Notos 666

[Rannie]

I have been informed that it is highly inappropriate to tell people that the Rapture came and went years ago and ask what they did to be left behind.

Oh I need to use that the next time Jehova Witnesses come to my door to preach and pawn off The Watch Tower to me... either that or inform them that I charge by the minute to listen to them.

By the way when am I allowed to be offended by Christian references in the game. Like Vauthry when he goes on the richard Simmons diet and loses weight via Sweatin to the Oldies?

[Saraide]

Wouldnt a much more appropriate way to depict that number be 1641? If 7 indicates perfection why are we not using it as base for our numbers? You better be scared of many more numbers:
1010011010 (base 2)
29A (base 16)
1D6 (base 20, shouts out to all tabletop players)
and most scared of all of course! Base 6: 3030

I have been informed that it is highly inappropriate to tell people that the Rapture came and went years ago and ask what they did to be left behind.

Oh damn, my bad.

[Shibi]

When is the end of the world happening?

My name is Rabbit and I don’t know nothing.

[Renalt]

My name is Rabbit and I don’t know nothing.

Double Negative! He knows something!

[Raoabolic]

I have been informed that it is highly inappropriate to tell people that the Rapture came and went years ago and ask what they did to be left behind.

AK-CHU-LEE, it's a sin to predict the rapture since only God™ knows the true date and from what I can tell it's a sin to step into God's™ terrority, which includes things like seeing the future and such.

[MilkieTea]

To be completely serious, the final book of the bible was a response to current events of the time. The numbers 666 were used to represent Emperor Nero, the "beast", and this is supported by the Hebrew's regular use of numerology (Gematria).

This is how we also know that it might've been a "mistranslation" when the bible says 666, because in Hebrew gematria, 666 is equal to nrwn qsr (Neron Cesear), whereas 616 is equal to nrw qsr (Nero Cesear).

The usage of 6 to refer to Satan (directly translated to just "The Adversary") does not mean that a series of 666's is evil. It's used to mean that the adversary will never be a "perfect 7". Jesus' gematria in greek is a series of 8's (888), to indicate that he surpasses the "perfect 7."

No, 666 is not the devil's number. Yes, 666/616 finds its' way in the bible. No, it was not used to reference the devil. Yes, it was used to reference Emperor Nero, who was considered by Christians to be evil, without alerting Nero or his supporters.

Side note, I honestly think it's highly disrespectful to dumb down the numbers to "omg EvULLL!" when there was so much more thought put into it. Like, these people developed an intricate numerological language based on addition, used it to safely reference current events while fearing for their lives, and you're going to spit in their face and dumb it down to "ZOMG DEBUL NUMBAH!!!"? Wow.

[Atelier-Bagur]

I think it's time to close this thread.

Literally not talking about the game anymore.

[TheMightyMollusk]

There are some decent churches out there that really are just looking out for people and trying to help. Unfortunately, you never hear about those.

[Renalt]

So...fun story about religion...

I was unfortunate enough to be forced to go to a private Christian school for the duration of my High School life ( I'm still salty about this...I feel like I was robbed of a normal high school life ) and pretty much there were two groups of people. People brainwashed by the church of the school that were the children of the parents that went to the school who also happened to be the teachers...or people who were forced cause they were problem kids...like myself!

Anyway this is one of those extremist schools...you know...casting out demons and speaking in Tongues and whatnot. I kid you not I had a day where a girl threw herelf on the ground and starting biting and cursing people so people are like...trying to do Lay on Hands and cure her of her demons. I'm just trying to get to my Chemistry class guys can't you drag her away from the middle of the hall? No? Ok I'll just go the long way around.

One time they were doing these...prayer lines? Well I'm at the start and the priest says some stuff...I'm not paying attention and then he just pokes my head. He then looks at me weird and pokes my forehead again and I'm like "Jab me with those boney fingers again and you're losing them". Well he moves to the girl next to me and says things and pokes her and she throws herself on the ground just bawling her eyes out and I'm like "Ok yeah I'm gonna just excuse myself over here".

They had me video and do the sound for their basketball games cause I was the only one who knew to work it. At some of the games I had a play list that was "religious safe" and I would sneak in Madonna's "Like a Prayer" because it SOUNDS religious...but them double meanings flew over their head...but one adult looks over at me and just does that one slight and slow nod like in that meme. He knew. I knew. It was great cause everyone in the bleachers is just singing along and I'm just grinning ear to ear cause I knew what that song was really about.

Fun Times. I hated it.

[Crimen]

So...fun story about religion...

I was unfortunate enough to be forced to go to a private Christian school for the duration of my High School life ( I'm still salty about this...I feel like I was robbed of a normal high school life ) and pretty much there were two groups of people. People brainwashed by the church of the school that were the children of the parents that went to the school who also happened to be the teachers...or people who were forced cause they were problem kids...like myself!

Anyway this is one of those extremist schools...you know...casting out demons and speaking in Tongues and whatnot. I kid you not I had a day where a girl threw herelf on the ground and starting biting and cursing people so people are like...trying to do Lay on Hands and cure her of her demons. I'm just trying to get to my Chemistry class guys can't you drag her away from the middle of the hall? No? Ok I'll just go the long way around.

One time they were doing these...prayer lines? Well I'm at the start and the priest says some stuff...I'm not paying attention and then he just pokes my head. He then looks at me weird and pokes my forehead again and I'm like "Jab me with those boney fingers again and you're losing them". Well he moves to the girl next to me and says things and pokes her and she throws herself on the ground just bawling her eyes out and I'm like "Ok yeah I'm gonna just excuse myself over here".

They had me video and do the sound for their basketball games cause I was the only one who knew to work it. At some of the games I had a play list that was "religious safe" and I would sneak in Madonna's "Like a Prayer" because it SOUNDS religious...but them double meanings flew over their head...but one adult looks over at me and just does that one slight and slow nod like in that meme. He knew. I knew. It was great cause everyone in the bleachers is just singing along and I'm just grinning ear to ear cause I knew what that song was really about.

Fun Times. I hated it.

As someone who was forced to go through the entirety of her middle school and high school at a Catholic school, I salute you. You see some CRAZY stuff there. Funny stuff, playing FFX was kinda the start of me realizing religion was not for me. Graduating from Catholic school cemented that for me. I respect religious people, as long as they don't use it as an excuse to mistreat others.

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To be back on track with the original topic and as a response to the OP: as others have said, considering this game's developers come from different beliefs and cultures, I wouldn't take it too seriously, there was no harm intended.