Sensei: Exclusively on Inside Edition!

Post by **sensei** » Fri May 12, 2006 2:48 pm

I don't know if anyone watches Inside Edition, the slightly sleezy syndicated answer to 60 Minutes etc. But if so, you might want to keep an eye out for me tonight (Friday) and over the next couple of days. I'll be part of the "6/6/06" report, on the issue of whether this is "The Day of the Beast" or the cosmically planned occasion for the apocalypse or other brands of Bad News.

Their researchers turned up my name on the 'Net, logically enough, since I'm one of a relatively small number of academics who have published on satanism and have done TV screen time, as in the British-made docudrama "W.S.H," (aka "Weird [Feces] Happens"). So they paid my travel expenses into New York yesterday and sat me down for about 20 minutes interviewing. They seemed to be unusually happy with the results, and from what I'm hearing now, they decided they had enough with their other sound bites to make the 6/6/06 report into two segments.

One will run tonight, the other will run sometime before the Seven Equestrian Shinigami get galloping.

Check listings, as "Inside Edition" runs on different networks at various times, depending on your area.

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Fri May 12, 2006 2:48 pm

Checking. . . stand by.

Post by **sensei** » Fri May 12, 2006 2:49 pm

Cloud wrote:Checking. . . stand by.

I figured I'd at least get Cloud to watch ...

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Fri May 12, 2006 2:50 pm

I think I'm falling asleep.

vampyreshoujo · Post by **vampyreshoujo** » Fri May 12, 2006 3:49 pm

Very cool, sensei! Thanks for the heads up - I know I'll definitely be tuning in!

Lynxa · Post by **Lynxa** » Fri May 12, 2006 4:16 pm

AWWWWW! I missed it already today!!!

: It came on at four!!!

Maybe they'll replay it again or something....

Post by **sensei** » Fri May 12, 2006 5:13 pm

They're going to do a second part on pregnant women who are going to be induced so their child isn't born on 6/6/06. I guess I'll be part of that too. It's the usual racket: a half sentence here, a nearly complete sentence there. They did show the cover of my book.

I'm surprised that they took my suggestion that they note that on the last 6/6/06, the Lusitania was christened, and didn't mention that it not only sank with huge loss of life, but the cause--a torpedo from a German submarine--helped bring the US into World War I.

While I agree that most of this is hype, when I do my On Golden Pond retirement cruise, I'm going to inspect the ship's papers and make sure it wasn't launched on June 6, '06. Also to make sure that the registration number doesn't include 4 or 9 ("death"/"torment" in Japanese), 13, 17 (in Roman numerals it's an anagram for VIXI, Latin for "I have ceased to live"), 11, 77, 93, 175 (the numbers of the four 9/11 hijacked flights), 191 (the only flight number to have experienced two crashes), or 666.

Other than that, I should be OK.

Kujaku · Post by **Kujaku** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:41 pm

sensei wrote:While I agree that most of this is hype, when I do my On Golden Pond retirement cruise, I'm going to inspect the ship's papers and make sure it wasn't launched on June 6, '06. Also to make sure that the registration number doesn't include 4 or 9 ("death"/"torment" in Japanese), 13, 17 (in Roman numerals it's an anagram for VIXI, Latin for "I have ceased to live"), 11, 77, 93, 175 (the numbers of the four 9/11 hijacked flights), 191 (the only flight number to have experienced two crashes), or 666.

Other than that, I should be OK.

LOL, good luck with that!!

I didn't read this thread until now, so I missed it as well.

I'll make sure to catch the next one!

animeobsessed · Post by **animeobsessed** » Fri May 12, 2006 10:11 pm

I read this in time to watch...it was definitely interesting. It could have been much longer. I'll have to watch the second part.

I may have to look at your book...what is the title again * sorry I didn't remember*

transmet · Post by **transmet** » Fri May 12, 2006 11:33 pm

Hey, congrats on getting some exposure for your research and your book sensei. And while I would call Inside Edition more tabloid than sleaze (yes, there's a difference), either way, "as long as they're talking about you" as the saying goes.

