RFID, Sign of the (End) Times? 843
andy753421 writes "Wired is running an article featuring Katherine Albrecht who, with her new book 'The Spychips Threat: Why Christians Should Resist RFID and Electronic Surveillance', is warning that RFID tags may in fact be the "mark of the beast". Among her arguments are that in a futuristic world anyone who wishes to buy and sell goods would be compelled "to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads," as is foretold in the book Revelation. Others are skeptical saying that many new technologies, such as the printing press, bar-codes, and several others, have also created fears about the beginning of the end."
Last post (Score:5, Funny)
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So... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So.. its RFID today is it? (Score:5, Funny)
Pope is the Antichrist - Traditional View (Score:1, Funny)
the reformers is that the pope is the antichrist and the
Roman Catholic church the great whore.
http://www.rev14.info/ [rev14.info]
I have a list of all the major churches who had the
pope is the antichrist in their Confessions of Faith*,
including baptists, presberterians, luthereans, methodists,
calvanists, and more on my website.
If this view is correct, that the pope is the antichrist, and
the roman catholic church is babylon the great, than obviously,
the mark of the beast also already has (and does) exist. I
also have this on my website - the traditional, gospel view
and interpretation (as if the bible had something to do with
the gospel!!)
With the Roman Catholic church continued to be involved in
numerous scandals, including the raping of more than
10,000 boys by its priests, claiming that the mark of the
beast is something other than what traditionally Christians
have said it is probably has political consequence as well:
It allows apostate Christians and silly idiots continue to
fellowship wiht the Roman Catholic church instead of splitting
with it and refusing to have anything to do with it.
The mark of the beast == microchip implant means
continuing to look the other way with the rapes of little
boys.
http://www.rev14.info/ [rev14.info]
Don't Forget Your Towel (Score:2, Funny)
And there's no suffering now? (Score:4, Funny)
If the six billion alive today suffered through the apocalypse now, it would prevent the suffering of hundreds of billions. More, really, since you can extend this for as many thousands of years as you like. It's clear that the sooner the world ends, the fewer people will suffer, and the sooner those of us who are righteous will be in heaven.
Just one of the reasons God is clearly a son of a bitch.
Re:So.. its RFID today is it? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Fallacy (Score:5, Funny)
Surely you mean 666 years to complete :)
Let's see anyway - printing press invented in 1440. Add 666 years. That's 2106. Plenty of time for RFID to become required, and just about the time this asteroid [abc.net.au] will hit Earth!
Ha! I win the thread!
Re:Fallacy (Score:2, Funny)
Easy Solution (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Religion is being replaced, not just displaced (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, that's us in the corner.
Re:Fallacy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fallacy (Score:5, Funny)
It would have a negative effect on property values.
Wait another sign of the end times.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Fallacy (Score:2, Funny)
And that explains so much of the Bush foreign policy. Starting civil wars, giving out nukes, it all makes sense in this context.
Re:*Sigh* (Score:1, Funny)
People who think such should be be herded onto an island and forgotten about.
Just tell them that you're the angel Gabriel, have a gun-toting guy with you who calls himself Michael, and tell them it's the rapture and you should have no problem herding them - at least, until you reach 144,001.
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Re:So... (Score:2, Funny)
CONVERT! Convert all ye who want to have divine protection from the end times! The End is near. Only His Noodlyness can protect us!
Re:And there's no suffering now? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Fallacy (Score:5, Funny)
"Rapture loans" (Score:5, Funny)
Marketing would be on Christian TV and radio stations, in the form of infomercials. "Quit your job now! Don't work again! Jesus is coming soon!", along with pictures of happy people with consumer goods. We considered finding some Christian figure to promote the product. Enough people were talking about the Rapture and the "Jubilee" back then that a modest market for the product clearly existed.
(For those of you interested in financial mechanics, the money for the mortgages would be obtained by creating a derivative security that could be resold in the secondary mortgage market. The "rapture" contingency would be taken care of by obtaining an insurance policy against the "rapture" for each mortgage (probably from Lloyds or Swiss Re), using exactly the same definition of "rapture" as in the loan. The combination of the insurance policy and the loan would constitute a resellable security without a "rapture" contingency that could be packaged up and sold in the mortgage-based security market. So we wouldn't have to finance the deal, just broker it.)
We didn't go through with it. It just seemed too evil.
Nevertheless, when there are people running around claiming that Jesus is coming back soon, it's quite feasible to make money taking the other side of that bet.
Re:"Rapture loans" (Score:3, Funny)
You presumably work in the financial sector. You opted not to do something because it was too evil.
Hmm, maybe there is hope for humanity.