2006-06-11

10 reasons why I'm not terribly convincing.

- Most of what I write is a walking paradox, including that.
- I don't write nearly regularly enough to be taken seriously.
- My humour isn't nearly universal enough, and I overdo it a lot.
- I don't care enough to take the time to explain problems fully enough for people who don't already know about it to become interested.
- I afford my readers far too much unattainable insight.
- When quoting, I'm too pedantic when it's not important.
- When quoting, I'm not sufficiently pedantic when it does matter.
- I'm not nearly modest enough.
- I write "ten reasons".
- Whatever
- I can't count.

2006-06-08

The Be(a)st

666
6.6.6
2006-06-06.
Whatever.
You all know what I'm talking about, although I must admit exactly what was supposed to happen I'm not sure, this is another case of several different rumours.
Last tuesday.
I'll keep this succinct because I'm very hungry.
What must they have been thinking for the entire month of june in 1966? Well, a few West Germans must have been scared when England won the world cup...( although zat vass Yuly I peleaf.) Or in 1066? Battle of Hastings, anyone? (Although I'm not sure if at the time they called it 1066, or again if that was necessarily june (georgian calendar's more recent I think - speaking of which what happens if you use a different calendar? end of the world and you don't even know it! hm... Also, again I'm a litle hazy on this but that doesn't matter because I'm so unbelievably right about this anyway (proof = I am alive to write this), I think it says in Revelations that 666 is "the number of the Beast"... what the hell? I hope some farmer somewhere got bitten by his sheep marked #666 just for the fun of it... I think God might be a little less predictable than just using the date, which is an approximation anyway. Whatever happened to Infinte Wisdom?))
Come on people, this is nothing special.
Besides, at the time of the writing of the Bible, they used Roman numerals so "Six hundred three score and six" (as it says in my version of Revelations) would have been written DCLXVI (500 + 100 + 50 + 10 + 5 + 1 ; notice how that's one of each (apart from M (1000)). So I think I'll get scared when the date is DCLXVI, because that would be special.
It's no big deal!
And what would you say had humans had evolved (yes that did happen) only having 8 fingers? That way we would have a whole different system of counting and 6/6/6 would have happened ages ago. Or if we had only thought of counting on 1 hand? 6 would even exist!
Uch, woo-woo land can be fun, but not when taken so damn seriously. Reason and science- they work! And there's no denying it... you can read, can't you?