In a message dated 11/12/2000 6:34:06 PM Eastern Standard Time,
scerir@libero.it writes:
> Yes, indeed.
>
> In Rev. 13-18: "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the
> number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six
> hundred threescore and six".
>
> Then, is "666" the infamous number of "the" "beast"?
>
> I do not think so because the numeric value of the name of the present pope
> John Paul II (YVChNN PVLVS ShNI) is 666!
>
> But George Hardin Brown wrote this, long time ago.
>
> The real name of "the" Bill Gates is William Henry Gates III. Nowadays he is
> known as Bill Gates (III), where "III" means the order of third. By
> converting the letters of his current name to the ASCII-values and adding
> his (III), you get the following:
>
> B 66
> I 73
> L 76
> L 76
> G 71
> A 65
> T 84
> E 69
> S 83
> I 1
> I 1
> I 1
> --------------
> 666
>
> Some might ask, "How did Bill Gates get so powerful?" Coincidence? Or just
> the beginning of mankind's ultimate and total enslavement? Before you
> decide, consider the following:
> M S - D O S 6 . 2 1
> 77+83+45+68+79+83+32+54+46+50+49 = 666
> W I N D O W S 9 5
> 87+73+78+68+79+87+83+57+53+1 = 666
> Coincidence?
>
> (Of course)
>
Hmmm. I had something in mind like Sir Martin Rees's Just Six Numbers, or
better yet, Nobelist John Archibald Wheeler's It from Bit. The mystical
stuff can depress rather then inspire :-(
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