WEBVTT - Short Stuff: 666 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:07.000 Hey, and welcome to the Short Stuff. I'm Josh, there's 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:12.600 Chuck Hail Satan. This is short Stuff. You're Josh un Chuck, 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.720 and that's Bruce Dickinson standing right over there. For some reason. Yeah, 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:19.400 there was a zero percent chance of Iron Made not 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:23.079 making an appearance in this. You got to, yeah, I 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:25.759 mean that's I don't know if it's their best album. 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:29.320 Power Slave is probably their best album, but that's pretty 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:33.480 pretty far up there. Although simmer down, everybody, there's really 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:38.280 no such thing as a bad Iron Maiden album. I 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:41.400 wasn't that into them. I need to give them a shot. Yeah, 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:47.200 they age really really well. Um, it's it's just really 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:52.920 well done music. They're almost the prog band of metal 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:56.600 of metal. They're just so ridiculously talented, every single one 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.240 of them. So yeah, it's good stuff. I highly advise 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.360 you to get back in to it. Okay, I will. 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.800 And what we're talking about today is the number six 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.720 six six and our old pal Dave Rus put this 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.240 together for how stuff works dot com. And one of 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.240 the first things he says is his article is like, 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:14.840 would you buy a car with a license by ending 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.560 in six six six? And dude, my pickup truck has 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.280 six six six on the license. No it doesn't. Oh yeah, 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:22.880 we talked about it a while ago when it when 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.119 it came in. Well, I've delighted. I hit my head 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:30.080 since then, so I've forgotten that is it's great. You 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.360 need to get like some sort of graphics on the 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:36.000 side or whatever, like devil Mobile or something like that. 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.919 Maybe I will. Um. So the answer to that question 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:41.800 from Dave then for you is yes, there's a lot 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.480 of people who wouldn't who would not um, it's mostly 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:49.200 god fearing people who believe that there is a book 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.600 in the Bible. Well they don't believe it, like there 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.480 actually is a book in the Bible, but there in 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:59.640 this book, Book of Revelations, I think chapter thirteen or 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:06.520 no after three, Verse eighteen says this, here's wisdom. Let 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.400 him who has understand and calculate the number of the beast, 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.360 for the number is that of a man, and his 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:18.679 number is six six six. Yeah. So if you've ever 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.560 seen the movie, I mean, this has been in plenty 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.440 of movies, but the movie The Omen is the most 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:26.160 famous movie to make use of this because young Damien 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.600 and it's still one of the great moments of movie history. 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:32.960 When they're searching through his hair on his head. Uh, 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:37.520 and they see that six six six. It's clearly tattooed, 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:42.640 but tattooed by God, I guess, yeah, by the Holy Ghost. Yeah, 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.360 it's it's pretty scary, it is. That's a good scene. 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.000 That's that's a good movie too. Um. But yeah, the 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.200 whole thing is this number. What this Bible Versus saying 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:55.600 is there's a basically Satan, the beast has a number 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.000 so that you can recognize them. When you see this number, 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.959 you can recognize that this is Satan, or an agent 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.400 of Satan, or somebody who is going to kill you 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.960 if you don't worship him, who is the converse of God, 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:11.440 who is in opposition to God, and is the opposite 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:15.000 of everything right and good. And so here me, the 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.880 writer of revelations, is going to to make you wise 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.680 to this, and just look out for six six six 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:23.720 And do those of us alive today, we have no 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:25.799 idea what that means, Like, how are you going to 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.320 say somebody as a number. But back in the first 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:32.960 century ce Um among Greek speakers, this is a very 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.840 common form of word play um that they would have 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.880 immediately recognized and they think that back in the day, 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.800 anybody reading the Book of Revelations around you know, the 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.840 first century of this, uh, the millennium before this one, um, 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.000 they would know exactly who the beast was and who 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.040 this was talking about. Yeah, because there weren't numbers like 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.080 we think of them in Greece at the time, and Greek. 