hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia

according to wikipedia, this is the fear of the number 666. i think someone just typed in hex three times and phobia and let their cat fill in the rest. it's better than hexhexhexphobia. that just sounds stupid. hexakosiohexekontahexaphobia doesn't. try saying that out loud once. i dare you. if you can do that try it twice.

but why. why why why. six is a friendly enough number. sixty six means you've lived a while. but 666 means that your neighbor is probably the devil and why do you even live there anyway.
as is with many things, it's biblical. the reasoning for it is partially one of those "if you take this letter and that letter from this word and multiply it by four and add thirty seven, which is an age that this person once was, you get this number OH MY GOD IT'S SATAN." so there's that.

but i don't think it's really considered a devil's thing anymore. sure, he's got a monopoly on it, but what doesn't he have a monopoly. it's more of how we perceive it, though. like, if you told me you were born on june 6 2006, i'd ask you why you were talking to me because you are like eight. i probably wouldn't pick up on the fact that the kid's birthday is 666. (note: even better would be june 6, 1966) but as soon as someone mentions it, i have them down in my book as a devil child. (i'm going to disregard the fact that i consider most people devil children at some point or another, with few exceptions) if you tell me you were born at 6:66 i'll put you in my book as a demon and a moron.
and if you live at the address of 666 cloud road i'll assume you are just disguising yourself. i don't care what the number says, it's not the 14th floor. you can change it all you want, but it's not the 14th floor.

i'm scared enough of numbers like 84 in school and 10% acceptance rate and 39 because why is that a prime number and 18 because it means i'm legally an adult and 2015 and 1848 and all in all i don't need another number to fear.