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Thread: The microchip is the mark of the beast
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Anselmina
Ship's barmaid
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Originally posted by Boogie:
My beast has been implanted with a microchip ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) So have mine! A former racing greyhound and a former stray lurcher. You can just fill the chip under the skin of their necks.
Realistically, hasn't the 'mark of the Beast' always been the innate selfishness in humankind to do whatever the hell it wants to do despite the cost to those less powerful? We either wear the mark of Christ (or his Truth) or we don't. Surely nothing marks us out more distinctly as belonging 'not to Christ' as our behaviour when we put ourselves at the centre of everything we want?
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Al Eluia
Inquisitor
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Originally posted by Eutychus:
Ah but you see Martin I have a lot of sympathy for "both-and" eschatology, which I think I have derived from Roger Forster: I'm sure John was writing in code for his own time, but also think there have been successive fulfilments of the same sort of thing at work.
I think it is "both-and" in the sense that the text was originally about what was happening at the time, but it also resonates with things going on in our own day. But the "end times" texts do not give detailed information about future events.
As to the OP, I agree with some of the other commenters that just because it isn't the mark of the Beast doesn't make it a good idea. Receiving a microchip to enable financial transactions just sounds too invasive to me.
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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Originally posted by Al Eluia:
Receiving a microchip to enable financial transactions just sounds too invasive to me.
Yes - and they can easily move around.
Every time I visit the vet I check that my dog's is still in place. Some dogs are chipped but the scanner doesn't find it because it's shifted position. It would be very inconvenient if you arrived at the bank and your chip has moved to a different part of your body!
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Originally posted by Boogie:
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Originally posted by Al Eluia:
Receiving a microchip to enable financial transactions just sounds too invasive to me.
Yes - and they can easily move around.
Every time I visit the vet I check that my dog's is still in place. Some dogs are chipped but the scanner doesn't find it because it's shifted position. It would be very inconvenient if you arrived at the bank and your chip has moved to a different part of your body!
Like your heart. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Kyzyl
Ship's dog
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Originally posted by Boogie:
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Originally posted by Al Eluia:
Receiving a microchip to enable financial transactions just sounds too invasive to me.
Yes - and they can easily move around.
Every time I visit the vet I check that my dog's is still in place. Some dogs are chipped but the scanner doesn't find it because it's shifted position. It would be very inconvenient if you arrived at the bank and your chip has moved to a different part of your body!
That happened to my Goldie, Pyrite. Chipped as a pup, on one visit it the vet we couldn't find the chip. Implanted chip #2. Subsequent checkup found chip 2 where it should be and chip 1 in his butt, the opposite spot from the original site.
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Al Eluia
Inquisitor
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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
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Originally posted by Boogie:
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Originally posted by Al Eluia:
Receiving a microchip to enable financial transactions just sounds too invasive to me.
Yes - and they can easily move around.
Every time I visit the vet I check that my dog's is still in place. Some dogs are chipped but the scanner doesn't find it because it's shifted position. It would be very inconvenient if you arrived at the bank and your chip has moved to a different part of your body!
Like your heart.
Or further down. I'd rather not have to take off my pants to buy a burrito.
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Alogon
Cabin boy emeritus
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Bravo, Eutychus!
No, I don't think Hal Lindsey et al. got it right. But I believe that William Stringfellow got it right. And in his own (IMHO) very perspicacious and sophisticated way, he was big on the book of Revelation and suggested that no Christian should dismiss it. He wrote a whole book inspired by it.
The latest heard on NPR today: candidates for office are spending mucho campaign $$ to buy technology such that various people who bring up their websites on the screen will instantly be well enough known as to be presented with different material depending on their identity. It is nothing new that politicians talk out of both sides of their mouth, but this brings the art to a whole new level.
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Persephone Hazard
Ship's Wench
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Originally posted by Ricardus:
I have to admit that if such technology did become mandatory, that would be the point where I say "Argh! The fundies are right after all." But I don't think it would ever become mandatory, simply because, fundamentalists aside, the idea is just icky.
Oh, it won't become mandatory - it'll just become ubiquitous. Remember when suddenly it was weird to not have a mobile phone? Then smartphones happened, and now what's weird is not having one of them - the notion that somebody might not have a mobile phone at all isn't so much 'weird' as 'unthinkable'.
I'm not really making a Big Moral Point here, by the way, just a slightly wry observation. I adore my smartphone. She and I are practically inseparable.
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