After reviewing the original texts of Revelations, I found out it is actually Mark Hamill. Anyone with a Luke Skywalker action figure is doomed…DOOMED I SAY!!!
I can think of a better place to put my UPC code of the Beast than smack in the middle of my forehead.
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:rolleyes:
All data will be encoded in a chip and placed in your right hand for easy insertion into reading devices. To prevent forgery and remaoval of said chips, a back up copy will be inserted under the skin in your forehead.
People with no hands and no heads will, naturally, be exempted from having chips.
I think most posters are taking this with the exact seriousness that any literal treatment of Revelation deserves.
Driving home from work yesterday, I heard a local radio station discussing the many child abductions that are currently in the news, and the idea of using a micro-chip implanted in children, thus enabling missing children to be tracked. I can think of several good, reasonable objections to this, but I was not prepared for the number of people who called in to say this micro-chip was the mark of the beast and should be refused, lest you doom your child. Later that evening, my vet gave me the option of having a micro-chip implanted in my puppy with the same intention of tracking if lost. I was not aware that animals can also apparently fall prey to the beast. It seems that pets and children are the means by which we will fall, and the apocalypse will come.
What?
If any “ID System” were to come down as the actual “Mark of the Beast”, there would have to be some kind of process where you would be sworn in. Something or someone that you would give your allegiance too. It could start out as the ID thing, but in order for society to come to the point where you could not buy or sell anything without a chip planted in your skin, there would have to be more going on than just for ID purposes. IMO of course.
Okay, I’m guessing I missed a meeting or something…
I think, however, that the Beast must base himself out of this office building near the Roosevelt Field Shopping Mall on Long Island - the address of the building is “666”. Bizarre.
Any Dopers out there who commute on the Meadowbrook Pkwy. & have seen the building of which I speak?
Actually, I believe I saw a discussion re: “The Mark of the Beast” on the History Channel, & that “the beast” was Nero Caesar; something about the persecuted Christians using some code that translated “666” to “Nero Caesar”.
So maybe the mark of the beast is a coin or something with Nero Caesar’s profile? …Does this Beast = Nero Caesar thing sound familiar to anyone, or did I just dream it?
The above is very specific information, I know. :rolleyes: I’ll try & dig up a cite or two.
Dreamer,
You’re right. ID chips inserted into people, allegedly “for their own safety” is the ultimate tool of control for a police state. Any government or organisation advocating mass insertion of said chips should be regarded with the same hatred and venom as was Nazi Germany. Imagine the problems of deciding what data to put in the chip, the problems involved when, inevitably, the wrong data are recorded, etc. We can all work out the implications for ourselves.