Also, I thought the actual number of the beast is 616, nes pas?

Then there's 660 - approximate number of the Beast, DCLXVI - Roman numeral of the Beast, etc.

Some other numbers to fear: 777 - 23 - 1,2,3,5,8,13,21 - 0xdeadbeef.

Finally, a more significant date will be December 21, 2012, as this will finish off the Mayan calendar cycle. It will mark the end of the Piscean Age of secular materialism and usher in the true beginning of the Age of Aquarius, which will last for one thousand years. It's also prophesied in Revelations chapter 20, verses 1-3.
Rush was way ahead of Iron Maiden on this (although, Derek Riggs apparently gets it).

Post by **sensei** » Sat May 13, 2006 7:55 pm

Thanks for watching, Cloud (zzz), vampyreshoujo, and animeobsessed. For the rest, watch this website next week to get a preview of when it might run:

http://www.insideedition.com/

(Click on "More Inside Stories" if you don't see it here.)

animeobsessed, the book they plugged was "Raising the Devil" (U. Kentucky Press). For a heady couple of months that was on Amazon's top 20 list of books selling briskly in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, area, giving "Buddhist Scriptures" a run for its money. Alas, that was because it was used as a textbook in a mythology course there, and Amazon drastically undercut the Harvard Book Store's price.

You can also look up "Lucifer Ascending," "Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults," and for apparently incurable cases of insomnia, "The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Consular Letters 1853-55."

Yes, transmet, a number of ancient manuscripts say "six hundred and sixteen" instead of "six hundred and sixty and six." Clearly there was some kind of encoded message here, and both the original author and the original audience was clear on who was being identified as the Servant of the Beast. Since letters were used as numbers then (with Arabic numerals a thousand years in the future), it was a common practice to add up the numbers in a given name to learn "your number." "I love she whose name is 345" is a common graffito found in Pompeii and other ancient ruins. Another reads: "Calculate this: Nero = killed his mother." (The numerical value for the name "Nero" equaled the sum of the values of the letters in the rest of the "equation.")

No one can be sure who the original Mr. 616/666 was, but the fact that manuscripts vary suggests that one was a public figure contemporary with the original version but who was later replaced by another person of the same ilk. "Gaius [Caligula] Caesar" = 616, using the Aramaic system, and "Nero Caesar" = 666 using the same values. Caligula reigned from 37-41 and was demonized by Jews (Christians then being only a radical faction of Judaism) for proposing to put a statue of himself (the "abomination of desolation" mentioned in several places in the NT) in the Holy of Holies of the Jerusalem Temple. Nero reigned from 54-68 and instigated the first widespread persecution of Christians. So both would be good candidates for the Servant of the Beast, whom scholars are agreed was a personification of the Roman Empire.

I'll watch out that my retirement cruise doesn't sail on 12/21/12, but, remembering Martin Luther's comment when he was asked what he would do if an angel told him tomorrow was Judgment Day, I'll probably plant a seed the night before.

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Sat May 13, 2006 7:56 pm

Is that among the best things you can say?

vampyreshoujo · Post by **vampyreshoujo** » Sat May 13, 2006 9:17 pm

sensei wrote:Thanks for watching, Cloud (zzz), vampyreshoujo

I'm sorry, sensei, but after saying "[I'd] definitely be tuning in"... I... I.. missed it!

The darn show airs at 2:33 AM here. I thought I'd be able to stay up and catch it, but pooped out at around 1:30-ish. (I knew I should've put a tape on... grrr.

) (Of course, then I woke up at 6:30 because I had fallen asleep with my contacts on.. )

The weekend edition airs early Monday morning at 2:30 so I'll definitely be putting a tape on for that one.

Sorry I ended up missing you though, sensei.

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Sat May 13, 2006 9:19 pm

Which one is that?