Friday, August 8, 2008 by Myke.

Blizzard announces the highly anticipated  sequel to World of Warcraft, World of World of Warcraft.  This time around, you can control a character that is playing World of Warcraft.  Why do I have this feeling that we are starting to go backwards in time and making ourselves dumber by the minute?!?

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Friday, August 8, 2008 by Myke.

So what is the most important issue for today’s voters?  Bull****

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Friday, August 8, 2008 by Myke.

Okay everyone, stop the laughter…seriously stop it.  <composes self and gets the best serious look on face>  You heard me right, he is now a father.  We first talked about this story back in May when it was confirmed that he would become a father.  If you have not figured out by now, Clay Aiken is of the “sword fight” persuasion.  So how did this pregnancy happen?  Simple, in vitro fertilization.  The creepy thing to me is that it was recorded that the child was born at 8:08 AM on August 8th of 2008.  Yes that is right, 8-8-2008 8:08AM.  We know that 666 is associated with the mark of the Beast and that 777 is associated with perfection, Trinity, God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit…but what does 888 mean?  How about a quick explanation of 666 and 777 first.

666
Where does the number 666 come from?  Many have read of it in the Bible or even heard of it from various sources, but very few know where it actually comes from or why the book of Revelation speaks about this number with such negative connotations.   Here is a brief overview of the history of the number 666, where it comes from, and why the book of Revelation speaks so negatively of this number.

The number 666 comes directly from the worship practices of the city of Babylon about the time of the Bible prophet Daniel.  The people of Babylon worshiped gods that were associated with the sun, moon, visible planets of our solar system, and certain of the stars involved with the practice of astrology. The Babylonians were the principle developers of astrology, as we know it today.  In their worship system, they had 37 supreme gods, and one of these, the god associated with the sun, was supreme over all the other gods.  These people believed that numbers in some way had power over the gods they worshiped.  However, they had to create numbers that they could assign to the gods so that they could have power over them.  To do this, they counted their gods and assigned a count number to each of the 36 lesser supreme gods, and then added up all of these numbers (from one to 36) and assigned the sum to the sun god.  The first god they counted got the number one assigned to it, and the second god they counted got the number two assigned to it, and so on up to all 36 lesser supreme gods.  Now, if you have not guessed it by now, the sum of the numbers from one to 36 totals 666, which they assigned to the god associated with the sun.  They did the calculation like this:

  1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +  5  +  6  +  7  +  8  +  9  +  10  +  11  +  12
    +  13  +  14  +  15  +  16  +  17  +  18  +  19  +  20  +  21  +  22
    +  23  +  24  +  25  +  26  +  27  +  28  +  29  +  30  +  31  +  32
    +  33  +  34  +  35  +  36 = 666

However, they went further.  They feared these gods and worried that one of them might strike them down sometime, so they made amuletswith a 6 x 6 matrix of the numbers one through 36 on them.  Today we call these numeric matrixes magic squares.  The design of the amulets was to achieve a magic purpose, and they evidently believed that wearing a particular god’s number would protect one from a specific god striking them down using his power of magic.  Now, the amulets had to be as powerful as possible, so in order to increase its power, they arranged these numbers in such a way that the sum of any given row, column, or diagonal is 111, and therefore the sum of all six rows or all six columns was 666.  This was supposed to provide extra protection, including from the god associated with the sun, since this god’s sum was present on the amulet.

777
7 is the number of perfection, as God created everything in 6 days and rested on the 7th, and three 7’s is symbolic for the Trinity, God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

So where does 888 fall into this mix?  Well 888 is the number of Jesus in the Greek alphabet. Just as 666 is the number of a man as referenced in the bible, 888 is the number of Jesus. In the Greek alphabet each number is assigned a numerical value and when Jesus is spelled in the Greek, his name comes out to the sum of 888. The original language of the New Testament was Aramaic.

Wow, did we just lay out some history or what?!?  I guess what I am saying is that Clay Aiken has either fathered the re-birth of Jesus Christ or we are reading way to deep into this matter.  I will let you decide that.

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