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And they will willingly embrace it. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I remember the first time I heard someone use that phrase Mark of the Beast. It was by a conservative who commented online in the pre-9/11 internet, and it was in relation to a new article discussing the possibility of using RFID chips in humans for very specific reasons. Pets have been having RFID implants to help find them when they get lost.

The guy insisted that these chips are the mark of the beast and he would rather die than get them.

I don't know if he is still around, but he if he is, he is probably someone who thinks Bill Gates is the devil for wanting to chip people but think Elon Musk is awesome for the same.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Lol back in the mid-90s, there were people at my evangelical church that believed credit cards were the mark of the beast. Credit cards.

I'm pretty sure they all still had them though.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I mean, they're not wrong. Enabling lower-income people to impulsively take on high-interest debt is one of the main factors perpetuating wage slavery.

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Mine was convinced it was barcodes. Standard barcodes.

[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 4 points 5 days ago

Completely ridiculous. Everyone knows that barcodes belong to the back of the head, not forehead.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Completely ridiculous. Everyone knows it's only QR codes that are the mark of the beast!

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

The Mark of Mr. Beast

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 days ago

A thing assigned to you that's in your hand or your head that's needed to engage in commerce? That's...umm...I can see where they could get that idea, especially with the rise of online sales.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Pets have been having RFID implants to help find them when they get lost.

Just a small correction, microchips in pets are there to identify them and identify who their owner is. They don't have any geolocation capabilities, its equivalent to hiding an SD card under their skin.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Yes thank you. Memory is rusty. But I am sure you can understand since it was literally 24 years ago...

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm generally opposed to quotes from that awful fuckin' book, but context here works.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

It really is just a bad book... Like religious beliefs and politics aside, it's just not good reading.

The only people who think it is haven't read any other book in their adult lives.

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

You'd think an all-knowing being ought to be able to write a compelling book. Instead we get one filled with the worst crimes, yet it somehow manages to be soul-crushingly boring. You ever try to read it? Most people only manage a couple pages a day, and that's considered devout commitment to it.

[–] Cliff@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago

[–] AizawaC47@lemm.ee 24 points 6 days ago

Ha ha, oh now things are getting a little feisty and controversial. I love a good meme that starts a fire. Nice……very nice.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Non-Christian and non-Bible person here, but I think it's probably best to be accurate about citing these things:

Revelation 13:16-17 King James Version

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Source: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+13%3A16-17&version=KJV which also lets you switch around between other versions of the passage.

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[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You won't be able to buy or sell without the mark of the beast. Think crypto chip.

[–] tacobellhop@midwest.social 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Forehead or wrist. Yeah so neural link barcode or starve basically

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So Musk is the Famine horseman, got it… Obligatory "fuck this timeline"

[–] ericatty@infosec.pub 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Someone commented somewhere that I can't find now... Trump as Plague (covid, firing bird flu, ebola teams), Putin as War, and Netanyahu as Death. With Doge also trying to end USAid, Snap, contracts and programs our farmers rely on, and Social Security... that tracks well for Famine.

I don't believe in it, but the idea haunts me that people are trying to force it to happen.

[–] tacobellhop@midwest.social 2 points 5 days ago

Regardless of the literature I think there’ll be another point soon where it will be undeniably obvious to people that lines are drawn in the sand and at that point it’s too late.

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