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Nero (the Roman Emperor) was the beast of Revelation
fucking christians, learn your own fucking code
Oh Nero the Emperor! I always thought it was talking about Nero the CD burning software. Seems obvious now.
Nero Burning ROM was titled after Nero burning Rome.
Excuse me say what?! The old logo even shows a burning Coliseum and I still never put it together.
Jesus fucking christ... I always suspected I was dumb, but I didn't realize it was this bad. I'm going back to licking windows, this is too much
Me and you gonna have some clean windows.
Lol I love those moments where you find something that is easy to overlook if you don't think about it, but kind of a duh once you take a second to process.
I'm 54 and the revelations never fucking end. It's a daily struggle.
To live is to struggle it seems. No worries though, at least we can keep each other company on the struggle bus.
Toot toot! Get in loser, we crying
😂😅😭
Nero fiddled as Rome was burnt onto a CD-RW.
Ooo, where can I read more on that? I'll just google it if you don't have a specific link you like. That's the first I've heard that.
there's a lot of writing about how the Christians were coding their language at this time because writing about the god king was sure to be death, especially if you're trying to warn others
Anyways the code for number of the beast, 666 or 616 was basically Nero. He killed a lot of Christians. Revolations is code for the prediction of the fall of Rome
be real and think of that bronze age world and consider how much Rome controlled the world of people who could read and write. It was something very special to write a long message. It would be something that stands out like a big screen tv does to us. they had to hid meaningful things inside fantastic stories so when their caught, they have a way out
Definitely makes sense, I don't know enough of this kind of history.
I kinda wrote history as a subject off because all my schools focused on wars and not much else. So "history" felt like a bunch of wars and almost all of them were some variation of people in power wanting to show off their micro PPs with a few important revolutionary wars sprinkled in where the common people got sick of the people in power.
So I'm lacking in my "important details of history" knowledge that really help frame conditions as they are now. Appreciate the info, gonna go look up more.
Just start with Wikipedia there's no single source, it's pretty widely recognized.
Hold my beer, I'm going in
Fair enough, thanks!