Welcome Class, to Room 666...Again

[Spidey_Freak]

Ah, I see you work through This secret org.

 

[The Spawn]

We control everything including google.com. The Illuminati sweats us. By the way, not that this is useful, but there was a fan site made about the organization a few years ago:


www.geocities.com/stolen_darkness

 

[C. Lee]

Spawny is really Bill Gates!!

 

[STINK-E]

The Spawn you are a little strange, but easily the most interesting poster on the Hype...

 

[The Spawn]

I suposse that's a compliment.

 

[STINK-E]

Yeah, definitely. Most posts are spam and just plain boring.

 

[The Spawn]

I suposse you are correct.

 

[Assassin32]

Greatest Thread Ever.

Do you have anything on famous Angels and Demons/Devils?

 

[The Spawn]

St. Gabriel the Archangel
"Fortitudo Dei", one of the three archangels mentioned in the Bible. Only four appearances of Gabriel are recorded:


In Dan., viii, he explains the vision of the horned ram as portending the destruction of the Persian Empire by the Macedonian Alexander the Great, after whose death the kingdom will be divided up among his generals, from one of whom will spring Antiochus Epiphanes.
In chapter ix, after Daniel had prayed for Israel, we read that "the man Gabriel . . . . flying swiftly touched me" and he communicated to him the mysterious prophecy of the "seventy weeks" of years which should elapse before the coming of Christ. In chapter x, it is not clear whether the angel is Gabriel or not, but at any rate we may apply to him the marvellous description in verses 5 and 6.
In N.T. he foretells to Zachary the birth of the Precursor, and
to Mary that of the Saviour.
Thus he is throughout the angel of the Incarnation and of Consolation, and so in Christian tradition Gabriel is ever the angel of mercy while Michael is rather the angel of judgment. At the same time, even in the Bible, Gabriel is, in accordance with his name, the angel of the Power of God, and it is worth while noting the frequency with which such words as "great", "might", "power", and "strength" occur in the passages referred to above. The Jews indeed seem to have dwelt particularly upon this feature in Gabriel's character, and he is regarded by them as the angel of judgment, while Michael is called the angel of mercy. Thus they attribute to Gabriel the destruction of Sodom and of the host of Sennacherib, though they also regard him as the angel who buried Moses, and as the man deputed to mark the figure Tau on the foreheads of the elect (Ezech., 4). In later Jewish literature the names of angels were considered to have a peculiar efficacy, and the British Museum possesses some magic bowls inscribed with Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac incantations in which the names of Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel occur. These bowls were found at Hillah, the site of Babylon, and constitute an interesting relic of the Jewish captivity. In apocryphal Christian literature the same names occur, cf. Enoch, ix, and the Apocalypse of the Blessed Virgin.

As remarked above, Gabriel is mentioned only twice in the New Testament, but it is not unreasonable to suppose with Christian tradition that it is he who appeared to St. Joseph and to the shepherds, and also that it was he who "strengthened" Our Lord in the garden (cf. the Hymn for Lauds on 24 March). Gabriel is generally termed only an archangel, but the expression used by St. Raphael, "I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before the Lord" (Tob., xii, 15) and St. Gabriel's own words, "I am Gabriel, who stand before God" (Luke 1, 19), have led some to think that these angels must belong to the highest rank; but this is generally explained as referring to their rank as the highest of God's messengers, and not as placing them among the Seraphim and Cherubim (cf. St. Thomas, I, Q. cxii, a.3; III, Q. xxx, a.2, ad 4um).

 

[Hicks]

Nevermind.

 

[The Spawn]

Abaddon
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Also Apollyon, Appolyon and Appolion (Greek). Abaddon — literally meaning destruction, ruin or perdition — is the Hebrew name of the demon identified as the 'angel' of the bottomless pit, or the abyss, in Revelation, 9, 11. Also known as 'The Destroyer', from his role as one of the destroying angels of the Apocalypse. In Job 26:6, and Proverbs 15:11, the word Abaddon arises in conjunction with Sheol.

Abaddon/Apollyon is the chief of the demons of the seventh hierarchy, the king of the grasshoppers, or demon locusts (described as having the bodies of winged war-horses, the faces of humans, and the poisonous curved tails of scorpions).

Cornelius Agrippa was the one that equated Abaddon with Apollyon, and positioned him as the monarch in the lower shadow of the sphere of the planet Venus, which is the Sephirah of Netzach on the Kabbalistic Tree:

"The seventh mansion the Furies possess, which are powers of evil, discords, war and devastations, whose prince in the Revelations is called in Greek Apollyon, in Hebrew Abaddon, that is destroying and wasting"
(Occult Philosophy, Book 3, Chapter 18).

The biblical verse cited by Agrippa is Revelation 9:11, which reads:

"And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon."

