Tennessee bloke quits job over satanic wage slip

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Tennessee bloke quits job over satanic wage slip
'666' ID code will 'sell his soul to the devil'


By Lester Haines • Get more from this author
Posted in Bootnotes, 8th February 2013 10:24 GMT

A Tennessee born-again Christian has quit his job after receiving a wage slip marked "666" despite previously warning his employers of a serious aversion to the Number of the Beast.

Walter Slonopas, 52, toiled as a maintenance worker at Contech Casting in Clarksville until bosses issued him a Form W-2 bearing the satanic numerals. Despite assurances by Bob LaCourciere of Contech owner Revstone that three digits on the forms merely "refer to the order in which they were mailed out", Slonopas sees the dark hand of Satan at work.

According to the New York Daily News, Slonopas's first day on the job back in April 2011 saw him allocated the clock-in number 666. Once he'd made clear his "concerns", he was given a less mephistophelean ID code.

But fours months later a time-clock overhaul once again branded him as foretold in the Book of Revelation.

He duly walked out, returning a few days later when Contech apologised and gave him yet another clock-in number.

This time, though, Slonopas is gone for good, convinced the triple occurrence of the numerical triplet of doom is beyond coincidence. "God is worth more than money," he declared.

He's still asking Contech for a new Form W-2, until which time he's refusing to file his taxes. He said: "If you accept that number, you sell your soul to the devil."

Local paper The Tennessean rolled out theology professor Jay Phelan, of Chicago's North Park University, to clarify Slonopas's hard-line Christian stance. The prof explained: "It's a desire to be loyal to his faith and to not be identified with the Antichrist."

The egghead concluded: "The company ought to find a way to cut him some slack."

There's a comments link at the end of the article. Owing to the Register reader profile, it's not very sympathetic.

[pErvinalia]

That fits the definition of a mental illness, i'd think. Can't function normally in society due to his irrational fear of a number.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Fuck those idiots.

[HomerJay]

How do we know the guy isn't Satan hisself?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

How do we know the guy isn't Satan hisself?

"I'm swear there ain't no Heaven,
But I'll pray there ain't no Hell.
And when I die,
When I'm dead, dead and gone..."

[Coito ergo sum]

That fits the definition of a mental illness, i'd think. Can't function normally in society due to his irrational fear of a number.

If that were true, then the company would be obligated to "reasonably accommodate" his disability, and give him a new number on his paycheck.

Alternatively, if he cannot function due to a mental illness, then he can apply for disability payments from Social Security.

[Clinton Huxley]

666 - the employee number of the Beast. It's all there in the good book, people.

[Coito ergo sum]

Here is wisdom. Let he who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is 666. Revelation 13:18.

[Clinton Huxley]

Here is wisdom. Let he who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is 666. Revelation 13:18.

The usual mistranslation. It should be "....for it is the employee number of a man. His number is 666."
I blame Bella.

[Coito ergo sum]

There is a good reason there are 666th floors in buildings.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Good janitor jobs are hard to find these days what with all the Ph.D.s getting the best ones.

[rachelbean]

666 WAS the number of A MAN. A man that lived when those pages were written and who was feared enough people had to write in code about him. Scholars pretty much unanimously agree that man was nero, whose name translated into hebrew has the numerical value of 666. It never says he is THE antichrist, it says he is antichrist. The opposite of salvation. He lived, he died, there's no reason to keep looking for him. Of course that makes entirely too much sense.

[Animavore]

666 WAS the number of A MAN. A man that lived when those pages were written and who was feared enough people had to write in code about him. Scholars pretty much unanimously agree that man was nero, whose name translated into hebrew has the numerical value of 666. It never says he is THE antichrist, it says he is antichrist. The opposite of salvation. He lived, he died, there's no reason to keep looking for him. Of course that makes entirely too much sense.

Yep. This is true. Like most things in the New Testament they were written for the people of that time. No use waiting for the Second Coming either. That time already came and went about 1,956 years ago and nothing happened.

[Clinton Huxley]

Mo,no,no, 666 was used as an error code, sort of the way 9999 is sometimes used. The Bible was originally written in COBOL.

[Coito ergo sum]

The coolest thing about the Book of Revelation is that if it occurs in the future, then there is supposed to be an actual war in heaven where the forces of God take on the forces of Satan (Lucifer, the rebellious angel) and the 1/3 of the angels side with Satan. It is not until Revelation that Satan is cast out of heaven, which, of course, implies that Satan is still in heaven right now.

And, the Christians keep talking about "end times" and such. But, the book of revelation doesn't talk about "end times," really. There will be a lot of strife and war and such, but then at a certain point, the forces of Jesus defeat the Beast, the False Prophet and then Satan (a different personage) is "bound" up for 1,000 years, and the Kingdom of God on Earth is created. People go on for another 1,000 years living in that kingdom. Then, after the 1,000 years, Satan is let loose again for a while. Then comes the final confrontation and Satan is cast into the Lake of Fire that burns forever and ever. But, even then it's not an "end time" -- a new heaven and a new Earth arise.