It's a code for Nero's name. If you'd like some actual history of the number of the beast, Dan is a great source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp_D7fDUmJU
I watched a religious ted-type talk a few months ago. it really upset me when the main pundit picked the old song and dance. knowledge is evil and the fruits of knowledge are eviler. he outright laughed at humans who explore mathematics and believe paradoxes irrelevant in the big picture.
the number of the beast is a social paradox. if everyone was bedeviled by it, then no one would notice. so it would go away. so instead the opposite happens. many many many individuals try not to believe a rudimentary symbol might control the fate of the world. and in trying to dismiss a powerful concept -whatever it is- with effusive wordiness it has grown from a laughable harmless nothing to something immensely terrible.
Anyway from this pundits perspective you'd limp out of the auditorium believing that BERTRAND RUSSELL is the antichrist. I'm no fanatic; perhaps certain individuals are predestined for hell. lots of those may be analysts. yet I do know that when you try to push difficult sensations about tough concept out of one's mind? they have a habit of creeping back in ways that are unexpectedly troublesome.
that's all the mythical conspirators are experiencing. they cannot cope with a legitimately fearful act of an omniscient being's complex reality. so they sublimate those fears and roast them up with their own personal manifestation of the six-one-six myth. the irony is the analysis of a cutesy number and an equation in tow is where the devil-fighters get stuck. like our nietzschean anti-hero their best instincts become their worst. 'To live is to suffer'; suffer well!
at least paradoxicalist don't laugh and brush off their own propensity for analysis. hundreds of years of mathematicians trying to 'make it all work' was a hero's journey. again possibly into hell. transcendental numbers imaginary number, irrationals and all the rest were like primitive man playing with fire. the chances of us not getting badly burned a few thousand million billion times were zero to none.
if all this sounds like bs i'd suggest the band NIN. i got a mix tape of industrial music from a gay friend in a health food store when i was nineteen. ten years latter Reznor's band had popularized the style. the band treats evil more seriously than say Depeche Mode, no offense Gore. Nine Inch Nails played with the inferno without getting roasted themselves. imho that's always a good sign. get it, sign. maybe (-)616 is the value given to us by God???
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