Illinois Lotto numbers make some believe Obama is the antichrist

[Mari333]

Obama not the Antichrist, Debunker finds
In a world of rumors, urban legends and outright lies, Debunker finds the truth ...



The rumor: The day after Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, the Illinois State Lottery's winning numbers came up as the "number of the beast"—666.






http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-talk-debunkernov19,0,3729098.story


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[marmar]

1. The eternal mindf**k that is organized religion has screwed this world up more than anything.....

n/t

[Crankie Avalon]

2. Well, how much more of a sign do you want than that!!! Palin don't look so bad now, does she? nt

[gollygee]

3. Statistically, it has to get that number some of the time

People don't always understand the concept of "random".

[Mari333]

4. when i worked in retail as a cashier

I would occasionally ring up a receipt for a customer that was '$6.66'
I would laugh and tell the customer, and usually they laughed.
But sometimes they would get wide eyed and stare at me and say OH NO! and hurriedly buy something else to change the number on the receipt...which made me ponder.....

[jeepnstein]

5. It takes all kinds.

The kinds of folks who fall for that old "666" trap don't spend much time actually reading what Revelation says. It's easier to just take someone's word for it. You should have seen the time I asked one of those doom and gloomers to actually find the passage in the Bible about a "dark skinned man" who was prophesied about in the "end times". He stumbled and bumbled around and it was painfully obvious that he couldn't even find Revelation, much less the passage he was quoting. I lovingly let him off the hook by explaining a small bit about it and why it's not some kind of punch list to get us to Armageddon.

I once had to buy dog tag "666" because the woman in line in front of me was having a cow over it. She somehow thought her little precious fuzzy bundle of love would be transformed into a fire-breath hound of hell if she put the tag on it. She offered to pray for my dog and I thanked her because he needed all the help he could get considering who owned him. From that day on, the county reserved dog number "666" for me and it became quite a running joke.

[surrealAmerican]

6. I like the dog story, but you gotta wonder why the clerk ...

... wouldn't just give her the next tag (667) without a fuss, since it was obviously so important to her.

[jeepnstein]

7. That's essentially what happened...

The clerk was just kind of amused by the extraordinary display of righteous indignation that little fluffy was about to be branded with the "mark of the beast". All the tags needed to be accounted for so the best thing to do was to sell it to someone who didn't have a hangup about a number.