Randy Cassingham's Blog

Posted by Ken on March 27, 2007:

Damn! I waded through two pages of comments hoping that you would tell me the "'real' reasons religious people 'respect' the number" and you didn't tell me.

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Ken refers to a comment I made in the next issue.

I only approve comments that are worth the time to read -- I always want things posted here to be respectful of people's time (with the assumption that if they're reading the comments, they're at least interested in the topic). While there could certainly be such a comment about why someone "respects" the number 666, none have yet to be posted here to be approved that meets that criterion.

Most, for instance, "informed" me that there's "dispute" about "666", that some believe it to really be 616. Yep: and I made note of that in the original post, and even linked to an article in the very first paragraph that goes into more detail. Those posts were redundant, and thus were rejected. But have faith, brother: we'll get one eventually. -rc

Posted by David, England on March 31, 2007:

Re the teacher who chose to work an extra year because "66 2/3% is, of course, 0.666". No it's not; to 3 decimal places, it's 0.667. A teacher who's superstitious AND innumerate? Perhaps it's a good thing she finally retired!

Posted by Erin in Minnesota on April 9, 2007:

I love superstitions.

My parents were married on a Friday the 13th, have been married for 35 years, and managed to raise 4 relatively normal children into 4 relatively normal adults. My dad's social security number contains 666. Our phone number for 5 years contained 666. I received a college scholarship based on an interview that was on a Friday the 13th. Three of my immediate family members have had minor surgeries in the last year, and they all scheduled their surgeries on Friday the 13th dates.

So like I said, I love superstitions. I love to laugh at them.