Three sixes - "the number of the beast." This frightening numerology came to life after the video rental of the series "Omen". People inwardly shrunk with horror, but again and again re-watched the series of the mystical thriller. Oddly enough, the fear of the other world turned around ... the frenzied popularity of the triple combination of the number "6". Among the young car owners it is considered special chic to get yourself a car number "666", in extreme cases, "999" - three inverted sixes.
Extreme Phone
And now a new fashion - telephone "six" numbers. Where already up to the usual number "13", which just promises failure. A ugly number is cool, no money pity! And what will happen if you call the number "666"? The country of frightened ... unconscious! It should be noted that such extreme claims can be observed exclusively among young people. Older people are more careful: who knows, and what if something is really hidden or someone is behind an unpleasant numerical code? As they say, stay away from sin.
Horror stories from the virtual space
The Internet is teeming with stories in the retelling of those who ventured to call the number "666". They all start in about the same way: it was evening, there was definitely nothing to do, just like in a nursery rhyme. And the guys and girls began to frighten and help each other: they say, who is the bravest? The bold were always there. At first the handset answered that such a number did not exist, but in some cases the beeps still ran. On the other end of the line, after the subscriber answered, there was silence, then crackling and ... slurred voices.
At this point, the evidence diverges. A voice told someone that he would come for him (“Freddy will come for you”). Someone mysterious character began to call back, and even on those phones from which not a single call was made. And someone saw in his room a figure in the hood, which pursued the unfortunate until the thought of suicide had matured. But the terrible stranger prevented him from committing suicide and getting relief until the “daredevil” agreed to sign with blood the paper on the sale of his soul ...
The voice of Thomas the Unbeliever
If someone is not in the know, Thomas is a biblical character who doubted everything. In this case, unbelief can be a lifeline in the abyss of superstition. On the World Wide Web there are those who consider the fear of mystical numerology utter nonsense. They share their own experience on the topic: "What happens if you call" 666 "?" Yes, nothing will happen, say the followers of the theory of materialism. There are no such numbers. The answering machine will inform you that such a subscriber is not registered in the network. And if someone answers, it means that he is a daredevil who has, for example, got a phone number “666 66 66”, or something like that. If fear is completely overwhelmed, - sober heads advise, - you just need to think about what it is self-hypnosis. And believers just have to cross themselves.
Where are the roots of fear?
The "number of the beast" is mentioned in the biblical
revelation of John the Theologian, and this number is "666." This is a harbinger of the Apocalypse, the accession of Satan in the world.
The magic of numbers seems to chill the hearts of our suggestible contemporaries no less than in time immemorial. Just recently, the media has stirred up the pious public of America. In the distant
state of Louisiana, a coffee shop waiter dared to serve a cappuccino to a visitor, while decorating the drink with caramel patterns in the form of symbols of Satanism - the pentagram and the same three sixes. What was it - hooliganism or a hint of the imminent coming of the Prince of Darkness? Not specified. But the mystical fear of an evil number is obvious. From here myths and gossip are born on the topic: "What will happen if you call the number" 666 "?".
And if for science?
And science claims that a combination of three sixes is a sign of the element that underlies organic life - carbon: it contains 6 protons, 6 neutrons and 6 electrons. Even more everyday - this is the code for connecting to a stationary MultiCom PBX. And in the cosmic sense, NGC 666 is the designation of the Galaxy from the constellation Triangle.
Few people know that the fear of the three sixes has an unpronounceable name: "hexacosiohexecontaghexaphobia." How do you like it? However, this phenomenon is so widespread that there are cases of renaming the routes of buses, trains, and even the numbers of polling stations (!) Before the elections to the Russian State Duma.
But in eastern cultures, in particular, Chinese, the number "6" is considered lucky. So in the East, the question is: “What happens if you call“ 666 ”?” unlikely to be relevant.
For whom is 666 a lucky number?
For the popular German band “666”, adhering to the Euro Dance style, three sixes became not only a name, but also a code of luck. Under this brand, the musicians received as many as fifteen gold and four platinum awards. They also own a record for dance music: a group of 112 weeks held out in the first lines of the sales charts. In the musical world, the "number of the beast" is generally not indifferent. There is a band with the same name in Hungary, and the most popular album of the Greek rock band Aphrodites Child is entitled ... what do you think? Of course, 666!
Phone number as a look into the abyss
Some statistics are marching on the World Wide Web, according to which more than 70% of suicides in America occurred after a fatal call to the “devil's number”. True, there is no data on who summed up the statistics, where it came from and where it was published.
Scary, of course ... A man is afraid of everything that he cannot explain. But curiosity is corroding, and it is stronger than all horrors. Is it not from the same series that sessions of spiritualism, fortune-telling in front of mirrors, magic rituals using satanic paraphernalia - the number "666" and an inverted pentagram? Compared to some of them, a call to the number “666” seems like child's play ...
The mystery of numbers actually exists, and no one disputes the connection between numerology and human destinies. But the study of this ancient science is the lot of the enlightened. The trouble is, when amateurs begin to do this in all seriousness.
And now the question has ripened: "Why?" Why peer into the abyss, which, as the most gloomy of psychologists and philosophers Nietzsche said, will itself peer into you?