OT: Is Bill Gates the Anti-Christ?

[dmm]

With RFID technology, you only have to get close to the "scanner," which both powers and interrogates the ID chip using radio frequency (RF) waves. This is seeing widespread use for things like inventory control, tracking packages, and road tolls. People in Spain are already having RFID chips implanted under their skin, so they can -- are you ready for this? -- skip the long lines at popular nightclubs. Preventing identity theft is a much more powerful rationale. Imagine the extent of people's voluntary cooperation if it became difficult to transact any business without it.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Regardless of wether you beleive the bible or not, anything that gives the government that degree of control is wrong.

[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
Consider also the possibility of identification bar codes on your hand or forehead...eliminating the need for credit cards...and allowing the government to instantly id you.

Now i certainly don't believe the whole basis of this (the bible) but if this was ever done in anyway I think it's time to say bon voyage from civillisation and become a nomad in the country.

As for those chips... I would never agree with that. If in the end it comes to that then the world better stop spinning and let me off. If as you said if it got to the stage where business was impossible then i guess thats the point we start becoming property instead of people and i certainly wouldn't agree with that.

[ June 24, 2004, 19:22: Message edited by: Raging Deadstar ]

[Ragnarok]

What does the Bible have to do with any of this anyways?

[Raging Deadstar]

check dmm's post several Posts down rags

[narf poit chez BOOM]

And one of the other prophesy's of the end of the world goes something like 'having the beast's mark on their hand or forehead.'

I can't remember exactly, but it was something like that.

[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
And one of the other prophesy's of the end of the world goes something like 'having the beast's mark on their hand or forehead.'

I can't remember exactly, but it was something like that.

Yeah, Pretty Much Narf, I've read the bible once or twice. I think most of this end of the world prophecy stuff is dealt with in New Testament: Revelations... Although don't quote me on that as it's been years

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Raging Deadstar:
check dmm's post several Posts down rags

I saw that but I still fail to see how that applies to Bill Gates and the Antichrist..Oh well, I guess I don't need to know anyways.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
And one of the other prophesy's of the end of the world goes something like 'having the beast's mark on their hand or forehead.'

I can't remember exactly, but it was something like that.

It is along those lines but it is not to be taken literally as if everyone would have markings on their foreheads.

[dmm]

Originally posted by Ragnarok:
What does the Bible have to do with any of this anyways?

You're joking, right? AntiCHRIST?
Of course, one can certainly discuss the idea of an absolute world ruler without referencing the antichrist, or misuse the word "antichrist" to mean only an evil dictator. Properly used, "antichrist" adds the idea that this ruler also forces everyone to worship him and deny Christ. This is a concept from the Bible, especially the prophetic and apocalyptic parts.

Maybe for BG, we should use the Islamic term "the Great Satan," which seems to have a broader definition.