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I am not religious, but I got enough religious programming in Sunday school that this scares the shiznitz out of me. When this embedded human chip becomes a req
by diyseguy 10y ago
I am not religious, but I got enough religious programming in Sunday school that this scares the shiznitz out of me. When this embedded human chip becomes a requirement, I'm moving to an underground bunker
Revelations 13:16: And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,
17: so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark—the name of the beast or the number of its name.…
- hprotagonist 10y agoWhy do you think you aren't living in a modern Rome anyway? Revelations is (if you think Preterism[0] is a valid interpretation, which I tend to do) a survival manual for how to not get stomped down by the roman empire. The "mark of the beast", then, is basically a tax stamp and a document that proves you've made the correct sacrifices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast#Nero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast#Nero . The problem with fast-forwarding these concerns into the present day is that, in general, "we" are the ones _issuing_ those stamps, not the ones upon whom they're forced. [0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preterism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preterism
- lollerbot817 10y agoI am not cynical, but I got enough rational programming in life to know that quasi-literate Roman demagogues had no idea what a microchip is, and were more worried about the threatening excesses of Nero than the bumptuous innovations of slightly more literate entrepreneurs whom, two thousand years later, history will regard as even less notable blips on the western cultural radar
- tqkxzugoaupvwqr 10y agoThere is a conspiracy theory that barcodes on products are marks of the beast because every single barcode allegedly contains the number 666. This claim is based on the barcodes’ guard bars and how to interpret their meaning. See http://www.av1611.org/666/barcode.html http://www.av1611.org/666/barcode.html for an explanation.
- diyseguy 10y agoThere was also one about "Ronald Wilson Reagan"
- lollerbot817 10y agothis is also unbelievably retarded.
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- krapp 10y ago>I am not religious, but (bullshit nonsense from Revelations about the Mark of the Beast) You appear not to understand how "not being religious" works.
- jonahrd 10y agoHaving read the Bible doesn't mean you must be religious
- krapp 10y agoBelieving that the Book of Revelations has some sort of prophetic insight and that warnings about the Mark of the Beast or the Antichrist have any relevance at all does mean you must be religious.
- prebrov 10y agoFinding relevance to the modern events in ancient books doesn't imply religious belief.
- krapp 10y agoWhat is the relevance, in this case? The only purpose for that section in Revelations is to warn believers about the Antichrist. There is no moral lesson there, no parable or psalm or tractable humanist lesson - it's just vague symbolism (which probably referred to Nero or the Roman Empire) that leads nowhere, unless you believe in Christian end-times prophecy.
- daveguy 10y agoYou can definitely still keep a little deep / subconscious superstition without being religious.
- diyseguy 10y agoWhen they get you in at an early age, the fear and paranoia they teach you can make deeper roots into the psyche. I don't claim it's a rational fear. I don't claim to be 100% rational either.
- nickthemagicman 10y agoWhat if we just tattooed barcodes on people? That would be far less invasive, and have equal potential.