There have already been people with that power. It did not turn out well, but today's socialists are confident that they could do better than the (national) socialists of the 1930s and 1940s.
Posted on 05/24/2012 6:11:15 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz
This week science fiction writer Elizabeth Moon argues that everyone should be given a barcode at birth.
“If I were empress of the Universe I would insist on every individual having a unique ID permanently attached - a barcode if you will; an implanted chip to provide an easy, fast inexpensive way to identify individuals.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Don’t carry a credit or debit card except to get cash out of the bank. Driver’s license is mandatory.
I don’t live anywhere near a border.
I don’t have a smartphone.
Preaching to the choir.
God already beat her to it.
We all have at least two bar codes and maybe more, built in by nature.
Your fingerprints and your iris.
It’s how God keeps us all sorted out I guess.
There have already been people with that power. It did not turn out well, but today's socialists are confident that they could do better than the (national) socialists of the 1930s and 1940s.
We all have at least two bar codes and maybe more, built in by nature.
Your fingerprints and your iris.
It’s how God keeps us all sorted out I guess.
Although I expect God doesn't need DNA to differentiate us.
My family and friends would all refuse such a mark. We know it for what it is. However, since we are Christians, I am sure the government would just imprision or shoot us, but give Muslims a free ride.
I say work makes us free. Go for it!
Elizabeth Loon, er, Moon. Thanks EQAndyBuzz.
http://worldsf.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/elizabeth-moon-on-islam/
Also, I was reading on another forum (might have been Conservatives4Palin) that apparently buried deep in the Obamacare nonsense is a provision that deals with placing implanted chips in people. I don't know any more than that, or if there's anything to it, as I'm not up to wading through that 2,000+ pages of garbage legislation.
Side note to anyone reading this: Add up how much interest you pay in a month. Then calculate what you would do with all that money you pay in interest if you did not have those loans. Get out of debt!
If the government mandates that doctors mark babies upon birth, there may not be much choice involved.
If the government mandates that doctors mark babies upon birth, there may not be much choice involved.
I suspect mid-wifing would become a burgeoning industry.
True FREE men would be the result. No SSN, no chip. Can't buy or sell. Hmmmn.
The part that people leave out is that the “mark of the beast” is more than just a simple mark. The Bible talks about people that take the mark worshiping the beast. That indicates to me that there is some type of loyalty oath involved—something where you disavow God and pledge your loyalty to the beast.
An infant is incapable of taking a vow, hence putting a barcode on one would not meet all the requirements laid down by the Bible for it to be the mark of the beast. The mark will have to be something given to adults (or at least people old enough to make an informed decision to reject God).
IMHO, it doesn’t need to by a physical mark or implant. It could be modeled on customer loyalty cards used by so many merchants currently. You take the loyalty oath to the beast, and you are given a loyalty card. Before you can make a purchase, you must swipe the card (number in the hand) or enter the number on a keypad or verbally tell the cashier the number (our memory is in the frontal lobes of the brain, so literally the number would be stored in the forehead).
No, I obviously don’t know for sure this is it, but we should be wary of reading our current biases for a physical mark into the Bible. God may have used the word mark to describe something that not only hasn’t been invented yet but that we’re incapable of imagining.
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