize that I missed that important line up of three sixes that portend for some believers that the time has come for believers in Satanism.  Well, it came and went and we are pretty much just as well off or badly off as we were before.  Despite what believers say, the world is as it is and not as they would want it to be or expect it to be – because of ancient words in the Book of Revelations.

I prefer to believe in good rather than bad.  I think people are mostly all the same and if given the same opportunities they will turn out to be good and responsible neighbors.  Just as I KNOW that geography makes some of us into whirling dervishes and others into couch potatoes, most little babies are cute, make and when washed smell nice and are very cute.  That they can grow up to be monsters is attributable to many other causes than having been caught in the web of demonism and belief that holds them as “saved” while all others are “damned”.

I know a lady who is fascinated with Gematria, a gift that allows her to put a number to words and adds them up to get interesting results.  The number of the “beast”, or 666, is one aspect of this. But Gematria or numerology is for those facile in mathematically interesting coincidences or, in their belief, divine evidence of supernatural underpinnings of our waking world.

Suppose that Satan was a fallen Angel.  I have never seen an Angel that walks or flies in the heavens.  In fact, my science tells me that creatures like Angels would have to be super something or other in order not to be torn apart in the airless space where heaven is supposed to be. That brings up another question.  Where do all the souls of the “departed” go when we bury their bodies in the ground? The burying part I understand for, particularly in hot lands it is best that they are put down under because their decay makes us nervous for that is our destiny, every one of us.

Do souls go up into heaven?  Are un-fallen Angels up there to await to greet you and in the Muslim sense (particularly if you are a martyr and have killed many) must you deal with 70 virgins? Do females get to have to deal with 70 virgin men?  These are very important theological questions and we are back to belief in 666 and the existence of the Devil who should not have residence in the middle between up there and down there. 666 is a state of mind rather than reality.

I would like to set up a prize for anyone who can bring forth proof that everyone else will accept that 666 is real and so are the Devil, Satan, heaven and Hell.

 


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