What happens if I call 666? Secrets of the number "666"

Three sixes are the "number of the beast." This frightening numerology came to life for many after the video distribution of the series "Omen". People internally shrank with horror, but again and again revised a series of mystical thriller. Strange as it may seem, the fear of the other world turned ... the frenzied popularity of the triple combination of the number "6". Among the young car owners it is considered to be a special chic to get a car number "666", in extreme cases "999" - three upturned sixes.

Telephone Extreme

And here is a new fashion - telephone "six" numbers. Where is there to the usual number of "13", which only promises a failure. Strashnenky number - it's cool, no money is not a pity! And what happens if you call 666? Country nepuganyh ... ignorant! It should be noted that such extreme claims can only be observed among young people. Older people - those are more cautious: who knows, and suddenly, in fact, something or someone is behind an unpleasant numeric code? As they say, stay away from sin.

Scarecrows from the virtual space

The Internet teems with stories in a retelling of those who ventured to call the number "666". All of them begin approximately the same way: it was evening, to do, just like in a children's verse, there was absolutely nothing to do. And the guys and girls started to frighten and podozzhivat each other: they say, who is the bravest? The bold were always. At first the handset answered that there was no such number, but in some cases the whistles did go. At the other end of the line, after the subscriber's response, there was silence, then crackling and ... indistinct voices.

At this stage, the certificates diverge. Someone said that he would come for him ("Freddie will come for you"). Someone began to call back a mysterious character, even on those phones that did not make a single call. And someone saw in his room a figure in a hood that pursued the unfortunate until the idea of suicide was ripe for him. But the eerie stranger prevented him from committing suicide and getting relief, while the "daredevil" did not agree to sign a paper on the sale of his soul with blood ...

The Voice of the Faith of the Unbeliever

If someone does not know, Thomas is a biblical character who doubted everything. In this case, disbelief can be a life-saving circle in the abyss of superstition. In the World Wide Web there are also those who consider the fear of mystical numerology as utter nonsense. They share their own experiences on the topic: "What happens if I call 666?" Nothing will happen, say the followers of the theory of materialism. There are no such numbers. The answering machine will notify you that such a subscriber is not registered in the network. And if someone answers, it means that he is a daredevil who, for example, has got a phone number "666 66 66", or something like that. If fear is completely overwhelmed, - sober heads advise, - it is only necessary to think that this is a self-suggestion. And believers enough to cross.

Where are the roots of fear?

"The number of the beast" is mentioned in the biblical revelation of John the Theologian, and the number is "666". This is a harbinger of the Apocalypse, the accession of Satan in the world. The magic of numbers seems to be cooling the hearts of our contemplative contemporaries no less than in times immemorial. Recently the media has stirred up the pious public of America. In the distant state of Louisiana, the waiter of the coffee shop dared to serve the cappuccino visitor, while decorating the drink with caramel patterns in the form of satanic symbols - the pentagram and those three sixes. What was it - hooliganism or a hint of the imminent coming of the Prince of Darkness? Not specified. But there is an obvious mystical fear of an evil figure. Hence, myths and gossip are born on the topic: "What happens if I call 666?".

And if by science?

And science claims that the combination of the three sixes is a sign of the element underlying the organic life - carbon: it consists of 6 protons, 6 neutrons and 6 electrons. Even more routine is the code of connection to the fixed automatic telephone exchange "Multicom". 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 a hard-to-pronounce name: "hexakosyoygexecontaghexafobia." How are you? However, the phenomenon is so widespread that there are known cases of renaming buses, trains and even numbers of polling stations (!) Before the elections to the State Duma of Russia.

But in the eastern cultures, in particular, Chinese, the figure "6" is considered happy. So in the East the question is: "What happens if I call number 666?" Unlikely to be relevant.

For whom is "666" a lucky number?

For the popular German band "666", which adheres to the style of Euro Dance, three sixes became not only a name, but also a success code. Under this brand, musicians received as many as fifteen gold and four platinum awards. They also own a record for dance music: the group lasted 112 weeks in the first line of the sales charts. In the music world, to "the number of the beast" are 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 ... how would you think? Of course, 666!

Phone number as a look into the abyss

According to the World Wide Web, some statistics show that more than 70% of suicides in America occurred after a fatal call to the "devil's number." True, there is no data about who summed up the statistics, where it came from and where it was published.

Scary, of course ... A person frightens everything that he can not explain. But curiosity eats away, and it is stronger than all horrors. Is it not from the same series of sessions of spiritualism, divination in front of mirrors, magical rituals using the satanic attributes - the number "666" and the inverted pentagram? In comparison with some of them, the call to number "666" will seem like a child's play ...

The mystery of numbers actually exists, and no one disputes the relationship between numerology and human destinies. But the study of this ancient science is the lot of the enlightened. The trouble is when amateurs start to deal with this seriously.

And now the question has ripened: "Why?" Why peer into the abyss, which, as the most gloomy of psychologists and philosophers Nietzsche said, will begin to peer at you?