Since I work at a desk all day and since I prefer listening to music while working, I bring my MP3 CDs with me to work and transfer them to my hard drive. Most of the time, I stick to specific genres and the Winamp playlists run between 200-400 songs.
A few days ago, I decided to go bigger and transferred almost my entire electronica collection over. The playlist stood at 1356 files and ran to over 158 hours. One of the albums I had ripped and encoded was The Orb's Orblivion. Track 7 is titled "S.A.L.T."
The song has an extended and edited sample from a 1993 movie written and directed by Mike Leigh called Naked.
Oh, do you ever get the feeling that you're being followed?Are you not familiar with the book of Revelations of St. John, the final book of the Bible prophesied the apocalypse?
He forced everyone to receive a mark on his right hand and on his forehead, so that no one shall be able to buy or sell unless he has the mark, which is the name of the beast and the number of his name and the number of the beast is 666.
What can such a specific prophesy mean?
What is the mark?
The mark is the barcode, the ubiquitous barcode, that you'll find on every bog roll and every packet of Johnnies and every poxy pork pie. Every barcode is divided into two parts by three markers, those three markers always represented by the number 6 6 6 6.
Now what does it say? No one shall be able to buy or sell without that mark. And now what they're planning to do in order to eradicate all credit card fraud, in order to precipitate a totally cashless society, what they're planning to do they've already tested on the American troops, they're going to subcutaneously laser tattoo a mark onto your right hand or onto your forehead. They're going to replace plastic with flesh. Fact!
In the same book of Revelations when the Seven Seals were broken open on the Day of Judgment, when the seven angels blow the trumpets and third angel blows up wormwood, wormwood will fall from the sky. Wormwood will poison the third part, and all the waters in the third part and all the land and many many many people will die. Now do you know what the Russian translation of wormwood is? Chernobyl. Fact!
On August the 18th, 1999 the planets of our solar system are going to line up into the shape of a cross.
They're going to line up in the fixed signs of Aquarius, Leo, Taurus and Scorpio. Which just happen to correspond to the four beasts of the Apocalypse as mentioned in the book of Daniel. Another fact!
Do you think that the amoeba ever dreamed it would evolve into the frog. And when that first frog shimmied out of the water and employed it's vocal cords in order to attract a mate onto the turn of gravity, did that frog ever imagine that the insignificant call would evolve into all the languages of the world into all the literature of the world? And just as that froggie could never have conceived of Shakespeare so we can not possibly imagine our destiny. Look, if you take the whole of time and represent it by one year, were only in the first few moments of the first of January. There's a long way to go. Only now were not going to spout extra limbs and wings and fins because evolution itself is evolving. When it comes, the apocalypse itself will be part of the process of that leap of evolution. By the very definition of apocalypse, mankind must cease to exist, at least in a material form. We'll evolve into something that transcends matter, into a species of pure thought. Are you with me?
What's spooky is I first listened to the song on Winamp's shuffle setting, so I didn't know what position it had in the list as a whole. It's position was - get this - 666th.
*blink*
So that was kinda nifty. Of course, that was yesterday. Today, I came in and did my normal routine, starting up Winamp along the way. It randomly choose a the last track from Paul Oakenfold's Essential Millenium 3 CD called "Fly Away" and originally written by The Source. The CD must have been scratched or something because there are several parts where the MP3 glitches out and becomes unlistenable.So I deleted it from the playlist, moving everything below it up on spot. The very next album in the list is Orblivion, meaning "S.A.L.T." is now in 665th place. So I guess I'm safe from Attack of the Numerological Satanists or whatever.
Interesting notes on the August date prophecy mentioned in the movie:
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Many historians believe that 666 was referring to Nero, because letters in both hebrew and greek can also be represented by numbers. Apparently 666 is the numerical representation of Nero. The christians at the time did think the world was ending (and in a way it was), and they also had good reason to see Nero as the anti-christ. The problem is that the world "ending" for early christians would have had a similar meaning in practice to what it does today; the fall of civilization. Which is why we consider an era where civilization has effectively fallen apart to be post-apocalyptic. Now religious and superstitious people are going to attribute all sorts of religious significance to such a time, claiming that they will be wisked up into heaven or transcend the earth plane etc. The reason for this is because if they honestly believe bad times are ahead it would challenge their faith to believe that they are going to have to endure them (or be killed by them) rather than being wisked off to salvation and 40 virgins in heaven. The early christians saw the fall of civilization (rome) and ultimately had to endure the dark ages.
Posted by: Rainbough on August 3, 2004 12:47 PM