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.200 The Arabic nibbles came around hundreds of years later. So 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:03.040 in in Greece, each letter of the Greek alphabet and 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:07.480 in Hebrew actually had a numeric value. So there was 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.720 this thing that we're going to talk about after a 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:13.960 message break here in a minute, called I sup sess fee, 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:21.000 I subsess fee. Yeah, and see added in there, keep 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:28.520 going sefee. Good job, it's in there somewhere. I'm that's right, 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.800 And that means in Greek equal in numeric value. And 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:35.320 that was a way, uh for in the first century 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:40.000 basically where you could it was sort of like, uh, 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:45.200 not Morse code, but a those games. Yeah, those games 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.680 kids play when you send like a numeric code to 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.280 someone and then they have to translate the code by 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.120 what letter it represents to get the final I guess. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.880 In Christmas story, it was what drink your ovaltine. Be 0:04:56.000 --> 0:05:02.039 sure to drink your ovaltine. It's a Crumby commercial. Yeah, 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.840 so bad. Yeah, but it wasn't like you didn't need 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.240 a secret Dakota ring. Everyone walking around speaking Greek knew 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:13.040 that alpha was interchangeable with one, Beta was two, Pie 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.479 was eighty, which is weird because I thought pie was 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:19.560 three point one, four, etcetera. Si is seven hundred, for example, 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:23.440 and so um, if you added together letters, you could 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.320 come up with a number for that word or that name. 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:28.839 So you could say that a name had a number, 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.320 and that's what this is talking about. That's right. So 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.479 that's the setup, and we'll talk a little bit more 0:05:34.120 --> 0:06:00.360 about is up sefee right after this. Okay, Chuck's just 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:05.880 exactly like say, if your name was spelled alpha, beta, pie, si, 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.719 your number would be seven eighty three. You could also 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.320 take seven eighty three and figure out whose name that meant. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:18.120 It's way harder to do in transverse, but you you 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.560 if there's say some famous people that maybe you suspect 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.400 that the author is talking about, you could say, oh, 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:28.919 well does that equal or in this case six six six, 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.560 And there's one guy in particular who the writers of 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:36.640 Revelations would have um very much focused on is potentially 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:40.360 the beast and agent of satan Um, who would wanted 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.520 to mark you with his number so that you couldn't 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.240 buy or sell anything without that mark, or again, who 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.560 would kill you if you didn't worship him, And that 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:51.560 particular guy was named Nero. Yeah, so that was a 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:56.680 pretty famous isap ces fee god. I keep adding an 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:01.280 s in there. You gotta put your word butcher apron on. Well, 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.760 it is a weird word. I s O P s 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:07.280 e p h y uh. But that was a very 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.480 famous one early on. That was it goes a little 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:15.559 something like this a calculation new colon nero his mother slew. 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.720 So in this case, nero equals one thousand and five, 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:23.360 which has the same value of the phrase his mother slew. 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:28.120 So basically that's like, oh my god, Nero killed his mom. Yeah. 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.440 That's the thing about the isobsess fees having like um 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:36.200 equal equal value is that if one word had a 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.480 numeric value too, and and that's the same as say 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.360 another word or another phrase, that meant that there was 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:46.520 some mystical metaphysical connection between those two. So do people 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.640 who were like, yeah, Nero's terrible, He probably murder his mother. 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:54.520 The fact that Nero, his mother slew and Nero had 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:58.760 the same numeric value of one zero zero five. That 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.040 was just proof pause ative, like you didn't need to 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.320 look any further, um, giving me my crystal ball and 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:09.280 my birkin stocks. Right, So you might be saying yourself, 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.760 wait a minute. You guys said Nero was one thousand 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.280 and five, But you also said that some people believe 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:19.240 that they were referring to Nero as the six six six. Uh, 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.520 you gotta rejigger this a little bit. In that case, 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:26.200 you have to use the full name Caesar Nero in Greek. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:31.600 Um that translated into Hebrew. Hebrew is don say Hebrew, 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.800 I love it, dude. That's a much more modern version 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:39.679 of that word. He's my Hebrew uh n r w 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:45.040 n q s r, which is neuron keys are And 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:49.400 then that adds up to six six six. Some people say, okay, 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:54.120 all right, sure, why not? Um. The thing is, there's 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.360 a big objection to that one that I ran across, 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.800 and that is that Revelations was written in Greek four 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:05.239 ee speakers who may not have actually known that. Um, 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.360 that you were supposed to transliterate this into Hebrew, and 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.320 may not have been familiar with Hebrew and not known 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.440 how to do it. That doesn't necessarily mean oh no, 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:18.560 this is wrong. Like if you're encoding a message, having 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:22.640 an extra step involving another language is definitely not against 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:26.439 the rules. But from what I can understand, this is 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:32.640 much more widespread and normal, uh pursuit or a diversion 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:36.120 this kind of sefe it is hard to say, isn't 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.960 it It is then then this would be like that's 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.840 an extra big step compared to what they normally did. 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:46.000 Like there's graffiti that they found in the ancient world 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.200 that uses iop sess fees. Yeah, like, hey, you know 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:54.440 who I'm into six, and so some lady in town 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.160 would be like, oh, I'm seven eight six. Yeah. So 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.000 some people say, I don't know about that trans trans 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.440 inslating it into Hebrew and then it making sense as 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.560 six six six. I don't know about that one. It 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:07.200 seems like a bit of a reach, but I don't 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.200 know enough about it. I do think it's interesting though, 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:14.040 that the idea that um, they were using this coded 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.200 language possibly in the Bible. Yeah, I guess it was. 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.120 It sounds like it was all the rage back then. 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.080 Oh you like that, Yeah, it was. It was very hot. 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.000 So some people who say, Okay, this is way off. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.360 It wasn't Nero because, by the way, the other thing 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.800 about neuro really kind of dates revelations, you know what 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:34.640 I mean, Like it's meant to be kind of a 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.839 timeless classic, and a lot of people are like, well, 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.679 the beast hasn't even been born yet, and everyone knows 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.720 that the bar code is the mark of the beast. 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:45.120 So the idea that it's just Nero, who has zero 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.480 effect on our world today, it doesn't. It's it doesn't 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:52.120 play very well that interpretation. Other people have interpreted as 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.640 meaning um that it's it's not even it's not talking 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.600 about a specific person, which is tough to get around 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.920 because the translates all of them. That I saw is 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.920 that it's a number of a man, a man, not 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.640 man meaning like humankind. It's like a human number, which 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.040 is I think exactly how Iron Maiden's guy puts it 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:15.480 on number of the beast. Um. But it's the number 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.079 of a man, like a specific man. But if you 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.080 throw that a out and you just take it like 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.720 it's a human number is what it means, then this 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:27.000 interpretation is saying that it's it's actually pointing out that 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:32.040 Satan is a cheap imitation, a cheap parody of God 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.120 and the grace of God, and so this is what 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:38.280 you're looking out for. This is this is a different interpretation. 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.079 Well one thing, I know, if man is five and 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.800 the devil is six and God is seven, then this 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:49.400 this monkey has gone to heaven. That's right, Man, wiser 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:53.760 words have never been spoken. Agreed. I love that song. 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:57.920 So yeah, that's the point is that the symbolic number 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:02.120 of God is seven and Satan's is six, So it's 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.360 like a just kind of Satan's a cheap imitation of God, 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:09.040 so don't fall for his jam. That's right. So there 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.960 you have at six six six. It's either nero or 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:15.360 it's just saying that Satan is a cheap imitation of God. 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.760 But however you slice it, it's a really good Iron 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:23.920 Maiden album. Okay, I agreed, And that's it for Short Stuff. Everybody, Um, 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.120 go out and read about this on How Stuff Works 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.000 if you want, and definitely go listen to some Iron Maiden. 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:36.760 It'll do you good. Short Stuff is apt stuff you 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.079 should know is a production of iHeart Radios. 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