# Explain how Satan designed the Great Seal of the USA! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 19, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592 "2006-01-19T02:07:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tevildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Tevildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tevildo)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/1 "2006-01-19T02:07:16Z")
Idly browsing through one of the disturbingly large number of conspiracy theory/apocalyptic sites on the 'net just now, and, embedded among the usual stuff about chemtrails, RFID chips, the Trilateral Commission, Denver International Airport, etc etc, I came across this piece of - information: “The GREAT SEAL OF THE UNITED STATES has on the front side the eagle, which is really the phoenix bird, and on the reverse side the pyramid with the all-seeing eye of Lucifer, the God of the material world. Also unknown to most people is the fact the number 666 is imprinted on our great seal!! It is done in code, and the 1776 actually means 666!” Any suggestions, amusing or serious, how 1776 is “decoded” to 666? ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/2 "2006-01-19T02:26:22Z")
It’s quite obvious how it was encoded. Take rubidium, the most evil element of all. It has an atomic number of 37. It is also the **second** most electropositive element, so multiply 37 by 2 to get 74. Subtract 74 from 666 to get 592. One of the main uses of rubidium is the polarization of 3He, so obviously you must multiply 592 by 3 to get 1776. Come on, how could you have not known that? It’s pretty common knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/3 "2006-01-19T02:51:03Z")
That was brilliant. Please tell me you just made that up. ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/4 "2006-01-19T03:13:46Z")
Yeah, I made that up. The _real_ method of encryption starts out with splitting 666 into three digits (being 6, 6, and 6, funnily enough). You perform The Algebraic Operation Of The Beast (i.e. squaring) on the first digit, and add the other two digits to the result. You multiply _that_ result by the atomic number of the aforementioned Most Evil Element Ever, and you end up with 1776. Coincidence? I think not… ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/5 "2006-01-19T03:19:46Z")
More. We must have more… ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/6 "2006-01-19T03:24:20Z")
This is outstanding! It gives me a pain behind the eye to think I know people who would say “Ooo, Ooo! See? SEE?” And the Eagle is a Phoneix! Do that one! ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/7 "2006-01-19T03:37:12Z")
Well, this sure beats doing work… How many digits in 666? Three of course. What do you raise a number to the power of when performing The Algebraic Operation Of The Beast? Two. So multiply 3 and 2 to get 6. Multiply this number by the atomic number of Lucifer’s Element (rubidium, with an atomic number of 37, as you probably now know off by heart), and you get 222. Add this to 666 to get 888. Multiply this by the electopositivity ranking of Rb, and you get :eek: 1776!!! Here’s a joke I remember hearing years ago: What’s the difference between an eagle and a phoenix?Rubidium Maybe the eagle-phoenix link needs a bit more thought. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/8 "2006-01-19T03:40:43Z")
You remove the one in 1776 and subtract it from both sevens and see what you get. It’s eerie! You can also take 666 and multiply it by 2 2/3rd (the number of the beast’s chiropodist). Un canny! ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/9 "2006-01-19T04:50:20Z")
Did you know that most of the Bald Eagles in the world live in Alaska? If the list of states in the US is arranged alphabetically, Alaska comes right before Arizona. The capital and largest city of Arizona is…Phoenix. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/10 "2006-01-19T05:55:59Z")
I am very, very scared of people who have the brains, the time and the inclination to think up this kind of stuff. Keep it coming!! ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/11 "2006-01-19T06:05:20Z")
> [@Snakescatlady](#): > > I am very, very scared of people who have the brains, the time and the inclination to think up this kind of stuff. > > Keep it coming!! You think that’s scary, don’t get trapped listening to someone with an Illuminati or Trilateral Commission conspiracy theory. ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/12 "2006-01-19T06:33:46Z")
The band known as _The Eagles_ broke up in 1980, but, like a phoenix, they later rose from the ashes to produce an album called _Hell Freezes Over_ (a Satanic reference). The art on the cover of their new album involves flames, which are possibly from a phoenix. One of the singles from this album was _Love Will Keep Us Alive_ – an obvious reference to the immortality of the phoenix. In 1995, this single appeared on the Adult Top 40 chart… …in position 37. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/13 "2006-01-19T12:34:50Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > You think that’s scary, don’t get trapped listening to someone with an Illuminati or Trilateral Commission conspiracy theory. You can listen to Illuminati or Trilateral Commission conspiracy theories all day and all night, and still not see The Truth, it is only when you play these theories backward, at slow speed, does the real secrets become obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Tevildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Tevildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tevildo)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/14 "2006-01-19T13:56:27Z")
My own suggestion: As we all know, Satan and his fallen angels have returned to Earth disguised as aliens, and are using the entertainment industry to prepare us all to accept this when they make themselves public. Is there a major motion picture where a Satan-worshipper calls on her god to send her an angel, and it arrives in a spacecraft in the form of an alien? There is! From the studio who brought us such transparently Luciferan pictures as “The Lion King” and “Fantasia”, Disney, we have: “LILO AND STITCH”!!! Now, let us look at the so-called name of the so-called heroine of this picture. “Lilo”. In deference to their Infernal Master, all worshippers of Satan forego the capitalization of their names, and, to express their pride, write any “i” that occurs in it as a captial - in other words, the “name” should be rendered - lIlo. A transparent representation of the number - 1110. The union of Satan with his worshippers is expressed by the union of the Devil’s number with theirs: 666 + 1110 = 1776!!! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/15 "2006-01-19T14:02:16Z")
1776 = 666, of course, if you used the right punctuation: 1\*(7/7)\*6 = (6/6)_6 1_(7-7)_6 = 6_(6-6) ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/16 "2006-01-19T19:35:02Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > You can listen to Illuminati or Trilateral Commission conspiracy theories all day and all night, and still not see The Truth, it is only when you play these theories backward, at slow speed, does the real secrets become obvious. vzzz…bzzz…meez duvvvv… Freddy is the devil! vzzz…bzzz…meez duvvvv… Freddy is the devil! vzzz…bzzz…meez duvvvv… Freddy is the devil! I challenge someone to get _that_! ---
**Author:** ![6\_6\_6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e0b2c6/32.png) [@6\_6\_6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6_6_6)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/17 "2006-01-19T21:33:22Z")
> [@Tevildo](#): > > The union of Satan with his worshippers is expressed by the union of the Devil’s number with theirs: 666 + 1110 = 1776!!! This can also be made to “work” using Roman numerals. 😃 \*\* DCLXVI + MCX = MDCCLXXVI \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/18 "2006-01-19T22:14:37Z")
> [@Tevildo](#): > > how 1776 is “decoded” to 666? The middle letter of “decoded” is ‘o’, which in ASCII is equal to 111. Puting the ASCII representation side-by-side with the letter it represents, we have 111O 1776 - 1110 = 666 It’s so obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/19 "2006-01-20T00:31:49Z")
> [@Polerius](#): > > The middle letter of “decoded” is ‘o’, which in ASCII is equal to 111. ITYM Morse 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592/20 "2006-01-20T02:14:11Z")
Wait, why is rubidium the most evil element of them all? Why can’t it be something like mendelevium? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-how-satan-designed-the-great-seal-of-the-usa/340592.md?page=2)