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> one has to wonder how someone living in the first century AD would conceptualise a system of biometric surveillance and control I submit that one does not, i
by smogcutter 5y ago
> one has to wonder how someone living in the first century AD would conceptualise a system of biometric surveillance and control
I submit that one does not, in fact, have to wonder that.
- dane-pgp 5y agoOkay, let me rephrase that. If one believes that the events described in Revelation are events which are destined to occur in our future, and they were written about from the perspective of a man who lived in the first century AD, then it is worth considering the possibility that the events described would involve systems that would be difficult for him to understand and describe in the way that we see them. Under such a set of assumptions, someone who is interested in interpreting the prophecy should wonder whether biometric surveillance is the sort of system that would be expressed by such a first century writer in the way that the beast system is expressed in Revelation.