As described in Revelation, Apollyon opens the gates of the abyss and unleashes upon the earth his swarms of demons locusts, who then proceed to torture those of mankind who do not bear the seal of God upon their forehead. After that, he is supposed to seize Satan himself, bind him and toss him into the bottomless pit for a thousand years.

The role of Apollyon in biblical references is ambiguous, sometimes being described as a good angel who serves God, and sometimes also being described as a fallen angel who succumbed to evil.

The word Apollyon and its variations are sometimes used to mean Hell itself (in the Old Testament the name Abaddon is used for the place of the dead). The word Abbadon is also used for Hell in rabbinical literature. Milton, in Paradise Lost, also used the name for the pit itself:

"In all her gates Abbadon rues
Thy bold attempt."
(Paradise Regained, iv 1671)

 

[The Spawn]

I knew where it was the moment I typed '...Again'.

 

[Assassin32]

Do aliens.

 

[The Spawn]

http://ufos.about.com/

 

[Assassin32]

Is there anything on people claiming to see, or being, real life superheroes? Because that would be really interesting.

 

[The Spawn]

There was some guy a while back who ran around with a bag on his head.

 

[Assassin32]

How superheroic.

 

[The Lizard]

Originally posted by The Spawn

On April 25, 1977 the Japanese fishing vessel Zuiyo Maru pulled the carcass shown above out of the sea.

The fishermen could not identify the creature, but believed it might have been a sea serpent. They took pictures of the carcass and then threw it back into the sea, fearing that the rotting flesh would contaminate their catch. The pictures appeared in newspapers throughout the world.

Chemical analysis of samples of the carcass later determined that the creature was probably a species of shark.

This has actually led to the creation of the term "pseudo-plesiosaur" to describe the carcass of a shark (ususally Basking sharks) that decay in a fashion that creates a plesiosaur-like corpse.


The decaying whale carcasses that leave blubber that has in the past been mistaken for giant octopus corpses is a similar situation. ( Google up the word "globster" for more detail on this.)

 

[Bloody Vixen]

Wow...another one?

 

[hippie_hunter]

Originally posted by The Spawn
By becoming one.

You @$$hole. How do I catch a hippy soul?

 

[The Spawn]

By...becoming...one

 

[Bloody Vixen]

...Weird...

 

[The Spawn]

Wow, I just realized something...the second part of you sn is 'hunter'. Thus denying the fact that you yourself would to become a hippie.

 

[The Spawn]

Cipher Help

A cipher is a way to transforming a message so that it can not be easily read. The encrypted message is called a cryptogram or ciphertext. A substitution cipher is one in which each letter of the plaintext is replaced by some other symbol. Usually the replacement symbols are themselves letters of the alphabet, but they don't always have to be.

Solving substitution ciphers might seem hard at first, especially when you don't have any clues to go by, but it's usually not really so difficult once you get started. The key is to look for familiar elements. For instance, look for two-letter words, which most likely will be words like in, of, it, to, is, and so on. Also, look for double letters within words, which most likely will be oo, ss, ee, etc.

If you see the same three-letter word combination more than once within a phrase, chances are good that it will be the word the, although other words are possible. It also helps to remember the frequency with which we use letters of the alphabet. If you see one letter used more often than any others, chances are it's E or T.

The best thing to do is just plunge ahead with a hunch and see if it leads you anywhere. Copy the ciphers onto paper and play with some letter combinations. For instance, if you think a particular letter equals E, write an E above all those letters and work from there. You might have to back up and try another letter, but that's all part of the fun!

Here are a few tips about the normal frequency of different letter combinations in the English language that will help you in your quest...

Order of frequency of single letters
E T O A N I R S H D L C W U M F YG P B V K X Q J Z

Order of frequency of digraphs (two letter combinations)
th er on an re he in ed nd ha at en es of or
nt ea ti to it st io le is ou ar as de rt ve

Order of frequency of trigraphs
the and tha ent ion tio for nde has nce edt tis oft sth men

Order of frequency of most common doubles
ss ee tt ff 11 mm oo

Order of frequency of initial letters
T O A W B C D S F M R H I Y E G L N P U J K

Order of frequency of final letters
E S T D N R Y F L O G H A R M P U W

One-letter words
a, I, 0.

Most frequent two-letter words
of, to, in, it, is, be, as, at, so, we, he, by,
or, on, do, if, me, my, up, an, go, no, us, am...

Most frequent three-letter words
the, and, for, are, but, not, you, all, any, can,
had, her, was, one, our, out, day, get, has, him,
his, how, man, new, now, old, see, two, way, who,
boy, did, its, let, put, say, she, too, use...

Most frequent four-letter words
that, with, have, this, will, your, from, they,
know, want, been, good, much, some, time, very,
when, come, here, just, like, long, make, many, more,
only, over, such, take, than, them, well, were...

 

[Jaguar God]

Hey Spawn, how goes the superhero thing?
Pummel any baddies lately?