there is no god's number, idiots. If it isn't in the bible, or in the torah, or in the Qu'ran, it has nothing to do with this mythical "god" figure. It should also be pointed out that there never was any figure called "god" but that the actual names used by CHristians and Jews for their deity were simply changed to "god" to generalize and to combat the pagan religions which on several occasions were becoming more prevalent in the population who saw that christianity was not living up to it's claims, and in modern times this is proven by history. Go pick up some history books on the middle ages, early classical period, and late classical period, and STFU.
777 is not quite the "number of God" as much as it is the "number of perfection". Most sequences and numeral systems went no higher than 6 in ancient cultures, so the number "7" was deemed as one above all of the rest.
Lynne
This is SO true... the grandmother of a friend of mine in NYC was buried in an unmarked grave( and this was the 1980's!!) . Her family was poor, so they just purchased space in someone else's plot.
On a personal note, my own great great grandmother was buried in a "potter's field" somewhere in NY state in 1909. My grandmother's family was dreadfully dirt-poor( her father was an abusive alcoholic who squandered his salary on the "creature') and when my g-grandmother died of typhoid , there was no money to bury her. Though my grandmother was only 9 @ the time, she remembers being taken to the funeral in a "surrey with the fringe on top" but the funeral itself taking place in a bleak field sans headstones or markers.
Unfortunately, the location of my g-grandma's grave has never been found.
In later years, my grandfather, who worked for the NY court system and had access to tons of records, tried in vain to find the location through burial records for the year 1909.
Unfortunately my grandmother herself died in 1995, before the largest advent of the internet, but I intend to keep searching for her mam's grave
On an aside Lynne, THANK you for what you do, from someone who suffers from a mental illness...
Thank you Motts/.. this pic has indeed moved me to tears.. Thank you for bringing out the loneliness, yet humanity,
I am bipolar, as are 3 other close family members. I can only think that in an earlier age, when the stigma and shame were so great, that I or my family members could have ended up in one of these facilities for life, abandoned in life and death
To those on the board who feel it necessary to mock and dehumanize the mentally ill and developmentally disabled, you have no idea what might lurk in your own family trees and circles of friends.
M
"a looney" finding her way back into the world of sanity
Lame.