Yeesh–as I’ve seen pointed out elsewhere, if you had a close family member who sat you down at the kitchen table and laid out this nonsense for you, there is no way that you wouldn’t at least consider psychiatric intervention of some sort.
To be clear, I’m not speculating about any specific mental illness, but I am pointing out that this is some bizarro-level shit that is something apart from just being the run of the mill asshole he’s been for some time. This isn’t just him using sock puppets to talk about how fuckable he is on the internet or speaking in his “persuasion” gibberish, this is some scary indicator stuff.
The Book of Revelation was the last book accepted into what we now consider the Bible, it’s not much better than the apocryphal books, and in fact is still left out of the commonly used Bible in many Eastern rite churches.
Nobody really knows who wrote the Book of Revelation, it could have been Satan himself to throw us off and/or trick us into creating the kind of chaos he thrives upon.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was not making us believe he didn’t exist, it was making us do the devil’s work while thinking we were doing God’s work.
I didn’t think an artist would be able to put me off their art. I still enjoy Kevin Spacey films. I still think Cosby is funny. I believe I learned something about life from Louis CK. They are terribly flawed people, but still great artists. What Scott Adams succeeded in doing though is to retroactively recast all his art. Dilbert isn’t poking fun at the system, society, and humanity - it’s poking fun at all us poor shlubs who in some way resemble Dilbert and participate in the rat race. Scott’s art is nothing but one prolonged jeer at everyone who doesn’t subscribe the life philosophy of “I’ve got mine, fuck you”.
Boy, it’s really going to mess with Scott’s math skills when he learns that the 666 translation has always been wrong, and the actual number is 616. But no, he’ll find another wacky math way of getting to the same conclusion of course.
Agreed. But at the same time you can’t use that argument with someone who truly believes Satan is real, it’s a non-starter. So I try to use their own beliefs against them.
I’ve been aware of Scott Adams being an asshole for a while (Trumper, MRA-embacer, probably anti-trans stuff, the whole gamut), but he’s always previously acted under the brand of a self-interested critical thinker. This is the first time I’ve heard of him invoking religion, let-alone hokey-and-not-even-really-accurate Revelations pulls. And then using it along with some satanic pareidolia? It’s hard to be disappointed in somebody who you know sucks shit, but dammit if he didn’t find a way.
The comments here have captured it: you can make anything into 666. Or into any number if you allow yourself to operate in an unhinged frenzy as Scott has done. There’s probably a math theory about that. Or a psych theory.
Here’s one:
If A is 1, B is two and so forth, SCOTT ADAMS is a 96 (DILBERT is a 69 but we’ll skip that). Then,
6 (part of 666) * SCOTT ADAMS
plus SCOTT ADAMS
minus 6 (part of 666)
equals - you guessed it, 666! Scott himself is hoist by his own petard.
