666: The number of the beast (and, gulp, today's date)
Of course, that is no guarantee you are safe: until midnight tonight, none of us can be certain the scheduled Armageddon has missed its appointment. Doomsday obsessives believe that 6/6/06 will be "a day of satanic power" marked by the firing of demonic galactic missiles at earth.
Others believe today will draw us closer to "the rapture" - when the Lord calls his Christian faithful up to the heavens. (Non-believing mortals will know this has happened because millions of born-again evangelicals will disappear overnight; a not-altogether unwelcome development for atheists.) Several websites help prepare for the Lord's arrival: raptureme.com has a "rapture index" which has moved to 156, warning believers it is "time to fasten your seatbelts".
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