online oddsmaker: the world a 100,000-to-1 favorite to survive 6/6/06

[Kadie]

A Calendar Date to End All Others Nears
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer

Sunday, June 4, 2006


(06-04) 09:21 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --


Is Tuesday's date — 6-6-6 — merely a curious number or could it mean our number is up?


There's a devilishly odd nexus of theology, mathematics and commercialism on the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year. OK, it's just the sixth year of this millennium, but insisting on calling it 2006 takes the devil-may-care fun out of calendar-gazing.


Something about the number 666 brings out the worry, the hope and even the humor in people, said the Rev. Felix Just, a professor of theology at the University of San Francisco. A Jesuit priest, Just has taught both apocalyptic theory and mathematics and maintains a "666-Numbers of the Beast" Web site that contains history, theology, math and precisely 66 one-line jokes about 666.


You can even make sport of it, betting online whether the apocalypse will happen on that date. The good news is that one online oddsmaker has made the world a 100,000-to-1 favorite to survive Tuesday — something that Just said is supported by theology.


"Many people avoid the number; they're afraid of it almost and there's absolutely no reason to be afraid of it," Just said. "It is not a prediction of future events. It is not supposed to be taken as a timetable for when the world is going to end."

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oh my....

[bloom]

1. I would like to think we have better odds than 100,000 to 1

:shrug:

[Nostradammit]

2. How you gonna collect if it does end?

Seems like a bad bet to me.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Wonder if a lot of dumbass freeper fundies will be disappointed

when the sun rises as usual on Wednesday morning and they haven't been raptured or anything.

[WhiteTara]

4. yeah but will we survive

12 12 12?