Number 666 Shows Up On 'Passion' Tickets

Embracer Of Darkness · Post by **Embracer Of Darkness** » 2004-03-04 05:36am

OnlineAthens wrote:Number 666 shows up on 'Passion' tickets

ROME - The number 666, which Christians recognize as the ''mark of the beast,'' is appearing on tickets for ''The Passion of the Christ'' at a Georgia movie theater, drawing complaints from some moviegoers.
The machine that prints tickets assigned the number 666 as a prefix on all the tickets for the Mel Gibson film, said Gary Smith, owner of the Movies at Berry Square in northwest Georgia. The 666 begins a series of numbers that is listed below the name of the movie, and the date, time and price of the showing.
''It's from our computer and it's absolutely a coincidence,'' Smith said. ''It has nothing to do with the film company or any vendor. It's completely in our computer.''

Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Monday, March 1, 2004.

No doubt some idiots will find some "sign" in this, what's the fuss about?

Edit : Smart people would sell their 666 tickets on eBay, some idiot must find them collectable.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-03-04 05:56am

I find it hilarious, to be honest. "It's in our computer! Coincidence, I tell you! Nothing to do with the film at all..."

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-03-04 06:56am

Ghost in the machine, oh is there an exorcist expert in the theatre!

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2004-03-04 10:09am

I can't help but blame The Stonecutters....

Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down?

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-03-04 10:23am

If its from their computer,then lets blame "cough" Bill Gates and Microsofts "cough"

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2004-03-04 10:42am

Montcalm wrote:If its from their computer,then lets blame "cough" Bill Gates and Microsofts "cough"

Or if the area is powered by General Electric, then we'll blame them...

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-03-04 11:39am

if i had the money i'd be willing to bet $100.00 that if this'd happened at any other movie nobody would have even noticed. . . .

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2004-03-04 11:39am

Stofsk wrote:I find it hilarious, to be honest. "It's in our computer! Coincidence, I tell you! Nothing to do with the film at all..."

I wonder what the question was.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-03-04 12:00pm

Bwaha, that's not too far away from me. I may have to drive up there and give them some patronage.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2004-03-04 01:40pm

How the hell is this even news?

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-03-04 01:47pm

neoolong wrote:How the hell is this even news?

It's probably one of those "and now on the lighter side of life..." segments some news services provide, usually right after they report how an earthquake in some god-forsaken shithole has killed yet another thousand people, or whatever.

Embracer Of Darkness · Post by **Embracer Of Darkness** » 2004-03-04 02:16pm

Stofsk wrote:
neoolong wrote:How the hell is this even news?
It's probably one of those "and now on the lighter side of life..." segments some news services provide, usually right after they report how an earthquake in some god-forsaken shithole has killed yet another thousand people, or whatever.

Which is exactly why it was posted in the OT forum.

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2004-03-04 03:09pm

Darth_Zod wrote:if i had the money i'd be willing to bet $100.00 that if this'd happened at any other movie nobody would have even noticed. . . .

Well, some people probably would have noticed and freaked out, but it wouldn't have made the news anywhere. Just like the actor who got struck by lightning. The news might have commented about it, but no one would have thought about it much and it would have quickly been forgotten.

EmperorChrostas the Cruel · Post by **EmperorChrostas the Cruel** » 2004-03-04 06:53pm

No No NO!
You all have it wrong.

The signifigance of "666," is that you need to gamble immediatly!
(You are 111 away from 777, which is JACKPOT!)

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2004-03-04 07:34pm

Peregrin Toker wrote:I can't help but blame The Stonecutters....

Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down?

We do! We do!

On topic now. Personally, if I were religious or supersticious, I'd think that movie is cursed or damned by God. I heard that three people, including the actor who plays Jesus, were struck by lightning during the making of the movie. Anyone feel free to correct me if this is BS.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2004-03-04 07:41pm

I'm pretty sure it was only two people.

And if you want to go godly with the lightening, you can also say that it was really caused by Thor because he's pissed that some fake god is getting a movie and he isn't.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2004-03-04 09:33pm

*sigh* Just more evidence that Christians are retards.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-03-04 09:53pm

neoolong wrote:And if you want to go godly with the lightening, you can also say that it was really caused by Thor because he's pissed that some fake god is getting a movie and he isn't.

Thor is in SG1.

This is a pretty neat coincidence though.

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2004-03-04 10:02pm

Gandalf wrote:
neoolong wrote:And if you want to go godly with the lightening, you can also say that it was really caused by Thor because he's pissed that some fake god is getting a movie and he isn't.
Thor is in SG1.

This is a pretty neat coincidence though.

Coincidence, or people planting lightning rods around in order to 'cause an accident'? Or more realistically, because Mel couldn't be convinced to stop filming despite an approaching thunderstorm because he was on his huge ego trip?

When I think about it, did anybody give any details about the weather conditions when those two people were struck by lightning? Any thunderstorms nearby to provide lightning? I don't remember anything being mentioned, because the news programs apparently wanted everyone to think it came out of nowhere and God struck them down.

But at the same time, if this was REALLY God/Thor striking them down, he's not all that effective since he tried twice and still failed to kill them or even warn them off filming the movie.

I'm thinking way too hard about this...

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-03-04 11:32pm

Mayabird wrote:But at the same time, if this was REALLY God/Thor striking them down, he's not all that effective since he tried twice and still failed to kill them or even warn them off filming the movie.

Perhaps Thor was only slightly annoyed at not having a film made of him? Maybe he just wanted to slightly electrocute people rather than... er, fry them. No, that doesn't make any sense at all.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2004-03-04 11:42pm

Thor was drunk on too much ale. That's why he only singed them.

But really, if you look hard enough, you could probably cry hand of God on every movie accident.

Demiurge · Post by **Demiurge** » 2004-03-05 01:14am

Stofsk wrote:
Mayabird wrote:But at the same time, if this was REALLY God/Thor striking them down, he's not all that effective since he tried twice and still failed to kill them or even warn them off filming the movie.
Perhaps Thor was only slightly annoyed at not having a film made of him? Maybe he just wanted to slightly electrocute people rather than... er, fry them. No, that doesn't make any sense at all.

I'm sure Marvel will sooner or later.

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-03-05 01:52am

Obviously they never watched the History Channel, which claims that the 'number of the beast' was mistranslated and has never been 666 and doesn't even refer to Satan.

Post by **Kuja** » 2004-03-05 01:59am

Zaia wrote:Obviously they never watched the History Channel, which claims that the 'number of the beast' was mistranslated and has never been 666 and doesn't even refer to Satan.

It doesn't. It refers to the Antichrist IIRC.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-03-05 02:25am

Kuja wrote:
Zaia wrote:Obviously they never watched the History Channel, which claims that the 'number of the beast' was mistranslated and has never been 666 and doesn't even refer to Satan.
It doesn't. It refers to the Antichrist IIRC.

I've always wondered about that.

Who or what exactly is the Antichrist?