No, but if it is a beautiful floral or fractal pattern, I might reconsider.
I built a demolition derby car many years ago, 1973 Chevy Impala station wagon. Painted it black with red and orange flames. Painted “Highway to Hell” across the hood. And gave it the number 666. Showed up at the race track, got a few comments from others but nothing negative. Went out and tried to win the demo derby but a broken drive line ended my afternoon a lot earlier than I planned. After the derby was over, they opened the pits to the fans to come out and look at the cars. I was accosted by 3 or 4 different folks. They wanted to save my soul and offered to pray for me.
A month later at the next demo derby, is showed up with the same car, only this time it was painted white and gold with “Stairway to Heaven” on the hood. I flipped my number sign over to read 999. No one said anything this time to me.
Coming back to this – the ladders one actually has some logic to it; at least, if there’s anybody up on the ladder while someone else walks under it. There’s some risk to the person walking underneath that the person on the ladder might drop something; and there’s also a risk to the person up on the ladder that someone walking underneath might accidentally push into the ladder and bring it down.
So if you’re walking under ladders – look up first; and if somebody’s up there, and there’s room to go around, then go around.
Jewish here. Other than my circumcision, I object to any tattoo or permanent mark on my body.
I object to plenty of actual rules and laws that I see as pointless. I cannot imagine that I’d agree with a totalitarian government mandating some kind of mark of the beast.
I would most certainly object to a government forcing me to have anything implanted or imprinted on or into my body, be it a microchip or the number 666.
I’m not a non-Christian, but I’d only be ok with it if they also gave me a costume that let me appear to be an unspeakable abomination from the lowest depths of hell.
Uhh…sorry…we ran out – oh, but we DO have these masks from the middle floors. Very stylish in the hot pink…
Kayla’s Dad, feel free to blast any phemes you want – but first ship me your leftover chocolates from last month.
I have these scars from when I tried foil-fencing before my glove arrived. Right where those eight little wrist-bones allow me to bend my hand back, it looks like a little triangular cluster with 6, a q, and that lower-case sigma that I learned about in Statistics class. 
People have said it looks supernatural, but I tell them how I got 'em via perfectly natural means…
–G!
Well they call me the breeze!
I just keep movin’ on…
…–Ronnie Van Zandt (Lynrd Skynrd)
…[though written by J.J. Cale]
… Call me the Breeze
… Second Helping
Why on earth would I feel trepidation about 666 if I’m not a Christian (which I’m not)?
Now if it were pi to the power of 18.3, now there’s some scary shit.
When I was in high school, I worked at Target, and one of my friends there was a very devout Christian who would silently freak out whenever a $6.66 total came up. I told her, “It’s just a number” and she said, “No, it isn’t!”
Yes, it is, in that context.
Hell yes. I don’t want anything tattooed on or implanted in my body without my consent. And I’d be extremely suspicious of any government that promoted the idea - for civil rights reasons, not religious ones.
Yes,
I object to permanent alteration of my body by someone else without my consent. That includes chips and tattoos. I have neither and desire none.
Yeah?
We chip pets and material objects. I object to being reduced to chattel.
And there was that whole tattoo thing the Nazis had going, which was part of obliterating the European side of my dad’s family so yeah, the whole concept tends to give me the willies.
One part of me says there would be such widespread objection that an underground economy would develop to bypass it.
Is it assumed that the bar code or chip also contains the number 666? Because otherwise, the things you listed are not the same thing.
Atheist here – don’t care at all about religious significance per se. Though I’m very cautious about signaling to religious people for fear of their possible reactions.
I’d be quite cautious about government tattoos tattoos for Orwellian fear reasons.
And I don’t want to have anything to do with tattoos, anyway, associating them with Popeye.
But I think it’s very unlikely the government will want to give us anything identifying such as tattoos or implants. Computers just have to get a bit better at recognizing faces, eyes, voices, fingerprints, and the like. That doesn’t require any permission from us at all, and even for the hypothetical goal of creepy authoritarianism would be way more effective and powerful.
Everyone always seems inclined to equate the “Mark of the Beast” with credit card chips or RFID or the like, but that’s exactly wrong. The way a credit card chip or RFID works is, everyone has a different one. Its fundamental purpose is to tell individuals apart. But the Mark of the Beast spoken of in Revelation isn’t individualized: It’s the same for everyone. The only purpose it serves is to identify the wearer as being part of the Beast’s in-group. And it’s not required for buying and selling because it’s part of how the process of buying and selling works; it’s required because that’s store policy and/or law. The modern equivalent wouldn’t be an RFID chip; it’d be something like getting MAGA tattooed on your forehead.
So now you can work on raising Caine.
I don’t think this is necessarily contradictory. If everyone has a QR code tattooed to their forehead, that is both “same for everyone” as a general emblem and yet individualized at the same time.
Very late to the nitpick party here, but no, “Nérōn” is the standard nominative singular masculine case of that name in Greek. Likewise, “Plátōn” is the standard Greek nominative singular masculine case of the name usually rendered as “Plato” in English.
The -ων nominative singular masculine ending is one of those wacky Greek third declension etymologies, in this case considered to derive from a possessive or bahuvrihi construction.
You’re right that in many Greek declensions the -ων ending is usually associated with genitive plural, though.
Well, I’m a proud atheist so obviously I feel no trepidation about an all powerful global dictator tattooing my forehead with a religious symbol marking my obedience. Why on earth would that be a problem?
Ah, well. My point still stands that the number isn’t “six, six, six.” It’s the value of 666, or DCLXVI, or 600+60+6*, and that value is derived from the name of the Emperor Nero, as his name is spelled in Greek.
*or maybe 606, if it’s a mistranslation; I’ve heard that.